Leeds Sun Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clydebank Colchester County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Hounslow Hull Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark St Albans Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	45
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching contract IT job ads	12	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	2.564 %	6.970 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum daily rate	-	£319
Average daily rate	-	£330
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£379
% change on same period last year	-6.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£15.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.06	£31.15
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Vendors Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	468	330
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.617 %	0.350 %
Daily rates quoted	117	73
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£295
Average daily rate	£315	£310
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.79	£17.76
Average hourly rate	£16.36	£18.20
% change on same period last year	-10.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.93	£18.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
Sun West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 11 (52.38 %) Java 2 9 (42.86 %) Solaris 3 7 (33.33 %) Oracle 4 5 (23.81 %) XML 4 5 (23.81 %) Unix 5 4 (19.05 %) LDAP 5 4 (19.05 %) SQL 5 4 (19.05 %) Sun Certification 6 3 (14.29 %) Finance 6 3 (14.29 %) Identity Management 6 3 (14.29 %) Legal 6 3 (14.29 %) Shell Script 6 3 (14.29 %) JSP 6 3 (14.29 %) DNS 6 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft

6 3 (14.29 %) WebSphere 7 2 (9.524 %) XPath 7 2 (9.524 %) JSF 7 2 (9.524 %) SAX 7 2 (9.524 %) Eclipse 7 2 (9.524 %) FTP 7 2 (9.524 %) HTTP 7 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel 7 2 (9.524 %) RAD 7 2 (9.524 %) Apache 7 2 (9.524 %) HTML 7 2 (9.524 %) DOM 7 2 (9.524 %) Linux 7 2 (9.524 %) UML 7 2 (9.524 %) OO

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 5 (23.81 %) XML 2 3 (14.29 %) JSP 2 3 (14.29 %) WebSphere 3 2 (9.524 %) HTML 3 2 (9.524 %) J2EE 3 2 (9.524 %) DOM 3 2 (9.524 %) SAX 3 2 (9.524 %) Hibernate 3 2 (9.524 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.524 %) Apache 1 2 (9.524 %) ATG Dynamo 2 1 (4.762 %) Tomcat 2 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic 2 1 (4.762 %) JBoss
Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 4 (19.05 %) LDAP 2 3 (14.29 %) DNS 3 2 (9.524 %) Extranet 3 2 (9.524 %) FTP 3 2 (9.524 %) HTTP 4 1 (4.762 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (4.762 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Access 1 1 (4.762 %) TOAD	Development Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) Ant 1 2 (9.524 %) JUnit 1 2 (9.524 %) Eclipse
General 1 3 (14.29 %) Finance 1 3 (14.29 %) Legal 2 2 (9.524 %) Health 3 1 (4.762 %) Telecoms 3 1 (4.762 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (19.05 %) Developer 1 4 (19.05 %) Administrator 2 3 (14.29 %) Consultant 2 3 (14.29 %) Systems Administrator 2 3 (14.29 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 2 3 (14.29 %) Solaris Administrator 2 3 (14.29 %) Sun Engineer 3 2 (9.524 %) Linux Engineer 3 2 (9.524 %) Lead Developer 3 2 (9.524 %) Sun Consultant 3 2 (9.524 %) UNIX Engineer 3 2 (9.524 %) Java Developer 3 2 (9.524 %) J2EE Developer 3 2 (9.524 %) Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Project Manager 4 1 (4.762 %) Management Consultant 4 1 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Data Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.762 %) Mainframe 1 1 (4.762 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 9 (42.86 %) Solaris 2 5 (23.81 %) Unix 3 2 (9.524 %) Linux 4 1 (4.762 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (14.29 %) Identity Management 2 2 (9.524 %) UML 2 2 (9.524 %) OO 2 2 (9.524 %) RAD 3 1 (4.762 %) ERP 3 1 (4.762 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.762 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (4.762 %) Risk Management 3 1 (4.762 %) Software Engineering	Programming Languages 1 11 (52.38 %) Java 2 4 (19.05 %) SQL 3 3 (14.29 %) Shell Script 4 2 (9.524 %) XPath 5 1 (4.762 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 4 (19.05 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.762 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (4.762 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 1 (4.762 %) OpenView 1 1 (4.762 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 7 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 3 2 (9.524 %) HP 3 2 (9.524 %) Red Hat 3 2 (9.524 %) ATG 4 1 (4.762 %) BT 4 1 (4.762 %) IBM 4 1 (4.762 %) EMC 4 1 (4.762 %) Hitachi 4 1 (4.762 %) StorageTek