The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 74 77 73
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -4
Contract jobs citing Sun 9 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.703% 0.374% 0.810%
As % of the Vendors category 1.503% 0.865% 1.805%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £381
% change year-on-year
- -8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £26.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -10.34%
All Vendors
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
599 578 665
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 46.80% 43.26% 44.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 272 285
Average daily rate £340 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £210 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 55 69
Average hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.62% -32.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.15 £8.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £55.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Sun
England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Nottinghamshire -5 1 - - 1
Leicestershire - - - -
Northamptonshire - - - - 1
Sun
England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 17 (94.44%) Oracle
1 17 (94.44%) IBM
2 13 (72.22%) UNIX
3 12 (66.67%) HTML
3 12 (66.67%) Java
3 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 12 (66.67%) Perl
3 12 (66.67%) SQL
3 12 (66.67%) J2EE
3 12 (66.67%) DB2
3 12 (66.67%) JUnit
3 12 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
3 12 (66.67%) EJB
3 12 (66.67%) CSS
3 12 (66.67%) JDBC
3 12 (66.67%) JSP
3 12 (66.67%) Servlets
3 12 (66.67%) XML
3 12 (66.67%) Sun Certification
3 12 (66.67%) UML
3 12 (66.67%) OO
3 12 (66.67%) RAD
3 12 (66.67%) XHTML
3 12 (66.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 12 (66.67%) Eclipse
3 12 (66.67%) RDBMS
3 12 (66.67%) MVC
3 12 (66.67%) Content Management
3 12 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 12 (66.67%) HTML
1 12 (66.67%) J2EE
1 12 (66.67%) EJB
1 12 (66.67%) CSS
1 12 (66.67%) JDBC
1 12 (66.67%) JSP
1 12 (66.67%) Servlets
1 12 (66.67%) XML
1 12 (66.67%) XHTML
1 12 (66.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 12 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) DB2
1 12 (66.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) JUnit
1 12 (66.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 12 (66.67%) Eclipse
General
1 10 (55.56%) Investment Banking
1 10 (55.56%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Developer
1 12 (66.67%) WebSphere Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Sales Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Account Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Administrator
3 1 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (5.556%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (5.556%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) UNIX
2 1 (5.556%) AIX
2 1 (5.556%) HPUX
2 1 (5.556%) Solaris
2 1 (5.556%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) UML
1 12 (66.67%) OO
1 12 (66.67%) RAD
1 12 (66.67%) MVC
1 12 (66.67%) Content Management
1 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
1 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 12 (66.67%) Perl
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
1 12 (66.67%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Oracle
1 17 (94.44%) IBM
2 6 (33.33%) HP
3 5 (27.78%) Nortel
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Cisco
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Riverbed
3 5 (27.78%) Brocade
4 1 (5.556%) NetApp
4 1 (5.556%) Veritas
4 1 (5.556%) Red Hat
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Posted: 17 June 2013
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