Sun Contracts in London

Sun
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sun over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 413 542
Rank change year-on-year +34 +129 -102
Contract jobs citing Sun 15 88 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.085% 0.33% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.84% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 79 41
10th Percentile £223 £483 £363
25th Percentile £245 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +20.60%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile - £700 £675
England median daily rate £325 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -45.83% +4.35% +27.78%

All Vendors
London

Sun is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,195 10,533 14,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.62% 38.95% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,933 7,457 10,313
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £661 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 128 186
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.30 £16.16
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £21.43
Median hourly rate £23.80 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% -12.14% +31.33%
75th Percentile £36.00 £57.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £62.25 £70.00 £62.13
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Sun in London

Sun
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sun in London.

Daily rate trend for Sun in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sun in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sun in London.

Hourly rate trend for Sun in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +33 5 £600 -7.69% 4
Sun
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) DB2
1 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
1 4 (26.67%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) Banking
4 4 (26.67%) Arabic Language
4 4 (26.67%) French Language
4 4 (26.67%) German Language
4 4 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Spanish Language
5 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (6.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Help Desk Technician
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) IT Technician
2 3 (20.00%) DBA
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Sybase DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Bokeh
1 1 (6.67%) Django
1 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (6.67%) Flask
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.67%) Pandas
1 1 (6.67%) pytest
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (26.67%) Replication
1 4 (26.67%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) HP Storage
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.67%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Android
2 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
2 4 (26.67%) Unix
2 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ITIL
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (26.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Problem Management
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Two-Factor Authentication
3 4 (26.67%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Perl
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
5 3 (20.00%) Bash
5 3 (20.00%) Korn
5 3 (20.00%) Ruby
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Puppet
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Avaya
3 4 (26.67%) Citrix
3 4 (26.67%) IBM
3 4 (26.67%) Ivanti
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) SAP
3 4 (26.67%) Sybase
3 4 (26.67%) Veritas
4 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (20.00%) TOWER Software
5 1 (6.67%) Confluent
5 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.67%) Databricks
5 1 (6.67%) Dell
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) Intel
5 1 (6.67%) VMware