The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Slough 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 Slough 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 - - 31
Contract jobs citing Sun 0 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough - - 1.543%
As % of the Vendors category - - 3.401%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £225
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 - - £10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
123 101 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 51.04% 49.03% 45.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 50 75
Average daily rate £375 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £138
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 12
Average hourly rate £22.75 £14.75 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.23% -53.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.60 £11.60 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £29.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Sun
Berkshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) WAP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Redknee
1 2 (100.00%) Fault Management
1 2 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) WAP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Fault Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Redknee