The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 71 54 58
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +4
Contract jobs citing Sun 4 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.445% 0.614% 0.779%
As % of the Vendors category 1.000% 1.437% 1.489%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
Average daily rate £393 £273 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.77% -14.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £347 £273 £304
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £311 £354
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £381
% change year-on-year
- -8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £26.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -10.34%
All Vendors
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
400 348 403
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 44.49% 42.75% 52.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 152 229
Average daily rate £338 £300 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £433 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 6
Average hourly rate £14.50 £24.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.58% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £35.00 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Sun
Scotland

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 11 (68.75%) Java
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
3 9 (56.25%) Oracle
3 9 (56.25%) Linux
4 8 (50.00%) UNIX
4 8 (50.00%) SQL
5 7 (43.75%) Solaris
5 7 (43.75%) Banking
6 6 (37.50%) Spring
6 6 (37.50%) JSF
6 6 (37.50%) Maven
6 6 (37.50%) Investment Banking
6 6 (37.50%) JSTL
6 6 (37.50%) QA
6 6 (37.50%) Risk Management
6 6 (37.50%) Hibernate
6 6 (37.50%) Shell Script
6 6 (37.50%) Sun Certification
6 6 (37.50%) Windows
6 6 (37.50%) HTML
6 6 (37.50%) J2EE
6 6 (37.50%) Eclipse
6 6 (37.50%) RDBMS
6 6 (37.50%) JDeveloper
6 6 (37.50%) VB
6 6 (37.50%) VBA
6 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 6 (37.50%) JSP
6 6 (37.50%) Servlets
6 6 (37.50%) Struts

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 6 (37.50%) Spring
1 6 (37.50%) JSF
1 6 (37.50%) JSTL
1 6 (37.50%) Hibernate
1 6 (37.50%) HTML
1 6 (37.50%) J2EE
1 6 (37.50%) JSP
1 6 (37.50%) Servlets
1 6 (37.50%) Struts
1 6 (37.50%) XML
2 5 (31.25%) EJB
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (6.250%) JMS
4 1 (6.250%) X-Windows
4 1 (6.250%) WebSphere
4 1 (6.250%) Tapestry
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (6.250%) Intranet
2 1 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) RDBMS
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (18.75%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Maven
1 6 (37.50%) Eclipse
1 6 (37.50%) JDeveloper
2 2 (12.50%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (6.250%) Ant
3 1 (6.250%) PVCS
3 1 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (6.250%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.250%) Hudson
3 1 (6.250%) Selenium
3 1 (6.250%) Subversion
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Analyst Programmer
3 5 (31.25%) Programmer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Analyst Programmer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Programmer
3 5 (31.25%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Team Leader
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Tester
5 1 (6.250%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Tester
5 1 (6.250%) Designer
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (6.250%) QA Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Derivative
2 3 (18.75%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.250%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) UNIX
3 7 (43.75%) Solaris
4 6 (37.50%) Windows
5 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (25.00%) AIX
6 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 5 (31.25%) Regression Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Manual Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.250%) Identity Management
3 1 (6.250%) MVC
3 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
3 1 (6.250%) Change Management
3 1 (6.250%) Capacity Management
3 1 (6.250%) Database Caching
3 1 (6.250%) Matrix Management
3 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
3 1 (6.250%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 6 (37.50%) VB
3 6 (37.50%) VBA
3 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (31.25%) Perl
5 2 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Control-M
2 1 (6.250%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) EMC
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (18.75%) HP
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) InterSystems
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Sybase
5 1 (6.250%) Citrix