City of London Compaq Contracts

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

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Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Carlisle City of London Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Maidstone Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Surrey Swansea Taunton Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	168	175
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	19	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.688 %	0.248 %
Daily rates quoted	18	0
Average minimum daily rate	£335	-
Average daily rate	£357	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£379	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£186	£289
% change on same period last year	-35.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.39	£20.74
% change on same period last year	-16.13 %
Vendors City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2760	2823
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.479 %	3.082 %
Daily rates quoted	1396	1196
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£443
Average daily rate	£412	£470
% change on same period last year	-12.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£497
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	144	138
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.78	£21.99
Average hourly rate	£23.61	£23.36
% change on same period last year	+1.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.43	£24.73
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 Compaq.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Compaq across the City of London 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 Compaq across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Compaq across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Compaq across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Compaq 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 Compaq.

1 17 (80.95 %) HP 2 15 (71.43 %) SAN 2 15 (71.43 %) Banking 3 14 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 4 13 (61.90 %) Reuters 5 12 (57.14 %) TIBCO 5 12 (57.14 %) DECnet 5 12 (57.14 %) Ingres 5 12 (57.14 %) VMS 5 12 (57.14 %) OpenVMS 5 12 (57.14 %) Oracle 5 12 (57.14 %) Finance 6 8 (38.10 %) VERITAS 6 8 (38.10 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 7 (33.33 %) NetBackup

8 6 (28.57 %) Windows 9 5 (23.81 %) MS Exchange 9 5 (23.81 %) IBM 9 5 (23.81 %) Investment Banking 10 4 (19.05 %) DCL 10 4 (19.05 %) Korn 10 4 (19.05 %) Fixed Income 10 4 (19.05 %) Derivative 10 4 (19.05 %) Microsoft 10 4 (19.05 %) BMC 10 4 (19.05 %) SQL 10 4 (19.05 %) MQSeries 10 4 (19.05 %) ClearCase 10 4 (19.05 %) Windows 2000 10 4 (19.05 %) Sybase

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Compaq 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 Compaq. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.762 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 5 (23.81 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (19.05 %) MQSeries 3 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 2 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (4.762 %) WorkSite 5 1 (4.762 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (4.762 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Visio 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 15 (71.43 %) SAN 2 14 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (57.14 %) DECnet 4 1 (4.762 %) Internet 4 1 (4.762 %) DNS 4 1 (4.762 %) LAN 4 1 (4.762 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (57.14 %) Ingres	Development Applications 1 4 (19.05 %) ClearCase
General 1 15 (71.43 %) Banking 2 12 (57.14 %) Finance 3 5 (23.81 %) Investment Banking 4 3 (14.29 %) Law 5 1 (4.762 %) Legal 5 1 (4.762 %) Back Office 5 1 (4.762 %) Telecoms 5 1 (4.762 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (4.762 %) Auditing 5 1 (4.762 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 9 (42.86 %) Administrator 2 8 (38.10 %) VMS Administrator 3 3 (14.29 %) Technical Support 3 3 (14.29 %) Analyst 4 2 (9.524 %) Technical Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Network Support 5 1 (4.762 %) Senior Technical Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Server Support Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Linux Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Linux Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Server Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Server Support 5 1 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Network Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Service Manager 5 1 (4.762 %) Technical Support Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Network Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (19.05 %) Fixed Income 1 4 (19.05 %) Derivative 2 3 (14.29 %) PDA 3 2 (9.524 %) Blackberry 4 1 (4.762 %) Client/Server 4 1 (4.762 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 12 (57.14 %) VMS 1 12 (57.14 %) OpenVMS 2 6 (28.57 %) Windows 3 4 (19.05 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (14.29 %) Windows XP 5 2 (9.524 %) Windows NT 5 2 (9.524 %) NetWare 6 1 (4.762 %) Windows CE 6 1 (4.762 %) FreeBSD 6 1 (4.762 %) Solaris 6 1 (4.762 %) Linux 6 1 (4.762 %) UNIX 6 1 (4.762 %) Ubuntu 6 1 (4.762 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (4.762 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (38.10 %) Enterprise Architecture 2 4 (19.05 %) BCP 2 4 (19.05 %) DRM 3 2 (9.524 %) Document Management 4 1 (4.762 %) ITIL 4 1 (4.762 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (19.05 %) SQL 1 4 (19.05 %) DCL 1 4 (19.05 %) Korn
System Software 1 7 (33.33 %) NetBackup 2 2 (9.524 %) Active Directory 3 1 (4.762 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (4.762 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (4.762 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 4 (19.05 %) OpenView 1 4 (19.05 %) CiscoWorks 1 4 (19.05 %) BMC PATROL 2 3 (14.29 %) ARCserve 3 1 (4.762 %) Tivoli 3 1 (4.762 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 1 (4.762 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 17 (80.95 %) HP 2 13 (61.90 %) Reuters 3 12 (57.14 %) Oracle 3 12 (57.14 %) TIBCO 4 8 (38.10 %) VERITAS 5 5 (23.81 %) IBM 6 4 (19.05 %) Microsoft 6 4 (19.05 %) Sybase 6 4 (19.05 %) BMC 6 4 (19.05 %) Remedy 7 3 (14.29 %) CA 7 3 (14.29 %) Citrix 8 2 (9.524 %) EMC 9 1 (4.762 %) Interwoven 9 1 (4.762 %) Sun 9 1 (4.762 %) NetApp 9 1 (4.762 %) Lotus 9 1 (4.762 %) Red Hat 9 1 (4.762 %) VMware 9 1 (4.762 %) Bloomberg