Kent HP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Kent region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	18
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	9	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	4.327 %	14.55 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£120
Average daily rate	£378	£120
% change on same period last year	+214.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£333
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£16.09
Average hourly rate	£18.50	£17.39
% change on same period last year	+6.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£18.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.55	£23.23
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
Vendors Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	208	268
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.271 %
Daily rates quoted	60	42
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£281
Average daily rate	£321	£293
% change on same period last year	+9.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.92	£20.27
Average hourly rate	£25.08	£22.17
% change on same period last year	+13.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.24	£24.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Hewlett-Packard Company.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HP across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 HP across the Kent region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 HP across the Kent region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Chatham	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 12 (31.58 %) Cisco 1 12 (31.58 %) IBM 1 12 (31.58 %) Microsoft 1 12 (31.58 %) Compaq 2 10 (26.32 %) Windows 3 8 (21.05 %) OpenView 4 7 (18.42 %) Wireless 4 7 (18.42 %) Active Directory 5 6 (15.79 %) Dell 5 6 (15.79 %) ITIL Certification 5 6 (15.79 %) Configuration Management 5 6 (15.79 %) MS Excel 5 6 (15.79 %) ITIL 5 6 (15.79 %) ServiceCenter 6 5 (13.16 %) Incident Management

6 5 (13.16 %) Service Management 6 5 (13.16 %) Change Management 7 4 (10.53 %) Citrix 7 4 (10.53 %) Intel 7 4 (10.53 %) CiscoWorks 7 4 (10.53 %) UNIX 7 4 (10.53 %) MS Office 7 4 (10.53 %) Perl 7 4 (10.53 %) SQL 7 4 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (10.53 %) Solaris 7 4 (10.53 %) Cognos 7 4 (10.53 %) LAN 7 4 (10.53 %) VMware 8 3 (7.895 %) VMware ESX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (7.895 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.895 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (2.632 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (2.632 %) IIS 3 1 (2.632 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 6 (15.79 %) MS Excel 2 4 (10.53 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.632 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.632 %) AutoCAD 3 1 (2.632 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 7 (18.42 %) Wireless 2 4 (10.53 %) LAN 3 3 (7.895 %) WLAN 3 3 (7.895 %) WAN 3 3 (7.895 %) SNMP 3 3 (7.895 %) VPN 3 3 (7.895 %) TACACS 3 3 (7.895 %) Firewall 4 2 (5.263 %) Internet 5 1 (2.632 %) ISDN 5 1 (2.632 %) DNS 5 1 (2.632 %) SAN 5 1 (2.632 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (2.632 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 3 (7.895 %) Pharmaceutical 1 3 (7.895 %) Finance 2 2 (5.263 %) Banking 3 1 (2.632 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (2.632 %) Government
Job Titles 1 8 (21.05 %) Technical Engineer 2 6 (15.79 %) Field Engineer 3 5 (13.16 %) Field Service Engineer 4 4 (10.53 %) Analyst 4 4 (10.53 %) Report Writer 5 3 (7.895 %) Network Specialist 5 3 (7.895 %) Hardware Engineer 6 2 (5.263 %) Administrator 6 2 (5.263 %) 2nd Line Support 6 2 (5.263 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Programme Manager 7 1 (2.632 %) 3rd Line Support 7 1 (2.632 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Consultant 7 1 (2.632 %) Network Engineer 7 1 (2.632 %) Server Support 7 1 (2.632 %) Support Consultant 7 1 (2.632 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Project Administrator 7 1 (2.632 %) IT Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.263 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.632 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 10 (26.32 %) Windows 2 4 (10.53 %) Solaris 2 4 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (10.53 %) UNIX 3 3 (7.895 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (7.895 %) Linux 4 1 (2.632 %) HPUX 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (15.79 %) ITIL 1 6 (15.79 %) Configuration Management 2 5 (13.16 %) Change Management 2 5 (13.16 %) Service Management 2 5 (13.16 %) Incident Management 3 3 (7.895 %) Project Management 3 3 (7.895 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (2.632 %) CAD 4 1 (2.632 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.632 %) Migration 4 1 (2.632 %) Asset Management 4 1 (2.632 %) Fund Management 4 1 (2.632 %) Investment Management 4 1 (2.632 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 4 (10.53 %) Perl 1 4 (10.53 %) SQL 2 3 (7.895 %) Shell Script 3 1 (2.632 %) Korn 3 1 (2.632 %) VB	Qualifications 1 6 (15.79 %) ITIL Certification 2 3 (7.895 %) CCNA 2 3 (7.895 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (2.632 %) MCSE 3 1 (2.632 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.263 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (18.42 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.895 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (7.895 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (5.263 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (2.632 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 8 (21.05 %) OpenView 2 6 (15.79 %) ServiceCenter 3 4 (10.53 %) CiscoWorks 4 3 (7.895 %) Tivoli 4 3 (7.895 %) Tivoli NetView 4 3 (7.895 %) NNM 5 1 (2.632 %) WSUS 5 1 (2.632 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 12 (31.58 %) Cisco 1 12 (31.58 %) IBM 1 12 (31.58 %) Microsoft 1 12 (31.58 %) Compaq 2 6 (15.79 %) Dell 3 4 (10.53 %) Intel 3 4 (10.53 %) Citrix 3 4 (10.53 %) VMware 3 4 (10.53 %) Cognos 4 3 (7.895 %) Nortel 5 2 (5.263 %) Altiris 5 2 (5.263 %) Symantec