The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 20 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 Staffordshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 18 23 39
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +16
Contract jobs citing HP 2 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.353% 4.608% 0.452%
As % of the Vendors category 4.878% 8.850% 1.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £175 £313 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -26.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.22% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-11.54% -22.50%
All Vendors
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
41 113 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 48.24% 52.07% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 38 11
Average daily rate £220 £300 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% -29.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £215 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £366 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 12
Average hourly rate £15.16 £16.86 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.08% +20.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.78 £12.16 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.29 £30.50 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
West Midlands

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire HP Daily Rate Trend

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cannock - 1 £175 -
HP
West Midlands

HP
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) CCA
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Technician
1 1 (50.00%) Build Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCA
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat