The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 24 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 Chester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 17 16 23
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Contract jobs citing HP 8 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 5.755% 4.274% 0.613%
As % of the Vendors category 11.11% 8.772% 1.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £240 £550 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-56.36% +89.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.17% +5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £14.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-11.54% -11.42%
All Vendors
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
72 57 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 51.80% 48.72% 45.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 23
Average daily rate £306 £338 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.25% -6.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £150 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £490 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 2
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £46.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -69.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.87 £14.00 £45.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £21.20 £47.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
Cheshire

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) SAN
3 7 (43.75%) IBM
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 6 (37.50%) SCCM
4 6 (37.50%) Clustering
5 5 (31.25%) VMware
5 5 (31.25%) DHCP
5 5 (31.25%) DNS
5 5 (31.25%) NetApp
5 5 (31.25%) Citrix
6 4 (25.00%) Windows 2000
6 4 (25.00%) Windows NT
6 4 (25.00%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) SCOM
7 2 (12.50%) Service Management
7 2 (12.50%) Change Management
7 2 (12.50%) Remedy
7 2 (12.50%) Dell
7 2 (12.50%) SCVMM
7 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (6.250%) NAS
8 1 (6.250%) XenApp
8 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
8 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (6.250%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) SAN
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.250%) NAS
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Wintel Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Wintel Specialist
3 4 (25.00%) Wintel Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Storage Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Storage Specialist
5 2 (12.50%) Project Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) IT Support
6 1 (6.250%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Wintel Server Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Administrator
6 1 (6.250%) Server Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Storage Administrator
6 1 (6.250%) SAN Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 4 (25.00%) Windows NT
4 1 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
4 1 (6.250%) AIX
4 1 (6.250%) Linux
4 1 (6.250%) UNIX
4 1 (6.250%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Service Management
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (6.250%) Change Control
4 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.250%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.250%) XenApp
2 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) SCCM
2 4 (25.00%) SCOM
3 2 (12.50%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) NetApp
2 5 (31.25%) Citrix
3 2 (12.50%) Remedy
3 2 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (6.250%) Brocade
4 1 (6.250%) Red Hat