The first table below looks at the demand for HP SIM skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP SIM 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 of the Systems Management category 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
Rank 377 379 413
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +34
Contract jobs citing HP SIM 8 27 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.101% 0.077%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.626% 1.787% 1.588%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 19
Average daily rate £275 £438 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.14% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £296 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £438 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £270 £363
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -25.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 - £21.00
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1278 1511 1511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.919% 5.642% 4.837%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 856 860
Average daily rate £413 £380 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.55% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 39 61
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £33.80 £38.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
HP SIM
England

HP SIM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London HP SIM Jobs Demand Trend

HP SIM
Daily Rate Trend

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

London HP SIM Daily Rate Trend

HP SIM
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London HP SIM Daily Rate Histogram

HP SIM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London HP SIM Hourly Rate Trend

HP SIM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP SIM 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 +11 3 - -
HP SIM
England

HP SIM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 44 (100.00%) HP
2 40 (90.91%) Windows
3 32 (72.73%) VMware
4 29 (65.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 27 (61.36%) Active Directory
6 25 (56.82%) SCCM
7 24 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
8 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
8 21 (47.73%) SCOM
9 19 (43.18%) SAN
10 17 (38.64%) NetApp
10 17 (38.64%) TCP/IP
10 17 (38.64%) Hyper-V
11 16 (36.36%) MS Exchange
11 16 (36.36%) MS Office
12 14 (31.82%) DHCP
12 14 (31.82%) DNS
13 13 (29.55%) SQL Server
14 11 (25.00%) ITIL
14 11 (25.00%) Law
14 11 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
15 10 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
15 10 (22.73%) Banking
15 10 (22.73%) Citrix
15 10 (22.73%) Blackberry
15 10 (22.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 9 (20.45%) OpenView
16 9 (20.45%) ArcSight
17 8 (18.18%) VCP5
17 8 (18.18%) XenDesktop

HP SIM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (2.273%) .NET
1 1 (2.273%) Middleware
1 1 (2.273%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 16 (36.36%) MS Exchange
2 11 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (22.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
4 6 (13.64%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (6.818%) IIS
6 1 (2.273%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 16 (36.36%) MS Office
2 1 (2.273%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 19 (43.18%) SAN
2 17 (38.64%) TCP/IP
3 14 (31.82%) DNS
3 14 (31.82%) DHCP
4 8 (18.18%) VPN
5 5 (11.36%) WAN
6 3 (6.818%) Firewall
7 2 (4.545%) LAN
8 1 (2.273%) SMS
8 1 (2.273%) SNMP
8 1 (2.273%) SNA
8 1 (2.273%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.273%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) SQL Server
2 8 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.545%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 11 (25.00%) Law
2 10 (22.73%) Banking
3 2 (4.545%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Analyst
2 10 (22.73%) Administrator
3 8 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (13.64%) Technical Support
5 5 (11.36%) Server Support
5 5 (11.36%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (11.36%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (11.36%) Windows Administrator
5 5 (11.36%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 4 (9.091%) 3rd Line Technical Support
6 4 (9.091%) IT Administrator
7 3 (6.818%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (6.818%) Consultant
7 3 (6.818%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.818%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (6.818%) Wintel Analyst
8 2 (4.545%) Server Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Wintel Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (4.545%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Blackberry
2 7 (15.91%) Firmware
3 6 (13.64%) Hedge funds
4 5 (11.36%) Clustering
5 1 (2.273%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.273%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (90.91%) Windows
2 29 (65.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (13.64%) Windows 2000
5 5 (11.36%) Windows XP
5 5 (11.36%) Mac OS X
6 4 (9.091%) Solaris
7 2 (4.545%) Linux
8 1 (2.273%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (2.273%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.273%) SUSE
8 1 (2.273%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) ITIL
2 10 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (18.18%) Operations Management
4 6 (13.64%) Asset Management
4 6 (13.64%) CRM
5 5 (11.36%) Migration
6 3 (6.818%) Configuration Management
7 2 (4.545%) Business Continuity
7 2 (4.545%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (2.273%) Capacity Management
8 1 (2.273%) Network Load Balancing
8 1 (2.273%) Performance Management
8 1 (2.273%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (2.273%) Change Control
8 1 (2.273%) Data Management
8 1 (2.273%) Service Management
8 1 (2.273%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.545%) SQL
1 2 (4.545%) VBScript
2 1 (2.273%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.273%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) MCSE
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 8 (18.18%) VCP4
1 8 (18.18%) VCP5
2 5 (11.36%) MCP
2 5 (11.36%) MCSA
2 5 (11.36%) CCNA
2 5 (11.36%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (9.091%) MCITP
4 2 (4.545%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.545%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.273%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (61.36%) Active Directory
2 17 (38.64%) Hyper-V
3 8 (18.18%) XenDesktop
4 6 (13.64%) vSphere
4 6 (13.64%) UAG
4 6 (13.64%) ISA Server
4 6 (13.64%) VMware ESX
5 3 (6.818%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.273%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (2.273%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (56.82%) SCCM
2 21 (47.73%) SCOM
3 9 (20.45%) OpenView
4 8 (18.18%) Norton AntiVirus
4 8 (18.18%) NetBackup
5 7 (15.91%) Backup Exec
6 6 (13.64%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 5 (11.36%) McAfee ePO
7 5 (11.36%) WSUS
7 5 (11.36%) Legato
8 4 (9.091%) HP Data Protector
9 3 (6.818%) WMI
10 2 (4.545%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (4.545%) Tivoli
11 1 (2.273%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (2.273%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 44 (100.00%) HP
2 32 (72.73%) VMware
3 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
4 17 (38.64%) NetApp
5 10 (22.73%) Citrix
6 9 (20.45%) ArcSight
7 8 (18.18%) Sophos
7 8 (18.18%) Symantec
7 8 (18.18%) Cisco
8 7 (15.91%) McAfee
9 6 (13.64%) Veritas
9 6 (13.64%) CA
9 6 (13.64%) SolarWinds
10 5 (11.36%) Sage
10 5 (11.36%) Compaq
10 5 (11.36%) Dell
11 4 (9.091%) EMC
11 4 (9.091%) Sun
12 3 (6.818%) CheckPoint
13 2 (4.545%) NetIQ