The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 100 81 87
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +6
Contract jobs citing Sun 3 13 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.197% 0.817% 0.973%
As % of the Vendors category 0.348% 1.496% 1.875%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 13
Average daily rate £369 £368 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.34% +14.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £362 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £404 £374 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
861 869 960
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 56.42% 54.62% 51.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 412 337
Average daily rate £370 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £491
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 115 139
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.54 £13.38 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Sun
South East

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Portsmouth - 1 £325 -
Sun
South East

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 4 (57.14%) AIX
2 4 (57.14%) Solaris
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (28.57%) iSeries
4 2 (28.57%) Korn
4 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
4 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) HP
4 2 (28.57%) Sun Certification
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) HPUX
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) JBoss
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) OpenVMS
5 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
5 1 (14.29%) JSP
5 1 (14.29%) Struts
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) J2EE

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) JSP
2 1 (14.29%) Struts
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX Support
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) AIX Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) iSeries
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) AIX
1 4 (57.14%) Solaris
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) HPUX
4 1 (14.29%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Korn
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Sun Certification
2 1 (14.29%) OCP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MBCS
2 1 (14.29%) SCWCD
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CITP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) JBoss