Sun Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 22 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 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.

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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 205 179 172
Rank change year-on-year
-26 -7
Contract jobs citing Sun 24 67 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.303% 0.648% 0.682%
As % of the Vendors category 0.603% 1.312% 1.394%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 27
Average daily rate £373 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £285 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £435 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £341 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
Average hourly rate £27.00 £21.50 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.58% +8.86%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 3980 5105 5023
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.24% 49.35% 48.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2222 1977
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 390 415
Average hourly rate £19.63 £17.50 £21.65
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.14% -19.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.31 £11.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Sun
England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Buckinghamshire -8 10 £425 +25.46%
Surrey +18 4 £400 -3.03%
Berkshire -1 4 £272 -9.50%
Hampshire -12 3 £369 -1.66%
West Sussex +13 2 £323 -0.76%
Middlesex +3 1 £475 +35.71%
Sun
England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 31 (51.67%) Oracle
2 30 (50.00%) Solaris
3 25 (41.67%) Windows
3 25 (41.67%) HP
4 22 (36.67%) UNIX
5 17 (28.33%) Java
5 17 (28.33%) SAN
6 15 (25.00%) SQL
7 13 (21.67%) Shell Script
8 12 (20.00%) Citrix
8 12 (20.00%) Firewall
8 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
8 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 12 (20.00%) NAS
9 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (18.33%) Cisco
9 11 (18.33%) Linux
10 10 (16.67%) HPUX
10 10 (16.67%) StorageTek
10 10 (16.67%) Telecoms
11 9 (15.00%) Clustering
11 9 (15.00%) NetApp
11 9 (15.00%) AIX
11 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
12 8 (13.33%) Veritas
12 8 (13.33%) Sun Certification
12 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
12 8 (13.33%) DNS
12 8 (13.33%) NetBackup
12 8 (13.33%) VMware

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 7 (11.67%) J2EE
2 6 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 5 (8.333%) Spring
3 5 (8.333%) SOAP
4 4 (6.667%) Web Services
5 3 (5.000%) XML
5 3 (5.000%) JSP
5 3 (5.000%) JMS
6 2 (3.333%) WAP
6 2 (3.333%) Servlets
6 2 (3.333%) JDBC
6 2 (3.333%) ASP
6 2 (3.333%) Middleware
6 2 (3.333%) SAP Basis
7 1 (1.667%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.667%) HTML5
7 1 (1.667%) LAMP
7 1 (1.667%) Struts
7 1 (1.667%) EJB
7 1 (1.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (11.67%) Apache
2 3 (5.000%) Lync
2 3 (5.000%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (5.000%) MS Exchange
3 2 (3.333%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (1.667%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.667%) Site Server
4 1 (1.667%) IIS
4 1 (1.667%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.667%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.000%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (3.333%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.33%) SAN
2 12 (20.00%) Firewall
2 12 (20.00%) NAS
3 8 (13.33%) DNS
4 7 (11.67%) Internet
5 6 (10.00%) 3G
5 6 (10.00%) IPv4
5 6 (10.00%) 2G
6 5 (8.333%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (8.333%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (8.333%) NetScreen
7 3 (5.000%) iSCSI
7 3 (5.000%) SMTP
8 2 (3.333%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.667%) Network Security
9 1 (1.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (3.333%) VLDB
2 2 (3.333%) OLTP
2 2 (3.333%) SAP BW
2 2 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.667%) MySQL
3 1 (1.667%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 3 (5.000%) Subversion
1 3 (5.000%) Ant
1 3 (5.000%) ClearCase
2 2 (3.333%) JUnit
2 2 (3.333%) CruiseControl
3 1 (1.667%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.667%) Selenium
3 1 (1.667%) RequisitePro
3 1 (1.667%) Rational Rose
General
1 10 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 7 (11.67%) Finance
3 3 (5.000%) Retail
4 1 (1.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Architect
2 10 (16.67%) Administrator
3 8 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (11.67%) UNIX Administrator
5 6 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 5 (8.333%) OSS Architect
6 5 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (6.667%) Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Hardware Engineer
7 4 (6.667%) Implementation Manager
7 4 (6.667%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (6.667%) EMC Engineer
8 3 (5.000%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 3 (5.000%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.000%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.333%) Analyst
9 2 (3.333%) Consultant
9 2 (3.333%) Server Engineer
9 2 (3.333%) Storage Specialist
9 2 (3.333%) Data Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Clustering
2 6 (10.00%) Cryptography
3 4 (6.667%) EqualLogic
4 3 (5.000%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.333%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.333%) Mathematics
5 2 (3.333%) Computer Science
5 2 (3.333%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.333%) iSeries
5 2 (3.333%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.667%) Open Source
6 1 (1.667%) LPAR
6 1 (1.667%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.667%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 30 (50.00%) Solaris
2 25 (41.67%) Windows
3 22 (36.67%) UNIX
4 11 (18.33%) Linux
5 10 (16.67%) HPUX
6 9 (15.00%) AIX
7 7 (11.67%) Windows XP
8 5 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (5.000%) Windows 7
9 3 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (5.000%) Windows NT
10 1 (1.667%) OpenBSD
10 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.667%) Windows 2000
10 1 (1.667%) FreeBSD
10 1 (1.667%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (10.00%) Project Management
3 5 (8.333%) TOGAF
3 5 (8.333%) Resource Management
3 5 (8.333%) Migration
3 5 (8.333%) Configuration Management
4 4 (6.667%) UML
4 4 (6.667%) Incident Management
5 2 (3.333%) SOA
5 2 (3.333%) ERP
5 2 (3.333%) E-Commerce
5 2 (3.333%) PRINCE2
5 2 (3.333%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (3.333%) PRINCE
5 2 (3.333%) Benchmarking
5 2 (3.333%) Business Continuity
5 2 (3.333%) Zachman Framework
5 2 (3.333%) Project Planning
5 2 (3.333%) Data Migration
5 2 (3.333%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) Java
2 15 (25.00%) SQL
3 13 (21.67%) Shell Script
4 7 (11.67%) Perl
5 4 (6.667%) Korn
6 3 (5.000%) PHP
6 3 (5.000%) VB
6 3 (5.000%) C++
7 2 (3.333%) Python
7 2 (3.333%) ABAP
7 2 (3.333%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.333%) C
7 2 (3.333%) AWK
7 2 (3.333%) Bourne shell
7 2 (3.333%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.667%) VB6
8 1 (1.667%) NATURAL
8 1 (1.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) Sun Certification
3 5 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.333%) MCSE
4 4 (6.667%) ISEB
4 4 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.667%) CCNA
4 4 (6.667%) Degree
4 4 (6.667%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.000%) MCTS
5 3 (5.000%) CCSP
5 3 (5.000%) MCP
6 2 (3.333%) MCITP
7 1 (1.667%) CITP
7 1 (1.667%) MBCS
7 1 (1.667%) SCSA
7 1 (1.667%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.667%) SCWCD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.000%) QA
2 1 (1.667%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Sendmail
2 4 (6.667%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 4 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.667%) vSphere
2 4 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.000%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.000%) XenApp
3 3 (5.000%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (5.000%) Veritas File System
4 2 (3.333%) NFS
4 2 (3.333%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.667%) VirtualBox
5 1 (1.667%) Postfix
5 1 (1.667%) OpenSSO
5 1 (1.667%) Xen
5 1 (1.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) NetBackup
2 7 (11.67%) OpenView
3 6 (10.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (6.667%) Tivoli
5 3 (5.000%) HP SIM
5 3 (5.000%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (3.333%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (3.333%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (1.667%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (1.667%) SCCM
7 1 (1.667%) SCOM
7 1 (1.667%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 31 (51.67%) Oracle
2 25 (41.67%) HP
3 12 (20.00%) Citrix
4 11 (18.33%) Cisco
5 10 (16.67%) StorageTek
6 9 (15.00%) NetApp
7 8 (13.33%) Veritas
7 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
7 8 (13.33%) VMware
8 7 (11.67%) EMC
8 7 (11.67%) Red Hat
9 6 (10.00%) SAP
9 6 (10.00%) Juniper
9 6 (10.00%) McAfee
9 6 (10.00%) IBM
9 6 (10.00%) Blue Coat
10 4 (6.667%) Symantec
10 4 (6.667%) Dell
11 2 (3.333%) JBoss
11 2 (3.333%) BMC
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