The first table below looks at the demand for OpenView skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenView over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Systems Management category for the Cheshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP OpenView (HPOV)
Rank - 54 74
Contract jobs citing OpenView 0 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - 1.491% 0.206%
As % of the Systems Management category - 10.34% 1.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £300 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +17.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £263 £200
% change year-on-year
+33.33% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.98 £12.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.59% -66.58%
All Systems Management
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
80 116 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 10.88% 14.41% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 56 68
Average daily rate £325 £363 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% +9.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £300 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £467 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Average hourly rate £43.70 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
OpenView
North West

OpenView
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire OpenView Hourly Rate Trend

OpenView
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (100.00%) MS Office
1 10 (100.00%) ITIL
1 10 (100.00%) MCP
1 10 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 10 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) HP
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Lotus
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) Windows 7
2 7 (70.00%) ServiceCenter
2 7 (70.00%) BS25999
2 7 (70.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 7 (70.00%) MCDST
2 7 (70.00%) MCITP
2 7 (70.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (70.00%) MS Project
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (70.00%) MCSE
2 7 (70.00%) Windows XP
2 7 (70.00%) MS Visio
2 7 (70.00%) ISO 9000
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) LiveLink
4 3 (30.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (30.00%) Problem Management

OpenView
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
2 4 (40.00%) LiveLink
Applications
1 10 (100.00%) MS Office
1 10 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (70.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 7 (70.00%) MS Project
2 7 (70.00%) MS Visio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Analyst
2 7 (70.00%) Support Analyst
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (30.00%) Service Analyst
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows 7
1 7 (70.00%) Windows XP
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) ITIL
2 7 (70.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) MCP
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) MCDST
2 7 (70.00%) MCITP
2 7 (70.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) BS25999
1 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (70.00%) ISO 9000
2 3 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) ServiceCenter
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) HP
1 10 (100.00%) Lotus