The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 24 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 Buckinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 58 53 69
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +16
Contract jobs citing Sun 10 22 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.235% 2.254% 0.843%
As % of the Vendors category 2.732% 4.632% 2.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £425 £339 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.46% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 - £9.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
366 475 419
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 45.19% 48.67% 39.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 188 139
Average daily rate £325 £315 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -8.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £173 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 43 60
Average hourly rate £13.50 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.06 £12.04 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.20 £45.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
High Wycombe - 4 - -
Milton Keynes -12 3 £425 +25.46%
Amersham - 3 - -
Sun
South East

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 9 (60.00%) HP
2 9 (60.00%) SAN
2 9 (60.00%) NAS
3 6 (40.00%) StorageTek
3 6 (40.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (40.00%) Firewall
3 6 (40.00%) OpenView
3 6 (40.00%) Clustering
3 6 (40.00%) Cryptography
3 6 (40.00%) Citrix
3 6 (40.00%) UNIX
3 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 4 (26.67%) Windows XP
5 4 (26.67%) Dell
5 4 (26.67%) EMC
5 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (26.67%) EqualLogic
6 3 (20.00%) HP SIM
6 3 (20.00%) Lync
6 3 (20.00%) XenApp
6 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (20.00%) ISEB

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (20.00%) JMS
1 3 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.667%) Web Services
3 1 (6.667%) J2EE
3 1 (6.667%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Lync
1 3 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) SAN
1 9 (60.00%) NAS
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) SMTP
3 3 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Rational Rose
General
1 2 (13.33%) Retail
2 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 6 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (26.67%) EMC Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Hardware Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Clustering
1 6 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (26.67%) EqualLogic
3 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
4 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (26.67%) Windows XP
4 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (20.00%) HPUX
4 3 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (20.00%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (13.33%) Use Case
3 2 (13.33%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (6.667%) SOA
4 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.667%) RUP
4 1 (6.667%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) RAD
4 1 (6.667%) Product Marketing
4 1 (6.667%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
1 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.667%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) ISEB
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (20.00%) CCSP
3 3 (20.00%) CCNA
3 3 (20.00%) MCP
3 3 (20.00%) MCSE
3 3 (20.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) XenApp
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (20.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 6 (40.00%) OpenView
2 3 (20.00%) HP SIM
2 3 (20.00%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (20.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (6.667%) SCCM
3 1 (6.667%) SCOM
3 1 (6.667%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
1 9 (60.00%) HP
2 6 (40.00%) StorageTek
2 6 (40.00%) Citrix
3 4 (26.67%) Dell
3 4 (26.67%) EMC
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (13.33%) ATG
5 2 (13.33%) IBM