The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP 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 Vendors for the Gloucestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 19 27 15
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -12
Contract jobs citing HP 19 44 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 6.909% 6.577% 8.685%
As % of the Vendors category 15.70% 13.75% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 19
Average daily rate £500 £400 £256
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +56.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-10.09% -17.56%
All Vendors
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
121 320 203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 44.00% 47.83% 47.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 207 86
Average daily rate £500 £410 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +22.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 14
Average hourly rate £11.00 £27.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +34.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £24.70 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £32.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
South West

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester +14 1 - -
HP
South West

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 36 (87.80%) Windows
1 36 (87.80%) DV Cleared
1 36 (87.80%) Security Cleared
2 35 (85.37%) Linux
2 35 (85.37%) SAN
2 35 (85.37%) NetApp
3 34 (82.93%) UNIX
3 34 (82.93%) C
4 18 (43.90%) Cisco
4 18 (43.90%) IBM
4 18 (43.90%) Symantec
4 18 (43.90%) VMware
4 18 (43.90%) NetBackup
5 17 (41.46%) Enterprise Architecture
5 17 (41.46%) Service Management
5 17 (41.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (41.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (41.46%) Hyper-V
5 17 (41.46%) Data Protection
5 17 (41.46%) Red Hat
5 17 (41.46%) LAN
5 17 (41.46%) WAN
5 17 (41.46%) Ethernet
5 17 (41.46%) Solaris
6 3 (7.317%) SQL
6 3 (7.317%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (4.878%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.878%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (4.878%) Release Management
7 2 (4.878%) Migration

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 Platforms
1 1 (2.439%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (2.439%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (2.439%) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 35 (85.37%) SAN
2 17 (41.46%) LAN
2 17 (41.46%) WAN
2 17 (41.46%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.878%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (4.878%) TOAD
1 2 (4.878%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.439%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Storage Engineer
2 17 (41.46%) Architect
2 17 (41.46%) Technical Architect
3 7 (17.07%) Support Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Storage Support Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Analyst
5 2 (4.878%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.878%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.439%) Service Analyst
6 1 (2.439%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.439%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.439%) Software Test Analyst
6 1 (2.439%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (2.439%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (2.439%) Agile Test Analyst
6 1 (2.439%) Wintel Analyst
6 1 (2.439%) Test Data Analyst
Operating Systems
1 36 (87.80%) Windows
2 35 (85.37%) Linux
3 34 (82.93%) UNIX
4 17 (41.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (41.46%) Solaris
5 2 (4.878%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.439%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Enterprise Architecture
1 17 (41.46%) Service Management
1 17 (41.46%) Data Protection
2 2 (4.878%) Release Management
2 2 (4.878%) Migration
2 2 (4.878%) Data Analysis
2 2 (4.878%) Configuration Management
3 1 (2.439%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (2.439%) Asset Management
3 1 (2.439%) Scrum
3 1 (2.439%) System Testing
3 1 (2.439%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 34 (82.93%) C
2 3 (7.317%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (87.80%) DV Cleared
1 36 (87.80%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.439%) MCSE
2 1 (2.439%) MCSA
2 1 (2.439%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) QA
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) VMware Infrastructure
1 17 (41.46%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.439%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (43.90%) NetBackup
2 3 (7.317%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.439%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (2.439%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (2.439%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.439%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 35 (85.37%) NetApp
2 18 (43.90%) Cisco
2 18 (43.90%) IBM
2 18 (43.90%) Symantec
2 18 (43.90%) VMware
3 17 (41.46%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.878%) Oracle
5 1 (2.439%) Lotus
5 1 (2.439%) Sophos
5 1 (2.439%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.439%) Citrix