The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of 3PAR products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3PAR over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London 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 HP 3PAR.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3PAR
Rank 192 216 242
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +26
Contract jobs citing 3PAR 7 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.110% 0.038% 0.030%
As % of the Vendors category 0.244% 0.090% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
Average daily rate £450 £488 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £425 £450
% change year-on-year
-8.82% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2870 3315 4200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.18% 42.11% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2036 2269 2905
Average daily rate £430 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 99 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.20 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
3PAR
London

3PAR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 3PAR Jobs Demand Trend

3PAR
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3PAR across the City of London region.

City of London 3PAR Daily Rate Trend

3PAR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing 3PAR 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 3PAR.

1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) HP
3 4 (50.00%) SAN
3 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco
5 2 (25.00%) CommVault
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) Windows
5 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (25.00%) FCoE
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (25.00%) Degree
6 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (12.50%) SaaS
6 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (12.50%) IaaS
6 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (12.50%) C
6 1 (12.50%) CRM
6 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (12.50%) ERP
6 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
6 1 (12.50%) .NET
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle
6 1 (12.50%) IIS

3PAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing 3PAR 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 3PAR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (25.00%) FCoE
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SAN Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) SAN Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Sales Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Sales Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Pre Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (12.50%) IaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (12.50%) CRM
1 1 (12.50%) ERP
1 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) CommVault
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) EMC
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix
5 1 (12.50%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) Brocade