The first table below looks at the demand for Sun Certification in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun Certification 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 Qualifications for the North West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certification
Rank 120 131 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing Sun Certification 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.083% 0.099% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.418% 0.481% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £355 £305
% change year-on-year
- +16.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Qualifications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
479 624 423
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 19.88% 20.49% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 305 213
Average daily rate £350 £375 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +28.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £527 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 30 41
Average hourly rate £24.50 £19.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.64% -22.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.74 £12.50 £15.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £22.00 £39.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Sun Certification Daily Rate Trend

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 North West region.

North West Sun Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Sun Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun Certification within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Manchester +15 2 - -
Cheshire - - - -
Sun Certification
England

Sun Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) XML
3 4 (66.67%) Apple
3 4 (66.67%) OOP
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 4 (66.67%) Content Management
3 4 (66.67%) Zend
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Android
3 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (50.00%) JSON
4 3 (50.00%) HTML5
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) Objective-C
4 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 3 (50.00%) HTTP
5 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (33.33%) IBM
5 2 (33.33%) Sun
5 2 (33.33%) RDF
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX
5 2 (33.33%) UML
5 2 (33.33%) OO

Sun Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) HTML5
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) EJB
3 2 (33.33%) JDBC
3 2 (33.33%) JSP
3 2 (33.33%) Servlets
3 2 (33.33%) XHTML
3 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Ant
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 2 (33.33%) PHPUnit
1 2 (33.33%) QUnit
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Android Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (33.33%) BBC
2 2 (33.33%) Smartphone
2 2 (33.33%) Semantic Web
2 2 (33.33%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Android
1 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) OOP
2 4 (66.67%) Content Management
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Test-First Development
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) RAD
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) RDF
4 2 (33.33%) Progressive Enhancement
4 2 (33.33%) UML
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
4 3 (50.00%) Objective-C
5 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Perl
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Apple
1 4 (66.67%) Zend
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Sun
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