The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 21 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 Warrington 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank - - 11
Contract jobs citing Sun 0 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington - - 7.143%
As % of the Vendors category - - 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £228
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-6.81% -24.13%
All Vendors
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
74 54 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 57.81% 56.25% 60.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 24 19
Average daily rate £438 £355 £346
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.23% +2.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £229 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £443 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
Average hourly rate £13.75 £21.25 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.29% +11.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Sun
Cheshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Celerra
1 1 (100.00%) NAS

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (100.00%) Celerra
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade