The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ProCurve products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ProCurve 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 Bristol 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 HP ProCurve.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ProCurve
Rank 49 60 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing ProCurve 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.187% 0.118% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.461% 0.377% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £288 £238 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.05% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
-0.80% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £48.25
All Vendors
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
217 265 243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 40.64% 31.18% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 169 110
Average daily rate £325 £313 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -10.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £160 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 19
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.44% +40.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £16.25 £11.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.20 £40.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
ProCurve
South West

ProCurve
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol ProCurve Jobs Demand Trend

ProCurve
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol ProCurve Daily Rate Trend

ProCurve
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol ProCurve Hourly Rate Trend

ProCurve
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) NetApp
2 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Veritas
3 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (40.00%) Siemens
4 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
4 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (40.00%) Project Management
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) Backup Exec
5 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (20.00%) WSUS
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) HP SIM
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) AIX

ProCurve
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) NetApp
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Veritas
4 2 (40.00%) Siemens
5 1 (20.00%) Juniper
5 1 (20.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (20.00%) Symantec