Buckinghamshire OpenView Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP OpenView (HPOV) skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Systems Management category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OpenView over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP OpenView (HPOV)
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Crewe Devon Docklands, London East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	58
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	40	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	31.25 %	30.23 %
Daily rates quoted	12	8
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£315
Average daily rate	£366	£324
% change on same period last year	+12.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£330
% change on same period last year	+1.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.61	£18.37
Average hourly rate	£28.71	£19.80
% change on same period last year	+44.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.80	£21.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.28	£27.10
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Systems Management Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	128	129
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.171 %	0.131 %
Daily rates quoted	46	38
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£329
Average daily rate	£344	£345
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£351
% change on same period last year	+3.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.18	£23.03
Average hourly rate	£28.40	£25.16
% change on same period last year	+12.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.62	£27.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.17	£26.07
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
OpenView South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

OpenView
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

OpenView
Daily Rate Trend

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

OpenView
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenView across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

OpenView
Hourly Rate Trend

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

OpenView
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenView across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

OpenView
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenView within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+2	38	£366	+39.34 %

OpenView South East

OpenView
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 63 (78.75 %) Security Cleared 2 59 (73.75 %) OVOW 3 56 (70.00 %) ITIL 4 51 (63.75 %) HP 5 47 (58.75 %) ITSM 6 41 (51.25 %) SC Cleared 7 40 (50.00 %) Cisco 8 34 (42.50 %) Windows 9 30 (37.50 %) Telecoms 10 29 (36.25 %) MCSE 10 29 (36.25 %) Microsoft Certification 10 29 (36.25 %) CNE 10 29 (36.25 %) Novell Certification 11 25 (31.25 %) CiscoWorks 12 23 (28.75 %) SQL

12 23 (28.75 %) Oracle 12 23 (28.75 %) OVPI 13 22 (27.50 %) Windows Server 2003 14 19 (23.75 %) OVPA 15 18 (22.50 %) Windows NT 16 17 (21.25 %) SAN 17 14 (17.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 17 14 (17.50 %) Government 18 10 (12.50 %) Active Directory 18 10 (12.50 %) HP Data Protector 19 9 (11.25 %) Firewall 20 8 (10.00 %) OVSD 21 7 (8.750 %) Operations Management 22 6 (7.500 %) System Testing 22 6 (7.500 %) OpenView Configuration Management

OpenView
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

Application Platforms 1 4 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 4 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 4 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (2.500 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 17 (21.25 %) SAN 2 9 (11.25 %) Firewall 3 4 (5.000 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (3.750 %) LAN 4 3 (3.750 %) WAN 4 3 (3.750 %) Ethernet 5 2 (2.500 %) Intrusion Detection 6 1 (1.250 %) FDDI 6 1 (1.250 %) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (17.50 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 4 (5.000 %) TestDirector
General 1 30 (37.50 %) Telecoms 2 14 (17.50 %) Government 3 4 (5.000 %) Finance 4 1 (1.250 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 28 (35.00 %) Analyst 2 19 (23.75 %) Consultant 3 18 (22.50 %) OpenView Specialist 4 8 (10.00 %) Support Analyst 5 6 (7.500 %) Technical Consultant 5 6 (7.500 %) OpenView Consultant 5 6 (7.500 %) SAN Consultant 6 5 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Consultant 6 5 (6.250 %) Network Analyst 6 5 (6.250 %) Technical Support 7 4 (5.000 %) 1st Line Support 7 4 (5.000 %) Service Analyst 7 4 (5.000 %) SAN Specialist 7 4 (5.000 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 4 (5.000 %) Messaging Specialist 8 3 (3.750 %) Technical Analyst 8 3 (3.750 %) Server Specialist 8 3 (3.750 %) Technical Support Analyst 9 2 (2.500 %) Support Consultant 9 2 (2.500 %) OpenView Support
Operating Systems 1 34 (42.50 %) Windows 2 22 (27.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 18 (22.50 %) Windows NT 4 6 (7.500 %) Linux 5 4 (5.000 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (2.500 %) UNIX 7 1 (1.250 %) HPUX 7 1 (1.250 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 63 (78.75 %) Security Cleared 2 56 (70.00 %) ITIL 3 47 (58.75 %) ITSM 4 41 (51.25 %) SC Cleared 5 7 (8.750 %) Operations Management 6 6 (7.500 %) System Testing 7 4 (5.000 %) Data Migration 7 4 (5.000 %) Migration 8 3 (3.750 %) Release Management 8 3 (3.750 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (2.500 %) Problem Management 10 1 (1.250 %) Service Delivery 10 1 (1.250 %) Asset Management 10 1 (1.250 %) Network Design 10 1 (1.250 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 23 (28.75 %) SQL 2 1 (1.250 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 29 (36.25 %) MCSE 1 29 (36.25 %) Microsoft Certification 1 29 (36.25 %) CNE 1 29 (36.25 %) Novell Certification 2 6 (7.500 %) ISEB 3 5 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification 3 5 (6.250 %) CCNA 4 1 (1.250 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.000 %) SLA 2 3 (3.750 %) QA	System Software 1 10 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 4 (5.000 %) MailMarshal 3 1 (1.250 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 3 1 (1.250 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 59 (73.75 %) OVOW 2 25 (31.25 %) CiscoWorks 3 23 (28.75 %) OVPI 4 19 (23.75 %) OVPA 5 10 (12.50 %) HP Data Protector 6 8 (10.00 %) OVSD 7 6 (7.500 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 3 (3.750 %) NNM 9 1 (1.250 %) Tivoli 9 1 (1.250 %) OVOU 9 1 (1.250 %) AssetCenter	Vendors 1 51 (63.75 %) HP 2 40 (50.00 %) Cisco 3 23 (28.75 %) Oracle 4 4 (5.000 %) Microsoft 5 2 (2.500 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (2.500 %) SurfControl 5 2 (2.500 %) Finjan 6 1 (1.250 %) BladeLogic 6 1 (1.250 %) Symantec 6 1 (1.250 %) Sun 6 1 (1.250 %) Peregrine 6 1 (1.250 %) VERITAS