England Tru64 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP Tru64 UNIX skills within the England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Tru64 over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP Tru64 UNIX
Location Berkshire Bracknell Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London East of England England Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire London Manchester Merseyside North West Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire UK Watford Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	496	581
Rank change on same period last year	+85
Matching contract IT job ads	23	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	0.207 %	0.235 %
Daily rates quoted	12	19
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£376
Average daily rate	£406	£388
% change on same period last year	+4.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£396
% change on same period last year	-1.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£41.27	£41.94
% change on same period last year	-1.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.54	£43.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.27	£41.94
% change on same period last year	-1.59 %
Operating Systems England
Matching contract IT job ads	11131	18738
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	17.53 %	20.08 %
Daily rates quoted	3170	5125
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£364
Average daily rate	£345	£384
% change on same period last year	-10.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	1958	2967
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.97	£21.17
Average hourly rate	£22.23	£22.55
% change on same period last year	-1.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.48	£23.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.36	£22.18
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Tru64 UK

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Tru64 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Tru64 across the England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tru64 across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Tru64 across the England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tru64 across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tru64 within the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
East of England	-	7	£490	-
North West	+14	6	£300	-
South West	+14	4	£283	-18.24 %
South East	+39	4	£300	-39.98 %
London	+92	2	£481	+75.00 %
Yorkshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Tru64 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 Tru64.

1 65 (95.59 %) UNIX 2 41 (60.29 %) AIX 3 38 (55.88 %) Solaris 4 25 (36.76 %) SAN 5 22 (32.35 %) HP 5 22 (32.35 %) Windows 6 20 (29.41 %) Shell Script 6 20 (29.41 %) HPUX 7 18 (26.47 %) Sun 8 17 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 9 16 (23.53 %) SQL 10 15 (22.06 %) Oracle 11 14 (20.59 %) Korn 11 14 (20.59 %) Linux 11 14 (20.59 %) OpenVMS

11 14 (20.59 %) IBM 11 14 (20.59 %) Tivoli 11 14 (20.59 %) DV Cleared 12 13 (19.12 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 13 11 (16.18 %) WebSphere 13 11 (16.18 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 13 11 (16.18 %) SQL Server 14 10 (14.71 %) Windows 2000 15 9 (13.24 %) Government 15 9 (13.24 %) DB2 15 9 (13.24 %) RDBMS 16 8 (11.76 %) Windows Server 2003 16 8 (11.76 %) Sybase 17 7 (10.29 %) Oracle 9i 17 7 (10.29 %) HACMP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Tru64 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 Tru64. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (16.18 %) WebSphere 2 4 (5.882 %) Oracle Streams 3 2 (2.941 %) HTML 3 2 (2.941 %) Middleware 4 1 (1.471 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.941 %) Tuxedo 1 2 (2.941 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (1.471 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.471 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.471 %) Oracle 9iAS 2 1 (1.471 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 3 (4.412 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.471 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 25 (36.76 %) SAN 2 7 (10.29 %) FTP 3 4 (5.882 %) SNMP 3 4 (5.882 %) DNS 4 3 (4.412 %) HTTP 5 2 (2.941 %) DHCP 5 2 (2.941 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (1.471 %) Broadband 6 1 (1.471 %) GPRS 6 1 (1.471 %) Intranet 6 1 (1.471 %) Internet 6 1 (1.471 %) 3G 6 1 (1.471 %) Firewall 6 1 (1.471 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (16.18 %) SQL Server 2 9 (13.24 %) DB2 2 9 (13.24 %) RDBMS 3 7 (10.29 %) Oracle 9i 3 7 (10.29 %) Oracle 10g 4 4 (5.882 %) SQLPlus 5 3 (4.412 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (4.412 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (2.941 %) Oracle OWB 7 1 (1.471 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (1.471 %) DB2 UDB 7 1 (1.471 %) DataStage 7 1 (1.471 %) Star Schema 7 1 (1.471 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (1.471 %) DTS 7 1 (1.471 %) TOAD	General 1 9 (13.24 %) Government 2 3 (4.412 %) Electric 3 2 (2.941 %) FMCG 4 1 (1.471 %) Games 4 1 (1.471 %) Online Games 4 1 (1.471 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.471 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 36 (52.94 %) Administrator 2 23 (33.82 %) DBA 3 21 (30.88 %) Systems Administrator 4 15 (22.06 %) UNIX Administrator 5 13 (19.12 %) Consultant 5 13 (19.12 %) Oracle DBA 6 12 (17.65 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 7 11 (16.18 %) UNIX Consultant 8 10 (14.71 %) AIX Administrator 9 6 (8.824 %) Senior DBA 10 4 (5.882 %) SQL DBA 11 3 (4.412 %) DB2 DBA 12 2 (2.941 %) UNIX Technical Specialist 12 2 (2.941 %) UNIX Systems Engineer 12 2 (2.941 %) UNIX Specialist 12 2 (2.941 %) UNIX Engineer 12 2 (2.941 %) Implementation Consultant 12 2 (2.941 %) Technical Specialist 12 2 (2.941 %) Systems Engineer 13 1 (1.471 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 7 (10.29 %) HACMP 2 5 (7.353 %) Data Extraction 3 4 (5.882 %) Replication 4 2 (2.941 %) Clustering 5 1 (1.471 %) CLARiiON 5 1 (1.471 %) Symmetrix
Operating Systems 1 65 (95.59 %) UNIX 2 41 (60.29 %) AIX 3 38 (55.88 %) Solaris 4 22 (32.35 %) Windows 5 20 (29.41 %) HPUX 6 14 (20.59 %) Linux 6 14 (20.59 %) OpenVMS 7 10 (14.71 %) Windows 2000 8 8 (11.76 %) Windows Server 2003 9 6 (8.824 %) Windows NT 10 3 (4.412 %) Red Hat Linux 11 1 (1.471 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 1 (1.471 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 1 (1.471 %) Windows XP 11 1 (1.471 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (20.59 %) DV Cleared 3 6 (8.824 %) Test Scripting 3 6 (8.824 %) Migration 4 5 (7.353 %) Disaster Recovery 4 5 (7.353 %) Data Modelling 5 4 (5.882 %) Change Management 6 3 (4.412 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (1.471 %) Data Protection 7 1 (1.471 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.471 %) Service Management 7 1 (1.471 %) E-business 7 1 (1.471 %) Security Management 7 1 (1.471 %) Incident Management 7 1 (1.471 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 20 (29.41 %) Shell Script 2 16 (23.53 %) SQL 3 14 (20.59 %) Korn 4 4 (5.882 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (2.941 %) VB 5 2 (2.941 %) SQR	Qualifications 1 1 (1.471 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.941 %) SLA 2 1 (1.471 %) GxP	System Software 1 11 (16.18 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 4 (5.882 %) Oracle RMAN 3 3 (4.412 %) NetBackup 3 3 (4.412 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (2.941 %) Oracle RAC 4 2 (2.941 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 14 (20.59 %) Tivoli 2 13 (19.12 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 3 (4.412 %) Oracle Statspack 3 3 (4.412 %) HP Data Protector 3 3 (4.412 %) Legato 4 1 (1.471 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 4 1 (1.471 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 1 (1.471 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 22 (32.35 %) HP 2 18 (26.47 %) Sun 3 15 (22.06 %) Oracle 4 14 (20.59 %) IBM 5 8 (11.76 %) Sybase 6 7 (10.29 %) Sophos 7 6 (8.824 %) Symantec 7 6 (8.824 %) Compaq 8 3 (4.412 %) Red Hat 8 3 (4.412 %) Tripwire 8 3 (4.412 %) LANDesk 9 2 (2.941 %) VERITAS 9 2 (2.941 %) PeopleSoft 10 1 (1.471 %) Cisco 10 1 (1.471 %) EMC 10 1 (1.471 %) BEA 10 1 (1.471 %) BMC 10 1 (1.471 %) Microsoft 10 1 (1.471 %) VMware 10 1 (1.471 %) Brocade