The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridgeshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank - 60 50
Contract jobs citing Sun 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.440% 0.196%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.909% 0.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £200 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-6.81% -24.13%
All Vendors
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
268 330 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 49.17% 48.39% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 152 78
Average daily rate £310 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £223 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 47
Average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.33% +177.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Sun
East of England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CommVault
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) AppManager
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Samba
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence
1 1 (100.00%) IC Design
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Degree

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) IC Design
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) Samba
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AppManager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CommVault
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence