Sun Contracts in the City of London

Sun
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sun over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 164 189
Rank change year-on-year +44 +25 -44
Contract jobs citing Sun 5 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile - £413 £184
25th Percentile £550 £522 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +69.74%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £610
90th Percentile - - £646
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% +40.22%

All Vendors
City of London

Sun is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 945 1,426 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.92% 39.21% 37.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 942 1,187
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 22
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.27 -
25th Percentile £13.56 £18.42 £13.88
Median hourly rate £19.75 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - +33.02%
75th Percentile £23.75 £36.97 £43.56
90th Percentile £25.38 £53.15 £50.68
Central London median hourly rate £18.93 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.86% - +12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sun in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Sun in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sun in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Sun in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
1 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (80.00%) Sybase ASE
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) Sybase DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (80.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) E-business
3 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (80.00%) Sybase
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware