The first table below looks at the demand for HP SIM skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP SIM 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 Wales 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 Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
Rank 36 - 42
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing HP SIM 1 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 0.279% - 1.647%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.778% - 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 - £20.50
All Systems Management
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
36 8 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 10.03% 2.010% 5.412%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 10
Average daily rate £406 £283 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.80% -29.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £269 £312
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £297 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
HP SIM
Wales

HP SIM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales HP SIM Daily Rate Trend

HP SIM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Wales HP SIM Hourly Rate Trend

HP SIM
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7

HP SIM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
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