The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term HP StorageWorks 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 StorageWorks 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP StorageWorks
Rank 374 407 430
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +23
Contract jobs citing HP StorageWorks 3 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.030% 0.039%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.042% 0.092% 0.102%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
Average daily rate £510 £320 £594
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+59.21% -46.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 £275
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7191 8651 11771
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.20% 32.11% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4968 5870 7935
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 209 196
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.49 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.40 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
HP StorageWorks
England

HP StorageWorks
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London HP StorageWorks Jobs Demand Trend

HP StorageWorks
Daily Rate Trend

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

London HP StorageWorks Daily Rate Trend

HP StorageWorks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London HP StorageWorks Hourly Rate Trend

HP StorageWorks
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP StorageWorks within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +12 1 £510 +59.21%
Feltham -3 1 - -
HP StorageWorks
England

HP StorageWorks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing HP StorageWorks 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 StorageWorks.

1 5 (100.00%) HP
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Firmware
4 2 (40.00%) IBM
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (20.00%) XenServer
5 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
5 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (20.00%) NCDA
5 1 (20.00%) NCIE
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
5 1 (20.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (20.00%) Sun
5 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
5 1 (20.00%) NetApp
5 1 (20.00%) StorageTek
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) DNS

HP StorageWorks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing HP StorageWorks 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 StorageWorks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAN Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) High Availability
1 1 (20.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) NCDA
1 1 (20.00%) NCIE
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) HP ASE
1 1 (20.00%) HP MASE
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) XenServer
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
4 1 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) StorageTek
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
4 1 (20.00%) Symantec
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix