The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 10 17 12
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -5
Contract jobs citing HP 20 25 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 10.58% 7.463% 9.630%
As % of the Vendors category 22.47% 14.71% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 10
Average daily rate £300 £263 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £143
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £426 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.41% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
Average hourly rate £10.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £15.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-13.11% -12.85%
All Vendors
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
89 170 150
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 47.09% 50.75% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 83 68
Average daily rate £270 £325 £322
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.92% +1.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £507 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 5
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.92 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £50.00 £17.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
HP
North East

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +1 16 £300 +9.09%
Gateshead +10 3 - -
Sunderland 0 1 - -
HP
North East

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 10 (38.46%) Windows
1 10 (38.46%) Cisco
1 10 (38.46%) SAN
2 9 (34.62%) VMware
3 8 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 8 (30.77%) Linux
4 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (19.23%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (19.23%) vSphere
5 5 (19.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (19.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (19.23%) VMware ESX
5 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
6 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
6 4 (15.38%) DHCP
6 4 (15.38%) VPN
6 4 (15.38%) DNS
6 4 (15.38%) IIS
6 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 4 (15.38%) Clustering
6 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
6 4 (15.38%) Firewall
6 4 (15.38%) CentOS
6 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (15.38%) WSUS
6 4 (15.38%) SCOM
6 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (7.692%) Middleware
1 2 (7.692%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.846%) Application Packaging
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) IIS
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
3 2 (7.692%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.846%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.846%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) SAN
2 5 (19.23%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (19.23%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (15.38%) DHCP
3 4 (15.38%) VPN
3 4 (15.38%) DNS
3 4 (15.38%) Firewall
4 3 (11.54%) LDAP
5 2 (7.692%) OSPF
5 2 (7.692%) BGP
6 1 (3.846%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.846%) LAN
6 1 (3.846%) WAN
6 1 (3.846%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Rational Performance Tester
1 1 (3.846%) QADirector
1 1 (3.846%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Administrator
2 6 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (19.23%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Service Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Storage Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.692%) Support Engineer
6 2 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (7.692%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.692%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (7.692%) VMware Support Engineer
7 1 (3.846%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Clustering
2 1 (3.846%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.846%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (15.38%) CentOS
4 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (11.54%) UNIX
6 2 (7.692%) Windows XP
6 2 (7.692%) AIX
7 1 (3.846%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.846%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.846%) Debian
7 1 (3.846%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (11.54%) ITIL
2 2 (7.692%) Project Management
2 2 (7.692%) Identity Management
2 2 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (3.846%) Change Control
3 1 (3.846%) Capacity Management
3 1 (3.846%) Performance Management
3 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (3.846%) Network Design
3 1 (3.846%) Software Testing
3 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (3.846%) Workflow
3 1 (3.846%) Validation
3 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
3 1 (3.846%) RAD
3 1 (3.846%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.692%) Java
1 2 (7.692%) SQL
2 1 (3.846%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.846%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (19.23%) vSphere
2 5 (19.23%) VMware ESX
3 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.692%) XenServer
5 1 (3.846%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) WSUS
1 4 (15.38%) SCOM
2 3 (11.54%) Nagios
3 1 (3.846%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Cisco
2 9 (34.62%) VMware
3 8 (30.77%) Red Hat
4 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.54%) Citrix
6 2 (7.692%) Informatica
6 2 (7.692%) IBM
6 2 (7.692%) Siebel
6 2 (7.692%) JBoss
6 2 (7.692%) Oracle
7 1 (3.846%) ProCurve
7 1 (3.846%) TippingPoint
7 1 (3.846%) Brocade
7 1 (3.846%) Micro Focus
7 1 (3.846%) Business Objects
7 1 (3.846%) Sun
7 1 (3.846%) Juniper
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