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 27 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 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	236	186	219
Rank change year-on-year	-50	+33
Contract jobs citing Solaris	481	723	578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.02%	1.34%	1.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category	4.89%	5.78%	4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	292	457	317
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	£321	£275	£310
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£566	£532	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£365	£400
% change year-on-year	+9.58%	-8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	9	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	9844	12513	12202
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	20.89%	23.18%	22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	6134	7886	7140
Median daily rate	£403	£395	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.89%	+12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£175	£200	£175
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	552	659	953
Median hourly rate	£16.00	£17.00	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-5.88%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£11.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£42.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.50	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-11.42%	+6.06%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Solaris as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Operating Systems category.

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 27 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 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 30 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 27 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	455	£425	+6.25%	46
London	-29	171	£500	+11.11%	19
South East	-2	98	£391	+1.29%	8
North West	+12	57	£455	+7.05%	1
Lancashire	+33	55	£455	+7.05%
Preston	+6	45	£455	+7.05%
Surrey	+2	36	£388	-8.82%	2
East Midlands	+26	33	£375	-6.25%	2
City of London	-2	32	£475	-	4
East of England	+1	31	£410	+17.14%	3
North East	+8	30	£330	+15.78%	4
Tyne and Wear	+19	28	£330	+16.72%	4
Newcastle upon Tyne	+19	28	£330	+16.62%	4
Derbyshire	+12	28	£375	-	1
Derby	+7	28	£375	-	1
Hampshire	+18	26	£400	+4.23%	2
Buckinghamshire	+3	20	£450	-
Scotland	-40	16	£400	+11.11%	1
Milton Keynes	-2	14	£450	-
Essex	-8	14	£544	+47.02%
South West	-15	14	£410	-0.60%	4
Bristol	+5	12	£405	+15.71%	4
Southend-on-Sea	-27	11	£544	+53.13%
West Midlands	+18	10	£385	-16.75%	1
Havant	+7	10	£400	+5.26%
Hertfordshire	-1	10	£425	-10.52%	3
Glasgow	+7	9	£400	+22.69%	1
Yorkshire	+17	8	£400	-23.80%	4
West Yorkshire	+14	7	£400	-11.11%	1
West Sussex	+11	7	£338	-7.53%

Solaris
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 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	600 (74.35%)	Linux
2	476 (58.98%)	Unix
3	326 (40.40%)	Oracle
4	271 (33.58%)	Windows
5	265 (32.84%)	AIX
6	226 (28.00%)	Red Hat
7	205 (25.40%)	Security Cleared
8	198 (24.54%)	SAN
9	194 (24.04%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	187 (23.17%)	Migration
11	176 (21.81%)	Perl
12	173 (21.44%)	Finance
13	168 (20.82%)	Sun
14	160 (19.83%)	SC Cleared
15	155 (19.21%)	Veritas

16	140 (17.35%)	Java
17	134 (16.60%)	IBM
17	134 (16.60%)	VMware
18	131 (16.23%)	SQL
19	129 (15.99%)	HPUX
20	126 (15.61%)	Shell Script
21	124 (15.37%)	HP
22	106 (13.14%)	DevOps
23	98 (12.14%)	Puppet
24	97 (12.02%)	Data Centre
25	92 (11.40%)	Korn
26	89 (11.03%)	Python
27	86 (10.66%)	Agile Software Development
27	86 (10.66%)	Veritas Cluster Server
28	85 (10.53%)	VMware Infrastructure

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	80 (9.91%)	Apache
2	71 (8.80%)	Tomcat
3	62 (7.68%)	WebLogic
4	57 (7.06%)	WebSphere
5	42 (5.20%)	JBoss
6	27 (3.35%)	MS Exchange
7	25 (3.10%)	iPlanet
8	22 (2.73%)	Oracle Application Server
9	20 (2.48%)	OpenStack
10	14 (1.73%)	IIS
11	13 (1.61%)	SharePoint
11	13 (1.61%)	WebSphere Application Server
12	12 (1.49%)	Confluence
12	12 (1.49%)	MQSeries
13	11 (1.36%)	Exchange Server 2003
14	9 (1.12%)	IBM HTTP Server
15	8 (0.99%)	Exchange Server 2000
15	8 (0.99%)	Exchange Server 5.5
16	7 (0.87%)	BizTalk Server
17	6 (0.74%)	WebLogic Portal

Applications
1	19 (2.35%)	Microsoft Office
2	7 (0.87%)	Microsoft Excel
2	7 (0.87%)	Microsoft Project
3	4 (0.50%)	HipChat
3	4 (0.50%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	2 (0.25%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	41 (5.08%)	SAP ERP
2	13 (1.61%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	8 (0.99%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	4 (0.50%)	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
7	1 (0.12%)	PeopleSoft HCM

Cloud Services
1	45 (5.58%)	Amazon AWS
2	35 (4.34%)	Microsoft Azure
3	18 (2.23%)	OpenShift
4	12 (1.49%)	Cloud Computing
5	10 (1.24%)	IaaS
5	10 (1.24%)	Office 365
6	5 (0.62%)	SaaS
7	4 (0.50%)	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	198 (24.54%)	SAN
2	85 (10.53%)	NAS
3	84 (10.41%)	Firewall
4	83 (10.29%)	DNS
5	73 (9.05%)	TCP/IP
6	50 (6.20%)	LDAP
7	39 (4.83%)	DHCP
8	38 (4.71%)	Fibre Channel
9	29 (3.59%)	Internet
10	24 (2.97%)	WAN
11	21 (2.60%)	iSCSI
12	20 (2.48%)	LAN
12	20 (2.48%)	SMTP
13	18 (2.23%)	HTTP
13	18 (2.23%)	SSL
14	16 (1.98%)	SSH
15	14 (1.73%)	VLAN
16	12 (1.49%)	IPsec
17	10 (1.24%)	FTP
17	10 (1.24%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	84 (10.41%)	Oracle Database
2	66 (8.18%)	SQL Server
3	41 (5.08%)	Relational Database
4	34 (4.21%)	MySQL
5	28 (3.47%)	RDBMS
6	24 (2.97%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	21 (2.60%)	Big Data
8	16 (1.98%)	DB2
8	16 (1.98%)	Hadoop
8	16 (1.98%)	KDB
9	15 (1.86%)	Kdb+
10	14 (1.73%)	Sybase ASE
11	13 (1.61%)	Oracle Database 12c
12	12 (1.49%)	Oracle Reports
13	11 (1.36%)	SQL Server 2012
14	10 (1.24%)	SQL Server 2005
14	10 (1.24%)	SQL Server 2016
15	9 (1.12%)	Data Warehouse
15	9 (1.12%)	NoSQL
15	9 (1.12%)	Oracle Database 10g

Development Applications
1	22 (2.73%)	Git (software)
1	22 (2.73%)	Jenkins
2	20 (2.48%)	Team Foundation Server
3	15 (1.86%)	JUnit
3	15 (1.86%)	Maven
4	12 (1.49%)	Cucumber
4	12 (1.49%)	JIRA
4	12 (1.49%)	Subversion
5	8 (0.99%)	Artifactory
5	8 (0.99%)	ClearCase
5	8 (0.99%)	Oracle Forms
6	7 (0.87%)	Ant
6	7 (0.87%)	GitLab
7	6 (0.74%)	Bitbucket
7	6 (0.74%)	Oracle APEX
8	5 (0.62%)	ClearQuest
9	4 (0.50%)	Eclipse
10	3 (0.37%)	ERwin
10	3 (0.37%)	Log4Net
10	3 (0.37%)	NUnit

General
1	173 (21.44%)	Finance
2	84 (10.41%)	Banking
3	31 (3.84%)	Investment Banking
4	23 (2.85%)	Legal
5	19 (2.35%)	Telecoms
6	11 (1.36%)	Marketing
7	10 (1.24%)	Manufacturing
8	9 (1.12%)	Financial Institution
9	8 (0.99%)	Electronics
10	7 (0.87%)	Front Office
10	7 (0.87%)	Retail
11	5 (0.62%)	Local Government
12	4 (0.50%)	Law
12	4 (0.50%)	Military
13	3 (0.37%)	Games
13	3 (0.37%)	Retail Banking
14	2 (0.25%)	German Language
15	1 (0.12%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	133 (16.48%)	Administrator
2	104 (12.89%)	Developer
3	89 (11.03%)	Unix Engineer
4	85 (10.53%)	Systems Administrator
5	76 (9.42%)	Unix Administrator
6	74 (9.17%)	Architect
7	58 (7.19%)	Solaris Engineer
8	54 (6.69%)	Unix Systems Administrator
9	52 (6.44%)	Consultant
10	46 (5.70%)	AIX Engineer
11	45 (5.58%)	Solaris Administrator
12	43 (5.33%)	Analyst
13	42 (5.20%)	Linux Engineer
14	41 (5.08%)	Systems Engineer
15	37 (4.58%)	Linux Administrator
16	36 (4.46%)	DevOps Engineer
16	36 (4.46%)	Solaris Systems Administrator
17	33 (4.09%)	DBA
18	30 (3.72%)	Linux Systems Administrator
19	26 (3.22%)	Unix Linux Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	80 (9.91%)	Middleware
2	49 (6.07%)	J2EE
3	35 (4.34%)	XML
4	34 (4.21%)	Web Services
5	27 (3.35%)	SOAP
6	23 (2.85%)	Spring
7	21 (2.60%)	REST
8	20 (2.48%)	XSLT
9	17 (2.11%)	JSON
10	16 (1.98%)	.NET
10	16 (1.98%)	WebSphere MQ
11	15 (1.86%)	TIBCO EMS
12	14 (1.73%)	HTML
13	12 (1.49%)	XSD
14	11 (1.36%)	JDBC
14	11 (1.36%)	Spring Security
15	9 (1.12%)	IBM Integration Bus
15	9 (1.12%)	LAMP
16	8 (0.99%)	JSP
16	8 (0.99%)	Regular Expression

Miscellaneous
1	97 (12.02%)	Data Centre
2	77 (9.54%)	Clustering
3	53 (6.57%)	Analytical Skills
4	44 (5.45%)	Replication
5	39 (4.83%)	Enterprise Storage
6	33 (4.09%)	Mainframe
7	26 (3.22%)	Computer Science
7	26 (3.22%)	Management Information System
8	20 (2.48%)	Linux Command Line
9	17 (2.11%)	Enterprise Software
10	12 (1.49%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	11 (1.36%)	EMC VNX
12	10 (1.24%)	CMDB
12	10 (1.24%)	Private Cloud
13	8 (0.99%)	DataPower
13	8 (0.99%)	Fixed Income
13	8 (0.99%)	Public Cloud
14	7 (0.87%)	Derivative
14	7 (0.87%)	Grid Computing
15	6 (0.74%)	Fat Client

Operating Systems
1	600 (74.35%)	Linux
2	476 (58.98%)	Unix
3	271 (33.58%)	Windows
4	265 (32.84%)	AIX
5	194 (24.04%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	129 (15.99%)	HPUX
7	58 (7.19%)	Windows Server
8	34 (4.21%)	SUSE
9	29 (3.59%)	CentOS
10	25 (3.10%)	Windows Server 2008
11	18 (2.23%)	Windows Server 2003
12	15 (1.86%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13	14 (1.73%)	Windows Server 2012
14	10 (1.24%)	Windows Vista
15	8 (0.99%)	Windows 2000 Server
15	8 (0.99%)	Windows 7
16	7 (0.87%)	Data ONTAP
16	7 (0.87%)	Ubuntu
16	7 (0.87%)	VMS
17	5 (0.62%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	187 (23.17%)	Migration
2	106 (13.14%)	DevOps
3	86 (10.66%)	Agile Software Development
4	79 (9.79%)	ITIL
5	77 (9.54%)	High Availability
6	69 (8.55%)	Disaster Recovery
7	58 (7.19%)	Configuration Management
8	44 (5.45%)	Load Balancing
9	41 (5.08%)	Change Management
9	41 (5.08%)	ERP
10	39 (4.83%)	Performance Tuning
11	29 (3.59%)	SDLC
11	29 (3.59%)	TDD
12	28 (3.47%)	Performance Monitoring
13	27 (3.35%)	Problem Management
14	25 (3.10%)	Multithreading
15	24 (2.97%)	Continuous Integration
15	24 (2.97%)	Time Management
16	23 (2.85%)	Data Migration
17	22 (2.73%)	Change Control

Programming Languages
1	176 (21.81%)	Perl
2	140 (17.35%)	Java
3	131 (16.23%)	SQL
4	126 (15.61%)	Shell Script
5	92 (11.40%)	Korn
6	89 (11.03%)	Python
7	62 (7.68%)	Bash Shell
8	28 (3.47%)	PL/SQL
9	26 (3.22%)	C++
10	25 (3.10%)	PowerShell
11	24 (2.97%)	JavaScript
12	22 (2.73%)	T-SQL
13	16 (1.98%)	C
14	12 (1.49%)	C#
15	11 (1.36%)	Bourne shell
16	9 (1.12%)	C-shell
16	9 (1.12%)	PHP
17	8 (0.99%)	AWK
17	8 (0.99%)	Ruby
17	8 (0.99%)	VBScript

Qualifications
1	205 (25.40%)	Security Cleared
2	160 (19.83%)	SC Cleared
3	40 (4.96%)	Degree
4	32 (3.97%)	DV Cleared
5	14 (1.73%)	CISSP
6	11 (1.36%)	MCSE
6	11 (1.36%)	Microsoft Certification
7	10 (1.24%)	Oracle Certification
8	9 (1.12%)	MCITP
8	9 (1.12%)	RHCE
9	8 (0.99%)	CCNA
9	8 (0.99%)	Cisco Certification
9	8 (0.99%)	Computer Science Degree
9	8 (0.99%)	OCP
9	8 (0.99%)	RHCSA
10	7 (0.87%)	OCA
11	6 (0.74%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12	5 (0.62%)	CCSP
13	4 (0.50%)	CISM
13	4 (0.50%)	PMI Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	12 (1.49%)	Data Quality
2	10 (1.24%)	SLA
3	9 (1.12%)	QA
4	7 (0.87%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	6 (0.74%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	5 (0.62%)	COBIT
6	5 (0.62%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
6	5 (0.62%)	PCI DSS
7	3 (0.37%)	ISO 9001
8	2 (0.25%)	GCP
8	2 (0.25%)	MiFID
8	2 (0.25%)	RMADS
8	2 (0.25%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	1 (0.12%)	COSO
9	1 (0.12%)	ISO/IEC 20000
9	1 (0.12%)	PMO

System Software
1	86 (10.66%)	Veritas Cluster Server
2	85 (10.53%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	82 (10.16%)	Active Directory
4	49 (6.07%)	NFS
5	42 (5.20%)	Hyper-V
6	37 (4.58%)	Veritas File System
7	34 (4.21%)	Veritas Volume Manager
7	34 (4.21%)	VMware ESXi
8	33 (4.09%)	Virtual Machines
9	28 (3.47%)	Docker
10	18 (2.23%)	KVM
10	18 (2.23%)	Oracle RAC
10	18 (2.23%)	Samba
11	16 (1.98%)	Oracle Clusterware
12	14 (1.73%)	Virtual Servers
13	7 (0.87%)	GlusterFS
13	7 (0.87%)	SRDF
14	4 (0.50%)	PowerHA
14	4 (0.50%)	Xen
15	3 (0.37%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	98 (12.14%)	Puppet
2	79 (9.79%)	NetBackup
3	59 (7.31%)	Ansible
4	51 (6.32%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
5	36 (4.46%)	Opscode Chef
6	29 (3.59%)	Nagios
7	27 (3.35%)	Tivoli
8	23 (2.85%)	Netcool
8	23 (2.85%)	SCOM
8	23 (2.85%)	Veritas Storage Foundation
9	22 (2.73%)	OpenView Configuration Management
10	20 (2.48%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
10	20 (2.48%)	SCCM
11	19 (2.35%)	Red Hat Satellite
12	18 (2.23%)	EMC NetWorker
13	17 (2.11%)	Oracle ZFS
14	16 (1.98%)	Oracle RMAN
15	14 (1.73%)	BladeLogic
15	14 (1.73%)	HP Data Protector
15	14 (1.73%)	Kubernetes

Vendors
1	326 (40.40%)	Oracle
2	226 (28.00%)	Red Hat
3	168 (20.82%)	Sun
4	155 (19.21%)	Veritas
5	134 (16.60%)	IBM
5	134 (16.60%)	VMware
6	124 (15.37%)	HP
7	80 (9.91%)	Cisco
8	78 (9.67%)	EMC
9	67 (8.30%)	SAP
10	59 (7.31%)	Microsoft
11	57 (7.06%)	NetApp
12	44 (5.45%)	Brocade
13	36 (4.46%)	Sybase
14	35 (4.34%)	Citrix
14	35 (4.34%)	F5
14	35 (4.34%)	Symantec
15	33 (4.09%)	TIBCO
16	18 (2.23%)	Splunk
17	17 (2.11%)	StorageTek