Solaris Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Solaris skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Sun Microsystems Solaris UK / England
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	226	209	229
Rank change year-on-year	-17	+20
Contract jobs citing Solaris	461	608	509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.07%	1.23%	1.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category	5.19%	5.37%	4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	282	419	296
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£422
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	-5.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£264	£305
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£585	£563	£569
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£365	£400
% change year-on-year	+9.58%	-8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	4	15
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£28.00	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+42.85%	+7.69%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£16.28	£36.00	£27.25
% change year-on-year	-54.77%	+32.11%

Solaris is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	8889	11314	11220
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	20.56%	22.88%	22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	11933	16372	15346
Median daily rate	£413	£400	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.12%	+11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£173	£200	£165
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£566	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£348
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1219	1404	2348
Median hourly rate	£16.50	£16.50	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.50	£11.25	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.75	£43.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.00	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-8.82%	+3.03%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Solaris as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Solaris in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Solaris in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the England region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-27	169	£500	+11.11%	21
South East	+14	101	£400	+4.57%	6
North of England	-22	97	£400	+29.03%	9
North West	+18	58	£450	+5.88%	1
Midlands	+50	46	£375	-11.76%	3
East Midlands	+23	34	£375	-6.25%	2
East of England	+2	32	£410	+17.14%	3
North East	+10	31	£328	+14.91%	4
South West	-20	15	£405	-1.81%	2
West Midlands	+23	10	£385	-16.75%	1
Yorkshire	+5	8	£400	-23.80%	4
Solaris UK

Solaris
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Solaris also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Solaris.

1	567 (75.50%)	Linux
2	441 (58.72%)	Unix
3	294 (39.15%)	Oracle
4	254 (33.82%)	Windows
5	252 (33.56%)	AIX
6	215 (28.63%)	Red Hat
7	206 (27.43%)	Security Cleared
8	188 (25.03%)	SAN
9	184 (24.50%)	Migration
10	173 (23.04%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11	162 (21.57%)	Sun
12	161 (21.44%)	Finance
13	160 (21.30%)	SC Cleared
14	159 (21.17%)	Perl
15	156 (20.77%)	Veritas

16	128 (17.04%)	SQL
16	128 (17.04%)	HPUX
17	126 (16.78%)	Java
17	126 (16.78%)	IBM
18	124 (16.51%)	VMware
19	120 (15.98%)	Shell Script
20	116 (15.45%)	HP
21	104 (13.85%)	DevOps
22	98 (13.05%)	Puppet
23	97 (12.92%)	Data Centre
24	88 (11.72%)	Korn
25	87 (11.58%)	Python
26	86 (11.45%)	Agile Software Development
26	86 (11.45%)	Veritas Cluster Server
27	81 (10.79%)	Banking

Solaris
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	75 (9.99%)	Apache
2	66 (8.79%)	Tomcat
3	63 (8.39%)	WebLogic
4	48 (6.39%)	WebSphere
5	44 (5.86%)	JBoss
6	27 (3.60%)	iPlanet
7	26 (3.46%)	MS Exchange
8	24 (3.20%)	Oracle Application Server
9	21 (2.80%)	OpenStack
10	14 (1.86%)	IIS
11	12 (1.60%)	SharePoint
12	11 (1.46%)	Exchange Server 2003
12	11 (1.46%)	MQSeries
13	10 (1.33%)	Confluence
14	8 (1.07%)	Exchange Server 2000
14	8 (1.07%)	Exchange Server 5.5
15	7 (0.93%)	BizTalk Server
16	6 (0.80%)	WebLogic Portal
16	6 (0.80%)	WebSphere Application Server
17	5 (0.67%)	IBM HTTP Server

Applications
1	19 (2.53%)	Microsoft Office
2	7 (0.93%)	Microsoft Excel
3	6 (0.80%)	Microsoft Project
4	4 (0.53%)	HipChat
4	4 (0.53%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	1 (0.13%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	41 (5.46%)	SAP ERP
2	14 (1.86%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	8 (1.07%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	3 (0.40%)	Oracle EBS
4	3 (0.40%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	2 (0.27%)	HiPortfolio
5	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Applications
5	2 (0.27%)	Oracle BPM
5	2 (0.27%)	Primavera
5	2 (0.27%)	RMDS
5	2 (0.27%)	Sentinel
6	1 (0.13%)	BASE24
6	1 (0.13%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
6	1 (0.13%)	Oracle 11i

Cloud Services
1	47 (6.26%)	Amazon AWS
2	34 (4.53%)	Microsoft Azure
3	20 (2.66%)	OpenShift
4	10 (1.33%)	Cloud Computing
4	10 (1.33%)	IaaS
4	10 (1.33%)	Office 365
5	5 (0.67%)	SaaS
6	4 (0.53%)	PaaS
7	3 (0.40%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	3 (0.40%)	Google Analytics
8	2 (0.27%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	1 (0.13%)	GitHub

Communications & Networking
1	188 (25.03%)	SAN
2	81 (10.79%)	Firewall
3	79 (10.52%)	NAS
4	75 (9.99%)	DNS
5	66 (8.79%)	TCP/IP
6	50 (6.66%)	LDAP
7	39 (5.19%)	Fibre Channel
8	34 (4.53%)	DHCP
9	25 (3.33%)	Internet
10	20 (2.66%)	iSCSI
11	19 (2.53%)	WAN
12	16 (2.13%)	LAN
12	16 (2.13%)	SSH
13	14 (1.86%)	HTTP
13	14 (1.86%)	SMTP
13	14 (1.86%)	SSL
14	12 (1.60%)	IPsec
15	10 (1.33%)	FTP
15	10 (1.33%)	VPN
16	9 (1.20%)	VLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	75 (9.99%)	Oracle Database
2	61 (8.12%)	SQL Server
3	37 (4.93%)	Relational Database
4	34 (4.53%)	MySQL
5	24 (3.20%)	RDBMS
6	22 (2.93%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	21 (2.80%)	Big Data
8	16 (2.13%)	DB2
8	16 (2.13%)	Hadoop
9	14 (1.86%)	Sybase ASE
10	11 (1.46%)	Oracle Reports
11	10 (1.33%)	Oracle Database 12c
11	10 (1.33%)	SQL Server 2005
11	10 (1.33%)	SQL Server 2012
11	10 (1.33%)	SQL Server 2016
12	9 (1.20%)	Data Warehouse
13	8 (1.07%)	NoSQL
14	7 (0.93%)	MS Access
14	7 (0.93%)	Oracle Database 10g
15	6 (0.80%)	BusinessObjects

Development Applications
1	25 (3.33%)	Git (software)
2	22 (2.93%)	Team Foundation Server
3	21 (2.80%)	Jenkins
4	16 (2.13%)	Maven
5	15 (2.00%)	JUnit
6	12 (1.60%)	Cucumber
6	12 (1.60%)	Subversion
7	10 (1.33%)	Artifactory
8	9 (1.20%)	JIRA
9	8 (1.07%)	ClearCase
9	8 (1.07%)	Oracle Forms
10	7 (0.93%)	GitLab
11	6 (0.80%)	Ant
11	6 (0.80%)	Oracle APEX
12	5 (0.67%)	ClearQuest
12	5 (0.67%)	Eclipse
13	4 (0.53%)	Bitbucket
14	3 (0.40%)	ERwin
14	3 (0.40%)	Selenium
14	3 (0.40%)	SoapUI

General
1	161 (21.44%)	Finance
2	81 (10.79%)	Banking
3	30 (3.99%)	Investment Banking
4	19 (2.53%)	Legal
5	18 (2.40%)	Telecoms
6	10 (1.33%)	Manufacturing
6	10 (1.33%)	Marketing
7	9 (1.20%)	Financial Institution
8	8 (1.07%)	Electronics
9	7 (0.93%)	Front Office
9	7 (0.93%)	Retail
10	5 (0.67%)	Local Government
11	4 (0.53%)	Games
11	4 (0.53%)	Military
12	3 (0.40%)	Law
12	3 (0.40%)	Retail Banking
13	2 (0.27%)	German Language
14	1 (0.13%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	121 (16.11%)	Administrator
2	88 (11.72%)	Developer
2	88 (11.72%)	Unix Engineer
3	79 (10.52%)	Systems Administrator
4	73 (9.72%)	Unix Administrator
5	69 (9.19%)	Architect
6	60 (7.99%)	Solaris Engineer
7	51 (6.79%)	Consultant
7	51 (6.79%)	Unix Systems Administrator
8	46 (6.13%)	AIX Engineer
9	41 (5.46%)	Linux Engineer
10	39 (5.19%)	Solaris Administrator
11	38 (5.06%)	Systems Engineer
12	37 (4.93%)	Linux Administrator
13	35 (4.66%)	DevOps Engineer
14	34 (4.53%)	Analyst
15	32 (4.26%)	Solaris Systems Administrator
16	30 (3.99%)	DBA
17	29 (3.86%)	Linux Systems Administrator
18	25 (3.33%)	Unix Linux Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	78 (10.39%)	Middleware
2	46 (6.13%)	J2EE
3	36 (4.79%)	XML
4	30 (3.99%)	Web Services
5	27 (3.60%)	SOAP
6	23 (3.06%)	Spring
7	22 (2.93%)	REST
8	21 (2.80%)	XSLT
9	18 (2.40%)	JSON
10	17 (2.26%)	.NET
11	15 (2.00%)	HTML
11	15 (2.00%)	TIBCO EMS
12	13 (1.73%)	WebSphere MQ
12	13 (1.73%)	XSD
13	12 (1.60%)	JDBC
13	12 (1.60%)	Spring Security
14	10 (1.33%)	Apache Camel
15	9 (1.20%)	IBM Integration Bus
15	9 (1.20%)	JSP
15	9 (1.20%)	Spring Boot

Miscellaneous
1	97 (12.92%)	Data Centre
2	80 (10.65%)	Clustering
3	38 (5.06%)	Analytical Skills
3	38 (5.06%)	Replication
4	35 (4.66%)	Enterprise Storage
5	31 (4.13%)	Mainframe
6	27 (3.60%)	Computer Science
7	21 (2.80%)	Management Information System
8	20 (2.66%)	Linux Command Line
9	17 (2.26%)	Enterprise Software
10	12 (1.60%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	10 (1.33%)	Private Cloud
12	8 (1.07%)	CMDB
12	8 (1.07%)	EMC VNX
12	8 (1.07%)	Fixed Income
13	7 (0.93%)	Derivative
13	7 (0.93%)	Grid Computing
14	6 (0.80%)	Hybrid Cloud
14	6 (0.80%)	Public Cloud
14	6 (0.80%)	Thin Client

Operating Systems
1	567 (75.50%)	Linux
2	441 (58.72%)	Unix
3	254 (33.82%)	Windows
4	252 (33.56%)	AIX
5	173 (23.04%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	128 (17.04%)	HPUX
7	52 (6.92%)	Windows Server
8	35 (4.66%)	SUSE
9	26 (3.46%)	CentOS
10	24 (3.20%)	Windows Server 2008
11	18 (2.40%)	Windows Server 2003
12	16 (2.13%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13	13 (1.73%)	Windows Server 2012
14	10 (1.33%)	Windows Vista
15	8 (1.07%)	VMS
15	8 (1.07%)	Windows 2000 Server
16	7 (0.93%)	Data ONTAP
16	7 (0.93%)	Ubuntu
16	7 (0.93%)	Windows 7
17	5 (0.67%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	184 (24.50%)	Migration
2	104 (13.85%)	DevOps
3	86 (11.45%)	Agile Software Development
4	78 (10.39%)	ITIL
5	74 (9.85%)	High Availability
6	65 (8.66%)	Disaster Recovery
7	58 (7.72%)	Configuration Management
8	45 (5.99%)	Load Balancing
9	41 (5.46%)	Change Management
9	41 (5.46%)	ERP
10	40 (5.33%)	Performance Tuning
11	29 (3.86%)	SDLC
12	27 (3.60%)	Problem Management
12	27 (3.60%)	TDD
13	25 (3.33%)	Multithreading
14	24 (3.20%)	Performance Monitoring
14	24 (3.20%)	Time Management
15	23 (3.06%)	Data Migration
16	22 (2.93%)	Change Control
16	22 (2.93%)	Service Delivery

Programming Languages
1	159 (21.17%)	Perl
2	128 (17.04%)	SQL
3	126 (16.78%)	Java
4	120 (15.98%)	Shell Script
5	88 (11.72%)	Korn
6	87 (11.58%)	Python
7	59 (7.86%)	Bash Shell
8	27 (3.60%)	PL/SQL
9	26 (3.46%)	C++
10	25 (3.33%)	JavaScript
11	23 (3.06%)	PowerShell
12	22 (2.93%)	T-SQL
13	16 (2.13%)	C
14	12 (1.60%)	C#
15	11 (1.46%)	Bourne shell
16	9 (1.20%)	PHP
16	9 (1.20%)	VBScript
17	8 (1.07%)	AWK
17	8 (1.07%)	C-shell
18	7 (0.93%)	Ruby

Qualifications
1	206 (27.43%)	Security Cleared
2	160 (21.30%)	SC Cleared
3	40 (5.33%)	Degree
4	32 (4.26%)	DV Cleared
5	11 (1.46%)	MCSE
5	11 (1.46%)	Microsoft Certification
6	10 (1.33%)	CISSP
7	9 (1.20%)	MCITP
7	9 (1.20%)	RHCE
8	8 (1.07%)	CCNA
8	8 (1.07%)	Cisco Certification
8	8 (1.07%)	Computer Science Degree
8	8 (1.07%)	OCP
8	8 (1.07%)	Oracle Certification
8	8 (1.07%)	RHCSA
9	7 (0.93%)	OCA
10	6 (0.80%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11	5 (0.67%)	CCSP
11	5 (0.67%)	PMI Certification
12	4 (0.53%)	CISM

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	12 (1.60%)	Data Quality
2	10 (1.33%)	QA
3	7 (0.93%)	SLA
4	5 (0.67%)	PCI DSS
5	4 (0.53%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	3 (0.40%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	3 (0.40%)	ISO 9001
7	2 (0.27%)	COBIT
7	2 (0.27%)	GCP
7	2 (0.27%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	2 (0.27%)	MiFID
7	2 (0.27%)	RMADS
7	2 (0.27%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	1 (0.13%)	COSO
8	1 (0.13%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	1 (0.13%)	PMO

System Software
1	86 (11.45%)	Veritas Cluster Server
2	80 (10.65%)	Active Directory
3	78 (10.39%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	49 (6.52%)	NFS
5	40 (5.33%)	Hyper-V
6	37 (4.93%)	Veritas File System
7	36 (4.79%)	Veritas Volume Manager
8	32 (4.26%)	VMware ESXi
9	29 (3.86%)	Docker
10	28 (3.73%)	Virtual Machines
11	19 (2.53%)	KVM
12	17 (2.26%)	Oracle RAC
12	17 (2.26%)	Samba
13	16 (2.13%)	Oracle Clusterware
14	13 (1.73%)	Virtual Servers
15	7 (0.93%)	GlusterFS
15	7 (0.93%)	SRDF
16	4 (0.53%)	Xen
17	3 (0.40%)	PowerHA
17	3 (0.40%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Systems Management
1	98 (13.05%)	Puppet
2	73 (9.72%)	NetBackup
3	59 (7.86%)	Ansible
4	50 (6.66%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
5	36 (4.79%)	Opscode Chef
6	28 (3.73%)	Tivoli
7	26 (3.46%)	Nagios
8	23 (3.06%)	Netcool
8	23 (3.06%)	Veritas Storage Foundation
9	22 (2.93%)	OpenView Configuration Management
10	21 (2.80%)	SCOM
11	20 (2.66%)	SCCM
12	19 (2.53%)	EMC NetWorker
13	16 (2.13%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
13	16 (2.13%)	Red Hat Satellite
14	15 (2.00%)	BladeLogic
14	15 (2.00%)	Kubernetes
15	14 (1.86%)	Oracle ZFS
16	13 (1.73%)	Microsoft Clustering
16	13 (1.73%)	Oracle RMAN

Vendors
1	294 (39.15%)	Oracle
2	215 (28.63%)	Red Hat
3	162 (21.57%)	Sun
4	156 (20.77%)	Veritas
5	126 (16.78%)	IBM
6	124 (16.51%)	VMware
7	116 (15.45%)	HP
8	76 (10.12%)	Cisco
9	70 (9.32%)	EMC
10	66 (8.79%)	SAP
11	53 (7.06%)	Microsoft
12	48 (6.39%)	NetApp
13	43 (5.73%)	Brocade
14	36 (4.79%)	F5
14	36 (4.79%)	Sybase
15	34 (4.53%)	Symantec
16	33 (4.39%)	TIBCO
17	32 (4.26%)	Citrix
18	19 (2.53%)	Splunk
19	17 (2.26%)	StorageTek