Sun Contracts in London

Sun
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 398 404
Rank change year-on-year +49 +6 +127
Contract jobs citing Sun 11 9 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.084% 0.051% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% 0.12% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 69
10th Percentile £285 £365 £471
25th Percentile £344 £522 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £675
90th Percentile £627 £713 £703
England median daily rate £363 £400 £588
% change year-on-year -9.38% -31.91% +2.17%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,945 7,400 10,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.36% 41.99% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 5,070 7,248
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £535 £554
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -3.39% +0.38%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 126 120
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.87 £16.12
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.87 £21.18
Median hourly rate £28.33 £23.99 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.07% -21.34% -12.86%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
% change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Sun in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sun in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +8 5 £600 -2.20% 7
Sun
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) BGP
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
1 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Data Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Data Migration Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Finance Systems Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Migration Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Data Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Migration Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) J2EE
1 1 (9.09%) jQuery
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Sass
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
1 1 (9.09%) VML
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Hedge funds
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) HP Storage
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Data Management
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Data Mapping
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) E-business
3 2 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Network Performance Management
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
3 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.09%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCAB
1 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Arista
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Meraki
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Fujitsu
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Tenable
3 1 (9.09%) VMware