South Yorkshire HP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire 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	16	15
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	26	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	13.07 %	14.81 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£377
Average daily rate	£325	£403
% change on same period last year	-19.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£333
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.98	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£25.54	£22.88
% change on same period last year	+11.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.10	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.55	£23.23
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
Vendors South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	199	189
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.265 %	0.191 %
Daily rates quoted	42	33
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£330
Average daily rate	£307	£350
% change on same period last year	-12.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	65	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.51	£21.33
Average hourly rate	£27.20	£22.25
% change on same period last year	+22.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.89	£23.17
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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Sheffield	+4	26	£325	-19.55 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 35 (58.33 %) HPUX 2 29 (48.33 %) SAN 3 27 (45.00 %) OpenView 3 27 (45.00 %) Oracle 4 24 (40.00 %) Telecoms 5 20 (33.33 %) ITSM 6 19 (31.67 %) Windows 6 19 (31.67 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 16 (26.67 %) ITIL 7 16 (26.67 %) Oracle RAC 8 12 (20.00 %) Microsoft 9 9 (15.00 %) UNIX 9 9 (15.00 %) Windows 2000 9 9 (15.00 %) MS Exchange 9 9 (15.00 %) Cisco

10 8 (13.33 %) AIX 10 8 (13.33 %) Active Directory 10 8 (13.33 %) EMC 10 8 (13.33 %) VERITAS 10 8 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 8 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 7 (11.67 %) Brocade 11 7 (11.67 %) NetBackup 11 7 (11.67 %) Linux 12 6 (10.00 %) MS Office 12 6 (10.00 %) MS Excel 13 5 (8.333 %) Back Office 13 5 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 13 5 (8.333 %) Change Management 13 5 (8.333 %) Middleware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 5 (8.333 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 9 (15.00 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 8 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (3.333 %) IIS 5 1 (1.667 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 1 (1.667 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (1.667 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 6 (10.00 %) MS Office 1 6 (10.00 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.333 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 3 (5.000 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 29 (48.33 %) SAN 2 5 (8.333 %) DNS 3 3 (5.000 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (3.333 %) SMS 4 2 (3.333 %) DHCP 5 1 (1.667 %) VPN 5 1 (1.667 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (31.67 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (5.000 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.667 %) Informix 3 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 1 (1.667 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 24 (40.00 %) Telecoms 2 5 (8.333 %) Back Office 3 2 (3.333 %) Finance 3 2 (3.333 %) Education 3 2 (3.333 %) Government 4 1 (1.667 %) Health	Job Titles 1 20 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (10.00 %) Technical Support 2 6 (10.00 %) Technical Support Engineer 2 6 (10.00 %) Technical Engineer 3 4 (6.667 %) 1st Line Support 3 4 (6.667 %) Analyst 4 3 (5.000 %) Network Engineer 4 3 (5.000 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 3 (5.000 %) Team Leader 4 3 (5.000 %) Service Analyst 4 3 (5.000 %) Administrator 5 2 (3.333 %) Solutions Architect 5 2 (3.333 %) EMC Engineer 5 2 (3.333 %) Storage Engineer 5 2 (3.333 %) Siebel Architect 5 2 (3.333 %) Architect 6 1 (1.667 %) Wintel Support 6 1 (1.667 %) Windows Administrator 6 1 (1.667 %) Linux Consultant 6 1 (1.667 %) Incident Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.333 %) Data Integration 2 1 (1.667 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.667 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 35 (58.33 %) HPUX 2 19 (31.67 %) Windows 3 9 (15.00 %) UNIX 3 9 (15.00 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (13.33 %) AIX 5 7 (11.67 %) Linux 6 5 (8.333 %) Windows NT 6 5 (8.333 %) Solaris 7 2 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (33.33 %) ITSM 2 16 (26.67 %) ITIL 3 5 (8.333 %) Change Management 4 3 (5.000 %) Incident Management 5 2 (3.333 %) Problem Management 5 2 (3.333 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (3.333 %) Project Management 6 1 (1.667 %) Service Management 6 1 (1.667 %) Workflow 6 1 (1.667 %) Asset Management 6 1 (1.667 %) Knowledge Management 6 1 (1.667 %) Release Management 6 1 (1.667 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (1.667 %) Security Cleared	Qualifications 1 5 (8.333 %) MCSE 1 5 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.667 %) SNIA Certification 2 1 (1.667 %) Degree 2 1 (1.667 %) CCNA 2 1 (1.667 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.667 %) SLA	System Software 1 16 (26.67 %) Oracle RAC 2 8 (13.33 %) Active Directory 3 7 (11.67 %) NetBackup 4 2 (3.333 %) ISA Server 5 1 (1.667 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 27 (45.00 %) OpenView 2 2 (3.333 %) HP Data Protector 3 1 (1.667 %) Legato 3 1 (1.667 %) OVSD 3 1 (1.667 %) OVPA	Vendors 1 27 (45.00 %) Oracle 2 12 (20.00 %) Microsoft 3 9 (15.00 %) Cisco 4 8 (13.33 %) EMC 4 8 (13.33 %) VERITAS 5 7 (11.67 %) Brocade 6 5 (8.333 %) Remedy 6 5 (8.333 %) NetApp 7 4 (6.667 %) Lotus 7 4 (6.667 %) Intel 7 4 (6.667 %) Sun 8 3 (5.000 %) IBM 9 2 (3.333 %) Siebel 10 1 (1.667 %) VMware 10 1 (1.667 %) ProCurve 10 1 (1.667 %) Business Objects 10 1 (1.667 %) Compaq