The first table below looks at the demand for HP UCMDB skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP UCMDB 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 of the Systems Management category 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB)
Rank 506 564 550
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -14
Contract jobs citing HP UCMDB 8 6 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.011% 0.025%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.280% 0.180% 0.434%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
Average daily rate £290 - £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £289 - £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 - £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 - £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2861 3336 3225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.778% 6.149% 5.822%
Number of daily rates quoted 1648 1724 1580
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 160 217
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -14.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.83 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
HP UCMDB
UK

HP UCMDB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England HP UCMDB Jobs Demand Trend

HP UCMDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

England HP UCMDB Daily Rate Trend

HP UCMDB
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England HP UCMDB Daily Rate Histogram

HP UCMDB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP UCMDB within the England 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
North West +7 6 £345 -
South East - 2 £288 -
HP UCMDB
UK

HP UCMDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing HP UCMDB 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 UCMDB.

1 12 (100.00%) HP
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) UNIX
3 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL V2
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Serena
3 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) PRINCE
4 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (8.333%) Information Assurance
5 1 (8.333%) Open Source
5 1 (8.333%) XPath
5 1 (8.333%) CMDB
5 1 (8.333%) SAN
5 1 (8.333%) CA
5 1 (8.333%) Veritas
5 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
5 1 (8.333%) Compuware
5 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
5 1 (8.333%) OpenView
5 1 (8.333%) HTML
5 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
5 1 (8.333%) XML

HP UCMDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing HP UCMDB 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 UCMDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) HTML
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) XSL
1 1 (8.333%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) SAN
General
1 1 (8.333%) Banking
1 1 (8.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) Configuration Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) OpenView Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Open Source
1 1 (8.333%) CMDB
1 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL V2
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL
1 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (8.333%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) XPath
2 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) OpenView
1 1 (8.333%) Netcool
1 1 (8.333%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) HP
2 3 (25.00%) Serena
3 1 (8.333%) CA
3 1 (8.333%) Veritas
3 1 (8.333%) Compuware
3 1 (8.333%) TIBCO
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix