Sun Contracts in the City of London

Sun
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 125 163
Rank change year-on-year +6 +38 +26
Contract jobs citing Sun 1 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £608 £550 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +67.47%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £700
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +73.33%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 775 945 1,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.39% 43.35% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 695 916
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +2.32%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £700
90th Percentile £751 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £25.77 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £30.10 £13.56 £20.42
Median hourly rate £38.58 £19.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.32% -5.95% -11.28%
75th Percentile £72.81 £23.75 £44.86
90th Percentile £126.25 £25.38 £53.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £19.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.96% -5.95% -20.27%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sun in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Sun in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sun in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Sun in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware