Sun Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sun
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 June 2024, 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 398 462
Rank change year-on-year +22 +64 -38
Contract jobs citing Sun 25 32 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.31% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 17
10th Percentile £250 £156 £217
25th Percentile £266 £208 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £380 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% -20.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £338 £523 £625
90th Percentile £488 £545 £695
UK median daily rate £325 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -45.83% +4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 20
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 - - £20.73
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £19.81 £19.81
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -43.40%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,987 10,207 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.14% 44.98% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,356 6,960 8,400
10th Percentile £211 £205 £189
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 428 636
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.41 £41.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Sun in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sun in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sun in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Sun in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
East of England +2 11 - - 1
South East - 9 £325 - 28
Midlands +18 3 - - 5
West Midlands +18 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +14 2 £320 +18.52% 2
North of England +12 2 £320 -34.69% 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
Sun
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Infor SunSystems
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Informix
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.00%) Retail
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Analyst
2 12 (48.00%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 12 (48.00%) Service Analyst
2 12 (48.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 7 (28.00%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Change Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) DBA
5 2 (8.00%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Hardware Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Informix DBA
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) HPUX
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Solaris
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (24.00%) Migration
1 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (16.00%) Data Management
2 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (16.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (16.00%) Project Management
2 4 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (8.00%) Database Security
3 2 (8.00%) High Availability
3 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (8.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (8.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (8.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (8.00%) Runbook
3 2 (8.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) ACCA
2 7 (28.00%) CIMA
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Dell Certification
3 2 (8.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Ceph
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
1 2 (8.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (8.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) Pacemaker
1 2 (8.00%) Podman
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Dell
1 2 (8.00%) Fujitsu
1 2 (8.00%) HP
1 2 (8.00%) IBM
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (8.00%) VMware