Sun Contracts in West Yorkshire

Sun
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Sun 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.36% 0.20% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 0.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £320 -
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £320 -
% change year-on-year +118.75% - -

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 256 435 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 46.72% 43.54% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 265 436
10th Percentile £243 £300 £313
25th Percentile £350 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £627
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £483 £525
% change year-on-year -6.74% -8.10% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 3
10th Percentile £30.43 £12.53 £18.85
25th Percentile £31.76 £13.87 £23.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £14.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +180.34% -55.00% +103.13%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.19 £56.88
90th Percentile £102.00 - £70.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.03% -30.36% +24.63%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in West Yorkshire

Sun
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Sun in West Yorkshire

Sun
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun in West Yorkshire

Sun
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds +3 2 £700 +118.75% 3
Sun
Yorkshire

Sun
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Unisys
2 1 (50.00%) HP