Sun Certification Contracts in England

Sun Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Sun Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 - 634
Rank change year-on-year - - +145
Contract jobs citing Sun Certification 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% - 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.061% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £391 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.76%
75th Percentile £478 - £775
90th Percentile £506 - -
UK median daily rate £438 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +23.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Sun Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,147 11,382 12,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.92% 30.48% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,141 7,059 8,640
10th Percentile £283 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 537 991 638
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.62 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.99%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £40.94 £55.85
% change year-on-year -31.75% -26.70% +25.51%

Sun Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun Certification in England

Sun Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Sun Certification in England

Sun Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun Certification in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sun Certification in England

Sun Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun Certification in England

Sun Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
London - 4 £438 - 17
South East - 1 - - 46
Sun Certification
UK

Sun Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) 3D Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Re-Platforming Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) HATEOAS
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) Java EE
1 2 (40.00%) Java SE
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Struts
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Fintech
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) OCP
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Checkmarx