Herefordshire Sun Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the Herefordshire 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 2 December 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 Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Croydon Devon Docklands, London Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hayes Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent 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 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 Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.762 %	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	£378	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.48	£33.95
% change on same period last year	-16.11 %
Vendors Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	21	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	5	11
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£322
Average daily rate	£296	£344
% change on same period last year	-14.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£13.38
Average hourly rate	£27.75	£16.23
% change on same period last year	+70.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	£19.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£24.08
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Sun West Midlands

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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

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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 Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Borehamwood	-	1	-	-

Sun West Midlands

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 1 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA 1 1 (100.00 %) IBM 1 1 (100.00 %) HP 1 1 (100.00 %) Middleware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 (100.00 %) Middleware	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst
Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) UNIX	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) IBM 1 1 (100.00 %) HP