The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 20 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 Manchester 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 Hewlett-Packard Company.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 56 56 61
Rank change year-on-year
0 +5
Contract jobs citing HP 18 29 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.959% 2.222% 1.185%
As % of the Vendors category 4.878% 4.401% 2.920%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 8
Average daily rate £338 £313 £208
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +50.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £226 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £378 £272
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.22% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £18.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.80% +30.35%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-11.54% -22.50%
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
369 659 411
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.15% 50.50% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 297 164
Average daily rate £318 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.30% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 45
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £25.00 £18.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
North West

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester HP Jobs Demand Trend

HP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester HP Daily Rate Trend

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Manchester HP Daily Rate Histogram

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 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
Altrincham 0 2 £280 -13.84%
Oldham - 1 - -
Wigan - 1 - -
HP
North West

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 17 (50.00%) Windows
2 11 (32.35%) Oracle
2 11 (32.35%) VMware
2 11 (32.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (29.41%) Cisco
4 8 (23.53%) ITIL
5 7 (20.59%) SQL
5 7 (20.59%) AIX
5 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
5 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
6 6 (17.65%) IBM
6 6 (17.65%) UNIX
6 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
6 6 (17.65%) Banking
6 6 (17.65%) WebSphere
6 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
6 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (17.65%) HP UCMDB
7 5 (14.71%) Brocade
7 5 (14.71%) Firewall
7 5 (14.71%) Citrix
7 5 (14.71%) SAN
7 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
8 4 (11.76%) OpenView
8 4 (11.76%) ETL
8 4 (11.76%) Internet
8 4 (11.76%) Tivoli
8 4 (11.76%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (17.65%) WebSphere
2 4 (11.76%) Middleware
2 4 (11.76%) SOAP
3 3 (8.824%) Web Services
4 2 (5.882%) XML
4 2 (5.882%) XSD
4 2 (5.882%) XSLT
4 2 (5.882%) JMS
4 2 (5.882%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) WebLogic
1 4 (11.76%) CICS
2 2 (5.882%) ESB
3 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.941%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.941%) Exstream Dialogue
3 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.941%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.941%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.941%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
2 5 (14.71%) SAN
2 5 (14.71%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) Internet
4 3 (8.824%) SNA
4 3 (8.824%) DNS
5 2 (5.882%) LAN
5 2 (5.882%) WAN
5 2 (5.882%) DHCP
5 2 (5.882%) FTP
5 2 (5.882%) HTTP
5 2 (5.882%) SNMP
6 1 (2.941%) SSL
6 1 (2.941%) TACACS
6 1 (2.941%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) DB2
2 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (2.941%) TOAD
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) JUnit
2 1 (2.941%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (17.65%) Banking
2 4 (11.76%) Retail
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Analyst
1 6 (17.65%) Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) OpenView Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Administrator
4 3 (8.824%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.824%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (8.824%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Windows Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Designer
5 2 (5.882%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Windows Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) VSAM
1 4 (11.76%) PKI
1 4 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 3 (8.824%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (8.824%) Online Banking
2 3 (8.824%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.941%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.941%) LPAR
3 1 (2.941%) Open Source
3 1 (2.941%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Windows
2 11 (32.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (20.59%) AIX
4 6 (17.65%) UNIX
5 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (8.824%) HPUX
6 3 (8.824%) Solaris
7 2 (5.882%) Linux
7 2 (5.882%) Windows XP
8 1 (2.941%) zOS
8 1 (2.941%) SUSE
8 1 (2.941%) Windows 2000
8 1 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.941%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) ITIL
2 4 (11.76%) ETL
3 3 (8.824%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (5.882%) Unit Testing
4 2 (5.882%) Web Development
4 2 (5.882%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (5.882%) OO
4 2 (5.882%) SOA
4 2 (5.882%) Regression Testing
4 2 (5.882%) Validation
4 2 (5.882%) Migration
4 2 (5.882%) Network Management
5 1 (2.941%) Business Analysis
5 1 (2.941%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.941%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.941%) PRINCE
5 1 (2.941%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.941%) Database Tuning
5 1 (2.941%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) SQL
2 3 (8.824%) JCL
3 2 (5.882%) Java
3 2 (5.882%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.882%) C
4 1 (2.941%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.824%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (8.824%) MCSE
2 3 (8.824%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.882%) MCP
3 2 (5.882%) CCNA
4 1 (2.941%) CCDA
4 1 (2.941%) CCDP
4 1 (2.941%) MCSA
4 1 (2.941%) Degree
4 1 (2.941%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.76%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (2.941%) VMware Server
4 1 (2.941%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) HP UCMDB
2 4 (11.76%) Tivoli
2 4 (11.76%) OpenView
3 2 (5.882%) ServiceCenter
3 2 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (5.882%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.941%) SCOM
4 1 (2.941%) CiscoWorks
4 1 (2.941%) MOM
4 1 (2.941%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 1 (2.941%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Oracle
1 11 (32.35%) VMware
2 10 (29.41%) Cisco
3 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
4 6 (17.65%) IBM
5 5 (14.71%) Citrix
5 5 (14.71%) Brocade
6 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
6 4 (11.76%) CA
7 3 (8.824%) EMC
7 3 (8.824%) SAP
8 2 (5.882%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.941%) Remedy
9 1 (2.941%) F5