The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 32 36 36
Rank change year-on-year
+4 0
Contract jobs citing HP 18 26 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 3.279% 3.763% 2.863%
As % of the Vendors category 6.498% 7.761% 7.732%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 0
Average daily rate £375 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £339 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.36% +4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 13
Average hourly rate £11.75 £12.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.08% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.80 £12.00 £11.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.15 £22.65 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £15.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-14.51% -22.50%
All Vendors
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
277 335 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 50.46% 48.48% 37.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 155 76
Average daily rate £325 £323 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.77% -0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £214 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 30 49
Average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.33% +167.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
East of England

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire HP Daily Rate Trend

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire HP Daily Rate Histogram

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Peterborough +4 10 £450 +119.51%
Cambridge +4 5 £375 +37.61%
Huntingdon - 2 - -
HP
East of England

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 28 (58.33%) Windows
2 19 (39.58%) MS Exchange
2 19 (39.58%) Active Directory
3 16 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 15 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2010
5 14 (29.17%) Cisco
5 14 (29.17%) ITIL
5 14 (29.17%) HP Quality Center
5 14 (29.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (27.08%) Windows XP
7 12 (25.00%) Hyper-V
7 12 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (22.92%) Migration
8 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
8 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
8 11 (22.92%) Wireless
9 10 (20.83%) Firewall
9 10 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
10 9 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (18.75%) Finance
10 9 (18.75%) ISEB
10 9 (18.75%) Dell
11 8 (16.67%) JIRA
11 8 (16.67%) Altiris
12 7 (14.58%) Software Testing
12 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (14.58%) Java
12 7 (14.58%) SQL
13 6 (12.50%) HTML

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 Development
1 6 (12.50%) HTML
1 6 (12.50%) XML
2 3 (6.250%) Middleware
2 3 (6.250%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 19 (39.58%) MS Exchange
2 15 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2010
3 12 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (10.42%) Lync
5 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (2.083%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.083%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) MS Office
2 3 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.167%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) Wireless
2 10 (20.83%) Firewall
3 9 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (10.42%) Unified Communications
4 5 (10.42%) Intranet
4 5 (10.42%) Internet
5 2 (4.167%) DNS
5 2 (4.167%) LAN
5 2 (4.167%) WAN
5 2 (4.167%) DHCP
5 2 (4.167%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (4.167%) SAN
6 1 (2.083%) HTTP
6 1 (2.083%) SNMP
6 1 (2.083%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.083%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) JIRA
2 4 (8.333%) Selenium
2 4 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 9 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (6.250%) Back Office
3 2 (4.167%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 6 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Test Manager
5 4 (8.333%) Service Analyst
5 4 (8.333%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (6.250%) Field Engineer
6 3 (6.250%) Programme Manager
6 3 (6.250%) Test Programme Manager
7 2 (4.167%) Agile Test Analyst
7 2 (4.167%) Service Desk Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
7 2 (4.167%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (4.167%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Tester
7 2 (4.167%) Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.167%) SAP Test Analyst
7 2 (4.167%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Blackberry
2 2 (4.167%) CLARiiON
2 2 (4.167%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 28 (58.33%) Windows
2 16 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 15 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (29.17%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (27.08%) Windows XP
6 5 (10.42%) UNIX
7 4 (8.333%) Mac OS X
7 4 (8.333%) Windows Vista
8 3 (6.250%) Windows 2000
9 1 (2.083%) Linux
9 1 (2.083%) Windows CE
9 1 (2.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) ITIL
2 11 (22.92%) Migration
3 7 (14.58%) Software Testing
3 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (10.42%) Test Scripting
5 4 (8.333%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Test Strategy
6 3 (6.250%) System Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Time Management
6 3 (6.250%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (6.250%) Test Management
6 3 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Integration Testing
7 2 (4.167%) Regression Testing
8 1 (2.083%) CRM
8 1 (2.083%) Matrix Management
8 1 (2.083%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (2.083%) Scrum
8 1 (2.083%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) Java
1 7 (14.58%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) ISEB
2 2 (4.167%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.083%) RHCE
3 1 (2.083%) RHCA
3 1 (2.083%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.083%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.083%) QA
System Software
1 19 (39.58%) Active Directory
2 12 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.250%) Terminal Services
4 2 (4.167%) vSphere
4 2 (4.167%) vCloud
5 1 (2.083%) XenApp
5 1 (2.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (4.167%) PureDisk
2 2 (4.167%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.167%) NetBackup
2 2 (4.167%) WSUS
3 1 (2.083%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Cisco
2 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
3 9 (18.75%) Dell
4 8 (16.67%) Altiris
5 6 (12.50%) Toshiba
5 6 (12.50%) Citrix
6 5 (10.42%) Riverbed
6 5 (10.42%) Exinda
7 3 (6.250%) VMware
7 3 (6.250%) Fujitsu
7 3 (6.250%) NetApp
7 3 (6.250%) SAP
7 3 (6.250%) EMC
7 3 (6.250%) Compaq
8 2 (4.167%) Symantec
8 2 (4.167%) AppSense
8 2 (4.167%) 3PAR
9 1 (2.083%) Twitter
9 1 (2.083%) Red Hat
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