Slough HP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Slough 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	29
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	7	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	6.481 %	4.667 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£224
Average daily rate	-	£233
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£242
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£333
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.20	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£21.60	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-52.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.55	£23.23
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
Vendors Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	108	150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.144 %	0.152 %
Daily rates quoted	18	55
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£338
Average daily rate	£326	£351
% change on same period last year	-7.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.43	£39.74
Average hourly rate	£26.88	£41.09
% change on same period last year	-34.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.33	£42.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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 Slough 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 Slough 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 HP across the Slough 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 Slough region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 17 (65.38 %) Windows 2 10 (38.46 %) UNIX 3 8 (30.77 %) Novell 4 7 (26.92 %) HPUX 4 7 (26.92 %) SQL 4 7 (26.92 %) Oracle 4 7 (26.92 %) MS Office 4 7 (26.92 %) Windows XP 5 6 (23.08 %) Shell Script 6 5 (19.23 %) Project Management 6 5 (19.23 %) ZENworks 6 5 (19.23 %) Tivoli 6 5 (19.23 %) Lotus 6 5 (19.23 %) VPN 6 5 (19.23 %) Cisco

6 5 (19.23 %) IBM 6 5 (19.23 %) Lotus Notes 6 5 (19.23 %) VMware 6 5 (19.23 %) HP Data Protector 7 4 (15.38 %) QA 7 4 (15.38 %) Solaris 7 4 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (15.38 %) Perl 7 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 7 4 (15.38 %) OpenView 7 4 (15.38 %) BMC 7 4 (15.38 %) BMC PATROL 8 3 (11.54 %) Active Directory 8 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (11.54 %) Tivoli Monitoring

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 1 (3.846 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 5 (19.23 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (11.54 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 7 (26.92 %) MS Office 2 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 3 2 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (3.846 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 5 (19.23 %) VPN 2 3 (11.54 %) SMS 3 2 (7.692 %) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) QuickTest Pro 1 1 (3.846 %) RequisitePro 1 1 (3.846 %) QALoad
General 1 1 (3.846 %) Telecoms 1 1 (3.846 %) Finance 1 1 (3.846 %) Health	Job Titles 1 6 (23.08 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (19.23 %) 2nd Line Support 2 5 (19.23 %) Administrator 3 4 (15.38 %) Systems Administrator 4 3 (11.54 %) Tester 4 3 (11.54 %) Analyst 4 3 (11.54 %) IT Support Engineer 4 3 (11.54 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Technical Support 6 1 (3.846 %) Project Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Consultant 6 1 (3.846 %) Technical Project Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) DBA 6 1 (3.846 %) Server Support 6 1 (3.846 %) Installations Engineer 6 1 (3.846 %) Technical Support Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Server Engineer 6 1 (3.846 %) Test Specialist 6 1 (3.846 %) Technical Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Support Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.54 %) Client/Server 2 2 (7.692 %) Management Information System 3 1 (3.846 %) Replication 3 1 (3.846 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 17 (65.38 %) Windows 2 10 (38.46 %) UNIX 3 7 (26.92 %) Windows XP 3 7 (26.92 %) HPUX 4 4 (15.38 %) Solaris 4 4 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (7.692 %) Linux 7 1 (3.846 %) AIX 7 1 (3.846 %) VMS 7 1 (3.846 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (19.23 %) Project Management 2 2 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 3 1 (3.846 %) Service Management 3 1 (3.846 %) Document Management 3 1 (3.846 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 7 (26.92 %) SQL 2 6 (23.08 %) Shell Script 3 4 (15.38 %) Perl 4 3 (11.54 %) AWK
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.846 %) MCSA 1 1 (3.846 %) ISEB 1 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (15.38 %) QA 2 3 (11.54 %) SLA 3 1 (3.846 %) HL7
System Software 1 3 (11.54 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.846 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 5 (19.23 %) Tivoli 1 5 (19.23 %) ZENworks 1 5 (19.23 %) HP Data Protector 2 4 (15.38 %) OpenView 2 4 (15.38 %) BMC PATROL 3 3 (11.54 %) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors 1 8 (30.77 %) Novell 2 7 (26.92 %) Oracle 3 5 (19.23 %) Cisco 3 5 (19.23 %) IBM 3 5 (19.23 %) Lotus 3 5 (19.23 %) VMware 4 4 (15.38 %) BMC 4 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 5 3 (11.54 %) Remedy 5 3 (11.54 %) Altiris 5 3 (11.54 %) LANDesk 6 2 (7.692 %) CheckPoint 6 2 (7.692 %) Symantec 6 2 (7.692 %) Dell 7 1 (3.846 %) Citrix 7 1 (3.846 %) SAP 7 1 (3.846 %) Compaq