The first table below looks at the demand for Sun Certification in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun Certification 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 Qualifications for the England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certification
Rank 488 534 533
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -1
Contract jobs citing Sun Certification 22 24 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.053% 0.045% 0.069%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.298% 0.258% 0.437%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 28
Average daily rate £450 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £325 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £390 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
-1.84% -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7387 9316 8926
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.77% 17.46% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3919 4936 4342
Average daily rate £377 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.83% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 421 507 608
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £43.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
Sun Certification
UK

Sun Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Sun Certification Daily Rate Trend

Sun Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun Certification across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Sun Certification Daily Rate Histogram

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 England region.

England Sun Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Sun Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun Certification within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
London +21 10 £450 +28.57%
East Midlands - 7 - -
South East +24 4 £258 -
North West +13 1 - -
Sun Certification
UK

Sun Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 49 (80.33%) Sun
2 45 (73.77%) Oracle
3 41 (67.21%) UNIX
4 32 (52.46%) Java
5 27 (44.26%) XML
5 27 (44.26%) Solaris
6 25 (40.98%) Linux
6 25 (40.98%) Banking
6 25 (40.98%) Investment Banking
7 22 (36.07%) Finance
7 22 (36.07%) Red Hat
8 21 (34.43%) SCSA
8 21 (34.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
9 20 (32.79%) SQL
10 19 (31.15%) Software Deployment
11 17 (27.87%) HTML
12 15 (24.59%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (22.95%) UML
14 13 (21.31%) J2EE
14 13 (21.31%) MVC
15 12 (19.67%) CSS
15 12 (19.67%) JSP
16 11 (18.03%) Servlets
16 11 (18.03%) JDBC
16 11 (18.03%) Perl
16 11 (18.03%) JUnit
16 11 (18.03%) IBM
16 11 (18.03%) Content Management
17 10 (16.39%) WebSphere

Sun Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 27 (44.26%) XML
2 17 (27.87%) HTML
3 13 (21.31%) J2EE
4 12 (19.67%) CSS
4 12 (19.67%) JSP
5 11 (18.03%) Servlets
5 11 (18.03%) JDBC
6 10 (16.39%) EJB
6 10 (16.39%) WebSphere
7 9 (14.75%) XHTML
8 8 (13.11%) Web Services
9 5 (8.197%) Spring
9 5 (8.197%) JSON
10 4 (6.557%) HTML5
11 3 (4.918%) jQuery
11 3 (4.918%) RESTful
12 2 (3.279%) XSLT
13 1 (1.639%) Struts
13 1 (1.639%) JAXB
13 1 (1.639%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (16.39%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (4.918%) Apache
3 2 (3.279%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.279%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (1.639%) Mule
4 1 (1.639%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.639%) Commerce Server
4 1 (1.639%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (1.639%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.639%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.197%) Internet
2 4 (6.557%) SAN
3 3 (4.918%) HTTP
4 2 (3.279%) LDAP
4 2 (3.279%) snoop
5 1 (1.639%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) DB2
1 9 (14.75%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.918%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.279%) OLTP
3 2 (3.279%) VLDB
3 2 (3.279%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (3.279%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.639%) Adabas
4 1 (1.639%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.639%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) JUnit
2 10 (16.39%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 10 (16.39%) Eclipse
3 5 (8.197%) Ant
4 4 (6.557%) Subversion
5 3 (4.918%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.279%) Hudson
6 2 (3.279%) QUnit
6 2 (3.279%) Selenium
6 2 (3.279%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.279%) Git (software)
6 2 (3.279%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.279%) PHPUnit
6 2 (3.279%) ClearCase
6 2 (3.279%) CruiseControl
7 1 (1.639%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.639%) Maven
7 1 (1.639%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.639%) RequisitePro
7 1 (1.639%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (40.98%) Banking
1 25 (40.98%) Investment Banking
2 22 (36.07%) Finance
3 2 (3.279%) Automotive
3 2 (3.279%) Law
4 1 (1.639%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (45.90%) Developer
2 21 (34.43%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 9 (14.75%) WebSphere Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Android Developer
5 6 (9.836%) UNIX Administrator
6 5 (8.197%) SQL Developer
6 5 (8.197%) Administrator
7 4 (6.557%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.918%) Web Developer
8 3 (4.918%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.918%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.918%) Solaris Administrator
9 2 (3.279%) PL/SQL Developer
9 2 (3.279%) Solaris Systems Administrator
10 1 (1.639%) Java Consultant
10 1 (1.639%) Senior UNIX Administrator
10 1 (1.639%) Oracle Support Analyst
10 1 (1.639%) JavaScript Developer
10 1 (1.639%) Oracle Applications Support Analyst
10 1 (1.639%) Oracle Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.836%) Smartphone
3 4 (6.557%) New Media
4 2 (3.279%) Linked Data
4 2 (3.279%) BBC
4 2 (3.279%) Clustering
4 2 (3.279%) Mathematics
4 2 (3.279%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.279%) Semantic Web
5 1 (1.639%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 41 (67.21%) UNIX
2 27 (44.26%) Solaris
3 25 (40.98%) Linux
4 21 (34.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (13.11%) Apple iOS
5 8 (13.11%) Android
6 2 (3.279%) AIX
6 2 (3.279%) HPUX
6 2 (3.279%) SUSE
6 2 (3.279%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Software Deployment
2 15 (24.59%) Continuous Integration
3 14 (22.95%) UML
4 13 (21.31%) MVC
5 11 (18.03%) Content Management
6 9 (14.75%) OO
6 9 (14.75%) RAD
7 8 (13.11%) OOP
7 8 (13.11%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (13.11%) Web Development
8 6 (9.836%) Scrum
8 6 (9.836%) Project Management
9 5 (8.197%) TDD
10 4 (6.557%) BDD
10 4 (6.557%) Business Continuity
10 4 (6.557%) E-Commerce
11 3 (4.918%) Kanban
12 2 (3.279%) Unit Testing
12 2 (3.279%) Test Scripting
12 2 (3.279%) Test-First Development
Programming Languages
1 32 (52.46%) Java
2 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
2 20 (32.79%) SQL
3 11 (18.03%) Perl
4 9 (14.75%) PL/SQL
4 9 (14.75%) Bash shell
5 7 (11.48%) Objective-C
6 6 (9.836%) C++
7 4 (6.557%) PHP
7 4 (6.557%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.279%) AWK
8 2 (3.279%) Korn
8 2 (3.279%) Bourne shell
9 1 (1.639%) VB6
9 1 (1.639%) NATURAL
9 1 (1.639%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) SCSA
2 6 (9.836%) Degree
3 2 (3.279%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (3.279%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.279%) IBM Certification
3 2 (3.279%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.639%) CITP
4 1 (1.639%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.639%) SCWCD
4 1 (1.639%) SCJP
4 1 (1.639%) MBCS
4 1 (1.639%) MCSE
4 1 (1.639%) ISEB
4 1 (1.639%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.639%) OCP
4 1 (1.639%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.279%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.279%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.279%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (3.279%) Veritas File System
2 1 (1.639%) NFS
2 1 (1.639%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.639%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.557%) NetBackup
2 2 (3.279%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (1.639%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 49 (80.33%) Sun
2 45 (73.77%) Oracle
3 22 (36.07%) Red Hat
4 11 (18.03%) IBM
5 8 (13.11%) Apple
6 4 (6.557%) Zend
7 3 (4.918%) VMware
7 3 (4.918%) Veritas
8 2 (3.279%) BMC
9 1 (1.639%) HP
9 1 (1.639%) AccuRev
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