The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 22 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 East Midlands 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 55 66 53
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -13
Contract jobs citing HP 31 20 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 2.456% 1.431% 2.276%
As % of the Vendors category 5.345% 3.401% 5.354%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 10
Average daily rate £313 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.50% +11.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £218 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £460 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-10.09% -17.56%
All Vendors
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
580 588 579
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 45.96% 42.06% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 282 205
Average daily rate £325 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% +3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £175 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 51 69
Average hourly rate £17.75 £17.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.14 £8.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £57.50 £34.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
England

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands HP Daily Rate Trend

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East Midlands HP Daily Rate Histogram

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Derbyshire +21 11 £313 -8.22%
Northamptonshire +13 7 £330 -12.13%
Nottinghamshire 0 6 £298 -15.00%
Leicestershire -11 1 £275 -16.98%
HP
England

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 33 (40.74%) VMware
2 30 (37.04%) Windows
3 28 (34.57%) SAN
4 26 (32.10%) Windows Server 2008
5 23 (28.40%) Cisco
5 23 (28.40%) Active Directory
6 22 (27.16%) IBM
7 21 (25.93%) Microsoft
7 21 (25.93%) Windows Server 2003
8 16 (19.75%) Linux
8 16 (19.75%) HP Quality Center
9 14 (17.28%) SQL Server
9 14 (17.28%) Citrix
9 14 (17.28%) Migration
10 12 (14.81%) MS Exchange
10 12 (14.81%) SQL Server 2008
11 11 (13.58%) Finance
11 11 (13.58%) Windows 2000
11 11 (13.58%) Firewall
12 10 (12.35%) SQL
12 10 (12.35%) UNIX
12 10 (12.35%) Oracle
12 10 (12.35%) Hyper-V
13 9 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
13 9 (11.11%) MCSE
13 9 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (11.11%) EMC
14 8 (9.877%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 4 (4.938%) XML
1 4 (4.938%) Middleware
2 3 (3.704%) SOAP
2 3 (3.704%) JMS
2 3 (3.704%) WS-I
2 3 (3.704%) WSDL
3 2 (2.469%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.235%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.235%) COM
4 1 (1.235%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 12 (14.81%) MS Exchange
2 7 (8.642%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (8.642%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (2.469%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.469%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.469%) Lync
4 2 (2.469%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (1.235%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.235%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.235%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.469%) MS Excel
1 2 (2.469%) Office 365
1 2 (2.469%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.235%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.235%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.235%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.235%) SAP Retail
1 1 (1.235%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.235%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.235%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 28 (34.57%) SAN
2 11 (13.58%) Firewall
3 8 (9.877%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (8.642%) DNS
5 6 (7.407%) LAN
5 6 (7.407%) Wireless
6 5 (6.173%) HTTP
7 4 (4.938%) VPN
7 4 (4.938%) DHCP
7 4 (4.938%) OSPF
8 3 (3.704%) Cisco PIX
8 3 (3.704%) VLAN
8 3 (3.704%) BGP
8 3 (3.704%) EIGRP
8 3 (3.704%) WAN
8 3 (3.704%) VoIP
9 2 (2.469%) WLAN
9 2 (2.469%) MPLS
9 2 (2.469%) Network Security
10 1 (1.235%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.28%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.81%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (8.642%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (2.469%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.235%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.235%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.235%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (3.704%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (3.704%) LoadRunner
General
1 11 (13.58%) Finance
2 7 (8.642%) Retail
3 6 (7.407%) Banking
4 5 (6.173%) Retail Banking
4 5 (6.173%) Marketing
5 1 (1.235%) Danish Language
5 1 (1.235%) French Language
5 1 (1.235%) Swedish Language
5 1 (1.235%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (13.58%) Analyst
2 9 (11.11%) Architect
3 7 (8.642%) Test Analyst
3 7 (8.642%) Consultant
3 7 (8.642%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (7.407%) Network Engineer
5 5 (6.173%) Network Architect
5 5 (6.173%) Sales Manager
5 5 (6.173%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.173%) Account Manager
5 5 (6.173%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.938%) Test Manager
6 4 (4.938%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) UAT Test Analyst
7 3 (3.704%) Test Architect
7 3 (3.704%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) UNIX Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) UAT Analyst
7 3 (3.704%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.642%) Blackberry
2 5 (6.173%) Clustering
3 3 (3.704%) Open Source
3 3 (3.704%) Firmware
4 1 (1.235%) VLE
4 1 (1.235%) IVR
4 1 (1.235%) Statistics
4 1 (1.235%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.235%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.235%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 30 (37.04%) Windows
2 26 (32.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (25.93%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (19.75%) Linux
5 11 (13.58%) Windows 2000
6 10 (12.35%) UNIX
7 6 (7.407%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (7.407%) Windows 7
8 5 (6.173%) HPUX
8 5 (6.173%) Solaris
9 3 (3.704%) Windows 2000 Server
10 2 (2.469%) AIX
11 1 (1.235%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.28%) Migration
2 9 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (6.173%) ITIL
4 4 (4.938%) Configuration Management
4 4 (4.938%) Project Management
4 4 (4.938%) Service Delivery
4 4 (4.938%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (4.938%) Time Management
5 3 (3.704%) Test Scripting
5 3 (3.704%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (3.704%) BPEL
5 3 (3.704%) SOA
6 2 (2.469%) Software Deployment
6 2 (2.469%) ERP
6 2 (2.469%) Logistics
6 2 (2.469%) Software Testing
6 2 (2.469%) Load Balancing
6 2 (2.469%) Incident Management
6 2 (2.469%) TDD
6 2 (2.469%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) SQL
2 3 (3.704%) XPath
3 2 (2.469%) Python
3 2 (2.469%) Perl
3 2 (2.469%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.469%) Ruby
3 2 (2.469%) Bash shell
4 1 (1.235%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.235%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) MCSE
1 9 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (9.877%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 8 (9.877%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.642%) CCNA
4 6 (7.407%) MCITP
5 5 (6.173%) CCNP
5 5 (6.173%) Citrix Certification
6 4 (4.938%) CCA
6 4 (4.938%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.704%) RHCE
7 3 (3.704%) ISEB
8 2 (2.469%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.235%) VCP4
9 1 (1.235%) RHCA
9 1 (1.235%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.235%) CISSP
9 1 (1.235%) OCP
9 1 (1.235%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.704%) QA
2 1 (1.235%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (28.40%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.35%) Hyper-V
3 8 (9.877%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.642%) vSphere
5 6 (7.407%) XenApp
6 4 (4.938%) ISA Server
6 4 (4.938%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 3 (3.704%) Forefront TMG
7 3 (3.704%) VMware ESX
8 1 (1.235%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.235%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (1.235%) Xen
8 1 (1.235%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) HP Quality Center
2 7 (8.642%) SCCM
3 4 (4.938%) SCOM
4 3 (3.704%) WSUS
4 3 (3.704%) OpenView
5 2 (2.469%) HP SIM
6 1 (1.235%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 33 (40.74%) VMware
2 23 (28.40%) Cisco
3 22 (27.16%) IBM
4 21 (25.93%) Microsoft
5 14 (17.28%) Citrix
6 10 (12.35%) Oracle
7 9 (11.11%) EMC
8 6 (7.407%) Sun
9 5 (6.173%) Riverbed
9 5 (6.173%) Brocade
9 5 (6.173%) NetApp
9 5 (6.173%) SAP
9 5 (6.173%) Nortel
10 4 (4.938%) Hitachi
10 4 (4.938%) Red Hat
11 3 (3.704%) Juniper
11 3 (3.704%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.704%) Dell
12 2 (2.469%) Novell
12 2 (2.469%) Primavera
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