The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 108 97 102
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +5
Contract jobs citing Sun 12 11 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.492% 0.417% 0.498%
As % of the Vendors category 1.088% 1.064% 1.150%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 9
Average daily rate £319 £320 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.31% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £292 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £418 £349
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £323 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.75% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1103 1034 1217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.19% 39.18% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 464 521
Average daily rate £370 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £212 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 51 56
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.70 £10.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Sun
UK

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -22 9 £319 -0.31%
Edinburgh +7 1 £400 -6.97%
Sun
UK

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 17 (65.38%) Java
1 17 (65.38%) Oracle
2 16 (61.54%) Finance
3 12 (46.15%) Spring
3 12 (46.15%) JSTL
3 12 (46.15%) HTML
3 12 (46.15%) J2EE
3 12 (46.15%) JSP
3 12 (46.15%) XML
3 12 (46.15%) UNIX
3 12 (46.15%) Linux
3 12 (46.15%) Eclipse
4 11 (42.31%) Windows
4 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
5 10 (38.46%) Hibernate
5 10 (38.46%) JSF
5 10 (38.46%) Maven
5 10 (38.46%) SQL
5 10 (38.46%) Servlets
5 10 (38.46%) Solaris
5 10 (38.46%) RDBMS
5 10 (38.46%) Sun Certification
6 9 (34.62%) JDeveloper
6 9 (34.62%) Struts
7 8 (30.77%) EJB
7 8 (30.77%) Perl
7 8 (30.77%) Banking
7 8 (30.77%) Shell Script
8 7 (26.92%) Investment Banking
8 7 (26.92%) VB

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 12 (46.15%) Spring
1 12 (46.15%) JSTL
1 12 (46.15%) HTML
1 12 (46.15%) J2EE
1 12 (46.15%) JSP
1 12 (46.15%) XML
2 10 (38.46%) Hibernate
2 10 (38.46%) JSF
2 10 (38.46%) Servlets
3 9 (34.62%) Struts
4 8 (30.77%) EJB
5 4 (15.38%) .NET
5 4 (15.38%) WebSphere
6 3 (11.54%) JMS
7 2 (7.692%) JAXB
7 2 (7.692%) CSS
7 2 (7.692%) JDBC
7 2 (7.692%) Tapestry
7 2 (7.692%) Ajax
7 2 (7.692%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.692%) IIS
3 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (3.846%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.846%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Fireworks
1 2 (7.692%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) SAN
2 1 (3.846%) NAS
2 1 (3.846%) Network Security
2 1 (3.846%) Firewall
2 1 (3.846%) SMS
2 1 (3.846%) WAN
2 1 (3.846%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.846%) DNS
2 1 (3.846%) Intranet
2 1 (3.846%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) RDBMS
2 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (11.54%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (3.846%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (3.846%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.846%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (3.846%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Eclipse
2 10 (38.46%) Maven
3 9 (34.62%) JDeveloper
4 3 (11.54%) Subversion
5 2 (7.692%) PVCS
5 2 (7.692%) Ant
5 2 (7.692%) JUnit
5 2 (7.692%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (7.692%) Firebug
6 1 (3.846%) Selenium
6 1 (3.846%) TortoiseSVN
6 1 (3.846%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.846%) Hudson
6 1 (3.846%) ClearQuest
6 1 (3.846%) ClearCase
6 1 (3.846%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Banking
3 7 (26.92%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.846%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Java Developer
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
1 11 (42.31%) Analyst
2 8 (30.77%) Java Analyst Programmer
2 8 (30.77%) Developer Analyst
2 8 (30.77%) Java Programmer
2 8 (30.77%) Analyst Programmer
2 8 (30.77%) Programmer
3 2 (7.692%) Test Analyst
3 2 (7.692%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.846%) Designer
4 1 (3.846%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (3.846%) Wintel Server Analyst
4 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.846%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (3.846%) Technical Tester
4 1 (3.846%) Development Specialist
4 1 (3.846%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) DBA
4 1 (3.846%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Derivative
2 3 (11.54%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (7.692%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (3.846%) CLARiiON
4 1 (3.846%) Symmetrix
4 1 (3.846%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) UNIX
1 12 (46.15%) Linux
2 11 (42.31%) Windows
3 10 (38.46%) Solaris
4 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (15.38%) AIX
5 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.846%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
2 5 (19.23%) Manual Testing
2 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
2 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
2 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
3 3 (11.54%) MVC
4 1 (3.846%) Unit Testing
4 1 (3.846%) Test Scripting
4 1 (3.846%) Matrix Management
4 1 (3.846%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (3.846%) Database Caching
4 1 (3.846%) Change Control
4 1 (3.846%) Capacity Management
4 1 (3.846%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.846%) Identity Management
4 1 (3.846%) Service Management
4 1 (3.846%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.846%) Change Management
4 1 (3.846%) Automated Testing
4 1 (3.846%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 10 (38.46%) SQL
4 8 (30.77%) Perl
4 8 (30.77%) Shell Script
5 7 (26.92%) VB
6 6 (23.08%) VBA
7 2 (7.692%) C#
7 2 (7.692%) C++
8 1 (3.846%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Sun Certification
2 1 (3.846%) CISA
2 1 (3.846%) CISSP
2 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (3.846%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.846%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) MetaFrame
2 1 (3.846%) vSphere
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.846%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Control-M
2 1 (3.846%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.846%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) IBM
3 5 (19.23%) HP
3 5 (19.23%) EMC
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
4 3 (11.54%) Citrix
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.692%) Intel
5 2 (7.692%) Sybase
5 2 (7.692%) InterSystems
6 1 (3.846%) Advent
6 1 (3.846%) Red Gate
6 1 (3.846%) VMware
6 1 (3.846%) Brocade
6 1 (3.846%) Embarcadero
6 1 (3.846%) NetApp
6 1 (3.846%) Cisco