Sun Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 23 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 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.

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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 336 266 227
Rank change year-on-year
-70 -39
Contract jobs citing Sun 189 352 439
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.455% 0.659% 0.768%
As % of the Vendors category 0.975% 1.426% 1.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 182 251
Average daily rate £400 £380 £414
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -8.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £251 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £323 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.75% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 12
Average hourly rate £20.25 £21.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.81% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £18.22 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £41.70 £29.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 19381 24681 26342
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.68% 46.22% 46.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10660 13056 13559
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1103 1234 1535
Average hourly rate £19.63 £19.63 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.31 £11.50 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Sun
UK

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Sun Daily Rate Histogram

Sun
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 23 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 -21 107 £400 -15.34%
West Midlands +30 26 £340 -
South East -23 25 £400 +14.28%
East Midlands +6 12 - -
East of England +17 7 £375 +87.50%
North East +8 4 £260 -41.89%
North West -33 4 £438 +35.65%
South West +9 2 - -
Yorkshire -18 2 £263 -15.32%
Sun
UK

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 257 (62.53%) Solaris
2 220 (53.53%) UNIX
3 196 (47.69%) Linux
4 195 (47.45%) Oracle
5 138 (33.58%) Finance
6 119 (28.95%) SAN
7 115 (27.98%) HP
8 110 (26.76%) Red Hat
9 107 (26.03%) Windows
10 101 (24.57%) Veritas
11 98 (23.84%) VMware
12 93 (22.63%) Banking
12 93 (22.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 86 (20.92%) Perl
14 78 (18.98%) Java
15 77 (18.73%) SQL
15 77 (18.73%) Investment Banking
16 75 (18.25%) EMC
17 71 (17.27%) Shell Script
18 70 (17.03%) IBM
18 70 (17.03%) AIX
19 68 (16.55%) ITIL
20 63 (15.33%) VMware Infrastructure
21 61 (14.84%) Cisco
22 50 (12.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
23 49 (11.92%) Migration
24 48 (11.68%) Sun Certification
24 48 (11.68%) DNS
25 46 (11.19%) HPUX
26 45 (10.95%) Veritas Cluster Server

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 34 (8.273%) XML
2 30 (7.299%) WebSphere
3 28 (6.813%) HTML
4 25 (6.083%) J2EE
5 21 (5.109%) JSP
6 16 (3.893%) Servlets
6 16 (3.893%) Middleware
7 15 (3.650%) CSS
7 15 (3.650%) JDBC
7 15 (3.650%) XHTML
8 14 (3.406%) Web Services
9 12 (2.920%) EJB
10 8 (1.946%) Spring
10 8 (1.946%) ASP
10 8 (1.946%) .NET
10 8 (1.946%) SOAP
11 6 (1.460%) SAP Basis
12 5 (1.217%) XSLT
13 3 (0.730%) JMS
13 3 (0.730%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 27 (6.569%) Apache
1 27 (6.569%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.380%) GlassFish
2 18 (4.380%) WebLogic
3 17 (4.136%) WebSphere Application Server
4 15 (3.650%) MS Exchange
5 14 (3.406%) Tomcat
6 11 (2.676%) Oracle Application Server
7 10 (2.433%) IIS
8 8 (1.946%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (1.946%) Amazon AWS
9 7 (1.703%) Windows Azure
10 6 (1.460%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (1.460%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (1.460%) FileNet
11 5 (1.217%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (1.217%) Exchange Server 5.5
12 4 (0.973%) Lync
12 4 (0.973%) WebSphere MQ
13 3 (0.730%) Site Server
Applications
1 13 (3.163%) MS Excel
2 11 (2.676%) MS Office
3 5 (1.217%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.487%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.487%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.730%) Oracle 11i
1 3 (0.730%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.487%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.487%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.487%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.487%) RMDS
2 2 (0.487%) Agresso
2 2 (0.487%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 119 (28.95%) SAN
2 48 (11.68%) DNS
3 43 (10.46%) Firewall
4 41 (9.976%) NAS
5 35 (8.516%) TCP/IP
6 27 (6.569%) LDAP
7 24 (5.839%) Internet
7 24 (5.839%) DHCP
8 13 (3.163%) SMTP
9 10 (2.433%) SNMP
10 9 (2.190%) MPLS
11 8 (1.946%) SSL
11 8 (1.946%) WAN
12 7 (1.703%) VPN
13 6 (1.460%) 2G
13 6 (1.460%) 3G
13 6 (1.460%) IPv4
14 5 (1.217%) HTTP
14 5 (1.217%) LAN
14 5 (1.217%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.516%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.109%) DB2
2 21 (5.109%) Oracle Exadata
3 20 (4.866%) Oracle 11g
4 18 (4.380%) Oracle 10g
5 15 (3.650%) RDBMS
6 13 (3.163%) Oracle 8/8i
7 7 (1.703%) Oracle 9i
8 6 (1.460%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (1.460%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (1.460%) SAP BW
9 4 (0.973%) MySQL
10 3 (0.730%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.730%) SQL Server 2000
10 3 (0.730%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.487%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.487%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.487%) VLDB
11 2 (0.487%) DTS
11 2 (0.487%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 17 (4.136%) Eclipse
2 13 (3.163%) JUnit
3 12 (2.920%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 4 (0.973%) Subversion
4 4 (0.973%) ClearCase
5 3 (0.730%) Ant
6 2 (0.487%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.487%) WinDbg
6 2 (0.487%) Hudson
6 2 (0.487%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.487%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.487%) Selenium
6 2 (0.487%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.487%) Maven
6 2 (0.487%) CruiseControl
6 2 (0.487%) NetBeans
7 1 (0.243%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.243%) Rational Rose
7 1 (0.243%) RequisitePro
7 1 (0.243%) SilkPerformer
General
1 138 (33.58%) Finance
2 93 (22.63%) Banking
3 77 (18.73%) Investment Banking
4 25 (6.083%) Telecoms
5 14 (3.406%) Retail
6 10 (2.433%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.190%) General Ledger
7 9 (2.190%) Marketing
8 6 (1.460%) Back Office
9 5 (1.217%) Law
10 4 (0.973%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.973%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.973%) Legal
10 4 (0.973%) Front Office
11 2 (0.487%) Automotive
11 2 (0.487%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.487%) Publishing
12 1 (0.243%) German Language
Job Titles
1 71 (17.27%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 66 (16.06%) Administrator
3 50 (12.17%) UNIX Administrator
4 44 (10.71%) Systems Administrator
5 42 (10.22%) Analyst
6 39 (9.489%) Architect
7 34 (8.273%) Developer
8 27 (6.569%) UNIX Engineer
9 17 (4.136%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.893%) Infrastructure Architect
11 14 (3.406%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.163%) Consultant
13 12 (2.920%) Technical Specialist
13 12 (2.920%) Support Engineer
14 11 (2.676%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.676%) WebSphere Developer
15 10 (2.433%) UNIX Support
15 10 (2.433%) Linux Administrator
15 10 (2.433%) Support Analyst
16 9 (2.190%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.489%) Clustering
2 32 (7.786%) Symmetrix DMX
3 22 (5.353%) CLARiiON
4 20 (4.866%) Wiki
5 12 (2.920%) Derivative
6 11 (2.676%) Mainframe
6 11 (2.676%) Computer Science
7 7 (1.703%) PaaS
7 7 (1.703%) IaaS
8 6 (1.460%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.460%) Open Source
8 6 (1.460%) Celerra
8 6 (1.460%) Cryptography
8 6 (1.460%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.217%) Replication
10 4 (0.973%) EqualLogic
10 4 (0.973%) Symmetrix
10 4 (0.973%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.973%) Blackberry
10 4 (0.973%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 257 (62.53%) Solaris
2 220 (53.53%) UNIX
3 196 (47.69%) Linux
4 107 (26.03%) Windows
5 93 (22.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 70 (17.03%) AIX
7 46 (11.19%) HPUX
8 36 (8.759%) SUSE
9 22 (5.353%) Windows Server 2003
10 19 (4.623%) Windows Server 2008
11 15 (3.650%) Windows XP
12 11 (2.676%) Windows 2000
13 7 (1.703%) Windows 7
14 5 (1.217%) CentOS
15 4 (0.973%) Windows NT
16 3 (0.730%) VMS
16 3 (0.730%) zOS
16 3 (0.730%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.730%) Windows 2000 Server
17 2 (0.487%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (16.55%) ITIL
2 49 (11.92%) Migration
3 43 (10.46%) Change Management
4 34 (8.273%) Problem Management
5 28 (6.813%) RDF
6 23 (5.596%) Configuration Management
7 22 (5.353%) Load Balancing
8 19 (4.623%) UML
8 19 (4.623%) Software Deployment
9 18 (4.380%) Project Management
10 17 (4.136%) OO
10 17 (4.136%) Workflow
10 17 (4.136%) Infrastructure Management
11 15 (3.650%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (3.650%) TOGAF
11 15 (3.650%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (3.163%) PRINCE2
12 13 (3.163%) Content Management
12 13 (3.163%) Incident Management
13 12 (2.920%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 86 (20.92%) Perl
2 78 (18.98%) Java
3 77 (18.73%) SQL
4 71 (17.27%) Shell Script
5 33 (8.029%) Korn
6 27 (6.569%) JavaScript
7 16 (3.893%) Bash shell
8 15 (3.650%) PL/SQL
9 13 (3.163%) C++
10 10 (2.433%) VB
11 6 (1.460%) C-shell
11 6 (1.460%) Python
11 6 (1.460%) ABAP
11 6 (1.460%) PHP
12 5 (1.217%) C#
13 4 (0.973%) C
13 4 (0.973%) VBScript
14 2 (0.487%) Bourne shell
14 2 (0.487%) AWK
15 1 (0.243%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (11.68%) Sun Certification
2 29 (7.056%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.866%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.623%) SCSA
5 17 (4.136%) Degree
6 11 (2.676%) MCSE
6 11 (2.676%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.433%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.433%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.190%) CCNA
9 8 (1.946%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (1.460%) OCA
11 5 (1.217%) ISEB
12 4 (0.973%) MCITP
12 4 (0.973%) RHCE
12 4 (0.973%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.730%) MCP
13 3 (0.730%) MCSD
13 3 (0.730%) CCSP
13 3 (0.730%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.866%) SLA
2 6 (1.460%) QA
3 3 (0.730%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.243%) ISO/IEC 17799
4 1 (0.243%) GAAP
System Software
1 63 (15.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (12.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 45 (10.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 25 (6.083%) Active Directory
5 23 (5.596%) VMware ESX
6 16 (3.893%) Veritas File System
6 16 (3.893%) NFS
7 14 (3.406%) vSphere
8 10 (2.433%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (2.190%) Samba
9 9 (2.190%) Sendmail
10 7 (1.703%) XenApp
11 6 (1.460%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.973%) Hyper-V
12 4 (0.973%) Cronacle
12 4 (0.973%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 2 (0.487%) Xen
14 1 (0.243%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.243%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.243%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 26 (6.326%) NetBackup
2 13 (3.163%) Backup Exec
3 7 (1.703%) Legato
3 7 (1.703%) OpenView
4 6 (1.460%) HP SIM
4 6 (1.460%) HP Quality Center
4 6 (1.460%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (1.217%) Tivoli
5 5 (1.217%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (1.217%) SCOM
5 5 (1.217%) Puppet
6 4 (0.973%) HP Data Protector
6 4 (0.973%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (0.730%) Netcool
7 3 (0.730%) ServiceCenter
7 3 (0.730%) Sun Identity Manager
7 3 (0.730%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 3 (0.730%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.487%) Splunk
8 2 (0.487%) SCCM
Vendors
1 195 (47.45%) Oracle
2 115 (27.98%) HP
3 110 (26.76%) Red Hat
4 101 (24.57%) Veritas
5 98 (23.84%) VMware
6 75 (18.25%) EMC
7 70 (17.03%) IBM
8 61 (14.84%) Cisco
9 41 (9.976%) Dell
9 41 (9.976%) Microsoft
10 40 (9.732%) Sybase
11 21 (5.109%) NetApp
12 16 (3.893%) F5
12 16 (3.893%) Compaq
12 16 (3.893%) Citrix
12 16 (3.893%) StorageTek
13 15 (3.650%) SAP
14 13 (3.163%) Murex
15 12 (2.920%) Symantec
16 10 (2.433%) McAfee
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Redditch, Worcestershire
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