Glasgow Sun Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the Glasgow 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Driffield East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Hinckley Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	52
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	16	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	4.040 %	3.495 %
Daily rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£349
Average daily rate	£292	£357
% change on same period last year	-18.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£381
% change on same period last year	-8.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.50	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.12	£30.01
% change on same period last year	+7.04 %
Vendors Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	396	515
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.535 %	0.508 %
Daily rates quoted	115	160
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£310
Average daily rate	£326	£326
% change on same period last year	-0.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.67	£19.84
Average hourly rate	£19.31	£20.94
% change on same period last year	-7.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.95	£22.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Sun Scotland

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 38 (84.44 %) Solaris 2 30 (66.67 %) UNIX 3 25 (55.56 %) VERITAS 4 23 (51.11 %) Oracle 5 19 (42.22 %) SAN 6 15 (33.33 %) BMC 7 14 (31.11 %) Windows 8 13 (28.89 %) SQL Server 8 13 (28.89 %) SQL 9 11 (24.44 %) Java 9 11 (24.44 %) Linux 10 10 (22.22 %) Replication 10 10 (22.22 %) NetBackup 11 9 (20.00 %) Shell Script 11 9 (20.00 %) Perl

11 9 (20.00 %) Sybase 11 9 (20.00 %) ITIL 11 9 (20.00 %) IBM 11 9 (20.00 %) Sybase ASE 12 8 (17.78 %) SSH 12 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 10g 12 8 (17.78 %) C 12 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 9i 12 8 (17.78 %) Oracle RMAN 12 8 (17.78 %) Finance 13 7 (15.56 %) Telecoms 13 7 (15.56 %) Intec 13 7 (15.56 %) EMC 13 7 (15.56 %) J2EE 13 7 (15.56 %) MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 7 (15.56 %) J2EE 1 7 (15.56 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 7 (15.56 %) Oracle Application Server 2 2 (4.444 %) WebSphere MQ 2 2 (4.444 %) IBM HTTP Server 3 1 (2.222 %) Apache
Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 19 (42.22 %) SAN 2 8 (17.78 %) SSH 3 2 (4.444 %) LDAP 3 2 (4.444 %) HTTP 4 1 (2.222 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (2.222 %) DNS 4 1 (2.222 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (28.89 %) SQL Server 2 9 (20.00 %) Sybase ASE 3 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 9i 3 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 10g 4 7 (15.56 %) MySQL 5 3 (6.667 %) NonStop SQL	General 1 8 (17.78 %) Finance 2 7 (15.56 %) Telecoms 2 7 (15.56 %) Billing 3 1 (2.222 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (2.222 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (2.222 %) Home Office 3 1 (2.222 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 17 (37.78 %) DBA 2 11 (24.44 %) Administrator 3 9 (20.00 %) Sybase DBA 4 8 (17.78 %) Oracle DBA 5 5 (11.11 %) Capacity Planner 5 5 (11.11 %) Analyst 6 4 (8.889 %) UNIX Specialist 6 4 (8.889 %) SQL DBA 6 4 (8.889 %) Performance Manager 7 3 (6.667 %) WebSphere Administrator 7 3 (6.667 %) Business Analyst 7 3 (6.667 %) UNIX Engineer 7 3 (6.667 %) Storage Specialist 7 3 (6.667 %) Systems Administrator 7 3 (6.667 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 8 2 (4.444 %) UNIX Administrator 9 1 (2.222 %) SAN Administrator 9 1 (2.222 %) Solaris Administrator 9 1 (2.222 %) Capacity Analyst 9 1 (2.222 %) UNIX Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (22.22 %) Replication 2 6 (13.33 %) Clustering 3 2 (4.444 %) AS400 4 1 (2.222 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 38 (84.44 %) Solaris 2 30 (66.67 %) UNIX 3 14 (31.11 %) Windows 4 11 (24.44 %) Linux 5 3 (6.667 %) AIX 6 2 (4.444 %) zOS 7 1 (2.222 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (2.222 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (2.222 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (20.00 %) ITIL 2 3 (6.667 %) Performance Management 3 2 (4.444 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.222 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.222 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.222 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (2.222 %) Business Continuity 4 1 (2.222 %) Asset Management 4 1 (2.222 %) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages 1 13 (28.89 %) SQL 2 11 (24.44 %) Java 3 9 (20.00 %) Perl 3 9 (20.00 %) Shell Script 4 8 (17.78 %) C	Qualifications 1 4 (8.889 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.667 %) SLA	System Software 1 10 (22.22 %) NetBackup 2 8 (17.78 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (2.222 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.222 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 3 (6.667 %) Tivoli 2 2 (4.444 %) BMC Performance Manager	Vendors 1 25 (55.56 %) VERITAS 2 23 (51.11 %) Oracle 3 15 (33.33 %) BMC 4 9 (20.00 %) Sybase 4 9 (20.00 %) IBM 5 7 (15.56 %) Intec 5 7 (15.56 %) EMC 6 4 (8.889 %) HP 7 3 (6.667 %) Anite 7 3 (6.667 %) VMware 8 2 (4.444 %) StorageTek 9 1 (2.222 %) Red Hat 9 1 (2.222 %) Siebel