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This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSun
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank157102
Rank change on same period last yearDown-55
Matching contract IT job ads7071476
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.942 %1.493 %
As % of the category below2.378 %3.707 %
Daily rates quoted219493
Average minimum daily rate£361£367
Average daily rate£378£386
% change on same period last year-2.03 %
Average maximum daily rate£395£405
UK excluding London average daily rate£353£378
% change on same period last year-6.57 %
Hourly rates quoted61183
Average minimum hourly rate£29.68£29.52
Average hourly rate£31.11£31.60
% change on same period last year-1.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate£32.55£33.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.61£30.40
% change on same period last year+3.96 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
England
Matching contract IT job ads2973439815
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled39.63 %40.28 %
Daily rates quoted913111801
Average minimum daily rate£384£388
Average daily rate£408£412
% change on same period last year-0.92 %
Average maximum daily rate£433£436
UK excluding London average daily rate£357£359
% change on same period last year-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted26843366
Average minimum hourly rate£21.99£24.20
Average hourly rate£23.52£25.82
% change on same period last year-8.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.05£27.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.25£24.99
% change on same period last year-6.94 %
Sun UKSun
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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun
Demand Trend

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

England Sun Demand Trend

Sun
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England Sun Daily Rate Histogram

Sun
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England Sun Hourly Rate Histogram

Sun
Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-55307£398+1.56 %
South EastDown-27142£363-6.03 %
South WestUp+669£310-20.27 %
East of EnglandDown-3558£424+7.90 %
YorkshireUp+350£346+7.89 %
North WestDown-2239£311-3.06 %
West MidlandsDown-6116£400+13.32 %
East MidlandsUp+415£308-22.08 %
North EastUp+16£368+16.13 %
MidlandsUp+45£450+38.46 %
South CoastNew entry-2--
Sun UKSun
UK

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

1975 (66.24 %)Solaris
2740 (50.27 %)UNIX
3466 (31.66 %)Oracle
4359 (24.39 %)Linux
5288 (19.57 %)Windows
6284 (19.29 %)Java
7260 (17.66 %)Finance
8258 (17.53 %)VERITAS
9249 (16.92 %)SAN
10221 (15.01 %)HP
11186 (12.64 %)Perl
12179 (12.16 %)Shell Script
13176 (11.96 %)IBM
14173 (11.75 %)SQL
15164 (11.14 %)Banking
16155 (10.53 %)J2EE
17151 (10.26 %)AIX
18150 (10.19 %)Security Cleared
19149 (10.12 %)Red Hat
20142 (9.647 %)EMC
21128 (8.696 %)NetBackup
22125 (8.492 %)Sun Certification
23124 (8.424 %)WebLogic
24122 (8.288 %)Apache
25112 (7.609 %)Microsoft
26107 (7.269 %)Cisco
26107 (7.269 %)XML
27106 (7.201 %)HPUX
28104 (7.065 %)Oracle 10g
29103 (6.997 %)TCP/IP

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1155 (10.53 %)J2EE
2107 (7.269 %)XML
388 (5.978 %)WebSphere
462 (4.212 %)HTML
550 (3.397 %)Middleware
641 (2.785 %)WebServices
738 (2.582 %)JSP
837 (2.514 %)Spring
934 (2.310 %)Hibernate
1033 (2.242 %)Servlets
1130 (2.038 %)Struts
1229 (1.970 %)CSS
1326 (1.766 %)EJB
1326 (1.766 %).NET
1420 (1.359 %)JMS
1518 (1.223 %)Java EE
1616 (1.087 %)SOAP
1712 (0.815 %)XSD
1712 (0.815 %)XSLT
1810 (0.679 %)XHTML
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1124 (8.424 %)WebLogic
2122 (8.288 %)Apache
346 (3.125 %)Tomcat
439 (2.649 %)Oracle Application Server
536 (2.446 %)MS Exchange
629 (1.970 %)IIS
728 (1.902 %)WebSphere Application Server
827 (1.834 %)WebSphere MQ
921 (1.427 %)JBoss
1019 (1.291 %)MQSeries
1019 (1.291 %)WebLogic Portal
1117 (1.155 %)Exchange Server 2000
1117 (1.155 %)Exchange Server 2003
1216 (1.087 %)Oracle 10gAS
1216 (1.087 %)ATG Dynamo
1313 (0.883 %)ArcSDE
1313 (0.883 %)ArcGIS
1411 (0.747 %)MQSI
1510 (0.679 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1510 (0.679 %)CMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
144 (2.989 %)MS Excel
240 (2.717 %)MS Office
325 (1.698 %)MS Visio
43 (0.204 %)MS Project
43 (0.204 %)MS PowerPoint
52 (0.136 %)MATLAB
61 (0.068 %)CA Clarity
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
124 (1.630 %)Oracle 11i
221 (1.427 %)Oracle Applications
310 (0.679 %)Teamcenter
48 (0.543 %)Summit
56 (0.408 %)Oracle EBS
64 (0.272 %)SAP Oil and Gas
64 (0.272 %)Kondor+
64 (0.272 %)SAP FI
72 (0.136 %)SAP ERP
72 (0.136 %)Siebel Analytics
72 (0.136 %)Oracle Financials
72 (0.136 %)WebTrends
81 (0.068 %)Great Plains
81 (0.068 %)Staffware
81 (0.068 %)Oracle HRMS
81 (0.068 %)Oracle ERP
81 (0.068 %)SunGard GMI
81 (0.068 %)SAP CRM
81 (0.068 %)SAP FI/CO
81 (0.068 %)SAP CO
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1249 (16.92 %)SAN
2103 (6.997 %)TCP/IP
3100 (6.793 %)LDAP
490 (6.114 %)Firewall
583 (5.639 %)DNS
664 (4.348 %)Internet
749 (3.329 %)LAN
831 (2.106 %)WAN
930 (2.038 %)HTTP
1024 (1.630 %)VPN
1121 (1.427 %)DHCP
1218 (1.223 %)Extranet
1317 (1.155 %)SNA
1415 (1.019 %)SSH
1514 (0.951 %)Network Security
1611 (0.747 %)Intranet
1611 (0.747 %)VLAN
1611 (0.747 %)SMTP
1710 (0.679 %)FTP
1710 (0.679 %)Intrusion Detection
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1104 (7.065 %)Oracle 10g
279 (5.367 %)Oracle 9i
373 (4.959 %)SQL Server
463 (4.280 %)Oracle 8/8i
536 (2.446 %)MySQL
634 (2.310 %)RDBMS
731 (2.106 %)GIS
827 (1.834 %)BusinessObjects
922 (1.495 %)SQL Server 2005
1019 (1.291 %)Oracle Reports
1115 (1.019 %)TOAD
1115 (1.019 %)SQL Server 2000
1214 (0.951 %)DB2
1310 (0.679 %)SQLPlus
148 (0.543 %)SQL Server 7
148 (0.543 %)Informix
148 (0.543 %)Datawarehouse
155 (0.340 %)MS Access
155 (0.340 %)Oracle Discoverer
164 (0.272 %)BusinessObjects XI
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
146 (3.125 %)Ant
237 (2.514 %)ClearCase
335 (2.378 %)JUnit
432 (2.174 %)Eclipse
518 (1.223 %)Oracle Forms
617 (1.155 %)LoadRunner
713 (0.883 %)Subversion
810 (0.679 %)JBuilder
97 (0.476 %)WinRunner
97 (0.476 %)Flash
106 (0.408 %)TestDirector
106 (0.408 %)QuickTest Pro
114 (0.272 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
123 (0.204 %)PVCS
123 (0.204 %)JDeveloper
123 (0.204 %)ERwin
123 (0.204 %)ClearQuest
132 (0.136 %)MSI
132 (0.136 %)CruiseControl
132 (0.136 %)PowerBuilder
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1260 (17.66 %)Finance
2164 (11.14 %)Banking
386 (5.842 %)Government
479 (5.367 %)Investment Banking
570 (4.755 %)Telecoms
633 (2.242 %)Financial Institution
732 (2.174 %)Legal
732 (2.174 %)Retail
828 (1.902 %)Insurance
919 (1.291 %)Health
1016 (1.087 %)Front Office
1016 (1.087 %)Back Office
1112 (0.815 %)Pharmaceutical
1112 (0.815 %)Education
1210 (0.679 %)Police
137 (0.476 %)Manufacturing
137 (0.476 %)Publishing
137 (0.476 %)Criminal Justice
146 (0.408 %)Home Office
155 (0.340 %)Retail Banking
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1327 (22.21 %)Administrator
2195 (13.25 %)Developer
3169 (11.48 %)Systems Administrator
4168 (11.41 %)UNIX Administrator
5126 (8.560 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
6114 (7.745 %)Analyst
7101 (6.861 %)Architect
8100 (6.793 %)Java Developer
993 (6.318 %)Consultant
1080 (5.435 %)Solaris Administrator
1174 (5.027 %)UNIX Engineer
1272 (4.891 %)Support Engineer
1371 (4.823 %)DBA
1470 (4.755 %)Project Manager
1567 (4.552 %)Oracle DBA
1640 (2.717 %)Solaris Systems Administrator
1737 (2.514 %)Support Analyst
1835 (2.378 %)Technical Architect
1934 (2.310 %)Java/J2EE Developer
2033 (2.242 %)J2EE Developer
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
178 (5.299 %)Clustering
229 (1.970 %)Thin Client
229 (1.970 %)Fat Client
327 (1.834 %)Symmetrix
423 (1.563 %)HACMP
423 (1.563 %)Client/Server
517 (1.155 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
615 (1.019 %)Replication
714 (0.951 %)Management Information System
89 (0.611 %)CLARiiON
98 (0.543 %)AS400
98 (0.543 %)Mainframe
98 (0.543 %)Statistics
107 (0.476 %)Derivative
107 (0.476 %)Equities
107 (0.476 %)Data Integration
116 (0.408 %)IPTV
116 (0.408 %)N-Tier
116 (0.408 %)iDTV
124 (0.272 %)PMI
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1975 (66.24 %)Solaris
2740 (50.27 %)UNIX
3359 (24.39 %)Linux
4288 (19.57 %)Windows
5151 (10.26 %)AIX
6106 (7.201 %)HPUX
782 (5.571 %)Windows 2000
854 (3.668 %)Windows Server 2003
945 (3.057 %)Windows NT
1020 (1.359 %)FreeBSD
1118 (1.223 %)Windows XP
1217 (1.155 %)Tru64
1316 (1.087 %)SUSE
1415 (1.019 %)VMS
1415 (1.019 %)OpenVMS
154 (0.272 %)Mac OS X
161 (0.068 %)MVS
161 (0.068 %)Windows Vista
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1150 (10.19 %)Security Cleared
293 (6.318 %)SC Cleared
369 (4.688 %)UML
467 (4.552 %)ITIL
561 (4.144 %)Change Management
657 (3.872 %)OO
750 (3.397 %)RUP
849 (3.329 %)Project Management
944 (2.989 %)Migration
1040 (2.717 %)Configuration Management
1129 (1.970 %)DV Cleared
1228 (1.902 %)Unified Process
1327 (1.834 %)PRINCE2
1426 (1.766 %)Service Delivery
1524 (1.630 %)Disaster Recovery
1623 (1.563 %)Service Management
1722 (1.495 %)SOA
1821 (1.427 %)Release Management
1821 (1.427 %)Performance Testing
1918 (1.223 %)RAD
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1284 (19.29 %)Java
2186 (12.64 %)Perl
3179 (12.16 %)Shell Script
4173 (11.75 %)SQL
578 (5.299 %)Korn
659 (4.008 %)PL/SQL
751 (3.465 %)C
837 (2.514 %)C++
932 (2.174 %)JavaScript
1026 (1.766 %)VB
1125 (1.698 %)AWK
1215 (1.019 %)Transact-SQL
1314 (0.951 %)VBScript
1413 (0.883 %)C#
159 (0.611 %)PHP
167 (0.476 %)XPath
176 (0.408 %)XQuery
176 (0.408 %)COBOL
185 (0.340 %)Python
194 (0.272 %)SQR
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1125 (8.492 %)Sun Certification
237 (2.514 %)Degree
334 (2.310 %)Cisco Certification
429 (1.970 %)CCNA
526 (1.766 %)Microsoft Certification
618 (1.223 %)MCSE
716 (1.087 %)IBM Certification
813 (0.883 %)Oracle Certification
910 (0.679 %)ISEB
109 (0.611 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
118 (0.543 %)SCSA
118 (0.543 %)SCJD
118 (0.543 %)MCSA
127 (0.476 %)PMI Certification
135 (0.340 %)CCNP
135 (0.340 %)MCP
135 (0.340 %)PRINCE2 Certification
135 (0.340 %)OCP
135 (0.340 %)SNIA Certification
135 (0.340 %)PMP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
137 (2.514 %)SLA
216 (1.087 %)QA
312 (0.815 %)HL7
312 (0.815 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
47 (0.476 %)GxP
56 (0.408 %)ISO27001
64 (0.272 %)GLP
73 (0.204 %)MiFID
82 (0.136 %)ISO9000
82 (0.136 %)ISO9001
82 (0.136 %)ISO17799
82 (0.136 %)BS7799
91 (0.068 %)WAI
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1128 (8.696 %)NetBackup
271 (4.823 %)Active Directory
356 (3.804 %)NFS
450 (3.397 %)Oracle RAC
534 (2.310 %)VMware ESX
628 (1.902 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
727 (1.834 %)Oracle RMAN
727 (1.834 %)VMware Infrastructure
89 (0.611 %)Samba
97 (0.476 %)Terminal Services
106 (0.408 %)Backup Exec
115 (0.340 %)Terminal Server
124 (0.272 %)Citrix Presentation Server
133 (0.204 %)MetaFrame
133 (0.204 %)VMware GSX
133 (0.204 %)ISA Server
142 (0.136 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
151 (0.068 %)AquaLogic
151 (0.068 %)VMware Workstation
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
150 (3.397 %)Tivoli
237 (2.514 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
323 (1.563 %)Legato
415 (1.019 %)OpenView
415 (1.019 %)Netcool
512 (0.815 %)AutoSys
512 (0.815 %)BMC PATROL
68 (0.543 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
68 (0.543 %)HP Data Protector
77 (0.476 %)WSUS
86 (0.408 %)Unicenter
95 (0.340 %)MOM
95 (0.340 %)Nagios
95 (0.340 %)EMC NetWorker
104 (0.272 %)CONTROL-M
104 (0.272 %)OpenView Configuration Management
104 (0.272 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
104 (0.272 %)CiscoWorks
104 (0.272 %)Tivoli Monitoring
113 (0.204 %)CA SiteMinder
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1466 (31.66 %)Oracle
2258 (17.53 %)VERITAS
3221 (15.01 %)HP
4176 (11.96 %)IBM
5149 (10.12 %)Red Hat
6142 (9.647 %)EMC
7112 (7.609 %)Microsoft
8107 (7.269 %)Cisco
995 (6.454 %)VMware
1062 (4.212 %)BEA
1161 (4.144 %)Brocade
1260 (4.076 %)NetApp
1357 (3.872 %)Intel
1444 (2.989 %)Dell
1444 (2.989 %)Sybase
1543 (2.921 %)Citrix
1640 (2.717 %)StorageTek
1733 (2.242 %)Compaq
1828 (1.902 %)Siebel
1927 (1.834 %)Business Objects
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