The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun 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 Vendors for the Berkshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 116 123 110
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -13
Contract jobs citing Sun 5 15 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.214% 0.473% 0.663%
As % of the Vendors category 0.434% 0.984% 1.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 8
Average daily rate £343 £300 £389
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.16% -22.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £381
% change year-on-year
- -8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £25.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £26.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -10.34%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1153 1524 1565
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 49.25% 48.08% 51.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 532 552
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £495 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 75 90
Average hourly rate £23.50 £27.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.96% +1.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.75 £10.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Sun
South East

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Sun across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Berkshire Sun Jobs Demand Trend

Sun
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Berkshire 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
Bracknell - - - -
Newbury - - - -
Reading - - - - 1
Sun
South East

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Sun 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 Sun.

1 7 (50.00%) Java
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) Web Services
2 4 (28.57%) Solaris
2 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 4 (28.57%) Multithreading
3 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
3 3 (21.43%) RichFaces
3 3 (21.43%) EJB 3.0
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 3 (21.43%) GlassFish
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
3 3 (21.43%) JSF
3 3 (21.43%) Maven
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) PKI
3 3 (21.43%) Hudson
3 3 (21.43%) Apache Continuum
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Sun Certification
3 3 (21.43%) OOP
3 3 (21.43%) JMS
3 3 (21.43%) N-Tier
3 3 (21.43%) Kerberos
3 3 (21.43%) UNIX

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Sun 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 Sun. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (28.57%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) RichFaces
2 3 (21.43%) EJB 3.0
2 3 (21.43%) JSF
2 3 (21.43%) JMS
2 3 (21.43%) EJB
2 3 (21.43%) J2EE
3 2 (14.29%) WAP
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (7.143%) WebSphere
4 1 (7.143%) JSP
4 1 (7.143%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) GlassFish
2 1 (7.143%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Agresso
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Kerberos
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) IPv4
2 2 (14.29%) 3G
2 2 (14.29%) 2G
3 1 (7.143%) SAN
3 1 (7.143%) HTTP
3 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Maven
1 3 (21.43%) Hudson
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Continuum
2 1 (7.143%) Selenium
2 1 (7.143%) WebDriver
2 1 (7.143%) Subversion
2 1 (7.143%) ProC
2 1 (7.143%) ClearCase
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 1 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Data Manager
3 2 (14.29%) OSS Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Functional Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Technical Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Software Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Support
4 1 (7.143%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
1 3 (21.43%) PKI
1 3 (21.43%) N-Tier
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.143%) Open Source
3 1 (7.143%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Solaris
2 3 (21.43%) UNIX
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.143%) Linux
3 1 (7.143%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Multithreading
2 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (21.43%) TDD
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Scrum
2 3 (21.43%) OOP
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 2 (14.29%) ERP
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 2 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 2 (14.29%) Fault Management
3 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.143%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) Bash shell
4 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.143%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Veritas File System
1 1 (7.143%) OpenSSO
1 1 (7.143%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) MOM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) HP
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix
2 2 (14.29%) Redknee
3 1 (7.143%) Remedy
3 1 (7.143%) Veritas
3 1 (7.143%) Red Hat