HP Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP 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 West 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 38 49 47
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Contract jobs citing HP 83 108 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 4.129% 3.328% 3.377%
As % of the Vendors category 9.529% 7.855% 7.602%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 73 54
Average daily rate £323 £400 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.37% +8.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.41% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
Average hourly rate £15.20 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.55% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £15.75 £18.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.44 £34.50 £20.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £15.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-13.11% -12.85%
All Vendors
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 871 1375 1276
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 43.33% 42.37% 44.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 790 586
Average daily rate £375 £400 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 100 113
Average hourly rate £13.50 £25.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.00% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.45 £48.00 £35.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
HP
England

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the South West 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
Bristol +31 33 £300 +96.72%
Gloucestershire +9 19 £500 +25.00%
Wiltshire -11 11 £345 -1.42%
Dorset -3 7 £239 -42.98%
Somerset -2 4 £275 -34.52%
Devon -1 1 £350 +81.81%
HP
England

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 106 (63.10%) Windows
2 62 (36.90%) SAN
2 62 (36.90%) Security Cleared
3 61 (36.31%) Linux
4 58 (34.52%) UNIX
5 49 (29.17%) NetApp
6 47 (27.98%) VMware
7 40 (23.81%) DV Cleared
8 38 (22.62%) Cisco
9 36 (21.43%) C
10 31 (18.45%) HP Quality Center
11 30 (17.86%) Windows Server 2008
12 28 (16.67%) IBM
13 25 (14.88%) LAN
14 24 (14.29%) ISEB
15 23 (13.69%) NetBackup
15 23 (13.69%) VMware Infrastructure
15 23 (13.69%) SC Cleared
16 22 (13.10%) Symantec
17 21 (12.50%) Microsoft
17 21 (12.50%) Service Management
18 20 (11.90%) Finance
18 20 (11.90%) Banking
18 20 (11.90%) Active Directory
18 20 (11.90%) MS Exchange
19 19 (11.31%) WAN
19 19 (11.31%) Solaris
19 19 (11.31%) Data Protection
20 18 (10.71%) Hyper-V
21 17 (10.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (1.190%) Middleware
1 2 (1.190%) JDBC
1 2 (1.190%) ODBC
2 1 (0.595%) ASP
2 1 (0.595%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 20 (11.90%) MS Exchange
2 16 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (4.167%) Lync
3 7 (4.167%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (4.167%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 6 (3.571%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.976%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (1.786%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (1.190%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.595%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (0.595%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (0.595%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.595%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.190%) assyst
2 1 (0.595%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (0.595%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.595%) BASE24
2 1 (0.595%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 62 (36.90%) SAN
2 25 (14.88%) LAN
3 19 (11.31%) WAN
4 17 (10.12%) Ethernet
5 16 (9.524%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.357%) Wireless
6 9 (5.357%) DNS
6 9 (5.357%) VPN
6 9 (5.357%) DHCP
7 7 (4.167%) Firewall
8 6 (3.571%) IP Telephony
9 5 (2.976%) Cisco IPT
9 5 (2.976%) VoIP
9 5 (2.976%) NAS
10 4 (2.381%) Unified Communications
10 4 (2.381%) FWSM
10 4 (2.381%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.381%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (2.381%) BGP
10 4 (2.381%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.952%) TOAD
2 8 (4.762%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (3.571%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (3.571%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (1.190%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (1.190%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.190%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.190%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.595%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.595%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (5.952%) QuickTest Pro
2 6 (3.571%) WinRunner
2 6 (3.571%) LoadRunner
2 6 (3.571%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.190%) TestDirector
3 2 (1.190%) Introscope
3 2 (1.190%) Selenium
4 1 (0.595%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.595%) JIRA
4 1 (0.595%) JProbe
4 1 (0.595%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.595%) JProfiler
4 1 (0.595%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (11.90%) Finance
1 20 (11.90%) Banking
2 16 (9.524%) Retail
3 12 (7.143%) Retail Banking
4 5 (2.976%) Military
5 4 (2.381%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.190%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.595%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.595%) Legal
7 1 (0.595%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 33 (19.64%) Consultant
2 30 (17.86%) Analyst
3 28 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 22 (13.10%) Architect
5 20 (11.90%) Storage Engineer
5 20 (11.90%) Test Analyst
6 19 (11.31%) Storage Consultant
7 17 (10.12%) Technical Architect
8 15 (8.929%) Administrator
9 12 (7.143%) Backup Consultant
10 10 (5.952%) Tester
10 10 (5.952%) UAT Analyst
10 10 (5.952%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (5.952%) UAT Test Analyst
11 9 (5.357%) UAT Tester
11 9 (5.357%) Test Manager
12 7 (4.167%) Storage Support Engineer
12 7 (4.167%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 7 (4.167%) Desktop Engineer
12 7 (4.167%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.167%) Blackberry
2 5 (2.976%) Clustering
3 4 (2.381%) Handset
3 4 (2.381%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.786%) Statistics
5 2 (1.190%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.190%) SWIFT
5 2 (1.190%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.190%) Replication
6 1 (0.595%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.595%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.595%) PDA
6 1 (0.595%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.595%) Tandem
6 1 (0.595%) EFT
6 1 (0.595%) NHS
6 1 (0.595%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.595%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.595%) RMADS
Operating Systems
1 106 (63.10%) Windows
2 61 (36.31%) Linux
3 58 (34.52%) UNIX
4 30 (17.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 19 (11.31%) Solaris
6 17 (10.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (10.12%) Windows 7
6 17 (10.12%) Windows XP
7 13 (7.738%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (3.571%) HPUX
9 2 (1.190%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.595%) AIX
10 1 (0.595%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.595%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (12.50%) Service Management
2 19 (11.31%) Data Protection
3 17 (10.12%) Enterprise Architecture
3 17 (10.12%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (7.738%) ITIL
5 11 (6.548%) Test Scripting
6 9 (5.357%) Migration
7 8 (4.762%) PRINCE2
7 8 (4.762%) Network Management
7 8 (4.762%) Test Strategy
8 7 (4.167%) Test Management
8 7 (4.167%) Software Testing
8 7 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (3.571%) Project Management
9 6 (3.571%) ERP
9 6 (3.571%) Performance Testing
10 5 (2.976%) Project Planning
10 5 (2.976%) Configuration Management
11 4 (2.381%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (2.381%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (21.43%) C
2 13 (7.738%) SQL
3 6 (3.571%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.190%) Java
4 2 (1.190%) VBScript
4 2 (1.190%) VB
4 2 (1.190%) ABAP
5 1 (0.595%) C++
5 1 (0.595%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.595%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.81%) DV Cleared
3 24 (14.29%) ISEB
4 23 (13.69%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.548%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.952%) MCSE
7 8 (4.762%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.381%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.381%) CCNA
8 4 (2.381%) ISEB Practitioner
9 3 (1.786%) Degree
9 3 (1.786%) MCDST
9 3 (1.786%) MCITP
10 2 (1.190%) MCP
11 1 (0.595%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.595%) MCTS
11 1 (0.595%) MCSA
11 1 (0.595%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.381%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.381%) QA
2 2 (1.190%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.595%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (13.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (11.90%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.976%) Terminal Services
4 5 (2.976%) XenApp
4 5 (2.976%) vSphere
5 2 (1.190%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.190%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.595%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.595%) Xen
6 1 (0.595%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.595%) NFS
6 1 (0.595%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.595%) XenServer
6 1 (0.595%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.595%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 31 (18.45%) HP Quality Center
2 23 (13.69%) NetBackup
3 6 (3.571%) CiscoWorks
3 6 (3.571%) OpenView
3 6 (3.571%) Backup Exec
4 5 (2.976%) SCCM
5 4 (2.381%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (1.786%) WSUS
6 3 (1.786%) Tivoli
6 3 (1.786%) Netcool
6 3 (1.786%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 3 (1.786%) HP SIM
7 2 (1.190%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (1.190%) SCOM
7 2 (1.190%) HP SiteScope
7 2 (1.190%) Nagios
7 2 (1.190%) Unicenter
8 1 (0.595%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.595%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (0.595%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 49 (29.17%) NetApp
2 47 (27.98%) VMware
3 38 (22.62%) Cisco
4 28 (16.67%) IBM
5 22 (13.10%) Symantec
6 21 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 17 (10.12%) Red Hat
8 15 (8.929%) Citrix
9 11 (6.548%) SolarWinds
9 11 (6.548%) EMC
10 10 (5.952%) Oracle
11 8 (4.762%) CA
11 8 (4.762%) ProCurve
12 7 (4.167%) 3PAR
12 7 (4.167%) OPNET
13 6 (3.571%) CheckPoint
13 6 (3.571%) SAP
14 5 (2.976%) Compuware
14 5 (2.976%) Juniper
15 4 (2.381%) Avaya
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