The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ProCurve products and/or services 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 ProCurve 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within HP ProCurve.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ProCurve
Rank 215 236 257
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +21
Contract jobs citing ProCurve 8 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.103% 0.059% 0.019%
As % of the Vendors category 0.203% 0.120% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
Average daily rate £310 £313 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.80% +13.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £250
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £48.25
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3939 5017 5160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.61% 49.34% 48.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1935 2193 2036
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 383 429
Average hourly rate £19.63 £17.50 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.14% -19.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.35 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
ProCurve
England

ProCurve
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East ProCurve Jobs Demand Trend

ProCurve
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East ProCurve Daily Rate Trend

ProCurve
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East ProCurve Hourly Rate Trend

ProCurve
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ProCurve within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxfordshire +11 3 £300 -
West Sussex +14 2 £335 +2.68%
Berkshire +17 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £365 -
Kent - 1 - -
ProCurve
England

ProCurve
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing ProCurve 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 ProCurve.

1 21 (100.00%) HP
2 17 (80.95%) Juniper
3 15 (71.43%) CheckPoint
3 15 (71.43%) Windows
3 15 (71.43%) DNS
3 15 (71.43%) Firewall
4 14 (66.67%) VMware
4 14 (66.67%) DHCP
5 13 (61.90%) TCP/IP
5 13 (61.90%) SAN
5 13 (61.90%) NetApp
5 13 (61.90%) Clustering
5 13 (61.90%) WSUS
6 12 (57.14%) Backup Exec
6 12 (57.14%) Blackberry
7 10 (47.62%) HP SIM
8 9 (42.86%) F5
8 9 (42.86%) LAN
9 8 (38.10%) ITIL
9 8 (38.10%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (38.10%) CCNP
9 8 (38.10%) WebSphere
10 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (33.33%) MCSE
10 7 (33.33%) Finance
11 6 (28.57%) Altiris
11 6 (28.57%) WAN
11 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
12 5 (23.81%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

ProCurve
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing ProCurve 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 ProCurve. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (38.10%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (4.762%) IIS
2 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Office
2 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) DNS
1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
2 14 (66.67%) DHCP
3 13 (61.90%) TCP/IP
3 13 (61.90%) SAN
4 9 (42.86%) LAN
5 6 (28.57%) WAN
6 4 (19.05%) VPN
6 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (14.29%) VLAN
7 3 (14.29%) Network Security
8 2 (9.524%) Wireless
8 2 (9.524%) MPLS
9 1 (4.762%) ADSL
9 1 (4.762%) VoIP
9 1 (4.762%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
3 3 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Analyst
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (9.524%) Telephony Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Support Technician
4 1 (4.762%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.762%) IT Technician
4 1 (4.762%) Network Technical Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Technician
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Clustering
2 12 (57.14%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.762%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (9.524%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.762%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) ITIL
2 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
3 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (9.524%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.762%) Change Management
5 1 (4.762%) Load Balancing
5 1 (4.762%) Release Management
5 1 (4.762%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (38.10%) CCNP
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (33.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) SLA
1 1 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (9.524%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) WSUS
2 12 (57.14%) Backup Exec
3 10 (47.62%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) HP
2 17 (80.95%) Juniper
3 15 (71.43%) CheckPoint
4 14 (66.67%) VMware
5 13 (61.90%) NetApp
6 9 (42.86%) F5
7 6 (28.57%) Altiris
8 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
9 2 (9.524%) Cisco
9 2 (9.524%) Siemens
10 1 (4.762%) Red Hat
10 1 (4.762%) Sophos
10 1 (4.762%) SonicWALL
10 1 (4.762%) SolarWinds
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