The first table below looks at the demand for OVSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OVSD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 South East 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP OpenView Service Desk (OVSD)
Rank 207 223 240
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +17
Contract jobs citing OVSD 13 24 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.162% 0.240% 0.057%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.662% 3.577% 0.763%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 4
Average daily rate £294 £200 £149
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.87% +34.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £289 £160 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £299 £311 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £90 £154 £99
% change year-on-year
-41.36% +55.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £10.50 £13.25
% change year-on-year
+4.76% -20.75%
All Systems Management
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
782 671 786
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 9.765% 6.713% 7.416%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 300 292
Average daily rate £350 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 53 71
Average hourly rate £27.00 £17.50 £24.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.28% -28.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £13.70 £13.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
OVSD
England

OVSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East OVSD Jobs Demand Trend

OVSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East OVSD Daily Rate Trend

OVSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East OVSD Hourly Rate Trend

OVSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing OVSD 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 OVSD.

1 18 (94.74%) ITIL
2 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
3 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
4 11 (57.89%) OpenView
4 11 (57.89%) HP
5 10 (52.63%) Service Delivery
5 10 (52.63%) Change Management
5 10 (52.63%) DV Cleared
6 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
7 7 (36.84%) MS Visio
7 7 (36.84%) PRINCE2
7 7 (36.84%) ITSM
7 7 (36.84%) Service Management
7 7 (36.84%) ISO 14001
8 6 (31.58%) Project Management
9 5 (26.32%) MS Office
9 5 (26.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (21.05%) Business Development
10 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (21.05%) Product Management
10 4 (21.05%) Windows
10 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
11 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
12 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
12 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
12 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
12 2 (10.53%) Windows 8
12 2 (10.53%) VMware
12 2 (10.53%) Backup Exec

OVSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing OVSD 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 OVSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) MS Visio
2 5 (26.32%) MS Office
3 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
4 2 (10.53%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) Crystal Reports
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Team Leader
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre Team Leader
3 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Services Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Data Centre Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Data Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Support Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows 8
2 2 (10.53%) UNIX
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) ITIL
2 10 (52.63%) Service Delivery
2 10 (52.63%) Change Management
3 7 (36.84%) PRINCE2
3 7 (36.84%) ITSM
3 7 (36.84%) Service Management
4 6 (31.58%) Project Management
5 4 (21.05%) Business Development
5 4 (21.05%) Product Management
6 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
8 1 (5.263%) Migration
8 1 (5.263%) ITIL V3
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (52.63%) DV Cleared
4 5 (26.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) ISO 14001
2 1 (5.263%) SLA
2 1 (5.263%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) OpenView
2 2 (10.53%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) HP
2 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
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