North West OpenView Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP OpenView (HPOV) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Systems Management category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OpenView over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP OpenView (HPOV)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Livingston London Maidenhead Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury North West Peterborough Plymouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	115
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	9	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	9.091 %	23.19 %
Daily rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£275
Average daily rate	£380	£306
% change on same period last year	+24.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£380
% change on same period last year	-19.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£20.67
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£22.00
% change on same period last year	-22.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£23.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.19	£29.40
% change on same period last year	-21.14 %
Systems Management North West
Matching contract IT job ads	99	138
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.139 %	0.139 %
Daily rates quoted	35	40
Average minimum daily rate	£404	£290
Average daily rate	£411	£320
% change on same period last year	+28.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£361
% change on same period last year	-7.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.60	£26.85
Average hourly rate	£43.73	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+54.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.87	£29.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.96	£27.40
% change on same period last year	+5.69 %
OpenView England

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.

OpenView
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

OpenView
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenView across the North West region.

OpenView
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenView across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

OpenView
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the North West region.

OpenView
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenView within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 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
Cheshire	+4	9	£380	+57.92 %

OpenView England

OpenView
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing OpenView 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 OpenView.

1 17 (70.83 %) HP 2 11 (45.83 %) UNIX 3 7 (29.17 %) Tivoli 4 6 (25.00 %) Windows 5 5 (20.83 %) Remedy 5 5 (20.83 %) Perl 5 5 (20.83 %) Tivoli Monitoring 6 4 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification 6 4 (16.67 %) IBM 6 4 (16.67 %) CCNA 6 4 (16.67 %) LAN 6 4 (16.67 %) WAN 6 4 (16.67 %) Change Management 6 4 (16.67 %) Firewall 6 4 (16.67 %) Finance

7 3 (12.50 %) e-Work 7 3 (12.50 %) Retail 7 3 (12.50 %) BGP 7 3 (12.50 %) EIGRP 7 3 (12.50 %) CiscoWorks 7 3 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 7 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 7 3 (12.50 %) Business Objects 7 3 (12.50 %) CCNP 7 3 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (12.50 %) Cisco 7 3 (12.50 %) SAN 7 3 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (8.333 %) Banking 8 2 (8.333 %) MOM

OpenView
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing OpenView 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 OpenView. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) SAS	Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Project 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Visio 1 1 (4.167 %) CA Clarity
Business Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) e-Work 2 1 (4.167 %) SAP APO	Communications & Networking 1 4 (16.67 %) LAN 1 4 (16.67 %) WAN 1 4 (16.67 %) Firewall 2 3 (12.50 %) SAN 2 3 (12.50 %) BGP 2 3 (12.50 %) EIGRP 2 3 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (4.167 %) DNS 3 1 (4.167 %) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (4.167 %) SAP BW	General 1 4 (16.67 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Retail 3 2 (8.333 %) Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Legal 4 1 (4.167 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 6 (25.00 %) Consultant 2 5 (20.83 %) Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Change Analyst 4 3 (12.50 %) Cisco Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) OpenView Consultant 4 3 (12.50 %) Business Consultant 4 3 (12.50 %) Business Objects Consultant 4 3 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (8.333 %) OpenView Specialist 5 2 (8.333 %) Architect 6 1 (4.167 %) Wintel Engineer 6 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Consultant 6 1 (4.167 %) Enterprise Architect 6 1 (4.167 %) Solutions Architect 6 1 (4.167 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Engineer 6 1 (4.167 %) Technical Architect	Operating Systems 1 11 (45.83 %) UNIX 2 6 (25.00 %) Windows 3 1 (4.167 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) Change Management 2 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 3 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Asset Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (20.83 %) Perl 2 1 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) C
Qualifications 1 4 (16.67 %) CCNA 1 4 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (12.50 %) CCNP	Systems Management 1 7 (29.17 %) Tivoli 2 5 (20.83 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 3 (12.50 %) CiscoWorks 4 2 (8.333 %) MOM 5 1 (4.167 %) Netcool 5 1 (4.167 %) SCOM 5 1 (4.167 %) Legato
Vendors 1 17 (70.83 %) HP 2 5 (20.83 %) Remedy 3 4 (16.67 %) IBM 4 3 (12.50 %) Business Objects 4 3 (12.50 %) Cisco 5 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 6 1 (4.167 %) BMC 6 1 (4.167 %) CA 6 1 (4.167 %) Sybase 6 1 (4.167 %) SAP 6 1 (4.167 %) LatentZero 6 1 (4.167 %) thinkFolio