The first table below looks at the demand for OpenView skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenView over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP OpenView (HPOV)
Rank 115 123 109
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -14
Contract jobs citing OpenView 6 15 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.256% 0.473% 0.696%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.449% 8.152% 7.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Average daily rate - £285 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +42.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £275 £210
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +30.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £15.58 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -30.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £11.52 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-4.47% -17.75%
All Systems Management
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
245 184 280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 10.47% 5.804% 9.284%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 80 100
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £151 £225 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £486 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 14
Average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -5.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £14.82 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.20 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
OpenView
South East

OpenView
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Berkshire OpenView Jobs Demand Trend

OpenView
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenView across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire OpenView Daily Rate Trend

OpenView
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire OpenView Hourly Rate Trend

OpenView
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenView within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +2 4 - -
Slough - - - -
Newbury - - - -
OpenView
South East

OpenView
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing OpenView also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OpenView.

1 6 (100.00%) HP
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) Redback
2 3 (50.00%) HP NNM
2 3 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (50.00%) Nokia NetAct
2 3 (50.00%) 3G
2 3 (50.00%) MPLS
2 3 (50.00%) OSPF
2 3 (50.00%) Remedy
2 3 (50.00%) BGP
2 3 (50.00%) Back Office
2 3 (50.00%) EMC
2 3 (50.00%) CiscoWorks
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (50.00%) BMC
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) VoIP
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) SMTP
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) SNMP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Nokia
3 2 (33.33%) Netcool

OpenView
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing OpenView also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OpenView. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (50.00%) Nokia NetAct
1 3 (50.00%) 3G
1 3 (50.00%) MPLS
1 3 (50.00%) OSPF
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) VoIP
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) SMTP
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) SNMP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) BSS
General
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) IP Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) OSS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) HP NNM
1 3 (50.00%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (33.33%) Netcool
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) Redback
2 3 (50.00%) Remedy
2 3 (50.00%) EMC
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (50.00%) BMC
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Nokia
4 1 (16.67%) Huawei