Sun Contracts in England

Sun
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 543 671
Rank change year-on-year +53 +128 -76
Contract jobs citing Sun 45 120 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.57% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 90 66
10th Percentile £244 £450 £363
25th Percentile £250 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £563 £663 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £325 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -45.83% +4.35% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £19.06 £18.75
Median hourly rate £21.46 £19.81 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +1.59% -18.75%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £20.25
90th Percentile - - £20.56
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £19.81 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +1.59% -18.75%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

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

Sun
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
London +29 15 £525 -16.00% 14
South East +38 13 £250 - 20
East of England +15 11 - - 3
Midlands +18 3 - - 3
West Midlands +26 2 - - 3
North of England +26 2 £320 -39.62% 12
Yorkshire +20 2 £320 - 3
East Midlands +17 1 - -
South West - 1 £725 - 8
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 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.67%) AWS
2 3 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (2.22%) Azure
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) DB2
1 4 (8.89%) RDBMS
1 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
1 4 (8.89%) Sybase ASE
2 2 (4.44%) Informix
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
1 3 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 20 (44.44%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Arabic Language
4 4 (8.89%) French Language
4 4 (8.89%) German Language
4 4 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Spanish Language
5 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Analyst
2 12 (26.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 12 (26.67%) Service Analyst
2 12 (26.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 11 (24.44%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) DBA
4 5 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Help Desk Technician
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) IT Technician
6 3 (6.67%) Change Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Sybase DBA
7 2 (4.44%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Informix DBA
7 2 (4.44%) Service Desk Technician
7 2 (4.44%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) YAML
2 1 (2.22%) Bokeh
2 1 (2.22%) Django
2 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.22%) Flask
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) Node.js
2 1 (2.22%) OAuth
2 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.22%) Pandas
2 1 (2.22%) pytest
2 1 (2.22%) React
2 1 (2.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Replication
2 4 (8.89%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.22%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.22%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Linux
2 8 (17.78%) Windows
3 6 (13.33%) Unix
4 4 (8.89%) Android
4 4 (8.89%) Apple iOS
4 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
4 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
5 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.44%) HPUX
6 2 (4.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.00%) ITIL
2 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (13.33%) Incident Management
3 6 (13.33%) Migration
3 6 (13.33%) Problem Management
3 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
4 5 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
5 4 (8.89%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (8.89%) Data Management
5 4 (8.89%) DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (8.89%) IT Strategy
5 4 (8.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (8.89%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 4 (8.89%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (8.89%) Task Automation
5 4 (8.89%) Two-Factor Authentication
5 4 (8.89%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) Perl
2 7 (15.56%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.67%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Korn
4 3 (6.67%) Ruby
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 12 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (24.44%) ACCA
2 11 (24.44%) CIMA
3 6 (13.33%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Dell Certification
4 2 (4.44%) MCP
5 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) SLA
2 4 (8.89%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) Ceph
3 2 (4.44%) Docker
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.44%) vSphere
4 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Ansible
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.67%) Puppet
3 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.44%) Pacemaker
4 2 (4.44%) Podman
4 2 (4.44%) Terraform
5 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) ServiceNow
2 6 (13.33%) IBM
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.89%) Avaya
4 4 (8.89%) Citrix
4 4 (8.89%) Ivanti
4 4 (8.89%) Oracle
4 4 (8.89%) SAP
4 4 (8.89%) Sybase
4 4 (8.89%) Veritas
5 3 (6.67%) Dell
5 3 (6.67%) HP
5 3 (6.67%) TOWER Software
5 3 (6.67%) VMware
6 2 (4.44%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.22%) Confluent
7 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.22%) Databricks
7 1 (2.22%) Intel