The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors 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.

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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 114 81 114
Rank change year-on-year
-33 +33
Contract jobs citing Sun 4 48 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.171% 1.537% 0.419%
As % of the Vendors category 0.375% 2.968% 0.904%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 7
Average daily rate £438 £323 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.65% -14.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £293 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £380 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £323 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.75% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +34.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1068 1617 1438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 45.56% 51.79% 46.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 739 697
Average daily rate £340 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 80 98
Average hourly rate £19.27 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.11% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.74 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £29.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Sun
England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Sun Jobs Demand Trend

Sun
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West Sun Daily Rate Histogram

Sun
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Manchester -9 2 £375 +1.35%
Merseyside - 2 £500 -
Sun
England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Solaris
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
3 3 (37.50%) AIX
3 3 (37.50%) HPUX
3 3 (37.50%) DB2
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) SAP
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) Informix
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Perl
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) EMC
4 2 (25.00%) SAN

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) XHTML
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) DHTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) EJB
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) JDBC
2 1 (12.50%) JSP
2 1 (12.50%) Servlets
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DB2
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Informix
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Network Support
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Celerra
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Solaris
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) AIX
2 3 (37.50%) HPUX
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) ERP
1 2 (25.00%) Project Management
1 2 (25.00%) Service Management
1 2 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (12.50%) Content Management
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) BPR
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
2 1 (12.50%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) OO
2 1 (12.50%) RAD
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Sun Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) EMC
3 2 (25.00%) Baan
3 2 (25.00%) JD Edwards
4 1 (12.50%) Veritas
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Brocade
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
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