The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 55 62 62
Rank change year-on-year
+7 0
Contract jobs citing Sun 1 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.123% 0.271% 0.523%
As % of the Vendors category 0.346% 0.850% 1.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £400 £430 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.97% +34.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £360
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £21.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-4.65% -20.37%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
289 353 441
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 35.68% 31.92% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 154 176
Average daily rate £375 £356 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £445 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 18
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +4.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £14.75 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £23.75 £21.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Sun
Scotland

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) CISA
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Back Office
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) CLARiiON
3 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (33.33%) TortoiseSVN
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 9i
1 1 (33.33%) TOAD
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CLARiiON
1 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix
1 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Red Gate
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Embarcadero