The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 96 102 53
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -49
Contract jobs citing Solaris 21 20 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.078% 0.825% 2.986%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.529% 4.090% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 35
Average daily rate £283 £335 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.67% -21.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £162 £307
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £490 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.92% -7.14%
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
595 489 387
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 30.54% 20.17% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 230 171
Average daily rate £313 £315 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.79% +0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £165 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £388 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 75 45
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.13 £9.81 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.80 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Yorkshire Solaris Jobs Demand Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Solaris across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Yorkshire Solaris Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
South Yorkshire +6 10 £259 -35.31% 5
West Yorkshire +1 9 £500 +49.25% 2
North Yorkshire - 1 £300 - 1
East Yorkshire - - - -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Solaris also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Solaris.

1 26 (72.22%) Linux
2 20 (55.56%) Oracle
3 19 (52.78%) UNIX
3 19 (52.78%) Red Hat
4 16 (44.44%) Finance
5 12 (33.33%) IBM
5 12 (33.33%) AIX
6 10 (27.78%) Tomcat
6 10 (27.78%) Windows
6 10 (27.78%) HP
7 9 (25.00%) Sun
7 9 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 9 (25.00%) Java
8 8 (22.22%) ITIL
8 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
8 8 (22.22%) Veritas
8 8 (22.22%) SAN
9 7 (19.44%) Apache
9 7 (19.44%) Firewall
9 7 (19.44%) SUSE
9 7 (19.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (19.44%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 6 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 6 (16.67%) Change Management
10 6 (16.67%) Service Management
10 6 (16.67%) Incident Management
10 6 (16.67%) WebSphere
10 6 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
10 6 (16.67%) HPUX

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Solaris also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Solaris. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 3 (8.333%) Web Services
3 2 (5.556%) JDBC
3 2 (5.556%) J2EE
3 2 (5.556%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (27.78%) Tomcat
2 7 (19.44%) Apache
3 3 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (8.333%) WebLogic
3 3 (8.333%) IIS
3 3 (8.333%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (8.333%) ATG Dynamo
4 2 (5.556%) GlassFish
4 2 (5.556%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (5.556%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (8.333%) MS Visio
1 3 (8.333%) MS Office
2 1 (2.778%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) SAN
2 7 (19.44%) Firewall
3 5 (13.89%) NAS
4 4 (11.11%) WAN
4 4 (11.11%) VPN
5 2 (5.556%) FTP
5 2 (5.556%) HTTP
5 2 (5.556%) Internet
5 2 (5.556%) SSL
6 1 (2.778%) DNS
6 1 (2.778%) MPLS
6 1 (2.778%) OSPF
6 1 (2.778%) RIP
6 1 (2.778%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.778%) IPsec
6 1 (2.778%) FWSM
6 1 (2.778%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.778%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (2.778%) Network Security
6 1 (2.778%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle 10g
3 5 (13.89%) MySQL
4 3 (8.333%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (8.333%) Oracle 9i
4 3 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (5.556%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Ant
1 3 (8.333%) CruiseControl
1 3 (8.333%) Subversion
1 3 (8.333%) Maven
General
1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (5.556%) Games
2 2 (5.556%) Banking
2 2 (5.556%) Retail
3 1 (2.778%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.778%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Administrator
2 9 (25.00%) Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 6 (16.67%) DBA
4 5 (13.89%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (8.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.333%) Solaris Administrator
6 3 (8.333%) Release Engineer
6 3 (8.333%) Infrastructure Designer
6 3 (8.333%) UNIX Administrator
6 3 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.333%) Support Analyst
6 3 (8.333%) Designer
6 3 (8.333%) Configuration Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Operations Support Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.556%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.778%) Firmware
1 1 (2.778%) Client/Server
1 1 (2.778%) Beowulf
1 1 (2.778%) Grid Computing
1 1 (2.778%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 26 (72.22%) Linux
2 19 (52.78%) UNIX
3 12 (33.33%) AIX
4 10 (27.78%) Windows
5 7 (19.44%) SUSE
5 7 (19.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (16.67%) HPUX
7 2 (5.556%) VMS
8 1 (2.778%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 8 (22.22%) ITIL
3 6 (16.67%) Change Management
3 6 (16.67%) Service Management
3 6 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 5 (13.89%) E-Commerce
4 5 (13.89%) Quality Management
5 3 (8.333%) Problem Management
5 3 (8.333%) Capacity Management
5 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (2.778%) PRINCE2
6 1 (2.778%) Business Analysis
6 1 (2.778%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (2.778%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.778%) Release Management
6 1 (2.778%) Process Management
6 1 (2.778%) Network Architecture
6 1 (2.778%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (2.778%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) Perl
3 5 (13.89%) PHP
4 3 (8.333%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.333%) AWK
5 2 (5.556%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.333%) Degree
2 1 (2.778%) CCNA
2 1 (2.778%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.778%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.778%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.778%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (5.556%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.778%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.778%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.333%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.778%) OpenView
2 1 (2.778%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.778%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (2.778%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.778%) PureDisk
2 1 (2.778%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 20 (55.56%) Oracle
2 19 (52.78%) Red Hat
3 12 (33.33%) IBM
4 10 (27.78%) HP
5 9 (25.00%) Sun
6 8 (22.22%) Veritas
7 6 (16.67%) JBoss
7 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 3 (8.333%) ATG
9 2 (5.556%) F5
9 2 (5.556%) VMware
10 1 (2.778%) Cisco
10 1 (2.778%) BMC
10 1 (2.778%) Nokia
10 1 (2.778%) Citrix
10 1 (2.778%) Apple
10 1 (2.778%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.778%) Symantec
10 1 (2.778%) Brocade
10 1 (2.778%) SolarWinds
Barnsley, Yorkshire
Excellent knowledge of Veritas Volume manager and Veritas Cluster Server is required... You will need to have experience with IBM and HP hardware with SAN and NAS storage...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Excellent knowledge of Veritas Volume manager and Veritas Cluster Server is required... You will need to have experience with IBM and HP hardware with SAN and NAS storage...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Barnsley, Yorkshire
My large financial client is looking to recruit a Technical Analyst - (Redhat Linux, Windows and Solaris) based within the Enterprise and Systems Architecture department The role of the...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Key Skills: - Previous experience of working with Oracle 10g/11g - RAC and DataGuard - Solaris and Linux The role will include the installation, configuration and maintenance of Oracle databases,...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
The successful Oracle DBA will possess previous experience of working with: Oracle 10g/11g... Solaris and Linux. The role will include the installation, configuration and maintenance of Oracle...
Real Staffing
Posted: 13 June 2013
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