Sun Contracts in the South East

Sun
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 223 259
Rank change year-on-year +38 +36 -53
Contract jobs citing Sun 14 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.25% 0.017% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.034% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 4
10th Percentile - - £454
25th Percentile - - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.36%
75th Percentile £338 - £569
90th Percentile £443 - £603
England median daily rate £325 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -45.83% +4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.05
Median hourly rate - - £19.03
75th Percentile - - £20.02
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.46 £19.81 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +1.59% -18.75%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,640 2,906 3,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.58% 49.80% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,608 1,998 2,373
10th Percentile £213 £205 £188
25th Percentile £378 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £600
90th Percentile £688 £694 £675
England median daily rate £518 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 126 138
10th Percentile £12.00 £18.08 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.24 £21.95 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.88 £36.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.94% +84.52% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sun in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Sun in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sun in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sun in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Sun in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Surrey - 12 £250 - 1
West Sussex - 2 £475 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Infor SunSystems
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Analyst
1 12 (85.71%) Systems Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Change Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 4 (28.57%) Data Management
2 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
2 4 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (14.29%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) ACCA
1 12 (85.71%) CIMA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Ceph
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
1 2 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Pacemaker
1 2 (14.29%) Podman
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 2 (14.29%) VMware