The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 22 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 Gloucestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank - - 28
Contract jobs citing Sun 0 0 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - 4.930%
As % of the Vendors category - - 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
Average daily rate - - £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £341 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
121 320 203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 44.00% 47.83% 47.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 207 86
Average daily rate £500 £410 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +22.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 14
Average hourly rate £11.00 £27.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +34.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £24.70 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £32.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Sun
South West

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 10 (83.33%) Oracle
1 10 (83.33%) Solaris
1 10 (83.33%) UNIX
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 8 (66.67%) Linux
3 8 (66.67%) WebLogic
3 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
4 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
4 7 (58.33%) Oracle 10g
4 7 (58.33%) SAN
4 7 (58.33%) Middleware
4 7 (58.33%) MPLS
4 7 (58.33%) Firewall
4 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
4 7 (58.33%) Cisco
4 7 (58.33%) DHCP
4 7 (58.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (58.33%) DNS
4 7 (58.33%) VMware
4 7 (58.33%) Load Balancing
4 7 (58.33%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (58.33%) Oracle 11g
4 7 (58.33%) GlassFish
4 7 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (58.33%) Windows Azure
4 7 (58.33%) PaaS
4 7 (58.33%) IaaS
5 6 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
5 6 (50.00%) vSphere

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (58.33%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 8 (66.67%) WebLogic
3 7 (58.33%) GlassFish
3 7 (58.33%) Windows Azure
4 6 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
4 6 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
5 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 5.5
5 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) SAN
1 7 (58.33%) MPLS
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
1 7 (58.33%) DHCP
1 7 (58.33%) TCP/IP
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (8.333%) LDAP
3 1 (8.333%) WAN
3 1 (8.333%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (8.333%) RDBMS
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) UNIX Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Solaris Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Solaris Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) PaaS
1 7 (58.33%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Solaris
1 10 (83.33%) UNIX
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 8 (66.67%) Linux
4 7 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.333%) SUSE
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (8.333%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Load Balancing
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Data Security
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
1 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SCSA
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Sun Certification
1 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (8.333%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (58.33%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (50.00%) vSphere
3 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Oracle
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (16.67%) IBM