Sun Contracts
 
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 across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

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 330 271 241
Rank change year-on-year
-59 -30
Contract jobs citing Sun 216 383 445
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.458% 0.646% 0.739%
As % of the Vendors category 0.974% 1.391% 1.589%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 196 255
Average daily rate £400 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £341 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 12
Average hourly rate £20.00 £21.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.97% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.65 £18.22 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £41.70 £40.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 22169 27540 27997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.04% 46.46% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11827 14057 14005
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1214 1336 1586
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sun within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Sun Hourly Rate Trend

Sun
Top 30 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 UK 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
England -70 187 £400 +5.26%
London -25 109 £400 -15.34%
South East -26 24 £373 +6.42%
West Midlands +29 22 £308 -
City of London -8 20 £445 +4.70%
Scotland -14 13 £319 -0.31%
East Midlands +5 12 - -
Buckinghamshire -8 10 £425 +25.46%
Glasgow -13 10 £319 -0.31%
Worcestershire - 9 £250 -
Redditch - 8 £250 -
East of England +14 7 £375 +87.50%
Surrey +18 4 £400 -3.03%
North East +9 4 £260 -41.89%
Tyne and Wear +7 4 £260 -35.80%
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 4 £260 -35.80%
Berkshire -1 4 £272 -9.50%
Warwickshire -1 4 - -
North West -37 4 £438 +35.65%
Suffolk - 4 £460 -
Shropshire - 4 - -
Telford - 4 - -
Rugby - 4 - -
High Wycombe - 4 - -
South West +8 3 £310 -13.88%
Hammersmith +3 3 £255 -
Milton Keynes -12 3 £425 +25.46%
Hampshire -12 3 £369 -1.66%
Amersham - 3 - -
Derbyshire +16 2 - -

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 278 (60.70%) Solaris
2 243 (53.06%) UNIX
3 216 (47.16%) Linux
4 214 (46.72%) Oracle
5 156 (34.06%) Finance
6 128 (27.95%) SAN
7 126 (27.51%) HP
8 121 (26.42%) Windows
9 118 (25.76%) Red Hat
10 103 (22.49%) Veritas
11 102 (22.27%) Banking
12 101 (22.05%) VMware
13 99 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 97 (21.18%) Java
14 97 (21.18%) Perl
15 89 (19.43%) SQL
16 85 (18.56%) Investment Banking
17 83 (18.12%) Shell Script
18 81 (17.69%) EMC
19 78 (17.03%) ITIL
20 76 (16.59%) AIX
20 76 (16.59%) IBM
21 65 (14.19%) VMware Infrastructure
22 62 (13.54%) Cisco
22 62 (13.54%) Sun Certification
23 51 (11.14%) HPUX
23 51 (11.14%) DNS
24 50 (10.92%) Veritas Volume Manager
25 49 (10.70%) Migration
26 47 (10.26%) XML

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 47 (10.26%) XML
2 41 (8.952%) HTML
3 38 (8.297%) J2EE
4 34 (7.424%) JSP
4 34 (7.424%) WebSphere
5 27 (5.895%) Servlets
6 21 (4.585%) Spring
6 21 (4.585%) EJB
7 17 (3.712%) CSS
7 17 (3.712%) JDBC
8 16 (3.493%) Middleware
9 15 (3.275%) XHTML
9 15 (3.275%) Web Services
10 13 (2.838%) Hibernate
10 13 (2.838%) JSTL
11 12 (2.620%) .NET
11 12 (2.620%) JSF
12 11 (2.402%) Struts
13 9 (1.965%) SOAP
14 8 (1.747%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 30 (6.550%) Apache
2 26 (5.677%) SharePoint
3 20 (4.367%) WebLogic
4 18 (3.930%) WebSphere Application Server
4 18 (3.930%) MS Exchange
4 18 (3.930%) Tomcat
4 18 (3.930%) GlassFish
5 13 (2.838%) Oracle Application Server
6 12 (2.620%) IIS
7 8 (1.747%) Amazon AWS
7 8 (1.747%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (1.747%) Exchange Server 2003
8 7 (1.528%) Exchange Server 5.5
8 7 (1.528%) Windows Azure
9 6 (1.310%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (1.310%) FileNet
10 5 (1.092%) Exchange Server 2000
10 5 (1.092%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (1.092%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.873%) Lync
Applications
1 14 (3.057%) MS Excel
2 13 (2.838%) MS Office
3 5 (1.092%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.437%) Fireworks
4 2 (0.437%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.437%) MS Project
4 2 (0.437%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.873%) Taleo
2 3 (0.655%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.655%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (0.437%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.437%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.437%) SAP SM
3 2 (0.437%) Agresso
3 2 (0.437%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.437%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.437%) RMDS
4 1 (0.218%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 128 (27.95%) SAN
2 51 (11.14%) DNS
3 46 (10.04%) Firewall
4 42 (9.170%) NAS
5 35 (7.642%) TCP/IP
6 29 (6.332%) LDAP
7 27 (5.895%) Internet
8 26 (5.677%) DHCP
9 11 (2.402%) SMTP
10 10 (2.183%) WAN
11 9 (1.965%) MPLS
12 8 (1.747%) SSL
12 8 (1.747%) SNMP
13 7 (1.528%) 2G
13 7 (1.528%) VPN
13 7 (1.528%) LAN
13 7 (1.528%) IPv4
13 7 (1.528%) 3G
13 7 (1.528%) X.500
14 6 (1.310%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.734%) SQL Server
2 26 (5.677%) RDBMS
3 21 (4.585%) Oracle 11g
3 21 (4.585%) DB2
4 20 (4.367%) Oracle Exadata
5 18 (3.930%) Oracle 10g
6 17 (3.712%) Oracle 8/8i
7 8 (1.747%) SQL Server 2008
7 8 (1.747%) Oracle 9i
8 7 (1.528%) SQL Server 2005
9 6 (1.310%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.873%) MySQL
11 3 (0.655%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.655%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.655%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.655%) SQL Server 2000
12 2 (0.437%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.437%) VLDB
12 2 (0.437%) Informix
12 2 (0.437%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (6.550%) Eclipse
2 15 (3.275%) JUnit
3 13 (2.838%) Maven
4 12 (2.620%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 10 (2.183%) JDeveloper
6 7 (1.528%) Subversion
7 6 (1.310%) Ant
8 5 (1.092%) ClearCase
9 3 (0.655%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.655%) Hudson
9 3 (0.655%) Selenium
10 2 (0.437%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.437%) Firebug
10 2 (0.437%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.437%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.437%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.437%) WinDbg
10 2 (0.437%) PVCS
10 2 (0.437%) NetBeans
10 2 (0.437%) CruiseControl
General
1 156 (34.06%) Finance
2 102 (22.27%) Banking
3 85 (18.56%) Investment Banking
4 29 (6.332%) Telecoms
5 14 (3.057%) Retail
6 10 (2.183%) Financial Institution
6 10 (2.183%) General Ledger
7 9 (1.965%) Marketing
8 7 (1.528%) Back Office
9 5 (1.092%) Law
9 5 (1.092%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.873%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.873%) Front Office
10 4 (0.873%) Legal
11 2 (0.437%) French Language
11 2 (0.437%) German Language
11 2 (0.437%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.437%) Publishing
11 2 (0.437%) Automotive
12 1 (0.218%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 75 (16.38%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 66 (14.41%) Administrator
3 55 (12.01%) Analyst
4 52 (11.35%) UNIX Administrator
5 46 (10.04%) Developer
5 46 (10.04%) Systems Administrator
6 42 (9.170%) Architect
7 27 (5.895%) UNIX Engineer
8 18 (3.930%) Java Developer
8 18 (3.930%) Infrastructure Architect
9 17 (3.712%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.493%) Consultant
11 15 (3.275%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (2.838%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.620%) Technical Specialist
13 12 (2.620%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.402%) WebSphere Developer
14 11 (2.402%) Support Analyst
14 11 (2.402%) Tester
15 10 (2.183%) UNIX Support
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.952%) Clustering
2 34 (7.424%) Symmetrix DMX
3 23 (5.022%) CLARiiON
4 19 (4.148%) Wiki
5 17 (3.712%) Derivative
6 12 (2.620%) Computer Science
7 11 (2.402%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.528%) PaaS
8 7 (1.528%) IaaS
9 6 (1.310%) Celerra
9 6 (1.310%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.310%) Open Source
9 6 (1.310%) Blackberry
9 6 (1.310%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.310%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (1.310%) Cryptography
10 5 (1.092%) Replication
10 5 (1.092%) Symmetrix
11 4 (0.873%) EqualLogic
11 4 (0.873%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 278 (60.70%) Solaris
2 243 (53.06%) UNIX
3 216 (47.16%) Linux
4 121 (26.42%) Windows
5 99 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 76 (16.59%) AIX
7 51 (11.14%) HPUX
8 37 (8.079%) SUSE
9 25 (5.459%) Windows Server 2003
10 24 (5.240%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (3.493%) Windows XP
12 11 (2.402%) Windows 2000
13 7 (1.528%) Windows 7
14 5 (1.092%) Windows 2000 Server
14 5 (1.092%) CentOS
15 4 (0.873%) Windows NT
16 3 (0.655%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.655%) VMS
16 3 (0.655%) zOS
17 2 (0.437%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (17.03%) ITIL
2 49 (10.70%) Migration
3 43 (9.389%) Change Management
4 40 (8.734%) Problem Management
5 28 (6.114%) RDF
6 24 (5.240%) Configuration Management
7 22 (4.803%) Load Balancing
8 21 (4.585%) Incident Management
8 21 (4.585%) Project Management
9 20 (4.367%) Software Deployment
10 19 (4.148%) UML
11 17 (3.712%) Infrastructure Management
11 17 (3.712%) Workflow
11 17 (3.712%) OO
12 16 (3.493%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (3.275%) Test Scripting
13 15 (3.275%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (3.275%) Service Management
13 15 (3.275%) MVC
13 15 (3.275%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 97 (21.18%) Java
1 97 (21.18%) Perl
2 89 (19.43%) SQL
3 83 (18.12%) Shell Script
4 39 (8.515%) JavaScript
5 33 (7.205%) Korn
6 18 (3.930%) VB
7 17 (3.712%) Bash shell
8 16 (3.493%) C++
9 15 (3.275%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.528%) Python
10 7 (1.528%) VBA
10 7 (1.528%) C#
10 7 (1.528%) PHP
11 6 (1.310%) C-shell
11 6 (1.310%) ABAP
12 5 (1.092%) VBScript
12 5 (1.092%) C
13 2 (0.437%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.437%) AWK
Qualifications
1 62 (13.54%) Sun Certification
2 32 (6.987%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.803%) SCSA
3 22 (4.803%) Degree
4 21 (4.585%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.620%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.402%) MCSE
6 11 (2.402%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.965%) CCNA
7 9 (1.965%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.747%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (1.528%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.310%) OCA
11 5 (1.092%) ISEB
12 4 (0.873%) RHCE
12 4 (0.873%) MCITP
13 3 (0.655%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.655%) MCTS
13 3 (0.655%) MCP
13 3 (0.655%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.022%) SLA
2 12 (2.620%) QA
3 4 (0.873%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.437%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.437%) ISO/IEC 17799
5 1 (0.218%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.218%) GAAP
System Software
1 65 (14.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (10.92%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 45 (9.825%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 29 (6.332%) Active Directory
5 23 (5.022%) VMware ESX
6 16 (3.493%) NFS
6 16 (3.493%) Veritas File System
7 15 (3.275%) vSphere
8 11 (2.402%) Samba
9 10 (2.183%) Sendmail
9 10 (2.183%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (1.528%) XenApp
11 6 (1.310%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.873%) Cronacle
12 4 (0.873%) Hyper-V
12 4 (0.873%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 3 (0.655%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.437%) Xen
14 2 (0.437%) ISA Server
14 2 (0.437%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 27 (5.895%) NetBackup
2 13 (2.838%) Backup Exec
3 7 (1.528%) OpenView
3 7 (1.528%) Legato
3 7 (1.528%) Tivoli
4 6 (1.310%) HP SIM
4 6 (1.310%) HP Quality Center
4 6 (1.310%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (1.092%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (1.092%) Puppet
5 5 (1.092%) SCOM
5 5 (1.092%) EMC NetWorker
6 4 (0.873%) HP Data Protector
6 4 (0.873%) Control-M
7 3 (0.655%) Netcool
7 3 (0.655%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (0.655%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 3 (0.655%) ServiceCenter
8 2 (0.437%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (0.437%) SCCM
Vendors
1 214 (46.72%) Oracle
2 126 (27.51%) HP
3 118 (25.76%) Red Hat
4 103 (22.49%) Veritas
5 101 (22.05%) VMware
6 81 (17.69%) EMC
7 76 (16.59%) IBM
8 62 (13.54%) Cisco
9 46 (10.04%) Microsoft
10 42 (9.170%) Sybase
11 38 (8.297%) Dell
12 23 (5.022%) NetApp
13 20 (4.367%) Citrix
14 18 (3.930%) SAP
15 16 (3.493%) StorageTek
15 16 (3.493%) F5
16 13 (2.838%) Murex
16 13 (2.838%) Compaq
17 12 (2.620%) Symantec
18 10 (2.183%) McAfee
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