East of England OpenView Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP OpenView (HPOV) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Systems Management category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OpenView over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP OpenView (HPOV)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Knutsford Leeds Livingston London Maidenhead Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West North Yorkshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	139
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	27	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	16.77 %	14.00 %
Daily rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum daily rate	£201	£150
Average daily rate	£227	£165
% change on same period last year	+37.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£253	£179
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£364
% change on same period last year	-15.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.82	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£27.82	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-14.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.82	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.32	£27.33
% change on same period last year	-3.71 %
Systems Management East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	161	150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.218 %	0.148 %
Daily rates quoted	40	50
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£249
Average daily rate	£273	£268
% change on same period last year	+1.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£286
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£360
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.32	£25.06
Average hourly rate	£25.72	£26.53
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.11	£28.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.69	£27.40
% change on same period last year	+4.69 %
OpenView England

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.

OpenView
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

OpenView
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenView across the East of England region.

OpenView
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenView across the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

OpenView
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the East of England region.

OpenView
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenView across the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

OpenView
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenView within the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Suffolk	-	18	£292	-
Hertfordshire	+20	4	-	-
Cambridgeshire	+22	3	-	-
Bedfordshire	-	3	£105	-
Essex	-12	1	£155	-0.68 %

OpenView England

OpenView
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing OpenView 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 OpenView.

1 47 (95.92 %) HP 2 31 (63.27 %) Cisco 3 21 (42.86 %) Windows 3 21 (42.86 %) Linux 4 19 (38.78 %) LAN 5 18 (36.73 %) WAN 5 18 (36.73 %) Solaris 6 15 (30.61 %) AIX 7 14 (28.57 %) NetBackup 7 14 (28.57 %) Brocade 7 14 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 7 14 (28.57 %) EMC 7 14 (28.57 %) SAN 8 13 (26.53 %) VERITAS 8 13 (26.53 %) CiscoWorks

8 13 (26.53 %) UNIX 8 13 (26.53 %) TACACS 9 12 (24.49 %) HP Data Protector 9 12 (24.49 %) Windows 2000 9 12 (24.49 %) HPUX 9 12 (24.49 %) Lotus Domino 9 12 (24.49 %) Lotus 10 11 (22.45 %) Legato 10 11 (22.45 %) Sun 10 11 (22.45 %) SNMP 11 10 (20.41 %) TCP/IP 11 10 (20.41 %) Tivoli 11 10 (20.41 %) ITIL 11 10 (20.41 %) Oracle 11 10 (20.41 %) ITIL Certification

OpenView
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing OpenView 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 OpenView. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (14.29 %) XML 2 3 (6.122 %) ADSI 2 3 (6.122 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 14 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (24.49 %) Lotus Domino 3 9 (18.37 %) Lotus Notes 4 5 (10.20 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 5 (10.20 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 9 (18.37 %) MS Excel 2 8 (16.33 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 19 (38.78 %) LAN 2 18 (36.73 %) WAN 3 14 (28.57 %) SAN 4 13 (26.53 %) TACACS 5 11 (22.45 %) SNMP 6 10 (20.41 %) TCP/IP 7 8 (16.33 %) BGP 7 8 (16.33 %) Firewall 8 7 (14.29 %) Wireless 8 7 (14.29 %) VPN 8 7 (14.29 %) WLAN 9 6 (12.24 %) VoIP 10 5 (10.20 %) Ethernet 10 5 (10.20 %) FTP 10 5 (10.20 %) SDH 10 5 (10.20 %) ADSL 10 5 (10.20 %) Broadband 10 5 (10.20 %) ISDN 10 5 (10.20 %) Internet 10 5 (10.20 %) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (18.37 %) SQL Server 1 9 (18.37 %) Informix 2 2 (4.082 %) TOAD	General 1 6 (12.24 %) Telecoms 2 3 (6.122 %) Finance 3 2 (4.082 %) Automotive 4 1 (2.041 %) Government 4 1 (2.041 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 15 (30.61 %) Analyst 2 10 (20.41 %) Network Engineer 2 10 (20.41 %) Support Analyst 3 9 (18.37 %) Support Engineer 3 9 (18.37 %) Storage Analyst 4 5 (10.20 %) Network Support Engineer 4 5 (10.20 %) Network Support 5 4 (8.163 %) Service Analyst 6 3 (6.122 %) Consultant 6 3 (6.122 %) Operations Analyst 6 3 (6.122 %) Storage Engineer 6 3 (6.122 %) Network Specialist 7 2 (4.082 %) Cisco Consultant 7 2 (4.082 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 7 2 (4.082 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 2 (4.082 %) Network Administrator 7 2 (4.082 %) Desktop Engineer 7 2 (4.082 %) Administrator 7 2 (4.082 %) 3rd Line Support 8 1 (2.041 %) Desktop Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.163 %) CLARiiON 2 3 (6.122 %) Symmetrix 2 3 (6.122 %) PKI 2 3 (6.122 %) CMDB 3 2 (4.082 %) Fat Client 3 2 (4.082 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 21 (42.86 %) Windows 1 21 (42.86 %) Linux 2 18 (36.73 %) Solaris 3 15 (30.61 %) AIX 4 13 (26.53 %) UNIX 5 12 (24.49 %) HPUX 5 12 (24.49 %) Windows 2000 6 8 (16.33 %) Windows Server 2003 7 5 (10.20 %) Windows NT 8 3 (6.122 %) Windows XP 9 1 (2.041 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (20.41 %) ITIL 2 5 (10.20 %) Problem Management 3 3 (6.122 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.041 %) ITSM 4 1 (2.041 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (2.041 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (2.041 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 7 (14.29 %) Perl 1 7 (14.29 %) Shell Script 2 3 (6.122 %) VBScript 2 3 (6.122 %) VB 3 2 (4.082 %) SQL 4 1 (2.041 %) C	Qualifications 1 10 (20.41 %) ITIL Certification 2 9 (18.37 %) SNIA Certification 2 9 (18.37 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (12.24 %) CCNA 4 3 (6.122 %) CCIE 4 3 (6.122 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.041 %) SLA	System Software 1 14 (28.57 %) NetBackup 2 5 (10.20 %) Active Directory 3 3 (6.122 %) MetaFrame 3 3 (6.122 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 13 (26.53 %) CiscoWorks 2 12 (24.49 %) HP Data Protector 3 11 (22.45 %) Legato 4 10 (20.41 %) Tivoli 5 7 (14.29 %) Tivoli NetView 5 7 (14.29 %) NNM 6 3 (6.122 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 2 (4.082 %) OVSD 7 2 (4.082 %) OVPA	Vendors 1 47 (95.92 %) HP 2 31 (63.27 %) Cisco 3 14 (28.57 %) EMC 3 14 (28.57 %) Brocade 4 13 (26.53 %) VERITAS 5 12 (24.49 %) Lotus 6 11 (22.45 %) Sun 7 10 (20.41 %) Oracle 8 7 (14.29 %) Dell 9 6 (12.24 %) Microsoft 9 6 (12.24 %) Nortel 10 5 (10.20 %) Citrix 10 5 (10.20 %) McAfee Security 10 5 (10.20 %) MetaSolv 10 5 (10.20 %) Cramer 10 5 (10.20 %) 3Com 11 4 (8.163 %) IBM 12 2 (4.082 %) Wyse 12 2 (4.082 %) Altiris 13 1 (2.041 %) BT