The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP 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 Vendors for the Glasgow 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 Hewlett-Packard Company.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 60 44 34
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -10
Contract jobs citing HP 22 13 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.326% 1.682% 4.096%
As % of the Vendors category 4.989% 3.768% 7.552%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 24
Average daily rate £353 £369 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.40% +5.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £187 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £445 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.41% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £15.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-13.11% -12.85%
All Vendors
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
441 345 384
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.62% 44.63% 54.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 159 201
Average daily rate £338 £315 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £443 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 27 11
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.90 £35.00 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
HP
Scotland

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow HP Jobs Demand Trend

HP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow HP Daily Rate Trend

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Glasgow HP Daily Rate Histogram

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing HP 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.

1 17 (56.67%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (26.67%) Oracle
3 8 (26.67%) SQL
4 7 (23.33%) UNIX
4 7 (23.33%) Linux
4 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
4 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (20.00%) EMC
5 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (16.67%) Citrix
6 5 (16.67%) IBM
6 5 (16.67%) SAN
6 5 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
7 4 (13.33%) Veritas
7 4 (13.33%) VMware
7 4 (13.33%) AIX
8 3 (10.00%) MS Excel
8 3 (10.00%) Dell
8 3 (10.00%) Solaris
8 3 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (10.00%) Sun
8 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
8 3 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
8 3 (10.00%) ITIL
8 3 (10.00%) XML
8 3 (10.00%) Java
8 3 (10.00%) Clustering

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing HP 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.00%) XML
2 2 (6.667%) HTML
3 1 (3.333%) JMS
3 1 (3.333%) XSL
3 1 (3.333%) .NET
3 1 (3.333%) ASP
3 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.333%) EJB
3 1 (3.333%) CSS
3 1 (3.333%) JDBC
3 1 (3.333%) JSP
3 1 (3.333%) Servlets
3 1 (3.333%) SOAP
3 1 (3.333%) Web Services
3 1 (3.333%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.333%) TopLink
3 1 (3.333%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.333%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.333%) Java EE
3 1 (3.333%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.333%) WebLogic
1 1 (3.333%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.333%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) SAN
2 2 (6.667%) Intranet
2 2 (6.667%) Internet
3 1 (3.333%) SNMP
3 1 (3.333%) DNS
3 1 (3.333%) LDAP
3 1 (3.333%) VLAN
3 1 (3.333%) Firewall
3 1 (3.333%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (10.00%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (6.667%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (6.667%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 2 (6.667%) CruiseControl
1 2 (6.667%) Rational Rhapsody
1 2 (6.667%) TestDirector
2 1 (3.333%) ClearCase
2 1 (3.333%) Ant
2 1 (3.333%) PVCS
2 1 (3.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (3.333%) Maven
2 1 (3.333%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.333%) MSI
2 1 (3.333%) InstallShield
2 1 (3.333%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.333%) MSBuild
2 1 (3.333%) Subversion
2 1 (3.333%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (10.00%) Analyst
2 3 (10.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (6.667%) DBA
3 2 (6.667%) Technical Support
3 2 (6.667%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (6.667%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (6.667%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.333%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (3.333%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (3.333%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (3.333%) Performance Tester
4 1 (3.333%) Functional Test Analyst
4 1 (3.333%) Business Test Analyst
4 1 (3.333%) Technical Leader
4 1 (3.333%) Citrix Support
4 1 (3.333%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.333%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.333%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Clustering
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.333%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.333%) PKI
2 1 (3.333%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (23.33%) UNIX
3 7 (23.33%) Linux
3 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (13.33%) AIX
5 3 (10.00%) Solaris
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.333%) HPUX
6 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.00%) ITIL
2 2 (6.667%) Fund Accounting
2 2 (6.667%) Test Scripting
2 2 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (6.667%) Unit Testing
2 2 (6.667%) Test Strategy
2 2 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (6.667%) Configuration Management
2 2 (6.667%) Service Delivery
2 2 (6.667%) Data Analysis
2 2 (6.667%) OO
3 1 (3.333%) UML
3 1 (3.333%) CRM
3 1 (3.333%) SOA
3 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (3.333%) TDD
3 1 (3.333%) Asset Management
3 1 (3.333%) Migration
3 1 (3.333%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) Java
2 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.667%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.667%) Perl
3 2 (6.667%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.333%) C#
4 1 (3.333%) C++
4 1 (3.333%) VBScript
4 1 (3.333%) VB
4 1 (3.333%) Korn
4 1 (3.333%) XPath
4 1 (3.333%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) MCSE
3 1 (3.333%) MCSA
3 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.333%) ISEB
3 1 (3.333%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) WCAG
1 1 (3.333%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (10.00%) XenApp
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (6.667%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (10.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 2 (6.667%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 2 (6.667%) Data Guard
3 2 (6.667%) Netcool
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.333%) OpenView
4 1 (3.333%) WSUS
4 1 (3.333%) Tivoli
4 1 (3.333%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (3.333%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (3.333%) HP UCMDB
4 1 (3.333%) SCCM
4 1 (3.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) EMC
4 5 (16.67%) Citrix
4 5 (16.67%) IBM
5 4 (13.33%) Veritas
5 4 (13.33%) VMware
6 3 (10.00%) Dell
6 3 (10.00%) Sun
6 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.667%) InterSystems
7 2 (6.667%) Brocade
8 1 (3.333%) Compaq
8 1 (3.333%) TIBCO
8 1 (3.333%) Talend
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