Sun Contracts in Central London

Sun
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 130 166
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 +23
Contract jobs citing Sun 1 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.050% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.48% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile - £550 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% +36.84%
75th Percentile - £650 £700
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £300 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -42.86% -16.00% +4.17%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 899 1,038 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 44.99% 42.52% 39.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 764 1,017
10th Percentile £309 £303 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £752 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £549 £563
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £26.45 £12.75 £19.14
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.38 £20.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.75 £31.94
90th Percentile £100.00 £25.05 £53.05
London median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £30.63
% change year-on-year +21.85% -22.29% -12.50%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in Central London

Sun
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Sun in Central London

Sun
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of Westminster - 1 £580 -
Sun
London

Sun
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki