Sun Certification Contracts

Sun Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sun Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 - 706
Rank change year-on-year - - +141
Contract jobs citing Sun Certification 5 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% - 0.012%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.056% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £362 - £532
25th Percentile £370 - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 - £586
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.30%
75th Percentile £420 - £775
90th Percentile £431 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £567

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Sun Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

Sun Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun Certification in the UK

Sun Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sun Certification in the UK

Sun Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun Certification in the UK

Sun Certification
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun Certification within the UK 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
England - 5 £394 - 6
London - 4 £394 - 1
South East - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1

Sun Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (40.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) Java EE
1 2 (40.00%) Java SE
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Struts
1 2 (40.00%) Visualforce
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) OCP
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce