The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 22 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 Swindon 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 30 27 21
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -6
Contract jobs citing HP 10 14 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.425% 3.836% 5.063%
As % of the Vendors category 6.369% 7.254% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 9
Average daily rate £345 £350 £449
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.42% -21.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £314 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £456 £433 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-10.09% -17.56%
All Vendors
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
157 193 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 53.77% 52.88% 40.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 139 76
Average daily rate £425 £414 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.71% +0.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £301 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £489 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
Average hourly rate £14.75 £16.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.81% -23.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £15.40 £12.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £32.50 £29.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
Wiltshire

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 14 (53.85%) ISEB
1 14 (53.85%) Banking
1 14 (53.85%) Retail
1 14 (53.85%) User Acceptance Testing
1 14 (53.85%) HP Quality Center
2 12 (46.15%) Finance
3 10 (38.46%) Retail Banking
4 7 (26.92%) Windows
4 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
5 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
6 4 (15.38%) WinRunner
6 4 (15.38%) LoadRunner
6 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
6 4 (15.38%) VMware
6 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (11.54%) XenApp
7 3 (11.54%) vSphere
7 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (11.54%) TDD
7 3 (11.54%) MS Exchange
7 3 (11.54%) Citrix
7 3 (11.54%) SAN
8 2 (7.692%) Dell
8 2 (7.692%) EMC
8 2 (7.692%) DNS
8 2 (7.692%) ATM
8 2 (7.692%) DHCP
8 2 (7.692%) UNIX
8 2 (7.692%) ITIL

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (11.54%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (3.846%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) assyst
1 1 (3.846%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) SAN
2 2 (7.692%) DNS
2 2 (7.692%) ATM
2 2 (7.692%) DHCP
3 1 (3.846%) NAS
3 1 (3.846%) VLAN
3 1 (3.846%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.846%) VPN
3 1 (3.846%) LAN
3 1 (3.846%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) WinRunner
1 4 (15.38%) LoadRunner
General
1 14 (53.85%) Banking
1 14 (53.85%) Retail
2 12 (46.15%) Finance
3 10 (38.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Tester
1 10 (38.46%) Analyst
1 10 (38.46%) Test Analyst
1 10 (38.46%) UAT Test Analyst
1 10 (38.46%) UAT Analyst
2 9 (34.62%) UAT Tester
3 4 (15.38%) Field Service Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Field Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Test Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Break Fix Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead Test Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Printer Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead Tester
4 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Desktop Support
5 2 (7.692%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.846%) Deskside Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.846%) PDA
1 1 (3.846%) Fat Client
1 1 (3.846%) Replication
1 1 (3.846%) Clustering
1 1 (3.846%) Tandem
1 1 (3.846%) EFT
1 1 (3.846%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (7.692%) UNIX
3 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (7.692%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.846%) Windows Vista
4 1 (3.846%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
2 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
3 3 (11.54%) TDD
4 2 (7.692%) ITIL
5 1 (3.846%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.846%) Test Scripting
5 1 (3.846%) Migration
5 1 (3.846%) Service Management
5 1 (3.846%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.846%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.846%) SQL
1 1 (3.846%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) ISEB
2 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.846%) MCITP
2 1 (3.846%) MCP
2 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) XenApp
2 3 (11.54%) vSphere
3 2 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.846%) XenServer
4 1 (3.846%) XenDesktop
4 1 (3.846%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.846%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.846%) VMware ESX
4 1 (3.846%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (7.692%) SCCM
3 1 (3.846%) SCOM
3 1 (3.846%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (3.846%) WSUS
3 1 (3.846%) HP SIM
3 1 (3.846%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.846%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Citrix
4 2 (7.692%) Dell
4 2 (7.692%) EMC
4 2 (7.692%) IBM
5 1 (3.846%) ProCurve
5 1 (3.846%) Symantec
5 1 (3.846%) Sophos
5 1 (3.846%) Wyse
5 1 (3.846%) Cisco
5 1 (3.846%) Compaq
5 1 (3.846%) Hitachi
5 1 (3.846%) Novell
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