The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Compaq products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Compaq over the 3 months to 19 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 England 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 Compaq.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Compaq
Rank 497 507 549
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +42
Contract jobs citing Compaq 35 38 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.081% 0.072% 0.054%
As % of the Vendors category 0.173% 0.155% 0.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 11
Average daily rate £215 £265 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.86% +11.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £184 £131 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £296 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £200 £200
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -26.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.90 £14.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £23.83 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £22.75 £43.50
% change year-on-year
-12.08% -47.70%
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20241 24494 26701
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.78% 46.25% 46.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11110 12869 13881
Average daily rate £400 £395 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.26% -4.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1142 1229 1552
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -4.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.37 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
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Compaq
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Compaq Jobs Demand Trend

Compaq
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Compaq across the England region.

England Compaq Daily Rate Trend

Compaq
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Compaq across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Compaq Daily Rate Histogram

Compaq
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Compaq Hourly Rate Trend

Compaq
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Compaq across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Compaq Hourly Rate Histogram

Compaq
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Compaq within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +25 7 £350 +16.66% 1
South East +16 5 £210 +10.52% 2
East Midlands - - - -
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Compaq
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 48 (96.00%) Windows
2 34 (68.00%) HP
3 32 (64.00%) Dell
4 23 (46.00%) MS Exchange
5 22 (44.00%) TCP/IP
5 22 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 20 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 20 (40.00%) Active Directory
7 19 (38.00%) SAN
8 18 (36.00%) Solaris
9 17 (34.00%) Sun
9 17 (34.00%) VMware
10 16 (32.00%) DNS
10 16 (32.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (32.00%) MCSE
11 15 (30.00%) Citrix
11 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
11 15 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
12 14 (28.00%) Cisco
13 13 (26.00%) SQL
13 13 (26.00%) SQL Server
13 13 (26.00%) ITIL
13 13 (26.00%) Windows Server 2003
14 12 (24.00%) Backup Exec
14 12 (24.00%) Windows 2000
14 12 (24.00%) SQL Server 2005
14 12 (24.00%) SQL Server 2008
15 11 (22.00%) SMTP
15 11 (22.00%) SNMP
15 11 (22.00%) Veritas

Compaq
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 (2.000%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 23 (46.00%) MS Exchange
2 20 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 15 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (8.000%) WorkSite
6 2 (4.000%) IIS
7 1 (2.000%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) MS Office
2 3 (6.000%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.000%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (44.00%) TCP/IP
2 19 (38.00%) SAN
3 16 (32.00%) DNS
4 11 (22.00%) SMTP
4 11 (22.00%) SNMP
5 5 (10.00%) NAS
5 5 (10.00%) Internet
6 3 (6.000%) DHCP
7 2 (4.000%) Wireless
7 2 (4.000%) VPN
7 2 (4.000%) Ethernet
7 2 (4.000%) NetScaler
7 2 (4.000%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.000%) LAN
8 1 (2.000%) WAN
8 1 (2.000%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (24.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 12 (24.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (12.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (4.000%) Bugzilla
1 2 (4.000%) MSI
1 2 (4.000%) InstallShield
1 2 (4.000%) WinRunner
1 2 (4.000%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (4.000%) LoadRunner
1 2 (4.000%) Selenium
General
1 7 (14.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.000%) Finance
3 1 (2.000%) Banking
3 1 (2.000%) Back Office
3 1 (2.000%) Law
3 1 (2.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (14.00%) Analyst
1 7 (14.00%) Consultant
1 7 (14.00%) Server Support
2 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Data Centre Technician
3 5 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (6.000%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (6.000%) Field Engineer
5 2 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.000%) Administrator
5 2 (4.000%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (4.000%) Desktop Support
5 2 (4.000%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (4.000%) Senior Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.000%) Citrix Administrator
5 2 (4.000%) Deskside Support
6 1 (2.000%) Data Centre Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Clustering
2 7 (14.00%) PACS
3 5 (10.00%) Blackberry
4 4 (8.000%) CLARiiON
5 2 (4.000%) PDA
6 1 (2.000%) SaaS
6 1 (2.000%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.000%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.000%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.000%) HACMP
6 1 (2.000%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.000%) AS400
6 1 (2.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 48 (96.00%) Windows
2 22 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (36.00%) Solaris
4 13 (26.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 12 (24.00%) Windows 2000
6 10 (20.00%) Windows Vista
7 8 (16.00%) Windows XP
7 8 (16.00%) UNIX
7 8 (16.00%) Windows 7
8 3 (6.000%) Windows NT
9 2 (4.000%) Linux
9 2 (4.000%) NetWare
9 2 (4.000%) HPUX
10 1 (2.000%) AIX
10 1 (2.000%) SUSE
10 1 (2.000%) Slackware
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) ITIL
2 9 (18.00%) Performance Management
3 7 (14.00%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (14.00%) Service Management
3 7 (14.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (6.000%) Migration
6 2 (4.000%) Security Management
6 2 (4.000%) Asset Management
6 2 (4.000%) Software Distribution
6 2 (4.000%) Change Control
7 1 (2.000%) E-Commerce
7 1 (2.000%) ERP
7 1 (2.000%) Configuration Management
7 1 (2.000%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) VBScript
2 6 (12.00%) VB
3 2 (4.000%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.000%) Perl
4 1 (2.000%) Bash shell
4 1 (2.000%) Korn
4 1 (2.000%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.000%) C
4 1 (2.000%) C++
4 1 (2.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (32.00%) MCSE
2 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.000%) MCP
5 2 (4.000%) CCA
5 2 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (4.000%) ISEB
5 2 (4.000%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.000%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (2.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.000%) Degree
6 1 (2.000%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.000%) QA
1 1 (2.000%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.00%) Forefront TMG
3 7 (14.00%) ISA Server
4 6 (12.00%) XenApp
5 4 (8.000%) VMware ESX
5 4 (8.000%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 4 (8.000%) vSphere
6 2 (4.000%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (4.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (4.000%) XenServer
6 2 (4.000%) XenDesktop
7 1 (2.000%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Backup Exec
2 5 (10.00%) HP SIM
2 5 (10.00%) SCOM
3 4 (8.000%) RepliStor
3 4 (8.000%) MAILsweeper
3 4 (8.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 3 (6.000%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (6.000%) SCCM
4 3 (6.000%) Legato
4 3 (6.000%) Tivoli
5 2 (4.000%) MOM
5 2 (4.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (2.000%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (68.00%) HP
2 32 (64.00%) Dell
3 17 (34.00%) Sun
3 17 (34.00%) VMware
4 15 (30.00%) Citrix
4 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 14 (28.00%) Cisco
6 11 (22.00%) Veritas
7 8 (16.00%) EMC
7 8 (16.00%) Oracle
8 7 (14.00%) ADIC
8 7 (14.00%) CommVault
9 6 (12.00%) Symantec
10 5 (10.00%) SolarWinds
10 5 (10.00%) IBM
10 5 (10.00%) McAfee
11 4 (8.000%) Clearswift
11 4 (8.000%) NetIQ
11 4 (8.000%) Intel
12 3 (6.000%) Fujitsu
City, London
Excellent knowledge of Active Directory Service design, implementation (W2K3/W2K8) Good knowledge of SAN / Storage Architecture and Design (Preferably HP / Compaq products) Good knowledge of Client/Server architectures.(...
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £401 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Basildon, Essex
Active Directory 2008... -Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010. -Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008. -Windows Server 2008 Clustering Technology. -HP EVA and P4000 SAN technologies. -CommVault Simpana...
Skye Group
Rate: £25 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
South East
Edward Carter Solutions have a long term opportunity for a IT systems engineer with a high profile end user client based in the South East.
Edward Carter Solutions
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 18 June 2013
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