England Sun Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Sun Certification in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun Certification over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Certification
Location Basildon Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Leeds London Middlesex North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey UK Watford West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	471	499
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	48	126
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.135 %
As % of the category below	0.807 %	1.454 %
Daily rates quoted	15	35
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£357
Average daily rate	£345	£378
% change on same period last year	-8.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£367
% change on same period last year	-12.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.02	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£24.38	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-30.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.75	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.38	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-30.33 %
Qualifications England
Matching contract IT job ads	5949	8668
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	9.370 %	9.288 %
Daily rates quoted	1983	2872
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£341
Average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	715	926
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.98	£24.30
Average hourly rate	£25.42	£26.05
% change on same period last year	-2.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.86	£27.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Sun Certification UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Sun Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Sun Certification across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Sun Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sun Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun Certification across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Sun Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sun Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun Certification across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
South West	+25	15	-	-
Yorkshire	-	11	£300	-
South East	+13	10	£323	-28.04 %
London	+57	6	£416	+10.22 %
East of England	+29	4	-	-
East Midlands	+4	1	-	-
North West	+10	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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.

1 130 (83.33 %) Sun 2 125 (80.13 %) Java 3 106 (67.95 %) J2EE 4 79 (50.64 %) XML 5 73 (46.79 %) OO 6 62 (39.74 %) Oracle 7 60 (38.46 %) Solaris 8 58 (37.18 %) HTML 9 47 (30.13 %) Ant 10 46 (29.49 %) Shell Script 11 43 (27.56 %) UML 12 39 (25.00 %) HTTP 13 38 (24.36 %) Extranet 13 38 (24.36 %) ATG 13 38 (24.36 %) ATG Dynamo

14 35 (22.44 %) Security Cleared 15 34 (21.79 %) RUP 16 32 (20.51 %) JSP 17 28 (17.95 %) Struts 17 28 (17.95 %) Windows 18 27 (17.31 %) UNIX 19 25 (16.03 %) WebLogic 20 24 (15.38 %) Eclipse 20 24 (15.38 %) Unified Process 21 22 (14.10 %) Tomcat 21 22 (14.10 %) Oracle 9i 22 21 (13.46 %) Hibernate 22 21 (13.46 %) DV Cleared 23 20 (12.82 %) SQL 24 19 (12.18 %) EJB

Sun Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 1 106 (67.95 %) J2EE 2 79 (50.64 %) XML 3 58 (37.18 %) HTML 4 32 (20.51 %) JSP 5 28 (17.95 %) Struts 6 21 (13.46 %) Hibernate 7 19 (12.18 %) EJB 7 19 (12.18 %) WebSphere 8 17 (10.90 %) Spring 9 15 (9.615 %) WebServices 10 14 (8.974 %) Servlets 10 14 (8.974 %) XSD 10 14 (8.974 %) Castor 11 12 (7.692 %) Middleware 11 12 (7.692 %) .NET 12 10 (6.410 %) XSLT 13 9 (5.769 %) JSF 14 8 (5.128 %) JMS 14 8 (5.128 %) SOAP 15 7 (4.487 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 38 (24.36 %) ATG Dynamo 2 25 (16.03 %) WebLogic 3 22 (14.10 %) Tomcat 4 19 (12.18 %) Apache 5 13 (8.333 %) JBoss 6 9 (5.769 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 3 (1.923 %) WebSphere MQ 7 3 (1.923 %) WebLogic Portal 8 2 (1.282 %) ESB 9 1 (0.641 %) Oracle Workflow 9 1 (0.641 %) Oracle Application Server 9 1 (0.641 %) WebLogic Integration 9 1 (0.641 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 2 (1.282 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 39 (25.00 %) HTTP 2 38 (24.36 %) Extranet 3 5 (3.205 %) SAN 4 4 (2.564 %) Firewall 5 3 (1.923 %) GPRS 6 2 (1.282 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (1.282 %) DNS 7 1 (0.641 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (14.10 %) Oracle 9i 2 7 (4.487 %) TOAD 3 4 (2.564 %) Oracle 10g 3 4 (2.564 %) SQL Server 4 2 (1.282 %) DB2 4 2 (1.282 %) RDBMS 5 1 (0.641 %) MySQL 5 1 (0.641 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (0.641 %) Adabas	Development Applications 1 47 (30.13 %) Ant 2 24 (15.38 %) Eclipse 3 17 (10.90 %) ClearCase 4 10 (6.410 %) JUnit 5 4 (2.564 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 1 (0.641 %) Rational Rose 6 1 (0.641 %) Oracle Forms 6 1 (0.641 %) WebLogic Workshop 6 1 (0.641 %) CheckStyle
General 1 19 (12.18 %) Finance 2 11 (7.051 %) Banking 3 10 (6.410 %) Investment Banking 4 9 (5.769 %) Government 5 8 (5.128 %) Construction 6 7 (4.487 %) Criminal Justice 7 5 (3.205 %) Police 8 4 (2.564 %) Telecoms 9 3 (1.923 %) Pharmaceutical 10 2 (1.282 %) Automotive 10 2 (1.282 %) Education 11 1 (0.641 %) Financial Institution 11 1 (0.641 %) Law 11 1 (0.641 %) Legal 11 1 (0.641 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 110 (70.51 %) Developer 2 55 (35.26 %) Java Developer 3 50 (32.05 %) J2EE Developer 4 40 (25.64 %) Lead Developer 5 27 (17.31 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 14 (8.974 %) Architect 7 13 (8.333 %) Senior Developer 8 7 (4.487 %) Web Developer 8 7 (4.487 %) Administrator 9 6 (3.846 %) Technical Architect 10 5 (3.205 %) Senior Java Developer 11 4 (2.564 %) Senior J2EE Developer 11 4 (2.564 %) Analyst Programmer 11 4 (2.564 %) Programmer 11 4 (2.564 %) Support Engineer 11 4 (2.564 %) Analyst 12 3 (1.923 %) Systems Developer 12 3 (1.923 %) C# Developer 12 3 (1.923 %) Hardware Engineer 12 3 (1.923 %) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.769 %) Credit Risk 2 4 (2.564 %) Thin Client 2 4 (2.564 %) Fat Client 3 3 (1.923 %) NHS 4 2 (1.282 %) HACMP 4 2 (1.282 %) N-Tier 4 2 (1.282 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.641 %) Speech Recognition 5 1 (0.641 %) Market Risk 5 1 (0.641 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 1 (0.641 %) Fixed Income 5 1 (0.641 %) DataPower	Operating Systems 1 60 (38.46 %) Solaris 2 28 (17.95 %) Windows 3 27 (17.31 %) UNIX 4 14 (8.974 %) Windows NT 5 7 (4.487 %) AIX 6 6 (3.846 %) Linux 7 1 (0.641 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.641 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.641 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (0.641 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 73 (46.79 %) OO 2 43 (27.56 %) UML 3 35 (22.44 %) Security Cleared 4 34 (21.79 %) RUP 5 24 (15.38 %) Unified Process 6 21 (13.46 %) DV Cleared 7 15 (9.615 %) ITIL 7 15 (9.615 %) Configuration Management 8 14 (8.974 %) Extreme Programming 8 14 (8.974 %) SC Cleared 9 12 (7.692 %) OOD 10 7 (4.487 %) Unit Testing 11 6 (3.846 %) Service Management 11 6 (3.846 %) ITSM 11 6 (3.846 %) OOP 11 6 (3.846 %) OOA/OOD 12 5 (3.205 %) Data Modelling 13 4 (2.564 %) Workflow 13 4 (2.564 %) Quality Management 13 4 (2.564 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 125 (80.13 %) Java 2 46 (29.49 %) Shell Script 3 20 (12.82 %) SQL 4 18 (11.54 %) XPath 5 9 (5.769 %) PL/SQL 5 9 (5.769 %) C 6 8 (5.128 %) JavaScript 7 5 (3.205 %) Perl 7 5 (3.205 %) C# 8 3 (1.923 %) C++ 9 1 (0.641 %) VB 9 1 (0.641 %) NATURAL 9 1 (0.641 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 9 (5.769 %) ISEB 2 7 (4.487 %) Degree 3 5 (3.205 %) HP APS 4 4 (2.564 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (2.564 %) MCP 4 4 (2.564 %) MCSE 4 4 (2.564 %) MCSA 4 4 (2.564 %) OCA 4 4 (2.564 %) Oracle Certification 4 4 (2.564 %) SCJD 5 3 (1.923 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 3 (1.923 %) SCBCD 5 3 (1.923 %) SCDJWS 5 3 (1.923 %) Cisco Certification 6 2 (1.282 %) CCNP 6 2 (1.282 %) SCJP 6 2 (1.282 %) IBM AIX Certification 7 1 (0.641 %) SCSA 7 1 (0.641 %) RHCE 7 1 (0.641 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.205 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.641 %) SLA
System Software 1 4 (2.564 %) NFS 2 2 (1.282 %) AquaLogic 3 1 (0.641 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 4 (2.564 %) Tivoli 2 2 (1.282 %) CONTROL-M 3 1 (0.641 %) CA SiteMinder 3 1 (0.641 %) Legato
Vendors 1 130 (83.33 %) Sun 2 62 (39.74 %) Oracle 3 38 (24.36 %) ATG 4 14 (8.974 %) BEA 5 12 (7.692 %) IBM 6 8 (5.128 %) HP 6 8 (5.128 %) VERITAS 7 5 (3.205 %) VMware 8 4 (2.564 %) Compaq 9 3 (1.923 %) Cisco 10 2 (1.282 %) EMC 10 2 (1.282 %) Sarvega 10 2 (1.282 %) Software AG 11 1 (0.641 %) Genesys 11 1 (0.641 %) Intel 11 1 (0.641 %) Interwoven 11 1 (0.641 %) Sybase 11 1 (0.641 %) Red Hat 11 1 (0.641 %) webMethods 11 1 (0.641 %) Symantec