County Antrim HP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the County Antrim 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barnet Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	21
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	9	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	13.43 %	4.545 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£100
Average daily rate	£387	£100
% change on same period last year	+287.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£349
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£12.83
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£13.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.54	£25.16
% change on same period last year	-10.41 %
Vendors County Antrim
Matching contract IT job ads	67	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.067 %
Daily rates quoted	24	23
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£353
Average daily rate	£318	£394
% change on same period last year	-19.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£14.00	£12.78
% change on same period last year	+9.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£13.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.38	£24.36
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
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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 County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 HP across the County Antrim region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Belfast	-2	9	£387	+287.43 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 15 (57.69 %) Finance 2 8 (30.77 %) Windows Server 2003 2 8 (30.77 %) Business Objects 2 8 (30.77 %) ITIL 2 8 (30.77 %) Windows 2 8 (30.77 %) BusinessObjects 2 8 (30.77 %) ServiceCenter 3 6 (23.08 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 5 (19.23 %) TCP/IP 5 4 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (15.38 %) Telecoms 5 4 (15.38 %) Programme Management 6 3 (11.54 %) Peregrine 6 3 (11.54 %) SQL Server 6 3 (11.54 %) XML

6 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft 6 3 (11.54 %) Active Directory 6 3 (11.54 %) OpenView 6 3 (11.54 %) QA 6 3 (11.54 %) Business Analysis 6 3 (11.54 %) AssetCenter 6 3 (11.54 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 3 (11.54 %) Integration Testing 6 3 (11.54 %) Legal 7 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 2 (7.692 %) Education 7 2 (7.692 %) TestDirector 7 2 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 7 2 (7.692 %) FTP 7 2 (7.692 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 3 (11.54 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 5 (19.23 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (7.692 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (30.77 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (11.54 %) SQL Server 3 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) TestDirector
General 1 15 (57.69 %) Finance 2 4 (15.38 %) Telecoms 3 3 (11.54 %) Legal 4 2 (7.692 %) Education 5 1 (3.846 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 13 (50.00 %) Consultant 2 3 (11.54 %) Business Consultant 2 3 (11.54 %) Business Objects Consultant 2 3 (11.54 %) Business Analyst 2 3 (11.54 %) Analyst 2 3 (11.54 %) Test Manager 3 2 (7.692 %) Administrator 3 2 (7.692 %) Contracts Manager 3 2 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Consultant 4 1 (3.846 %) Server Administrator 4 1 (3.846 %) Project Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (3.846 %) Technical Consultant
Operating Systems 1 8 (30.77 %) Windows Server 2003 1 8 (30.77 %) Windows 2 6 (23.08 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (30.77 %) ITIL 2 4 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (15.38 %) Programme Management 3 3 (11.54 %) Business Analysis 3 3 (11.54 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (11.54 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (3.846 %) Project Management 4 1 (3.846 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 2 (7.692 %) SQL 2 1 (3.846 %) VBScript	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (11.54 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (11.54 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 8 (30.77 %) ServiceCenter 2 3 (11.54 %) OpenView 2 3 (11.54 %) AssetCenter
Vendors 1 8 (30.77 %) Business Objects 2 3 (11.54 %) Peregrine 2 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft 3 2 (7.692 %) Symantec