The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of 3PAR products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3PAR over the 3 months to 17 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 London 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 HP 3PAR.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3PAR
Rank 366 393 422
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +29
Contract jobs citing 3PAR 19 13 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.088% 0.049% 0.048%
As % of the Vendors category 0.195% 0.109% 0.106%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 13
Average daily rate £400 £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £394 £433 £450
% change year-on-year
-8.95% -3.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9746 11913 14109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.14% 44.48% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6153 7231 8518
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £268 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 288 409
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.25 £40.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
3PAR
England

3PAR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 3PAR Jobs Demand Trend

3PAR
Daily Rate Trend

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

London 3PAR Daily Rate Trend

3PAR
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3PAR across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 3PAR Daily Rate Histogram

3PAR
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London 3PAR Hourly Rate Trend

3PAR
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3PAR within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +16 7 £450 -7.69%
3PAR
England

3PAR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing 3PAR 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 3PAR.

1 22 (66.67%) HP
2 19 (57.58%) SAN
2 19 (57.58%) VMware
3 16 (48.48%) Windows
4 14 (42.42%) Migration
5 12 (36.36%) Citrix
6 11 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (30.30%) EMC
8 9 (27.27%) Cisco
9 8 (24.24%) Hyper-V
10 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (21.21%) NetApp
11 6 (18.18%) UNIX
11 6 (18.18%) Finance
11 6 (18.18%) XenServer
11 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (15.15%) VMware ESX
12 5 (15.15%) Linux
12 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
12 5 (15.15%) DNS
13 4 (12.12%) IBM
13 4 (12.12%) LDAP
13 4 (12.12%) Solaris
13 4 (12.12%) BCP
13 4 (12.12%) Replication
13 4 (12.12%) Clustering
13 4 (12.12%) XenApp
14 3 (9.091%) vSphere
14 3 (9.091%) Fibre Channel

3PAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing 3PAR 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 3PAR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.030%) .NET
1 1 (3.030%) Web Services
1 1 (3.030%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.091%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.061%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (6.061%) IIS
2 2 (6.061%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (3.030%) Apache
3 1 (3.030%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (3.030%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Office
1 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (57.58%) SAN
2 5 (15.15%) DNS
3 4 (12.12%) LDAP
4 3 (9.091%) DHCP
4 3 (9.091%) Firewall
4 3 (9.091%) NAS
4 3 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (9.091%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.061%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (6.061%) FCoE
5 2 (6.061%) iSCSI
5 2 (6.061%) Wireless
5 2 (6.061%) MPLS
6 1 (3.030%) SSL
6 1 (3.030%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.030%) PBX
6 1 (3.030%) VLAN
6 1 (3.030%) VPLS
6 1 (3.030%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (3.030%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.030%) MySQL
1 1 (3.030%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (9.091%) Banking
3 2 (6.061%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.061%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.030%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Consultant
2 6 (18.18%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Storage Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) SAN Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) SAN Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) Solutions Consultant
5 2 (6.061%) Server Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (6.061%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.061%) Architect
5 2 (6.061%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (6.061%) Citrix Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Storage Analyst
6 1 (3.030%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.030%) Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
1 4 (12.12%) Clustering
2 3 (9.091%) CLARiiON
2 3 (9.091%) Symmetrix DMX
3 2 (6.061%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.061%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (6.061%) EMC Centera
4 1 (3.030%) Grid Computing
4 1 (3.030%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.030%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.030%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.030%) IaaS
4 1 (3.030%) SaaS
4 1 (3.030%) HP StorageWorks
4 1 (3.030%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.030%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Windows
2 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (18.18%) UNIX
4 5 (15.15%) Linux
5 4 (12.12%) Solaris
6 2 (6.061%) HPUX
6 2 (6.061%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Migration
2 4 (12.12%) BCP
3 3 (9.091%) Change Control
4 2 (6.061%) Performance Management
4 2 (6.061%) Load Balancing
4 2 (6.061%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.030%) Validation
5 1 (3.030%) Project Management
5 1 (3.030%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.030%) ITIL
5 1 (3.030%) PRINCE2
5 1 (3.030%) CRM
5 1 (3.030%) ERP
5 1 (3.030%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.030%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.030%) Business Continuity
5 1 (3.030%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.030%) Data Management
5 1 (3.030%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.091%) SQL
2 1 (3.030%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.030%) C
2 1 (3.030%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (6.061%) Degree
1 2 (6.061%) DV Cleared
1 2 (6.061%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.030%) HP ASE
2 1 (3.030%) HP MASE
2 1 (3.030%) NCDA
2 1 (3.030%) NCIE
2 1 (3.030%) MCSA
2 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.030%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (24.24%) Hyper-V
3 6 (18.18%) XenServer
4 5 (15.15%) VMware ESX
4 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (12.12%) XenApp
6 3 (9.091%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (9.091%) NFS
6 3 (9.091%) Active Directory
6 3 (9.091%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 3 (9.091%) vSphere
7 2 (6.061%) SRDF
7 2 (6.061%) XenDesktop
8 1 (3.030%) VMware Server
8 1 (3.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (9.091%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.061%) EMC TimeFinder
2 2 (6.061%) EMC Navisphere
2 2 (6.061%) SCCM
3 1 (3.030%) Plesk
3 1 (3.030%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (3.030%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (3.030%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) HP
2 19 (57.58%) VMware
3 12 (36.36%) Citrix
4 10 (30.30%) EMC
5 9 (27.27%) Cisco
6 7 (21.21%) NetApp
7 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
8 4 (12.12%) IBM
9 3 (9.091%) Sun
10 2 (6.061%) CommVault
10 2 (6.061%) Brocade
11 1 (3.030%) Polycom
11 1 (3.030%) Ensim
11 1 (3.030%) Hitachi
11 1 (3.030%) Juniper
11 1 (3.030%) Red Hat
11 1 (3.030%) Symantec
11 1 (3.030%) McAfee
11 1 (3.030%) Oracle
11 1 (3.030%) Dell
West London
We are looking for experienced self-employed storage consultants (SAN, NAS, EMC, NetApp, HP, 3PAR etc.) for future assignments in 2013 with our clients in the IT channel.
Orderwork
Rate: Competitive dayrates
Posted: 6 May 2013
London
Any candidates with VMWare to Hyper-V migration experience would be ideal. In addition candidates should have strong skills around Windows Server 2012/2008 R2, 3Par, HP Blade...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £320 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Windows Server Engineer required for our education-sector client... Candidates will primarily focus on the administration of a Windows Server 2012 and 2008 R2 environment, ensure project teams...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £320 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013