The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Slough 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 33 20 29
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +9
Contract jobs citing HP 6 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 2.459% 4.902% 2.508%
As % of the Vendors category 4.959% 10.00% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £300 £325 £138
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +136.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.17% +5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-11.54% -11.42%
All Vendors
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
121 100 144
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 49.59% 49.02% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 51 73
Average daily rate £375 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £250 £138
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 12
Average hourly rate £22.75 £14.75 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.23% -53.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.60 £11.60 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £29.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
Berkshire

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough HP Jobs Demand Trend

HP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Slough HP Daily Rate Trend

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the Slough region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Slough HP Daily Rate Histogram

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HP across the Slough region.

Slough HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 8 (88.89%) UNIX
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) VBScript
3 5 (55.56%) WSH
3 5 (55.56%) ITIL
3 5 (55.56%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (55.56%) BMC
3 5 (55.56%) Nagios
3 5 (55.56%) Middleware
3 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 5 (55.56%) Bash shell
4 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
5 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (33.33%) CCNA
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle
5 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (33.33%) HPUX
5 3 (33.33%) Solaris
5 3 (33.33%) Degree
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (22.22%) BT
6 2 (22.22%) Finance
7 1 (11.11%) VMware
7 1 (11.11%) Banking
7 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
7 1 (11.11%) MPLS
7 1 (11.11%) SAN
7 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 5 (55.56%) WSH
1 5 (55.56%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) SMTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) UNIX
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) HPUX
3 3 (33.33%) Solaris
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) VBScript
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 5 (55.56%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CCNA
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) BMC
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) BT
4 1 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Brocade