HP Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Birmingham 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 36 33 34
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +1
Contract jobs citing HP 7 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.598% 3.263% 2.200%
As % of the Vendors category 3.211% 6.803% 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 5
Average daily rate £275 £345 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.28% -18.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £339 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.36% +4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £15.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-14.51% -22.50%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 218 294 231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 49.77% 47.96% 46.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 135 112
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £194 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 25
Average hourly rate £18.46 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.15% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.26 £10.15 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.40 £32.70 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
West Midlands

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Birmingham HP Jobs Demand Trend

HP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham HP Daily Rate Trend

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing HP 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 HP.

1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
2 13 (68.42%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (63.16%) SAN
4 11 (57.89%) Citrix
4 11 (57.89%) VMware
5 9 (47.37%) EMC
6 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
7 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (31.58%) MS Exchange
7 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (31.58%) XenApp
8 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (21.05%) UNIX
9 4 (21.05%) DHCP
9 4 (21.05%) DNS
9 4 (21.05%) NetApp
9 4 (21.05%) Symantec
9 4 (21.05%) IBM
9 4 (21.05%) NAS
10 3 (15.79%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (15.79%) SCOM
10 3 (15.79%) Business Transformation
10 3 (15.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (15.79%) Cisco
10 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
10 3 (15.79%) ITIL
10 3 (15.79%) Windows 2000
10 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
10 3 (15.79%) C

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing HP 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 HP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) MS Exchange
2 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.263%) IIS
3 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.53%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) DHCP
2 4 (21.05%) DNS
2 4 (21.05%) NAS
3 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.53%) LAN
4 2 (10.53%) WAN
4 2 (10.53%) MPLS
4 2 (10.53%) Firewall
4 2 (10.53%) VLAN
4 2 (10.53%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.263%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (5.263%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Banking
1 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
1 3 (15.79%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Consultant
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) Storage Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Backup Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Backup Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) Support Manager
6 1 (5.263%) Storage Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Network Manager
6 1 (5.263%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Replication
1 3 (15.79%) CLARiiON
1 3 (15.79%) Symmetrix
1 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 13 (68.42%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (21.05%) UNIX
5 3 (15.79%) Windows 2000
6 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Fund Management
1 3 (15.79%) Wealth Management
1 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
1 3 (15.79%) ITIL
1 3 (15.79%) Business Transformation
2 2 (10.53%) Service Management
3 1 (5.263%) Migration
3 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) C
1 3 (15.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) CCNP
1 2 (10.53%) CCNA
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (31.58%) XenApp
3 1 (5.263%) XenServer
3 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (15.79%) SCOM
2 2 (10.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (5.263%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.263%) WSUS
3 1 (5.263%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (5.263%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Citrix
1 11 (57.89%) VMware
2 9 (47.37%) EMC
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 4 (21.05%) IBM
4 4 (21.05%) NetApp
4 4 (21.05%) Symantec
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco
6 2 (10.53%) Dell
6 2 (10.53%) SonicWALL
6 2 (10.53%) Veeam
7 1 (5.263%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.263%) Remedy
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