Sun Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sun
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 443 576
Rank change year-on-year +105 +133 -115
Contract jobs citing Sun 6 28 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.093% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 30
10th Percentile £340 £156 £363
25th Percentile £463 £399 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £563 £567 £634
90th Percentile - £643 £669
UK median daily rate £325 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -45.83% +4.35% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.75
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £20.25
90th Percentile - - £27.08
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £19.81 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +1.59% -18.75%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,477 11,058 17,439
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.46% 43.08% 39.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,015 7,436 11,884
10th Percentile £325 £330 £343
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 261 258
10th Percentile £13.99 £18.50 £13.32
25th Percentile £17.00 £32.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £32.12 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +57.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £52.44
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.25 £66.23
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.57 £21.15
% change year-on-year -49.50% +105.96% -5.65%

Sun
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sun trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sun.

Sun daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Sun over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Sun daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sun.

Sun hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Arabic Language
4 1 (16.67%) French Language
4 1 (16.67%) German Language
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (50.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Help Desk Technician
3 1 (16.67%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Android
4 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Ticket Management
3 1 (16.67%) Two-Factor Authentication
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Korn
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Ceph
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (33.33%) Pacemaker
3 2 (33.33%) Podman
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) TOWER Software
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Avaya
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Ivanti
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow