The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun 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 Vendors for the West Sussex 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 40 51 48
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -3
Contract jobs citing Sun 3 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.794% 0.475% 0.648%
As % of the Vendors category 1.456% 1.107% 1.435%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £345 £325 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.15% -35.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £25.25 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-20.79% -12.93%
All Vendors
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
206 271 209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 54.50% 42.88% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 133 90
Average daily rate £375 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £494 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 21
Average hourly rate £25.75 £14.90 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.81% -25.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.81 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.80 £29.85 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Sun
South East

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex Sun Daily Rate Trend

Sun
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Sun across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex 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
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Job
Vacancies
Worthing - 3 £345 -
Sun
South East

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
2 4 (80.00%) SAP
3 3 (60.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) NetApp
4 2 (40.00%) StorageTek
4 2 (40.00%) SAP BW
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) ABAP
4 2 (40.00%) Symantec
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (40.00%) SAP Basis
4 2 (40.00%) MCITP
4 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (20.00%) MS Office
5 1 (20.00%) AIX
5 1 (20.00%) UNIX
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (40.00%) SAP Basis
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SAP BW
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Database Analyst
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) SAP
3 3 (60.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) NetApp
4 2 (40.00%) StorageTek
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Symantec
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) webMethods