The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Croydon 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 11 17 23
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +6
Contract jobs citing HP 8 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 10.96% 3.937% 6.061%
As % of the Vendors category 17.02% 11.63% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
Average daily rate £400 £444 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.85% +4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £359 £409 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £479 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.73 £14.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-5.31% -9.37%
All Vendors
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
47 43 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 64.38% 33.86% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 60
Average daily rate £338 £480 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.68% +11.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £400 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -17.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
HP
London

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
1 4 (40.00%) ISEB
1 4 (40.00%) Test Management
1 4 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (30.00%) Capacity Management
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Dell
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Lync
3 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (20.00%) VLAN
3 2 (20.00%) HP AIS
3 2 (20.00%) HP ASE
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
4 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (10.00%) Statistics
4 1 (10.00%) WSUS
4 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (10.00%) QA

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 2 (20.00%) Lync
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (10.00%) DMZ
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (10.00%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Server Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Server Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) QA Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Test Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (30.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) ISEB
2 2 (20.00%) HP AIS
2 2 (20.00%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
3 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (10.00%) WMI
3 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (10.00%) CommVault
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp
2 1 (10.00%) Symantec
2 1 (10.00%) McAfee
2 1 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft