Sun Contracts in London

Sun
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 393 549
Rank change year-on-year +8 +156 -91
Contract jobs citing Sun 10 87 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.057% 0.34% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.86% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 77 39
10th Percentile £217 £458 £363
25th Percentile £458 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +18.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £700 £670
England median daily rate £325 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -45.83% +6.67% +25.00%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,153 10,168 14,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 39.36% 37.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,906 7,209 10,357
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +4.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £518 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 128 180
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.13 £17.56
25th Percentile £16.86 £21.00 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% -22.14% +31.33%
75th Percentile £35.38 £54.44 £49.25
90th Percentile £59.00 £70.00 £60.63
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year -38.03% +66.12% +1.76%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in London

Sun
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Sun in London

Sun
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sun in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Central London +49 6 £600 -7.69% 3
Sun
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) DB2
1 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 5 (50.00%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Arabic Language
3 2 (20.00%) French Language
3 2 (20.00%) German Language
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Spanish Language
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DBA
1 4 (40.00%) Sybase DBA
2 2 (20.00%) Help Desk Technician
2 2 (20.00%) IT Technician
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Technician
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Bokeh
1 1 (10.00%) Django
1 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (10.00%) Flask
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) pytest
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (10.00%) HP Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (10.00%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Unix
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Android
4 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) E-business
4 1 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Perl
3 5 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (50.00%) IBM
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 5 (50.00%) SAP
2 5 (50.00%) Sybase
2 5 (50.00%) Veritas
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Avaya
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) Ivanti
5 1 (10.00%) Confluent
5 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (10.00%) Databricks
5 1 (10.00%) Dell
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) VMware