Sun Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Sun
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring knowledge or experience of Sun products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sun over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 44 47
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Sun 1 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.36% 2.22% 1.85%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 6.25% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £600 - £586
% change year-on-year - - +53.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.06
Median hourly rate - £21.46 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +1.59%
75th Percentile - - £20.56
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - £21.46 £19.81
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +1.59%

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

Sun falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 164 176 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 59.42% 35.56% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 49 108
10th Percentile £296 £220 £185
25th Percentile £379 £350 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +17.06% -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £491
90th Percentile £641 £638 £568
East of England median daily rate £502 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 111 60
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% - -
75th Percentile £16.85 £21.42 £20.33
90th Percentile £21.46 £25.00 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
% change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Sun in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sun in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Sun in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sun in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Sun in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 1 £600 - 1
Sun
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Redfish
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow