North West Compaq Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Compaq products and/or services in IT contracts within the North West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Compaq over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Carlisle City of London Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Maidstone Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Surrey Swansea Taunton Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	138
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	2	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.149 %	0.284 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£186	£280
% change on same period last year	-33.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.16	£20.74
% change on same period last year	-12.44 %
Vendors North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1339	1761
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.151 %	1.891 %
Daily rates quoted	268	350
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£318
Average daily rate	£342	£334
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	190	183
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.63	£18.72
Average hourly rate	£21.69	£20.28
% change on same period last year	+6.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.74	£21.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£24.08
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
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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 Compaq.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Compaq across the North West 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 Compaq across the North West 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 Compaq across the North West 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 Compaq within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Cumbria	-1	1	-	-
Lancashire	-	1	-	-

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Compaq 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 Compaq.

1 3 (100.00 %) HP 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Workstation 3 1 (33.33 %) Clustering 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Fujitsu Siemens 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Server 3 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared

3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) MCP 3 1 (33.33 %) Dell 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) SAN 3 1 (33.33 %) Siemens

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Compaq 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 Compaq. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Hardware Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Hardware Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 1 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCP 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Workstation 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Server 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) HP 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Siemens 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Fujitsu Siemens