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 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 452 500 530
Rank change year-on-year +48 +30 +129
Contract jobs citing Sun 18 39 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.25% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 86
10th Percentile £149 - £456
25th Percentile £199 £250 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £325 £600
Median % change year-on-year +78.46% -45.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £624 £602 £663
90th Percentile £725 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £540 £325 £600
% change year-on-year +66.15% -45.83% +6.67%
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 11,545 15,476 20,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,438 9,830 14,055
10th Percentile £280 £263 £263
25th Percentile £408 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -3.18% +1.90%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 472 1,015 592
10th Percentile £14.46 £12.13 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.41 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.73 £22.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.78% -41.56% +79.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +17.14% -48.24% +97.67%

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 12 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 12 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 +34 9 £580 -3.33% 77
North of England +22 5 £700 +118.75% 16
Yorkshire +15 3 £428 +33.84% 10
North West - 2 £750 - 4
South West +42 1 - - 14
East of England +13 1 £600 - 7
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 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Infor SunSystems
1 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) BGP
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (16.67%) EPoS Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Data Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.11%) EPoS Field Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Field Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Migration Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Data Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Migration Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) jQuery
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.11%) Bootstrap
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) J2EE
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Sass
2 2 (11.11%) Spring
2 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
2 2 (11.11%) VML
2 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Replication
3 3 (16.67%) EPoS
3 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
4 2 (11.11%) Hedge funds
4 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) HP Storage
5 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (22.22%) HPUX
4 4 (22.22%) Solaris
5 2 (11.11%) Unix
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (22.22%) High Availability
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
4 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C-shell
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Firmware
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
2 1 (5.56%) Nagios
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
2 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) HP
2 3 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) Unisys
3 2 (11.11%) Arista
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) Meraki
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) Fujitsu
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) VMware