Middlesex Sun Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the Middlesex 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 21 November 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 Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hayes Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich 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 Somerset 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 Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	39
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	8	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.658 %	2.672 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£363	-
Average daily rate	£381	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£375
% change on same period last year	-0.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.46	£33.84
% change on same period last year	-15.90 %
Vendors Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	301	262
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.474 %	0.281 %
Daily rates quoted	64	59
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£320
Average daily rate	£343	£338
% change on same period last year	+1.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.35	£21.99
Average hourly rate	£26.37	£23.28
% change on same period last year	+13.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.38	£24.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
Sun South East

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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 Middlesex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 15 (71.43 %) UNIX 2 13 (61.90 %) Solaris 3 12 (57.14 %) Windows 4 11 (52.38 %) IBM 5 8 (38.10 %) HP 6 6 (28.57 %) Oracle 6 6 (28.57 %) Linux 6 6 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 7 5 (23.81 %) VMware 8 4 (19.05 %) AIX 8 4 (19.05 %) Java 8 4 (19.05 %) Compaq 8 4 (19.05 %) Cisco 8 4 (19.05 %) HP APS 9 3 (14.29 %) WebSphere

9 3 (14.29 %) MCP 9 3 (14.29 %) Dell 9 3 (14.29 %) EMC 9 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 9 3 (14.29 %) Sun Certification 9 3 (14.29 %) SAN 9 3 (14.29 %) MCSE 9 3 (14.29 %) MCSA 9 3 (14.29 %) Service Delivery 9 3 (14.29 %) Pharmaceutical 9 3 (14.29 %) Active Directory 9 3 (14.29 %) HACMP 10 2 (9.524 %) Shell Script 10 2 (9.524 %) CCNA 10 2 (9.524 %) Intranet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (14.29 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.762 %) .NET 2 1 (4.762 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic 1 1 (4.762 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (14.29 %) SAN 2 2 (9.524 %) Intranet 2 2 (9.524 %) Internet 2 2 (9.524 %) LAN 2 2 (9.524 %) WAN 2 2 (9.524 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 9i	General 1 3 (14.29 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 10 (47.62 %) Administrator 2 5 (23.81 %) Systems Administrator 3 3 (14.29 %) Server Administrator 3 3 (14.29 %) UNIX Administrator 4 2 (9.524 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (9.524 %) Data Centre Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Break Fix Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Oracle DBA 5 1 (4.762 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Computer Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Hardware Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) AIX Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Solaris Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) 3rd Line Support 5 1 (4.762 %) DBA 5 1 (4.762 %) Server Support 5 1 (4.762 %) Architect 5 1 (4.762 %) Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (14.29 %) HACMP 2 2 (9.524 %) CLARiiON 2 2 (9.524 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 15 (71.43 %) UNIX 2 13 (61.90 %) Solaris 3 12 (57.14 %) Windows 4 6 (28.57 %) Linux 4 6 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (19.05 %) AIX 6 1 (4.762 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (4.762 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (14.29 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (9.524 %) Problem Management 2 2 (9.524 %) Incident Management 3 1 (4.762 %) Security Testing 3 1 (4.762 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (4.762 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (4.762 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (4.762 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (19.05 %) Java 2 2 (9.524 %) Shell Script 2 2 (9.524 %) SQL 3 1 (4.762 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (19.05 %) HP APS 2 3 (14.29 %) MCP 2 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (14.29 %) Sun Certification 2 3 (14.29 %) MCSE 2 3 (14.29 %) MCSA 3 2 (9.524 %) CCNA 3 2 (9.524 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.762 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (14.29 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.762 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (4.762 %) Legato	Vendors 1 11 (52.38 %) IBM 2 8 (38.10 %) HP 3 6 (28.57 %) Oracle 4 5 (23.81 %) VMware 5 4 (19.05 %) Compaq 5 4 (19.05 %) Cisco 6 3 (14.29 %) Dell 6 3 (14.29 %) EMC 7 2 (9.524 %) CommVault 7 2 (9.524 %) NetApp 7 2 (9.524 %) Intel 7 2 (9.524 %) Fujitsu 8 1 (4.762 %) VERITAS 8 1 (4.762 %) Red Hat