Sun Contracts in England

Sun
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 471 497 536
Rank change year-on-year +26 +39 +138
Contract jobs citing Sun 14 45 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.29% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 28 87
10th Percentile £210 £244 £463
25th Percentile £275 £250 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £325 £600
Median % change year-on-year +78.46% -45.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £563 £663
90th Percentile £745 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £540 £325 £600
% change year-on-year +66.15% -45.83% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 11
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate - £21.46 £19.81
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +1.59%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in England

Sun
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Sun in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sun in England

Sun
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun in England

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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 within the England 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
London +30 7 £300 -42.86% 54
North of England +21 4 £725 +126.56% 14
Yorkshire +8 2 £700 +118.75% 10
North West - 2 £750 - 4
South West +46 1 - - 14
East of England +20 1 £600 - 4
Sun
UK

Sun
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 (14.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Infor SunSystems
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) BGP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SNMP
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
1 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Data Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Data Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Migration Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Cabling Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) jQuery
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) Bootstrap
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) J2EE
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Sass
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 2 (14.29%) VML
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (28.57%) Replication
3 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (21.43%) Mainframe
4 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) EPoS
5 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
5 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (28.57%) HPUX
4 4 (28.57%) Solaris
5 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile
1 4 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (28.57%) High Availability
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
2 3 (21.43%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Thinking
3 2 (14.29%) Data Management
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) ITSM
3 2 (14.29%) MVC
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Service Management
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C-shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware
1 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
2 1 (7.14%) Nagios
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 3 (21.43%) Unisys
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Adobe
4 1 (7.14%) Arista
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Dell
4 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.14%) Sitecore
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk