Sun Contracts

Sun
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 556 717
Rank change year-on-year +16 +161 -43
Contract jobs citing Sun 35 126 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% 0.52% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 85 74
10th Percentile £244 £450 £363
25th Percentile £250 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £589 £663 £663
90th Percentile £650 £700 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -33.67% +3.16% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £19.06 £18.75
Median hourly rate £21.46 £19.81 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile - £20.56 £20.56
90th Percentile - - £20.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £19.81 £19.81
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the UK

Sun
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sun in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sun in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +9 35 £325 -45.83% 69
UK excluding London +28 26 £325 -33.67% 59
East of England +2 11 - - 4
South East - 10 £325 - 32
London +21 9 £600 - 10
Work from Home +86 3 £475 -10.80% 27
Midlands +20 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +18 2 £320 +18.52%
North of England +18 2 £320 -34.69% 6
West Midlands +10 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 - -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.86%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) DB2
1 5 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 5 (14.29%) Sybase ASE
2 2 (5.71%) Informix
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Arabic Language
3 2 (5.71%) Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) French Language
3 2 (5.71%) German Language
3 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Retail
3 2 (5.71%) Spanish Language
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Front Office
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Analyst
2 12 (34.29%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 12 (34.29%) Service Analyst
2 12 (34.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 8 (22.86%) Systems Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) DBA
5 4 (11.43%) Sybase DBA
6 3 (8.57%) Change Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Hardware Support Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Help Desk Technician
7 2 (5.71%) Informix DBA
7 2 (5.71%) IT Technician
7 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) Service Desk Technician
8 1 (2.86%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) YAML
2 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (14.29%) Replication
3 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.86%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 7 (20.00%) Unix
3 3 (8.57%) Windows
4 2 (5.71%) Android
4 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.71%) HPUX
4 2 (5.71%) Solaris
4 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) ITIL
2 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.14%) Migration
3 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
4 5 (14.29%) Change Data Capture
4 5 (14.29%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 5 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 4 (11.43%) Customer Service
5 4 (11.43%) Data Management
5 4 (11.43%) Data Migration
5 4 (11.43%) IT Strategy
5 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
5 4 (11.43%) Project Management
5 4 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (5.71%) Data Analysis
6 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.71%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) Perl
3 5 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) ACCA
2 8 (22.86%) CIMA
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Dell Certification
4 2 (5.71%) MCP
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Docker
3 2 (5.71%) Ceph
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.71%) vSphere
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) Pacemaker
2 2 (5.71%) Podman
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) IBM
1 7 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 5 (14.29%) SAP
2 5 (14.29%) Sybase
2 5 (14.29%) Veritas
3 3 (8.57%) Dell
3 3 (8.57%) HP
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) Avaya
4 2 (5.71%) Citrix
4 2 (5.71%) Fujitsu
4 2 (5.71%) Ivanti
4 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) CyberArk