The first table below looks at the demand for Sun Certification in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 219 240 245
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +5
Contract jobs citing Sun Certification 6 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.074% 0.020% 0.085%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.294% 0.092% 0.400%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
Average daily rate - £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £355 £305
% change year-on-year
- +16.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Qualifications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2040 2174 2251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 25.24% 21.64% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 955 944
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 122 212
Average hourly rate £21.00 £21.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.32% -4.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.35 £13.00 £11.01
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £40.00
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hampshire -6 3 - -
Berkshire - 3 - -
Surrey - - - -
Sun Certification
England

Sun Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 10 (76.92%) Sun
2 9 (69.23%) Oracle
3 8 (61.54%) Java
4 6 (46.15%) Degree
5 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
5 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
5 5 (38.46%) Web Services
6 4 (30.77%) Solaris
6 4 (30.77%) JSP
6 4 (30.77%) SQL
6 4 (30.77%) J2EE
6 4 (30.77%) NetBackup
6 4 (30.77%) TDD
6 4 (30.77%) Spring
7 3 (23.08%) JSF
7 3 (23.08%) Maven
7 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) GlassFish
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
7 3 (23.08%) JDBC
7 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (23.08%) PKI
7 3 (23.08%) EJB 3.0
7 3 (23.08%) Hudson
7 3 (23.08%) Apache Continuum
7 3 (23.08%) RichFaces
7 3 (23.08%) EJB
7 3 (23.08%) Ant
7 3 (23.08%) JUnit

Sun Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 (38.46%) Web Services
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) J2EE
2 4 (30.77%) JSP
3 3 (23.08%) EJB
3 3 (23.08%) EJB 3.0
3 3 (23.08%) RichFaces
3 3 (23.08%) JSF
3 3 (23.08%) XML
3 3 (23.08%) JMS
3 3 (23.08%) JDBC
4 2 (15.38%) Servlets
4 2 (15.38%) Struts
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
5 1 (7.692%) .NET
5 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.692%) CSS
5 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (7.692%) HTML5
5 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) GlassFish
2 1 (7.692%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Kerberos
2 2 (15.38%) SAN
3 1 (7.692%) Internet
3 1 (7.692%) NAS
3 1 (7.692%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) OLTP
2 2 (15.38%) VLDB
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Ant
1 3 (23.08%) JUnit
1 3 (23.08%) Maven
1 3 (23.08%) Hudson
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Continuum
2 2 (15.38%) CruiseControl
2 2 (15.38%) Subversion
3 1 (7.692%) Jasmine
3 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
3 1 (7.692%) ClearCase
3 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.692%) Log4j
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Solaris Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Java Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Software Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
2 3 (23.08%) N-Tier
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
3 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
3 2 (15.38%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Solaris
2 3 (23.08%) UNIX
3 2 (15.38%) HPUX
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) TDD
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
2 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (23.08%) OOP
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
3 2 (15.38%) Benchmarking
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) UML
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.692%) System Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Time Management
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL
4 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.692%) Code Coverage
4 1 (7.692%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) AWK
3 2 (15.38%) Korn
3 2 (15.38%) Bourne shell
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.692%) CITP
3 1 (7.692%) MCSE
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.692%) OCP
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (7.692%) SCWCD
3 1 (7.692%) MBCS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Veritas File System
2 1 (7.692%) NFS
2 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) NetBackup
2 2 (15.38%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Sun
2 9 (69.23%) Oracle
3 3 (23.08%) Veritas
4 2 (15.38%) BMC
5 1 (7.692%) HP
5 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.692%) VMware
5 1 (7.692%) Serena
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