The first table below looks at the demand for Sun Certification in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun Certification 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 Qualifications for the East Midlands 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certification
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Sun Certification 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.708% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 5.172% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.84% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Qualifications
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
174 202 243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.69% 14.78% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 84 87
Average daily rate £340 £350 £371
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -5.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £202 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £464 £487
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 27
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -34.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £8.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £56.00 £47.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
Sun Certification
England

Sun Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands Sun Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Sun Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Sun Certification across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Sun Certification Daily Rate Trend

Sun Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Sun Certification across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Sun Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Sun Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Sun Certification 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 Certification.

1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) JUnit
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 9 (100.00%) EJB
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) JDBC
1 9 (100.00%) JSP
1 9 (100.00%) Servlets
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) UML
1 9 (100.00%) OO
1 9 (100.00%) RAD
1 9 (100.00%) XHTML
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Sun
1 9 (100.00%) MVC
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (100.00%) Bash shell

Sun Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Sun Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) EJB
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) JDBC
1 9 (100.00%) JSP
1 9 (100.00%) Servlets
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XHTML
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JUnit
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (88.89%) Investment Banking
1 8 (88.89%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Developer
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) UML
1 9 (100.00%) OO
1 9 (100.00%) RAD
1 9 (100.00%) MVC
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (100.00%) Content Management
2 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Sun