Nottinghamshire Sun Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the Nottinghamshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London County Antrim Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	34
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.242 %	3.158 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£380
% change on same period last year	-5.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.25	£31.02
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Vendors Nottinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	161	190
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.227 %	0.192 %
Daily rates quoted	31	35
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£329
Average daily rate	£381	£337
% change on same period last year	+13.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.06	£20.56
Average hourly rate	£16.10	£21.24
% change on same period last year	-24.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.14	£21.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
Sun East Midlands

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 Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

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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 Nottinghamshire region.

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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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottingham	-3	2	-	-

Sun East Midlands

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Clustering 2 1 (33.33 %) QA 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 1 (33.33 %) OO 2 1 (33.33 %) NFS 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Sun Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS

2 1 (33.33 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 1 (33.33 %) Shell Script

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) XML	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 1 1 (33.33 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) NFS	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS