The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 18 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 Leeds 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank - 71 58
Contract jobs citing Sun 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.402% 0.150%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.821% 0.394%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £25.25 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-20.79% -12.93%
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
371 487 254
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 46.38% 48.94% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 276 114
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £171 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 33
Average hourly rate £34.00 £14.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+134.48% -17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.16 £9.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £45.60 £29.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Sun
West Yorkshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 6 (100.00%) Solaris
2 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) GlassFish
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (16.67%) F5
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (16.67%) MS Office

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (16.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (33.33%) GlassFish
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DBA
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Server Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Support
2 1 (16.67%) Sun Support
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Grid Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Beowulf
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
2 4 (66.67%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
1 1 (16.67%) Process Management
1 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) F5