Merseyside HP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HP over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barnet Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	36
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	6	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	3.659 %	3.358 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£175
Average daily rate	£410	£288
% change on same period last year	+42.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£470	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£348
% change on same period last year	-4.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	-
Average hourly rate	£13.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.59	£25.57
% change on same period last year	-11.63 %
Vendors Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	164	268
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.271 %
Daily rates quoted	44	71
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£258
Average daily rate	£364	£274
% change on same period last year	+32.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.82	£17.69
Average hourly rate	£19.01	£19.75
% change on same period last year	-3.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.21	£21.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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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 Hewlett-Packard Company.

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Demand Trend

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

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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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	-3	4	£410	-
Southport	+3	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 4 (26.67 %) MS Office 2 4 (26.67 %) Linux 2 4 (26.67 %) Adabas 2 4 (26.67 %) FoxPro (VFP) 2 4 (26.67 %) Microsoft 2 4 (26.67 %) Novell 2 4 (26.67 %) NATURAL 3 3 (20.00 %) Disaster Recovery 3 3 (20.00 %) VLAN 3 3 (20.00 %) Mainframe 3 3 (20.00 %) Lotus 3 3 (20.00 %) NHS 3 3 (20.00 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 3 (20.00 %) VoIP

3 3 (20.00 %) Lotus Notes 3 3 (20.00 %) XML 4 2 (13.33 %) CRM 4 2 (13.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (13.33 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (13.33 %) Oracle 4 2 (13.33 %) Government 4 2 (13.33 %) Health 5 1 (6.667 %) Home Office 5 1 (6.667 %) Oracle CRM 5 1 (6.667 %) Regression Testing 5 1 (6.667 %) E-business 5 1 (6.667 %) Telecoms 5 1 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (6.667 %) Automated Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 3 (20.00 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (20.00 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 4 (26.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.667 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (20.00 %) VoIP 1 3 (20.00 %) VLAN 2 1 (6.667 %) LAN 2 1 (6.667 %) WAN 2 1 (6.667 %) SNMP 2 1 (6.667 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (26.67 %) Adabas 2 1 (6.667 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) TestDirector	General 1 2 (13.33 %) Government 1 2 (13.33 %) Health 2 1 (6.667 %) Home Office 2 1 (6.667 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 4 (26.67 %) Developer 2 3 (20.00 %) Network Engineer 2 3 (20.00 %) Natural/Adabas Developer 3 2 (13.33 %) Rollout Engineer 3 2 (13.33 %) Desktop Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) XP Rollout Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Systems Developer 4 1 (6.667 %) Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Tester 4 1 (6.667 %) Desktop Support	Miscellaneous 1 3 (20.00 %) NHS 1 3 (20.00 %) Mainframe 2 1 (6.667 %) EPoS 2 1 (6.667 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 5 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 4 (26.67 %) Linux 3 1 (6.667 %) Windows 3 1 (6.667 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (20.00 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (13.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (13.33 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (13.33 %) CRM 3 1 (6.667 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (6.667 %) System Testing 3 1 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) E-business 3 1 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (6.667 %) Automated Testing
Programming Languages 1 4 (26.67 %) FoxPro (VFP) 1 4 (26.67 %) NATURAL	Qualifications 1 1 (6.667 %) MCP 1 1 (6.667 %) MCSE 1 1 (6.667 %) CCNA 1 1 (6.667 %) ISEB 1 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (6.667 %) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.667 %) QA	Systems Management 1 3 (20.00 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (6.667 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 4 (26.67 %) Microsoft 1 4 (26.67 %) Novell 2 3 (20.00 %) Lotus 3 2 (13.33 %) Oracle 4 1 (6.667 %) Dell