The first table below looks at the demand for OpenView 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 OpenView over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP OpenView (HPOV)
Rank 450 424 427
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +3
Contract jobs citing OpenView 68 139 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.164% 0.260% 0.257%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.396% 4.219% 4.433%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 48 69
Average daily rate £400 £288 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.13% +36.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £90 £107 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £220 £200
% change year-on-year
+53.40% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 24
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.75 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.72% -51.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.99 £15.58 £80.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £12.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-12.21% -66.58%
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2838 3295 3316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.835% 6.170% 5.805%
Number of daily rates quoted 1627 1701 1623
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 £225 £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 157 157 224
Average hourly rate £20.50 £19.81 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.47% -15.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.68 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
OpenView
UK

OpenView
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OpenView Jobs Demand Trend

OpenView
Daily Rate Trend

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

England OpenView Daily Rate Trend

OpenView
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenView across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England OpenView Daily Rate Histogram

OpenView
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England OpenView Hourly Rate Trend

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 England region over the 3 months to 23 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
London +12 24 £400 +14.28%
South East +8 13 £313 +9.64%
East of England +3 11 £88 -11.61%
West Midlands +7 7 £559 +99.55%
Yorkshire +2 7 £440 +100.00%
North East +13 2 - -
Midlands -2 2 - -
South West - 1 £550 -
OpenView
UK

OpenView
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 144 (92.31%) HP
2 66 (42.31%) Security Cleared
3 51 (32.69%) Windows
4 49 (31.41%) Active Directory
5 47 (30.13%) ITIL
6 40 (25.64%) Microsoft
7 39 (25.00%) Firewall
8 38 (24.36%) OVSD
8 38 (24.36%) Cisco
9 37 (23.72%) SC Cleared
10 31 (19.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (19.87%) MCP
10 31 (19.87%) UNIX
11 27 (17.31%) Oracle
11 27 (17.31%) SLA
11 27 (17.31%) VMware
11 27 (17.31%) MCDST
12 26 (16.67%) Juniper
13 25 (16.03%) MS Excel
14 24 (15.38%) MS Office
15 23 (14.74%) WAN
15 23 (14.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 22 (14.10%) SQL Server
17 21 (13.46%) Linux
17 21 (13.46%) LAN
17 21 (13.46%) Incident Management
18 20 (12.82%) Windows 7
18 20 (12.82%) SAN
18 20 (12.82%) SNMP
19 18 (11.54%) McAfee

OpenView
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 14 (8.974%) SOAP
2 11 (7.051%) .NET
2 11 (7.051%) REST
3 8 (5.128%) Java EE
3 8 (5.128%) XML
4 6 (3.846%) HTML5
4 6 (3.846%) WSRP
4 6 (3.846%) JSR 168
4 6 (3.846%) Ajax
4 6 (3.846%) DHTML
4 6 (3.846%) HTML
4 6 (3.846%) J2EE
4 6 (3.846%) Flash
4 6 (3.846%) LAMP
5 5 (3.205%) JMS
5 5 (3.205%) CSS
6 3 (1.923%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.282%) RESTful
7 2 (1.282%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 13 (8.333%) Lotus Notes
2 12 (7.692%) MS Exchange
3 11 (7.051%) Apache
4 10 (6.410%) Tomcat
5 8 (5.128%) Lync
6 6 (3.846%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.846%) Amazon AWS
7 5 (3.205%) CMS
8 4 (2.564%) SharePoint
8 4 (2.564%) LiveLink
9 3 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (1.282%) ESB
10 2 (1.282%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (1.282%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (1.282%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (0.641%) IIS
11 1 (0.641%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 25 (16.03%) MS Excel
2 24 (15.38%) MS Office
3 14 (8.974%) MS Visio
4 11 (7.051%) MS Project
4 11 (7.051%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.641%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.564%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (2.564%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.282%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.641%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 39 (25.00%) Firewall
2 23 (14.74%) WAN
3 21 (13.46%) LAN
4 20 (12.82%) SAN
4 20 (12.82%) SNMP
5 18 (11.54%) TCP/IP
6 16 (10.26%) OSPF
6 16 (10.26%) DNS
7 15 (9.615%) BGP
7 15 (9.615%) Wireless
7 15 (9.615%) NAS
8 14 (8.974%) Ethernet
9 12 (7.692%) Network Security
9 12 (7.692%) HTTP
9 12 (7.692%) MPLS
10 11 (7.051%) VPN
11 10 (6.410%) SSL
11 10 (6.410%) IPsec
12 9 (5.769%) RTP
12 9 (5.769%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.10%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
2 12 (7.692%) MySQL
3 10 (6.410%) RDBMS
4 9 (5.769%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.769%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.769%) CouchDB
4 9 (5.769%) Redis
5 6 (3.846%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (2.564%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (2.564%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (2.564%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (1.923%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.923%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (1.282%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.641%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.641%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (5.128%) Jenkins
1 8 (5.128%) Git (software)
1 8 (5.128%) Hudson
1 8 (5.128%) Selenium
1 8 (5.128%) JIRA
1 8 (5.128%) Maven
2 4 (2.564%) StarTeam
3 3 (1.923%) Introscope
3 3 (1.923%) Oracle APEX
General
1 17 (10.90%) Telecoms
2 16 (10.26%) Finance
3 12 (7.692%) Banking
4 7 (4.487%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.846%) Retail
5 6 (3.846%) Law
6 5 (3.205%) German Language
7 3 (1.923%) Front Office
8 1 (0.641%) Back Office
8 1 (0.641%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 42 (26.92%) Analyst
2 19 (12.18%) Service Analyst
3 18 (11.54%) Service Desk Analyst
4 16 (10.26%) Support Analyst
5 14 (8.974%) Architect
6 12 (7.692%) Network Engineer
7 11 (7.051%) Help Desk Analyst
8 10 (6.410%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (5.128%) Network Specialist
9 8 (5.128%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.128%) 1st Line Support
9 8 (5.128%) Consultant
10 7 (4.487%) DBA
10 7 (4.487%) Technical Architect
10 7 (4.487%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
11 6 (3.846%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.846%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.846%) Administrator
12 5 (3.205%) Systems Analyst
12 5 (3.205%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.846%) Taxonomies
1 6 (3.846%) Ontologies
1 6 (3.846%) HACMP
1 6 (3.846%) Cryptography
2 5 (3.205%) Clustering
2 5 (3.205%) PKI
2 5 (3.205%) LPAR
3 4 (2.564%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.564%) Open Source
3 4 (2.564%) Client/Server
3 4 (2.564%) e-Health
4 2 (1.282%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.282%) Fat Client
4 2 (1.282%) CMDB
4 2 (1.282%) Statistics
4 2 (1.282%) Thin Client
4 2 (1.282%) Equities
4 2 (1.282%) Replication
5 1 (0.641%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.641%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 51 (32.69%) Windows
2 31 (19.87%) UNIX
3 21 (13.46%) Linux
4 20 (12.82%) Windows 7
5 17 (10.90%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (7.692%) Windows XP
7 8 (5.128%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (4.487%) AIX
9 6 (3.846%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (3.205%) Solaris
11 3 (1.923%) Windows NT
12 2 (1.282%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.641%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.641%) Fedora
13 1 (0.641%) HPUX
13 1 (0.641%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.641%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.641%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.13%) ITIL
2 21 (13.46%) Incident Management
3 13 (8.333%) Load Balancing
4 12 (7.692%) SOA
4 12 (7.692%) Migration
4 12 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (7.051%) Network Management
6 10 (6.410%) Service Management
7 9 (5.769%) Penetration Testing
8 8 (5.128%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (5.128%) Project Management
9 6 (3.846%) Information Architecture
9 6 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (3.846%) DRM
10 5 (3.205%) Risk Management
10 5 (3.205%) Change Management
10 5 (3.205%) E-Commerce
10 5 (3.205%) Test Scripting
10 5 (3.205%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (2.564%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.051%) PHP
1 11 (7.051%) SQL
2 10 (6.410%) Java
2 10 (6.410%) Perl
3 6 (3.846%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.205%) AWK
4 5 (3.205%) sed
5 4 (2.564%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.923%) VB.NET
6 3 (1.923%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.923%) C#
7 2 (1.282%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.641%) C++
8 1 (0.641%) C
Qualifications
1 66 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 31 (19.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (19.87%) MCP
4 27 (17.31%) MCDST
5 18 (11.54%) DV Cleared
6 11 (7.051%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (7.051%) CCNA
7 10 (6.410%) MCSE
8 7 (4.487%) MCITP
8 7 (4.487%) HP APS
9 6 (3.846%) RHCE
10 5 (3.205%) RHCT
10 5 (3.205%) Degree
11 4 (2.564%) ISEB
12 3 (1.923%) CCSP
12 3 (1.923%) MCTS
13 2 (1.282%) CCNP
14 1 (0.641%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.641%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.31%) SLA
2 8 (5.128%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.487%) ISO 9000
3 7 (4.487%) BS25999
4 6 (3.846%) QA
5 1 (0.641%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (31.41%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.615%) Samba
2 15 (9.615%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.974%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.846%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (3.846%) VMware ESX
5 5 (3.205%) NFS
6 4 (2.564%) Terminal Services
6 4 (2.564%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.923%) XenApp
8 2 (1.282%) Sendmail
8 2 (1.282%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.641%) Xen
9 1 (0.641%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.641%) Postfix
9 1 (0.641%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 38 (24.36%) OVSD
2 23 (14.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 18 (11.54%) SCOM
4 17 (10.90%) SCCM
5 13 (8.333%) Nagios
6 11 (7.051%) ServiceCenter
7 10 (6.410%) HP SIM
8 9 (5.769%) ZABBIX
9 8 (5.128%) Tivoli
10 7 (4.487%) CiscoWorks
11 6 (3.846%) Puppet
12 5 (3.205%) HP NNM
12 5 (3.205%) HP Data Protector
12 5 (3.205%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (3.205%) SolarWinds Orion
12 5 (3.205%) CA Wily
13 4 (2.564%) Netcool
14 3 (1.923%) OpenView Configuration Management
14 3 (1.923%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (1.923%) OVPI
Vendors
1 144 (92.31%) HP
2 40 (25.64%) Microsoft
3 38 (24.36%) Cisco
4 27 (17.31%) Oracle
4 27 (17.31%) VMware
5 26 (16.67%) Juniper
6 18 (11.54%) McAfee
7 17 (10.90%) Nokia
8 16 (10.26%) CheckPoint
9 15 (9.615%) SolarWinds
10 14 (8.974%) OPNET
10 14 (8.974%) BMC
11 13 (8.333%) Lotus
12 11 (7.051%) Citrix
12 11 (7.051%) F5
13 10 (6.410%) JBoss
14 9 (5.769%) IBM
14 9 (5.769%) ArcSight
15 7 (4.487%) 3Com
15 7 (4.487%) Red Hat
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