The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Birmingham 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 42 55 46
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -9
Contract jobs citing Sun 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.458% 0.160% 0.580%
As % of the Vendors category 0.935% 0.333% 1.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £313 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £323 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.75% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
214 300 246
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 48.97% 47.92% 47.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 137 119
Average daily rate £340 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £163 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £457 £478 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 22 22
Average hourly rate £20.98 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.68% -3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.76 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £106.00 £33.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Sun
West Midlands

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 6 (100.00%) Solaris
2 5 (83.33%) UNIX
3 4 (66.67%) AIX
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle
3 4 (66.67%) SAN
3 4 (66.67%) Veritas
4 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (50.00%) Sybase
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) SLA
4 3 (50.00%) RDF
4 3 (50.00%) SUSE
4 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (50.00%) Korn
4 3 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (50.00%) Fund Management
4 3 (50.00%) Wealth Management
4 3 (50.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 3 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (50.00%) Symmetrix DMX
4 3 (50.00%) Business Transformation
4 3 (50.00%) Banking
4 3 (50.00%) EMC
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) NAS
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) SDH
5 1 (16.67%) MS Office
5 1 (16.67%) webMethods

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) SDH
2 1 (16.67%) DSL
2 1 (16.67%) Megaco
General
1 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
2 5 (83.33%) UNIX
3 4 (66.67%) AIX
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) RDF
1 3 (50.00%) Fund Management
1 3 (50.00%) Wealth Management
1 3 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (50.00%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas
2 3 (50.00%) Sybase
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) webMethods
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