The first table below looks at the demand for HP SIM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP SIM 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 of the Systems Management category for the Reading 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing HP SIM 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.596% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 6.329% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £270 £288
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 - £21.00
All Systems Management
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
79 73 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 9.416% 6.547% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 57
Average daily rate £375 £340 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £238 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
Average hourly rate £22.50 £15.58 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.46% +41.59%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
HP SIM
Berkshire

HP SIM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading HP SIM Jobs Demand Trend

HP SIM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HP SIM across the Reading region.

Reading HP SIM Daily Rate Trend

HP SIM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP SIM across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading HP SIM Daily Rate Histogram

HP SIM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing HP SIM 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 SIM.

1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) HTTP
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 6 (100.00%) HP
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 6 (100.00%) Clustering
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (66.67%) Content Management
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 4 (66.67%) Foglight
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
2 4 (66.67%) JBoss
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE

HP SIM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing HP SIM 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 SIM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 6 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (66.67%) WebLogic
3 1 (16.67%) FileNet
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) HTTP
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
1 3 (50.00%) WebSphere Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (33.33%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Content Management
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) OCP
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (16.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Foglight
2 2 (33.33%) MOM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) HP
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) JBoss
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (16.67%) ReadSoft