Cheshire Sun Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clydebank Colchester County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Hinckley Hounslow Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	50
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	13	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	2.796 %	2.865 %
Daily rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£375
Average daily rate	£306	£388
% change on same period last year	-20.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£378
% change on same period last year	-6.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.61	£30.40
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Vendors Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	465	384
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.620 %	0.388 %
Daily rates quoted	143	112
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£314
Average daily rate	£348	£324
% change on same period last year	+7.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.17	£22.07
Average hourly rate	£25.57	£24.08
% change on same period last year	+6.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.98	£26.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
Sun North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Sun across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wilmslow	-	5	£295	-

Sun North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 16 (76.19 %) LDAP 2 13 (61.90 %) Oracle 2 13 (61.90 %) WebLogic 2 13 (61.90 %) Vignette 2 13 (61.90 %) BEA 2 13 (61.90 %) WebLogic Portal 2 13 (61.90 %) Content Management 3 10 (47.62 %) Release Management 3 10 (47.62 %) Performance Testing 3 10 (47.62 %) Ant 4 9 (42.86 %) JUnit 4 9 (42.86 %) LoadRunner 5 8 (38.10 %) CMS 6 6 (28.57 %) Shell Script 7 5 (23.81 %) Intranet

8 4 (19.05 %) Pharmaceutical 8 4 (19.05 %) IBM 8 4 (19.05 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 4 (19.05 %) Perl 8 4 (19.05 %) Solaris 8 4 (19.05 %) Finance 8 4 (19.05 %) WebSphere 9 3 (14.29 %) Knowledge Management 9 3 (14.29 %) BIG-IP 9 3 (14.29 %) Change Management 9 3 (14.29 %) Financial Institution 9 3 (14.29 %) Linux 9 3 (14.29 %) J2EE 9 3 (14.29 %) UNIX 9 3 (14.29 %) AIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (19.05 %) WebSphere 2 3 (14.29 %) J2EE 2 3 (14.29 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 13 (61.90 %) WebLogic 1 13 (61.90 %) WebLogic Portal 2 8 (38.10 %) CMS 3 4 (19.05 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (4.762 %) Apache 4 1 (4.762 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 16 (76.19 %) LDAP 2 5 (23.81 %) Intranet 3 3 (14.29 %) BIG-IP 4 2 (9.524 %) Internet 4 2 (9.524 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.762 %) RDBMS 1 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 10 (47.62 %) Ant 2 9 (42.86 %) JUnit 2 9 (42.86 %) LoadRunner	General 1 4 (19.05 %) Pharmaceutical 1 4 (19.05 %) Finance 2 3 (14.29 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 12 (57.14 %) Support Engineer 2 4 (19.05 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 3 (14.29 %) Technical Support 3 3 (14.29 %) Infrastructure Specialist 4 2 (9.524 %) Technical Engineer 4 2 (9.524 %) Administrator 4 2 (9.524 %) Technical Support Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Technical Support Consultant 5 1 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Technical Consultant 5 1 (4.762 %) Support Consultant 5 1 (4.762 %) Project Manager 5 1 (4.762 %) Consultant 5 1 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 5 1 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) AIX Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Solaris Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Web Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.762 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 4 (19.05 %) Solaris 2 3 (14.29 %) Linux 2 3 (14.29 %) UNIX 2 3 (14.29 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (61.90 %) Content Management 2 10 (47.62 %) Release Management 2 10 (47.62 %) Performance Testing 3 3 (14.29 %) Knowledge Management 3 3 (14.29 %) Change Management 4 2 (9.524 %) Problem Management 5 1 (4.762 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (28.57 %) Shell Script 2 4 (19.05 %) Perl 3 1 (4.762 %) Python	Qualifications 1 1 (4.762 %) Sun Certification
Systems Management 1 3 (14.29 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 13 (61.90 %) Oracle 1 13 (61.90 %) Vignette 1 13 (61.90 %) BEA 2 4 (19.05 %) IBM 3 1 (4.762 %) StorageTek