Chester HP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Chester region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HP over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	25
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	5.556 %	5.319 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£260
Average daily rate	-	£260
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£320
% change on same period last year	+0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.50	-
Average hourly rate	£19.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.58	£24.08
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %
Vendors Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	90	94
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.146 %	0.103 %
Daily rates quoted	12	16
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£247
Average daily rate	£269	£257
% change on same period last year	+4.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£267
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.73	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£23.88	£27.60
% change on same period last year	-13.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.03	£27.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.89	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Hewlett-Packard Company.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HP across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, 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 6 (54.55 %) UNIX 2 5 (45.45 %) SAN 3 4 (36.36 %) VERITAS 3 4 (36.36 %) Oracle 3 4 (36.36 %) Linux 4 3 (27.27 %) VMS 4 3 (27.27 %) EMC 4 3 (27.27 %) COBOL 4 3 (27.27 %) Java 4 3 (27.27 %) Red Hat 4 3 (27.27 %) QuickTest Pro 4 3 (27.27 %) Sun 4 3 (27.27 %) Mainframe 4 3 (27.27 %) Pharmaceutical 4 3 (27.27 %) Disaster Recovery

4 3 (27.27 %) Finance 4 3 (27.27 %) Software Engineering 4 3 (27.27 %) Red Hat Linux 5 2 (18.18 %) NetBackup 5 2 (18.18 %) OpenView 5 2 (18.18 %) TIBCO 5 2 (18.18 %) Middleware 5 2 (18.18 %) Remedy 5 2 (18.18 %) Project Management 5 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows 5 2 (18.18 %) ISEB 5 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 5 2 (18.18 %) N-Tier 6 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, 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 Development 1 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 1 2 (18.18 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Project 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 1 1 (9.091 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP APO
Communications & Networking 1 5 (45.45 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Pharmaceutical 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance 2 1 (9.091 %) Banking 2 1 (9.091 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Administrator 1 3 (27.27 %) UNIX Administrator 2 2 (18.18 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 2 2 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 2 2 (18.18 %) Systems Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Systems Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Test Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Change Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Systems Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Wintel Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (27.27 %) Mainframe 2 2 (18.18 %) N-Tier 3 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 6 (54.55 %) UNIX 2 4 (36.36 %) Linux 3 3 (27.27 %) VMS 3 3 (27.27 %) Red Hat Linux 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Disaster Recovery 1 3 (27.27 %) Software Engineering 2 2 (18.18 %) Project Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Change Management 3 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 3 1 (9.091 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) COBOL 1 3 (27.27 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) ISEB 2 1 (9.091 %) PMP 2 1 (9.091 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (18.18 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 2 (18.18 %) OpenView 2 1 (9.091 %) Legato 2 1 (9.091 %) Tivoli 2 1 (9.091 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Oracle 1 4 (36.36 %) VERITAS 2 3 (27.27 %) Red Hat 2 3 (27.27 %) Sun 2 3 (27.27 %) EMC 3 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 3 2 (18.18 %) TIBCO 3 2 (18.18 %) Remedy 4 1 (9.091 %) Dell 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP