Milton Keynes HP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Milton Keynes 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 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton 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 Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley 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 Wimbledon Windsor Witham Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	25
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	36	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.056 %
As % of the category below	11.43 %	14.21 %
Daily rates quoted	14	15
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£242
Average daily rate	£322	£252
% change on same period last year	+27.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£262
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£346
% change on same period last year	-5.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.98	£28.67
Average hourly rate	£21.02	£28.88
% change on same period last year	-27.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.06	£29.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.12	£24.23
% change on same period last year	-8.68 %
Vendors Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	315	394
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.424 %	0.394 %
Daily rates quoted	89	83
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£280
Average daily rate	£325	£298
% change on same period last year	+9.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.60	£28.85
Average hourly rate	£24.12	£29.78
% change on same period last year	-19.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.63	£30.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£24.68
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
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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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

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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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 77 (70.00 %) Security Cleared 2 59 (53.64 %) SC Cleared 3 50 (45.45 %) Windows 4 45 (40.91 %) OpenView 5 44 (40.00 %) Government 6 42 (38.18 %) ITIL 7 39 (35.45 %) OVOW 8 34 (30.91 %) Active Directory 9 32 (29.09 %) MCSE 9 32 (29.09 %) Microsoft Certification 9 32 (29.09 %) ITSM 10 30 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 10 30 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 11 27 (24.55 %) Cisco 12 25 (22.73 %) Compaq

13 20 (18.18 %) CNE 13 20 (18.18 %) Novell Certification 13 20 (18.18 %) Microsoft 14 19 (17.27 %) SAN 14 19 (17.27 %) Telecoms 15 16 (14.55 %) Windows XP 16 13 (11.82 %) Migration 16 13 (11.82 %) Windows Vista 17 12 (10.91 %) MS Exchange 18 11 (10.00 %) Ethernet 18 11 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2008 19 10 (9.091 %) HP Data Protector 19 10 (9.091 %) Sun 19 10 (9.091 %) IBM 19 10 (9.091 %) HPUX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (2.727 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 12 (10.91 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (8.182 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (3.636 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 2 (1.818 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (0.909 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 19 (17.27 %) SAN 2 11 (10.00 %) Ethernet 3 9 (8.182 %) LAN 4 8 (7.273 %) WAN 5 7 (6.364 %) Internet 6 6 (5.455 %) Intranet 6 6 (5.455 %) DHCP 6 6 (5.455 %) Firewall 6 6 (5.455 %) DNS 7 5 (4.545 %) 3G 8 4 (3.636 %) 2G 8 4 (3.636 %) Cisco PIX 9 1 (0.909 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.818 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (0.909 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 2 (1.818 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (0.909 %) PVCS
General 1 44 (40.00 %) Government 2 19 (17.27 %) Telecoms 3 7 (6.364 %) Finance 4 6 (5.455 %) Legal 5 3 (2.727 %) Health 5 3 (2.727 %) Back Office 6 2 (1.818 %) Retail 6 2 (1.818 %) Billing 6 2 (1.818 %) Auditing 7 1 (0.909 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 28 (25.45 %) Analyst 2 22 (20.00 %) Consultant 3 14 (12.73 %) Support Analyst 4 10 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support 5 8 (7.273 %) Technical Consultant 5 8 (7.273 %) Server Specialist 6 7 (6.364 %) SAN Consultant 7 6 (5.455 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 6 (5.455 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 8 5 (4.545 %) SAN Specialist 8 5 (4.545 %) Technical Lead 9 4 (3.636 %) Messaging Specialist 10 3 (2.727 %) Technical Analyst 10 3 (2.727 %) Service Desk Analyst 10 3 (2.727 %) Technical Support 10 3 (2.727 %) Technical Author 10 3 (2.727 %) Technical Support Analyst 10 3 (2.727 %) 1st Line Support 10 3 (2.727 %) Service Analyst 10 3 (2.727 %) Author
Miscellaneous 1 1 (0.909 %) Thin Client 1 1 (0.909 %) CMDB 1 1 (0.909 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 50 (45.45 %) Windows 2 30 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 2 30 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (14.55 %) Windows XP 4 13 (11.82 %) Windows Vista 5 11 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2008 6 10 (9.091 %) HPUX 7 6 (5.455 %) Solaris 7 6 (5.455 %) Windows NT 8 2 (1.818 %) UNIX 8 2 (1.818 %) Linux 9 1 (0.909 %) VME
Processes & Methodologies 1 77 (70.00 %) Security Cleared 2 59 (53.64 %) SC Cleared 3 42 (38.18 %) ITIL 4 32 (29.09 %) ITSM 5 13 (11.82 %) Migration 6 9 (8.182 %) DV Cleared 7 8 (7.273 %) Operations Management 8 4 (3.636 %) Problem Management 8 4 (3.636 %) Data Migration 9 3 (2.727 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (2.727 %) Disaster Recovery 10 2 (1.818 %) Service Delivery 10 2 (1.818 %) System Testing 11 1 (0.909 %) Release Management 11 1 (0.909 %) Project Management 11 1 (0.909 %) Asset Management 11 1 (0.909 %) Network Design 11 1 (0.909 %) Automated Testing	Programming Languages 1 4 (3.636 %) SQL 2 2 (1.818 %) C 3 1 (0.909 %) COBOL 3 1 (0.909 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 32 (29.09 %) Microsoft Certification 1 32 (29.09 %) MCSE 2 20 (18.18 %) CNE 2 20 (18.18 %) Novell Certification 3 5 (4.545 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 3 (2.727 %) ISEB 5 2 (1.818 %) SCSP 6 1 (0.909 %) CISSP 6 1 (0.909 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (5.455 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 4 (3.636 %) SLA 3 3 (2.727 %) QA
System Software 1 34 (30.91 %) Active Directory 2 5 (4.545 %) VMware ESX 2 5 (4.545 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (3.636 %) MailMarshal 4 3 (2.727 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.909 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 45 (40.91 %) OpenView 2 39 (35.45 %) OVOW 3 10 (9.091 %) HP Data Protector 4 9 (8.182 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 6 (5.455 %) OVSD 5 6 (5.455 %) Unicenter 5 6 (5.455 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 5 (4.545 %) WSUS 7 3 (2.727 %) CiscoWorks 8 2 (1.818 %) Norton AntiVirus 9 1 (0.909 %) OVPA 9 1 (0.909 %) OVPI 9 1 (0.909 %) AssetCenter
Vendors 1 27 (24.55 %) Cisco 2 25 (22.73 %) Compaq 3 20 (18.18 %) Microsoft 4 10 (9.091 %) Sun 4 10 (9.091 %) IBM 5 8 (7.273 %) Symantec 6 6 (5.455 %) EMC 6 6 (5.455 %) Citrix 7 5 (4.545 %) VMware 8 4 (3.636 %) Oracle 9 2 (1.818 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (1.818 %) McAfee Security 9 2 (1.818 %) SurfControl 9 2 (1.818 %) Finjan 9 2 (1.818 %) Dell 10 1 (0.909 %) Peregrine