Thames Valley Sun Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts within the Thames Valley 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 16 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 Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties 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 Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	45
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.818 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£384
% change on same period last year	-5.11 %
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	£31.19	£31.19
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	198	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.283 %	0.284 %
Daily rates quoted	35	25
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£405
Average daily rate	£377	£422
% change on same period last year	-10.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£36.44
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£38.11
% change on same period last year	-55.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£39.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.32	£24.16
% change on same period last year	+0.65 %
Sun South East

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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 6 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 6 (100.00 %) HP 2 5 (83.33 %) Solaris 3 4 (66.67 %) Finance 4 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere 4 1 (16.67 %) ESB 4 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 1 (16.67 %) WPS 4 1 (16.67 %) AS400 4 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (16.67 %) Linux 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows NT 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP

4 1 (16.67 %) IBM 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows 4 1 (16.67 %) AIX 4 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 (16.67 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere MQ 1 1 (16.67 %) WPS 1 1 (16.67 %) ESB 1 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere Message Broker
General 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Architect 2 2 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Architect 2 2 (33.33 %) Technical Architect 2 2 (33.33 %) Technical Lead 3 1 (16.67 %) Lead Architect 3 1 (16.67 %) Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) Applications Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 6 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 5 (83.33 %) Solaris 3 1 (16.67 %) Linux 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows NT 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 3 1 (16.67 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2	Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 6 (100.00 %) HP 2 1 (16.67 %) IBM