Sun Contracts in Scotland

Sun
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - 159
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Sun 7 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% - 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.98% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £205 - -
25th Percentile £273 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile £725 - -
UK median daily rate £540 £325 £600
% change year-on-year +66.15% -45.83% +4.35%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 714 887 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.24% 39.95% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 543 823
10th Percentile £236 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £467 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -1.27% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 52 16
10th Percentile £16.36 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.62 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.26 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Sun in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sun in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Edinburgh - 4 £650 - 2
Glasgow - 3 £210 - 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
1 1 (14.29%) Sybase ASE
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Graduate
3 1 (14.29%) Graduate Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Sybase DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Replication
2 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
3 2 (28.57%) Social Media
4 1 (14.29%) Clustering
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) HPUX
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Solaris
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) ITSM
3 3 (42.86%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Operational Stability
4 2 (28.57%) OSINT
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
1 4 (57.14%) Unisys
2 2 (28.57%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Sybase