The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 108 95 81
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -14
Contract jobs citing Sun 2 17 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.108% 0.761% 0.929%
As % of the Vendors category 0.232% 1.655% 2.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 5
Average daily rate £263 £318 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.32% -18.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -24.13%
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
863 1027 734
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 46.45% 45.97% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 516 301
Average daily rate £320 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 76 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.90% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.75 £36.50
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
South Yorkshire +1 1 £263 -15.32%
West Yorkshire -1 1 - -
Sun
England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 18 (85.71%) Solaris
2 11 (52.38%) ITIL
2 11 (52.38%) GlassFish
3 10 (47.62%) Java
4 9 (42.86%) Oracle
5 8 (38.10%) Internet
6 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
6 7 (33.33%) Process Management
7 6 (28.57%) Finance
7 6 (28.57%) PRINCE2
7 6 (28.57%) UNIX
8 5 (23.81%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (23.81%) Oracle 9i
8 5 (23.81%) Oracle 10g
8 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
9 4 (19.05%) Web Services
9 4 (19.05%) Windows
9 4 (19.05%) SQL
9 4 (19.05%) Firewall
9 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
10 3 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
10 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
10 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
10 3 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
10 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (14.29%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
10 3 (14.29%) Linux
10 3 (14.29%) LDAP

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 4 (19.05%) Web Services
2 2 (9.524%) XML
2 2 (9.524%) HTML
2 2 (9.524%) J2EE
2 2 (9.524%) CSS
2 2 (9.524%) JDBC
2 2 (9.524%) JSP
2 2 (9.524%) WebSphere
2 2 (9.524%) SPML
3 1 (4.762%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 11 (52.38%) GlassFish
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (9.524%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (4.762%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Internet
2 4 (19.05%) Firewall
3 3 (14.29%) LDAP
3 3 (14.29%) WAN
3 3 (14.29%) VPN
3 3 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (9.524%) SSL
5 1 (4.762%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.762%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (4.762%) Network Security
5 1 (4.762%) DHCP
5 1 (4.762%) NetScreen
5 1 (4.762%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle 8/8i
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle 9i
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Eclipse
1 2 (9.524%) NetBeans
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Retail
3 1 (4.762%) Banking
3 1 (4.762%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Administrator
1 4 (19.05%) Technical Specialist
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (9.524%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Web Administrator
3 2 (9.524%) Server Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Middleware Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Operations Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.762%) Beowulf
2 1 (4.762%) Grid Computing
2 1 (4.762%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 18 (85.71%) Solaris
2 6 (28.57%) UNIX
3 4 (19.05%) Windows
4 3 (14.29%) Linux
5 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) ITIL
2 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 7 (33.33%) Process Management
3 6 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
5 2 (9.524%) OOP
5 2 (9.524%) OO
5 2 (9.524%) Incident Management
5 2 (9.524%) Performance Management
5 2 (9.524%) Software Architecture
5 2 (9.524%) Identity Management
5 2 (9.524%) Workflow
5 2 (9.524%) Service Management
5 2 (9.524%) Quality Management
5 2 (9.524%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.762%) Perl
4 1 (4.762%) PHP
4 1 (4.762%) VB
4 1 (4.762%) C
4 1 (4.762%) C++
4 1 (4.762%) Python
4 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Samba
1 1 (4.762%) VMware ESX
1 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.762%) Sendmail
1 1 (4.762%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (4.762%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 3 (14.29%) HP
3 3 (14.29%) IBM
4 2 (9.524%) NetApp
4 2 (9.524%) F5
5 1 (4.762%) Blue Coat
5 1 (4.762%) VMware
5 1 (4.762%) Apple
5 1 (4.762%) Cisco
5 1 (4.762%) Dell
5 1 (4.762%) Juniper
5 1 (4.762%) BMC
5 1 (4.762%) Veritas
5 1 (4.762%) McAfee