The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 23 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 Middlesex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 19 30 31
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +1
Contract jobs citing HP 3 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.485% 0.955% 2.882%
As % of the Vendors category 2.564% 2.013% 5.814%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
Average daily rate £368 £383 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.92% -4.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £383 £384
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £383 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.41% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £15.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-13.11% -12.85%
All Vendors
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
117 149 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 57.92% 47.45% 49.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 70 63
Average daily rate £375 £375 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £303 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £573 £515 £451
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
Average hourly rate £27.75 £27.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.90% +61.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.78 £26.55 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £50.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
HP
South East

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) OpenView
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) EMC
3 2 (28.57%) SAN
3 2 (28.57%) Celerra
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
4 1 (14.29%) Fedora
4 1 (14.29%) CCTV
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) German Language
4 1 (14.29%) Sun
4 1 (14.29%) CCNA
4 1 (14.29%) MCSD
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
4 1 (14.29%) IIS
4 1 (14.29%) SAP

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (14.29%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Site Server
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP SM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) German Language
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SAN Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Celerra
2 1 (14.29%) CCTV
2 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Fedora
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) MCSD
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) OpenView
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
1 2 (28.57%) EMC
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Sun
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) Lotus
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy