The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester 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 Gloucester 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 - 30 18
Contract jobs citing Sun 0 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester - 0.658% 3.883%
As % of the Vendors category - 1.316% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £381
% change year-on-year
- -8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £26.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -10.34%
All Vendors
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20 76 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 27.03% 50.00% 50.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 53 26
Average daily rate £130 £400 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-67.50% +10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £350 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
Average hourly rate £11.00 £21.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.61% -43.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Sun
Gloucestershire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) GlassFish
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (50.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
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