The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 54 48 40
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -8
Contract jobs citing HP 20 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.706% 2.186% 2.201%
As % of the Vendors category 6.042% 4.439% 6.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 9
Average daily rate £275 £325 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -10.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £365 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.17% +5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £7.00 £10.00 £11.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% -15.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-11.54% -11.42%
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
331 428 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 44.79% 49.25% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 248 105
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £445 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 25
Average hourly rate £33.00 £14.75 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+123.72% -15.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.40 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £24.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
West Yorkshire

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) VMware
3 11 (36.67%) SQL
4 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 9 (30.00%) Cisco
5 9 (30.00%) Oracle
5 9 (30.00%) Linux
6 8 (26.67%) SAN
6 8 (26.67%) Test Scripting
6 8 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
7 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (20.00%) .NET
8 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
9 5 (16.67%) vSphere
9 5 (16.67%) UNIX
9 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (16.67%) Firewall
10 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
10 4 (13.33%) Test Management
10 4 (13.33%) Symantec
10 4 (13.33%) NetApp
10 4 (13.33%) CheckPoint
10 4 (13.33%) ISEB
10 4 (13.33%) XML
10 4 (13.33%) Java
10 4 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (10.00%) PHP
11 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
11 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (13.33%) XML
3 2 (6.667%) LAMP
3 2 (6.667%) Java EE
3 2 (6.667%) JMS
3 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.667%) SOAP
3 2 (6.667%) HTML
3 2 (6.667%) RESTful
3 2 (6.667%) REST
4 1 (3.333%) XML Schema
4 1 (3.333%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.667%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (6.667%) ESB
2 2 (6.667%) SAS
2 2 (6.667%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Office
2 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) SAN
2 5 (16.67%) Firewall
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (6.667%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (6.667%) iSCSI
4 2 (6.667%) VLAN
4 2 (6.667%) MPLS
4 2 (6.667%) WAN
4 2 (6.667%) LAN
4 2 (6.667%) HTTP
4 2 (6.667%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.333%) DMVPN
5 1 (3.333%) FCoE
5 1 (3.333%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.333%) NAS
5 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.333%) VPN
5 1 (3.333%) DNS
5 1 (3.333%) WLAN
5 1 (3.333%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.333%) MySQL
3 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.333%) PowerCenter
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (6.667%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.667%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (3.333%) JMeter
General
1 2 (6.667%) Retail
1 2 (6.667%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Tester
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (10.00%) Performance Tester
4 2 (6.667%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.667%) Network Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
5 1 (3.333%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 1 (3.333%) Test Leader
5 1 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 1 (3.333%) SAP Test Analyst
5 1 (3.333%) SAP Tester
5 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) SAP Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Computer Science
1 2 (6.667%) NHS
1 2 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.333%) EqualLogic
2 1 (3.333%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Linux
3 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (16.67%) UNIX
4 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (6.667%) Windows XP
5 2 (6.667%) HPUX
5 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.333%) Solaris
6 1 (3.333%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Test Scripting
2 4 (13.33%) Test Management
3 3 (10.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (6.667%) Unified Process
4 2 (6.667%) Regression Testing
4 2 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (6.667%) Manual Testing
4 2 (6.667%) System Testing
4 2 (6.667%) Document Management
4 2 (6.667%) Software Testing
4 2 (6.667%) SOA
4 2 (6.667%) UML
4 2 (6.667%) CRM
4 2 (6.667%) Automation Testing
5 1 (3.333%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.333%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.333%) TMap
5 1 (3.333%) Project Management
5 1 (3.333%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (3.333%) C#
4 1 (3.333%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) ISEB
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.00%) CCNP
3 3 (10.00%) BC Cleared
4 2 (6.667%) Degree
4 2 (6.667%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.667%) CCNA
5 1 (3.333%) PMP
5 1 (3.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) QA
2 1 (3.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) vSphere
3 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.667%) VMware Server
4 2 (6.667%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
5 1 (3.333%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (6.667%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.667%) SCCM
2 2 (6.667%) OpenView
2 2 (6.667%) CA Wily
3 1 (3.333%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.333%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (3.333%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) VMware
2 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (30.00%) Cisco
3 9 (30.00%) Oracle
4 4 (13.33%) Symantec
4 4 (13.33%) NetApp
4 4 (13.33%) CheckPoint
5 3 (10.00%) EMC
5 3 (10.00%) IBM
6 2 (6.667%) Blue Coat
6 2 (6.667%) Websense
6 2 (6.667%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.667%) SAP
6 2 (6.667%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (6.667%) Veeam
6 2 (6.667%) Talend
7 1 (3.333%) F5
7 1 (3.333%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.333%) Dell
7 1 (3.333%) Intel
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