Sun Contracts in Central London

Sun
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sun over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 172 189
Rank change year-on-year +44 +17 -39
Contract jobs citing Sun 5 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.53% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile - £413 £191
25th Percentile £550 £522 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +69.74%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £588
90th Percentile - - £629
London median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +23.39%

All Vendors
Central London

Sun is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,051 1,522 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.59% 39.42% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 1,018 1,281
10th Percentile £300 £250 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.77%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £793 £738
London median daily rate £545 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -3.54% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.44 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £20.22 £13.88
Median hourly rate £18.93 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.00 £44.50
90th Percentile £25.05 £52.95 £50.75
London median hourly rate £24.34 £30.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.54% -13.57% +27.27%

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 25 April 2024. 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 London +40 5 £600 -7.69% 4
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
1 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (80.00%) Sybase ASE
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) Sybase DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (80.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) E-business
3 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (80.00%) Sybase
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware