Hayes Sun Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the Hayes 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Bletchley Borehamwood Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hayes Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	55.56 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£375
% change on same period last year	-0.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.91	-
Average hourly rate	£22.11	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.31	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.46	£33.84
% change on same period last year	-15.90 %
Vendors Hayes
Matching contract IT job ads	9	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.016 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£268
Average daily rate	£253	£277
% change on same period last year	-8.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£255	£286
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.82	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£22.25	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+27.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.68	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
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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 Hayes 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 Hayes region.

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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 Hayes region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the Hayes region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hayes 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 (83.33 %) IBM 1 5 (83.33 %) HP 1 5 (83.33 %) Fujitsu 2 2 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (16.67 %) NetBackup 3 1 (16.67 %) Shell Script 3 1 (16.67 %) QA 3 1 (16.67 %) System Testing 3 1 (16.67 %) Perl 3 1 (16.67 %) UNIX 3 1 (16.67 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hayes 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.

General 1 2 (33.33 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 1 2 (33.33 %) Server Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 2 1 (16.67 %) Server Support Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Solaris Administrator 2 1 (16.67 %) Hardware Support Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Sun Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Break Fix Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Server Support 2 1 (16.67 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Administrator 2 1 (16.67 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 2 1 (16.67 %) UNIX Administrator 2 1 (16.67 %) Hardware Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems 1 1 (16.67 %) UNIX 1 1 (16.67 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (16.67 %) Perl 1 1 (16.67 %) Shell Script	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (16.67 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (16.67 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 5 (83.33 %) IBM 1 5 (83.33 %) HP 1 5 (83.33 %) Fujitsu