Manchester Compaq Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Compaq products and/or services in IT contracts within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Compaq over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hounslow Hull Kent Leeds Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Northern Ireland Peterborough Redditch Reigate Rotherham Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wimbledon Windlesham Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	65
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.205 %	0.784 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£220
Average daily rate	-	£220
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£203
% change on same period last year	+56.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.20	£21.63
% change on same period last year	-20.51 %
Vendors Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	488	510
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.644 %	0.508 %
Daily rates quoted	90	103
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£332
Average daily rate	£356	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.58	£19.45
Average hourly rate	£18.91	£20.97
% change on same period last year	-9.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.24	£22.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
Compaq North West

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 Compaq.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Compaq across the Manchester 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 Compaq across the Manchester region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Compaq across the Manchester region.

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Compaq 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 Compaq.

1 3 (100.00 %) HP 2 2 (66.67 %) MCP 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) MCSE 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) SAN 2 2 (66.67 %) Siemens 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Clustering 2 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003

2 2 (66.67 %) Fujitsu Siemens 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Dell

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Compaq 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 Compaq. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) SAN
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) PC Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Support Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Computer Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) 3rd Line Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Field Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) MCP 1 2 (66.67 %) MCSE 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) HP 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) Siemens 2 2 (66.67 %) Fujitsu Siemens 3 1 (33.33 %) Dell