Leeds HP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Leeds 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	47	45
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	31	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	7.094 %	6.915 %
Daily rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£290
Average daily rate	£276	£315
% change on same period last year	-12.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£283	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£333
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.38	-
Average hourly rate	£14.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.13	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.55	£23.23
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
Vendors Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	437	376
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.582 %	0.380 %
Daily rates quoted	118	91
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£322
Average daily rate	£312	£339
% change on same period last year	-7.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.16	£21.28
Average hourly rate	£16.72	£21.85
% change on same period last year	-23.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.28	£22.41
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 Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 23 (48.94 %) OpenView 2 19 (40.43 %) UNIX 3 17 (36.17 %) Windows 4 16 (34.04 %) Oracle 5 11 (23.40 %) Client/Server 6 10 (21.28 %) Linux 6 10 (21.28 %) WebLogic 6 10 (21.28 %) Health 7 9 (19.15 %) NHS 7 9 (19.15 %) MS Office 7 9 (19.15 %) ITIL 7 9 (19.15 %) SharePoint 7 9 (19.15 %) Microsoft 7 9 (19.15 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 8 (17.02 %) Active Directory

8 8 (17.02 %) OVSD 9 7 (14.89 %) NNM 9 7 (14.89 %) OVOW 9 7 (14.89 %) OVIS 9 7 (14.89 %) Knowledge Management 9 7 (14.89 %) Shell Script 9 7 (14.89 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 7 (14.89 %) HPUX 9 7 (14.89 %) SQL 10 6 (12.77 %) PL/SQL 10 6 (12.77 %) IBM 10 6 (12.77 %) Finance 10 6 (12.77 %) Asset Management 11 5 (10.64 %) Internet 11 5 (10.64 %) VPN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 1 (2.128 %) ODBC 1 1 (2.128 %) SWT	Application Platforms 1 10 (21.28 %) WebLogic 2 9 (19.15 %) SharePoint 2 9 (19.15 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 5 (10.64 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (6.383 %) Apache 5 2 (4.255 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 9 (19.15 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.255 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.128 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (2.128 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 5 (10.64 %) LAN 1 5 (10.64 %) VPN 1 5 (10.64 %) Internet 2 4 (8.511 %) SAN 2 4 (8.511 %) WAN 2 4 (8.511 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (6.383 %) Broadband 3 3 (6.383 %) VoIP 3 3 (6.383 %) LDAP 4 1 (2.128 %) ATM 4 1 (2.128 %) PBX 4 1 (2.128 %) Firewall 4 1 (2.128 %) IPsec	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (14.89 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 5 (10.64 %) Oracle 9i 2 5 (10.64 %) SQL Server 3 4 (8.511 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (6.383 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (4.255 %) TOAD 5 2 (4.255 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (2.128 %) MS Access 6 1 (2.128 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 4 (8.511 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (2.128 %) Eclipse 2 1 (2.128 %) TestDirector 2 1 (2.128 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (2.128 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (2.128 %) JUnit	General 1 10 (21.28 %) Health 2 6 (12.77 %) Finance 3 4 (8.511 %) Government 4 3 (6.383 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 9 (19.15 %) Analyst 2 8 (17.02 %) UNIX Engineer 3 7 (14.89 %) Desktop Support 4 6 (12.77 %) Systems Engineer 5 5 (10.64 %) Support Analyst 6 4 (8.511 %) Technical Support 6 4 (8.511 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 4 (8.511 %) Developer 6 4 (8.511 %) Support Engineer 6 4 (8.511 %) Desktop Analyst 6 4 (8.511 %) OpenView Engineer 6 4 (8.511 %) Linux Engineer 7 3 (6.383 %) Oracle Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 2 (4.255 %) Senior Systems Engineer 8 2 (4.255 %) DBA 8 2 (4.255 %) Systems Support 8 2 (4.255 %) Desktop Engineer 8 2 (4.255 %) SQL Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) PL/SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 11 (23.40 %) Client/Server 2 9 (19.15 %) NHS 3 4 (8.511 %) N-Tier 4 1 (2.128 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 19 (40.43 %) UNIX 2 17 (36.17 %) Windows 3 10 (21.28 %) Linux 4 7 (14.89 %) HPUX 5 5 (10.64 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (10.64 %) Windows XP 6 3 (6.383 %) NetWare 6 3 (6.383 %) SUSE 7 2 (4.255 %) Windows Mobile 7 2 (4.255 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (4.255 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (19.15 %) ITIL 2 7 (14.89 %) Knowledge Management 3 6 (12.77 %) Asset Management 4 5 (10.64 %) Release Management 5 2 (4.255 %) Fault Management 5 2 (4.255 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (4.255 %) Security Management 5 2 (4.255 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (4.255 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.128 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.128 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (2.128 %) Migration 6 1 (2.128 %) Programme Management 6 1 (2.128 %) Incident Management 6 1 (2.128 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (2.128 %) Time Management 6 1 (2.128 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 7 (14.89 %) SQL 1 7 (14.89 %) Shell Script 2 6 (12.77 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (8.511 %) Perl 4 3 (6.383 %) VB 5 1 (2.128 %) C# 5 1 (2.128 %) Java	Qualifications 1 4 (8.511 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (4.255 %) MCP 2 2 (4.255 %) MCSE 2 2 (4.255 %) MCDBA 3 1 (2.128 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (2.128 %) A+ Certification 3 1 (2.128 %) Network+ Certification
System Software 1 8 (17.02 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.255 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 23 (48.94 %) OpenView 2 8 (17.02 %) OVSD 3 7 (14.89 %) NNM 3 7 (14.89 %) OVOW 3 7 (14.89 %) OVIS 4 4 (8.511 %) OVPA 4 4 (8.511 %) ZENworks 5 2 (4.255 %) OVPM 5 2 (4.255 %) HP Data Protector 6 1 (2.128 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 16 (34.04 %) Oracle 2 9 (19.15 %) Microsoft 3 6 (12.77 %) IBM 4 5 (10.64 %) Cisco 4 5 (10.64 %) Lotus 5 4 (8.511 %) Business Objects 5 4 (8.511 %) Dell 6 3 (6.383 %) Compaq 7 2 (4.255 %) ESRI 7 2 (4.255 %) Novell 7 2 (4.255 %) Sun 7 2 (4.255 %) BEA 8 1 (2.128 %) Hitachi 8 1 (2.128 %) Siemens 8 1 (2.128 %) Remedy 8 1 (2.128 %) EMC 8 1 (2.128 %) Citrix 8 1 (2.128 %) Avaya