The first table below looks at the demand for Sun Certification in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun Certification 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 Qualifications for the London 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certification
Rank 368 405 415
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +10
Contract jobs citing Sun Certification 9 10 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.042% 0.037% 0.087%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.284% 0.262% 0.656%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 22
Average daily rate £450 £350 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £319 £339 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £519 £400 £545
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
-1.84% -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3169 3819 4114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.63% 14.18% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1876 2288 2374
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 119 141
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -3.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.30 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Sun Certification
England

Sun Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Sun Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Sun Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Sun Certification across the London region.

London Sun Certification Daily Rate Trend

Sun Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun Certification across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Sun Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Sun Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Sun Certification across the London region.

London Sun Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Sun Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Sun Certification 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 Certification.

1 23 (79.31%) Sun
2 21 (72.41%) Linux
2 21 (72.41%) Oracle
3 20 (68.97%) UNIX
3 20 (68.97%) Solaris
3 20 (68.97%) Red Hat
3 20 (68.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (65.52%) Finance
5 18 (62.07%) Software Deployment
5 18 (62.07%) Banking
5 18 (62.07%) SCSA
5 18 (62.07%) Investment Banking
6 9 (31.03%) Java
7 6 (20.69%) XML
8 5 (17.24%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (13.79%) Smartphone
9 4 (13.79%) New Media
9 4 (13.79%) Apple iOS
9 4 (13.79%) OOP
9 4 (13.79%) Project Management
9 4 (13.79%) Apple
9 4 (13.79%) Internet
9 4 (13.79%) Scrum
9 4 (13.79%) Objective-C
9 4 (13.79%) Android
9 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
10 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
11 2 (6.897%) Hudson
11 2 (6.897%) TeamCity

Sun Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Sun Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (20.69%) XML
2 2 (6.897%) JSON
3 1 (3.448%) HTML
3 1 (3.448%) Web Services
3 1 (3.448%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.448%) XML Messaging
3 1 (3.448%) Spring
3 1 (3.448%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) Apache
1 1 (3.448%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Internet
2 2 (6.897%) snoop
2 2 (6.897%) SAN
3 1 (3.448%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.897%) Hudson
2 2 (6.897%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.897%) WebDriver
2 2 (6.897%) Selenium
3 1 (3.448%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.448%) Maven
3 1 (3.448%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (65.52%) Finance
2 18 (62.07%) Banking
2 18 (62.07%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.897%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 7 (24.14%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Android Developer
4 2 (6.897%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (6.897%) Administrator
4 2 (6.897%) Storage Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.448%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Senior UNIX Administrator
5 1 (3.448%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (3.448%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Smartphone
1 4 (13.79%) New Media
1 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.448%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 21 (72.41%) Linux
2 20 (68.97%) UNIX
2 20 (68.97%) Solaris
2 20 (68.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Apple iOS
3 4 (13.79%) Android
4 2 (6.897%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.897%) SUSE
4 2 (6.897%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Software Deployment
2 5 (17.24%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (13.79%) OOP
3 4 (13.79%) Project Management
3 4 (13.79%) Scrum
4 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.897%) TDD
5 2 (6.897%) Automation Testing
6 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.448%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.448%) Kanban
6 1 (3.448%) BDD
6 1 (3.448%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) Objective-C
3 2 (6.897%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.448%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) SCSA
2 2 (6.897%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.897%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (79.31%) Sun
2 21 (72.41%) Oracle
3 20 (68.97%) Red Hat
4 4 (13.79%) Apple
5 2 (6.897%) VMware
5 2 (6.897%) IBM