Middlesex HP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited HP over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kendal Kent Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	12
Rank change on same period last year	-32
Matching contract IT job ads	7	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	2.448 %	14.15 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£381
Average daily rate	£375	£394
% change on same period last year	-4.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£330
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.50	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£23.50	£15.50
% change on same period last year	+51.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.50	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.81	£23.52
% change on same period last year	-7.24 %
Vendors Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	286	318
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.377 %	0.333 %
Daily rates quoted	77	86
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£333
Average daily rate	£370	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£357
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.19	£23.87
Average hourly rate	£25.90	£24.91
% change on same period last year	+3.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.61	£25.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.01	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
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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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 14 (43.75 %) Windows 2 9 (28.13 %) Unix 3 8 (25.00 %) VMware 3 8 (25.00 %) OpenView 4 7 (21.88 %) Sun 4 7 (21.88 %) Clustering 4 7 (21.88 %) Problem Management 5 6 (18.75 %) IBM 5 6 (18.75 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 5 (15.63 %) Intel 6 5 (15.63 %) SAN 6 5 (15.63 %) Active Directory 6 5 (15.63 %) ITIL 6 5 (15.63 %) Windows 2000 6 5 (15.63 %) Oracle

7 4 (12.50 %) MS Office 7 4 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (12.50 %) DNS 7 4 (12.50 %) MCSE 7 4 (12.50 %) MS Excel 7 4 (12.50 %) Windows NT 7 4 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 7 4 (12.50 %) Compaq 7 4 (12.50 %) Integration Testing 7 4 (12.50 %) Load Balancing 7 4 (12.50 %) Migration 8 3 (9.375 %) Performance Testing 8 3 (9.375 %) VLAN 8 3 (9.375 %) Dell 8 3 (9.375 %) ISEB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 2 (6.250 %) WebSphere 1 2 (6.250 %) SAP Basis 2 1 (3.125 %) JNI 2 1 (3.125 %) SAP XI	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.250 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 4 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 4 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 5 (15.63 %) SAN 2 4 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (12.50 %) DNS 3 3 (9.375 %) VLAN 3 3 (9.375 %) WINS 4 1 (3.125 %) Connectrix 4 1 (3.125 %) DMZ 4 1 (3.125 %) Firewall 4 1 (3.125 %) EIGRP 4 1 (3.125 %) OSPF 4 1 (3.125 %) LAN 4 1 (3.125 %) WAN 4 1 (3.125 %) SNMP 4 1 (3.125 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (3.125 %) WinRunner 2 1 (3.125 %) ClearCase 2 1 (3.125 %) Ant	General 1 2 (6.250 %) Auditing 2 1 (3.125 %) Finance 2 1 (3.125 %) Education 2 1 (3.125 %) Health 2 1 (3.125 %) Advertising 2 1 (3.125 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 9 (28.13 %) Administrator 2 8 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 3 (9.375 %) Network Analyst 3 3 (9.375 %) Systems Administrator 3 3 (9.375 %) Tester 3 3 (9.375 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 3 (9.375 %) Senior Analyst 3 3 (9.375 %) Break Fix Engineer 3 3 (9.375 %) Senior Network Analyst 3 3 (9.375 %) Performance Tester 3 3 (9.375 %) Senior Infrastructure Analyst 4 2 (6.250 %) Computer Engineer 4 2 (6.250 %) Problem Analyst 4 2 (6.250 %) Server Administrator 4 2 (6.250 %) SAP Administrator 4 2 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 2 (6.250 %) Hardware Engineer 5 1 (3.125 %) Change Analyst 5 1 (3.125 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (3.125 %) Network Support	Miscellaneous 1 7 (21.88 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.125 %) CLARiiON 2 1 (3.125 %) Symmetrix 2 1 (3.125 %) CMDB 2 1 (3.125 %) Asset Management 2 1 (3.125 %) NHS 2 1 (3.125 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 14 (43.75 %) Windows 2 9 (28.13 %) Unix 3 5 (15.63 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (12.50 %) Windows NT 5 3 (9.375 %) Solaris 6 2 (6.250 %) Windows XP 6 2 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (3.125 %) Linux 7 1 (3.125 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (21.88 %) Problem Management 2 5 (15.63 %) ITIL 3 4 (12.50 %) Integration Testing 3 4 (12.50 %) Load Balancing 3 4 (12.50 %) Migration 4 3 (9.375 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (6.250 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (6.250 %) Software Testing 5 2 (6.250 %) Test Scripting 5 2 (6.250 %) Refactoring 5 2 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (3.125 %) Change Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (3.125 %) Release Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Fault Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Incident Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 2 (6.250 %) SQL 2 1 (3.125 %) Shell Script 2 1 (3.125 %) C++ 2 1 (3.125 %) Java	Qualifications 1 4 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 4 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (9.375 %) ISEB 3 1 (3.125 %) Degree 3 1 (3.125 %) CCNA 3 1 (3.125 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (3.125 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.250 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (18.75 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 5 (15.63 %) Active Directory 3 1 (3.125 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 8 (25.00 %) OpenView 2 3 (9.375 %) Legato 3 2 (6.250 %) OVSD 4 1 (3.125 %) EMC NetWorker 4 1 (3.125 %) CiscoWorks 4 1 (3.125 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 8 (25.00 %) VMware 2 7 (21.88 %) Sun 3 6 (18.75 %) IBM 4 5 (15.63 %) Intel 4 5 (15.63 %) Oracle 5 4 (12.50 %) Compaq 6 3 (9.375 %) Dell 6 3 (9.375 %) Cisco 6 3 (9.375 %) SAP 7 2 (6.250 %) VERITAS 7 2 (6.250 %) Citrix 7 2 (6.250 %) EMC 7 2 (6.250 %) Microsoft 8 1 (3.125 %) Perforce 8 1 (3.125 %) Brocade 8 1 (3.125 %) ADIC 8 1 (3.125 %) BMC 8 1 (3.125 %) Lotus 8 1 (3.125 %) Red Hat 8 1 (3.125 %) Novell