Solaris Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	235	190	224
Rank change year-on-year	-45	+34
Contract jobs citing Solaris	487	722	579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.03%	1.34%	1.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category	4.94%	5.80%	4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	294	456	322
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	-3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£264	£305
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£579	£556	£556
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£365	£400
% change year-on-year	+9.58%	-8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	10	15
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£36.00	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+11.11%	+38.46%
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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	9853	12453	12199
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	20.92%	23.12%	22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	13105	17961	16391
Median daily rate	£403	£393	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.54%	+12.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£166	£200	£163
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£556	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£348
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1322	1608	2542
Median hourly rate	£16.00	£17.50	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-8.57%	+2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.50	£11.11	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.75	£42.50	£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

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

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

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

Contractor daily rate histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK 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
England	-17	461	£425	+6.25%	44
UK excluding London	-41	314	£400	+9.58%	25
London	-27	169	£500	+11.11%	21
South East	+14	101	£400	+4.57%	6
North of England	-22	97	£400	+29.03%	9
Midlands	+50	46	£375	-11.76%	3
East of England	+2	32	£410	+17.14%	3
Scotland	-39	16	£400	+6.66%	2
South West	-20	15	£405	-1.81%	2
Wales	+4	6	£450	-
Northern Ireland	-48	1	£400	+33.33%

Solaris
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

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 with a requirement for Solaris.

1	607 (74.39%)	Linux
2	484 (59.31%)	Unix
3	328 (40.20%)	Oracle
4	274 (33.58%)	Windows
5	270 (33.09%)	AIX
6	229 (28.06%)	Red Hat
7	209 (25.61%)	Security Cleared
8	199 (24.39%)	SAN
9	196 (24.02%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	189 (23.16%)	Migration
11	179 (21.94%)	Perl
12	174 (21.32%)	Finance
13	170 (20.83%)	Sun
14	163 (19.98%)	SC Cleared
15	157 (19.24%)	Veritas

16	144 (17.65%)	Java
17	136 (16.67%)	IBM
17	136 (16.67%)	VMware
18	133 (16.30%)	SQL
19	131 (16.05%)	HPUX
20	127 (15.56%)	Shell Script
21	125 (15.32%)	HP
22	106 (12.99%)	DevOps
23	98 (12.01%)	Data Centre
23	98 (12.01%)	Puppet
24	94 (11.52%)	Korn
25	90 (11.03%)	Python
26	89 (10.91%)	Agile Software Development
27	87 (10.66%)	VMware Infrastructure
28	86 (10.54%)	Veritas Cluster Server

Solaris
Co-occurring IT Skills 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	83 (10.17%)	Apache
2	74 (9.07%)	Tomcat
3	64 (7.84%)	WebLogic
4	56 (6.86%)	WebSphere
5	45 (5.51%)	JBoss
6	27 (3.31%)	iPlanet
6	27 (3.31%)	MS Exchange
7	24 (2.94%)	Oracle Application Server
8	21 (2.57%)	OpenStack
9	14 (1.72%)	IIS
10	13 (1.59%)	Confluence
10	13 (1.59%)	MQSeries
10	13 (1.59%)	SharePoint
10	13 (1.59%)	WebSphere Application Server
11	11 (1.35%)	Exchange Server 2003
12	9 (1.10%)	IBM HTTP Server
13	8 (0.98%)	Exchange Server 2000
13	8 (0.98%)	Exchange Server 5.5
14	7 (0.86%)	BizTalk Server
15	6 (0.74%)	WebLogic Portal

Applications
1	19 (2.33%)	Microsoft Office
2	8 (0.98%)	Microsoft Excel
3	7 (0.86%)	Microsoft Project
4	5 (0.61%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	4 (0.49%)	HipChat
6	2 (0.25%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	41 (5.02%)	SAP ERP
2	14 (1.72%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	8 (0.98%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	4 (0.49%)	Oracle EBS
5	3 (0.37%)	Oracle EBS R12
6	2 (0.25%)	HiPortfolio
6	2 (0.25%)	Oracle Applications
6	2 (0.25%)	Oracle BPM
6	2 (0.25%)	Primavera
6	2 (0.25%)	RMDS
6	2 (0.25%)	Sentinel
7	1 (0.12%)	BASE24
7	1 (0.12%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
7	1 (0.12%)	Oracle 11i

Cloud Services
1	47 (5.76%)	Amazon AWS
2	36 (4.41%)	Microsoft Azure
3	20 (2.45%)	OpenShift
4	12 (1.47%)	Cloud Computing
5	10 (1.23%)	IaaS
5	10 (1.23%)	Office 365
6	5 (0.61%)	SaaS
7	4 (0.49%)	PaaS
8	3 (0.37%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	3 (0.37%)	Google Analytics
9	2 (0.25%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	1 (0.12%)	GitHub

Communications & Networking
1	199 (24.39%)	SAN
2	86 (10.54%)	Firewall
3	85 (10.42%)	NAS
4	84 (10.29%)	DNS
5	75 (9.19%)	TCP/IP
6	51 (6.25%)	LDAP
7	40 (4.90%)	DHCP
8	39 (4.78%)	Fibre Channel
9	30 (3.68%)	Internet
10	25 (3.06%)	WAN
11	21 (2.57%)	iSCSI
11	21 (2.57%)	LAN
12	20 (2.45%)	SMTP
13	18 (2.21%)	HTTP
13	18 (2.21%)	SSL
14	16 (1.96%)	SSH
15	14 (1.72%)	VLAN
16	12 (1.47%)	IPsec
17	10 (1.23%)	FTP
17	10 (1.23%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	84 (10.29%)	Oracle Database
2	67 (8.21%)	SQL Server
3	41 (5.02%)	Relational Database
4	35 (4.29%)	MySQL
5	28 (3.43%)	RDBMS
6	24 (2.94%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	21 (2.57%)	Big Data
8	16 (1.96%)	DB2
8	16 (1.96%)	Hadoop
8	16 (1.96%)	KDB
9	15 (1.84%)	Kdb+
10	14 (1.72%)	Sybase ASE
11	13 (1.59%)	Oracle Database 12c
12	11 (1.35%)	Oracle Reports
12	11 (1.35%)	SQL Server 2012
13	10 (1.23%)	SQL Server 2005
13	10 (1.23%)	SQL Server 2016
14	9 (1.10%)	Data Warehouse
14	9 (1.10%)	NoSQL
14	9 (1.10%)	Oracle Database 10g

Development Applications
1	25 (3.06%)	Git (software)
2	23 (2.82%)	Jenkins
3	22 (2.70%)	Team Foundation Server
4	17 (2.08%)	Maven
5	16 (1.96%)	JUnit
6	13 (1.59%)	Subversion
7	12 (1.47%)	Cucumber
7	12 (1.47%)	JIRA
8	10 (1.23%)	Artifactory
9	8 (0.98%)	ClearCase
9	8 (0.98%)	Oracle Forms
10	7 (0.86%)	Ant
10	7 (0.86%)	GitLab
11	6 (0.74%)	Bitbucket
11	6 (0.74%)	Oracle APEX
12	5 (0.61%)	ClearQuest
12	5 (0.61%)	Eclipse
13	3 (0.37%)	ERwin
13	3 (0.37%)	Log4Net
13	3 (0.37%)	NUnit

General
1	174 (21.32%)	Finance
2	84 (10.29%)	Banking
3	31 (3.80%)	Investment Banking
4	23 (2.82%)	Legal
5	19 (2.33%)	Telecoms
6	10 (1.23%)	Manufacturing
6	10 (1.23%)	Marketing
7	9 (1.10%)	Financial Institution
8	8 (0.98%)	Electronics
9	7 (0.86%)	Front Office
9	7 (0.86%)	Retail
10	5 (0.61%)	Local Government
11	4 (0.49%)	Games
11	4 (0.49%)	Law
11	4 (0.49%)	Military
12	3 (0.37%)	Retail Banking
13	2 (0.25%)	German Language
14	1 (0.12%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	134 (16.42%)	Administrator
2	103 (12.62%)	Developer
3	89 (10.91%)	Unix Engineer
4	85 (10.42%)	Systems Administrator
5	77 (9.44%)	Unix Administrator
6	74 (9.07%)	Architect
7	60 (7.35%)	Solaris Engineer
8	54 (6.62%)	Unix Systems Administrator
9	53 (6.50%)	Consultant
10	46 (5.64%)	AIX Engineer
11	45 (5.51%)	Solaris Administrator
12	43 (5.27%)	Analyst
13	42 (5.15%)	Linux Engineer
14	41 (5.02%)	Systems Engineer
15	38 (4.66%)	Linux Administrator
16	36 (4.41%)	DevOps Engineer
16	36 (4.41%)	Solaris Systems Administrator
17	33 (4.04%)	DBA
18	30 (3.68%)	Linux Systems Administrator
19	26 (3.19%)	Unix Linux Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	81 (9.93%)	Middleware
2	52 (6.37%)	J2EE
3	36 (4.41%)	XML
4	35 (4.29%)	Web Services
5	28 (3.43%)	SOAP
6	24 (2.94%)	Spring
7	22 (2.70%)	REST
8	21 (2.57%)	XSLT
9	18 (2.21%)	JSON
10	17 (2.08%)	.NET
11	16 (1.96%)	WebSphere MQ
12	15 (1.84%)	HTML
12	15 (1.84%)	TIBCO EMS
13	13 (1.59%)	XSD
14	12 (1.47%)	JDBC
14	12 (1.47%)	Spring Security
15	10 (1.23%)	Apache Camel
16	9 (1.10%)	IBM Integration Bus
16	9 (1.10%)	JSP
16	9 (1.10%)	LAMP

Miscellaneous
1	98 (12.01%)	Data Centre
2	80 (9.80%)	Clustering
3	54 (6.62%)	Analytical Skills
4	44 (5.39%)	Replication
5	39 (4.78%)	Enterprise Storage
6	33 (4.04%)	Mainframe
7	27 (3.31%)	Computer Science
8	26 (3.19%)	Management Information System
9	20 (2.45%)	Linux Command Line
10	17 (2.08%)	Enterprise Software
11	12 (1.47%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	11 (1.35%)	EMC VNX
13	10 (1.23%)	CMDB
13	10 (1.23%)	Private Cloud
14	8 (0.98%)	DataPower
14	8 (0.98%)	Fixed Income
14	8 (0.98%)	Public Cloud
15	7 (0.86%)	Derivative
15	7 (0.86%)	Grid Computing
16	6 (0.74%)	Thin Client

Operating Systems
1	607 (74.39%)	Linux
2	484 (59.31%)	Unix
3	274 (33.58%)	Windows
4	270 (33.09%)	AIX
5	196 (24.02%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	131 (16.05%)	HPUX
7	57 (6.99%)	Windows Server
8	35 (4.29%)	SUSE
9	29 (3.55%)	CentOS
10	25 (3.06%)	Windows Server 2008
11	18 (2.21%)	Windows Server 2003
12	16 (1.96%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13	15 (1.84%)	Windows Server 2012
14	10 (1.23%)	Windows Vista
15	8 (0.98%)	VMS
15	8 (0.98%)	Windows 2000 Server
15	8 (0.98%)	Windows 7
16	7 (0.86%)	Data ONTAP
16	7 (0.86%)	Ubuntu
17	5 (0.61%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	189 (23.16%)	Migration
2	106 (12.99%)	DevOps
3	89 (10.91%)	Agile Software Development
4	80 (9.80%)	High Availability
4	80 (9.80%)	ITIL
5	69 (8.46%)	Disaster Recovery
6	60 (7.35%)	Configuration Management
7	45 (5.51%)	Load Balancing
8	41 (5.02%)	Change Management
8	41 (5.02%)	ERP
9	40 (4.90%)	Performance Tuning
10	30 (3.68%)	SDLC
10	30 (3.68%)	TDD
11	28 (3.43%)	Performance Monitoring
12	27 (3.31%)	Problem Management
13	25 (3.06%)	Multithreading
13	25 (3.06%)	Time Management
14	24 (2.94%)	Continuous Integration
15	23 (2.82%)	Data Migration
16	22 (2.70%)	Change Control

Programming Languages
1	179 (21.94%)	Perl
2	144 (17.65%)	Java
3	133 (16.30%)	SQL
4	127 (15.56%)	Shell Script
5	94 (11.52%)	Korn
6	90 (11.03%)	Python
7	64 (7.84%)	Bash Shell
8	28 (3.43%)	PL/SQL
9	26 (3.19%)	C++
9	26 (3.19%)	PowerShell
10	25 (3.06%)	JavaScript
11	22 (2.70%)	T-SQL
12	16 (1.96%)	C
13	12 (1.47%)	C#
14	11 (1.35%)	Bourne shell
15	10 (1.23%)	C-shell
16	9 (1.10%)	PHP
16	9 (1.10%)	VBScript
17	8 (0.98%)	AWK
17	8 (0.98%)	Ruby

Qualifications
1	209 (25.61%)	Security Cleared
2	163 (19.98%)	SC Cleared
3	41 (5.02%)	Degree
4	32 (3.92%)	DV Cleared
5	15 (1.84%)	CISSP
6	11 (1.35%)	MCSE
6	11 (1.35%)	Microsoft Certification
7	10 (1.23%)	Oracle Certification
8	9 (1.10%)	MCITP
8	9 (1.10%)	RHCE
9	8 (0.98%)	CCNA
9	8 (0.98%)	Cisco Certification
9	8 (0.98%)	Computer Science Degree
9	8 (0.98%)	OCP
9	8 (0.98%)	RHCSA
10	7 (0.86%)	OCA
11	6 (0.74%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12	5 (0.61%)	CCSP
12	5 (0.61%)	PMI Certification
13	4 (0.49%)	CISM

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	12 (1.47%)	Data Quality
2	10 (1.23%)	QA
2	10 (1.23%)	SLA
3	7 (0.86%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	6 (0.74%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	5 (0.61%)	COBIT
5	5 (0.61%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
5	5 (0.61%)	PCI DSS
6	3 (0.37%)	ISO 9001
7	2 (0.25%)	GCP
7	2 (0.25%)	MiFID
7	2 (0.25%)	RMADS
7	2 (0.25%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	1 (0.12%)	COSO
8	1 (0.12%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	1 (0.12%)	PMO

System Software
1	87 (10.66%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	86 (10.54%)	Veritas Cluster Server
3	83 (10.17%)	Active Directory
4	49 (6.00%)	NFS
5	43 (5.27%)	Hyper-V
6	37 (4.53%)	Veritas File System
7	36 (4.41%)	Veritas Volume Manager
8	34 (4.17%)	VMware ESXi
9	33 (4.04%)	Virtual Machines
10	29 (3.55%)	Docker
11	19 (2.33%)	KVM
12	18 (2.21%)	Oracle RAC
12	18 (2.21%)	Samba
13	16 (1.96%)	Oracle Clusterware
14	14 (1.72%)	Virtual Servers
15	7 (0.86%)	GlusterFS
15	7 (0.86%)	SRDF
16	4 (0.49%)	PowerHA
16	4 (0.49%)	Xen
17	3 (0.37%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Systems Management
1	98 (12.01%)	Puppet
2	80 (9.80%)	NetBackup
3	61 (7.48%)	Ansible
4	52 (6.37%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
5	36 (4.41%)	Opscode Chef
6	29 (3.55%)	Nagios
7	28 (3.43%)	Tivoli
8	23 (2.82%)	Netcool
8	23 (2.82%)	SCOM
8	23 (2.82%)	Veritas Storage Foundation
9	22 (2.70%)	OpenView Configuration Management
10	20 (2.45%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
10	20 (2.45%)	SCCM
11	19 (2.33%)	EMC NetWorker
11	19 (2.33%)	Red Hat Satellite
12	17 (2.08%)	Oracle ZFS
13	16 (1.96%)	Oracle RMAN
14	15 (1.84%)	BladeLogic
14	15 (1.84%)	HP Data Protector
14	15 (1.84%)	Kubernetes

Vendors
1	328 (40.20%)	Oracle
2	229 (28.06%)	Red Hat
3	170 (20.83%)	Sun
4	157 (19.24%)	Veritas
5	136 (16.67%)	IBM
5	136 (16.67%)	VMware
6	125 (15.32%)	HP
7	82 (10.05%)	Cisco
8	79 (9.68%)	EMC
9	67 (8.21%)	SAP
10	59 (7.23%)	Microsoft
11	57 (6.99%)	NetApp
12	45 (5.51%)	Brocade
13	36 (4.41%)	F5
13	36 (4.41%)	Sybase
13	36 (4.41%)	Symantec
14	35 (4.29%)	Citrix
15	33 (4.04%)	TIBCO
16	19 (2.33%)	Splunk
17	17 (2.08%)	StorageTek