Tyne and Wear HP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Tyne and Wear 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barnet Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	32
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	4	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	2.632 %	6.522 %
Daily rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£363
Average daily rate	£250	£381
% change on same period last year	-34.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£348
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.60	£24.94
% change on same period last year	-9.36 %
Vendors Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	152	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.212 %	0.277 %
Daily rates quoted	39	86
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£337
Average daily rate	£325	£349
% change on same period last year	-6.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.44	£24.14
Average hourly rate	£22.65	£26.11
% change on same period last year	-13.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.87	£28.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.36	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
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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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Tyne and Wear region.

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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 6 October 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
Newcastle Upon Tyne	+3	2	£275	-33.99 %
Newcastle	+2	2	£225	-39.99 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, 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 7 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (42.86 %) VoIP 3 5 (35.71 %) SC Cleared 4 4 (28.57 %) Windows 5 3 (21.43 %) Solaris 5 3 (21.43 %) Sun 6 2 (14.29 %) Migration 6 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (14.29 %) Tru64 6 2 (14.29 %) Data Protection 6 2 (14.29 %) Oracle RAC 6 2 (14.29 %) RDBMS 6 2 (14.29 %) Shell Script 6 2 (14.29 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (14.29 %) SQL

6 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 6 2 (14.29 %) MS Office 6 2 (14.29 %) UNIX 6 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 6 2 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (7.143 %) LAN 7 1 (7.143 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (7.143 %) WAN 7 1 (7.143 %) NetWare 7 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 7 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (7.143 %) MCSE 7 1 (7.143 %) SQLPlus 7 1 (7.143 %) GroupWise

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, 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 Platforms 1 1 (7.143 %) GroupWise	Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 6 (42.86 %) VoIP 2 1 (7.143 %) WAN 2 1 (7.143 %) SAN 2 1 (7.143 %) Firewall 2 1 (7.143 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (14.29 %) RDBMS 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (7.143 %) SQLPlus 2 1 (7.143 %) Star Schema 2 1 (7.143 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) TestDirector 1 1 (7.143 %) LoadRunner	General 1 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (21.43 %) Administrator 1 3 (21.43 %) Team Leader 1 3 (21.43 %) Test Team Leader 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle DBA 2 2 (14.29 %) Server Engineer 2 2 (14.29 %) DBA 2 2 (14.29 %) Tester 2 2 (14.29 %) Analyst 2 2 (14.29 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (7.143 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (7.143 %) Performance Tester 3 1 (7.143 %) Storage Administrator 3 1 (7.143 %) OpenView Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) SAN Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 4 (28.57 %) Windows 2 3 (21.43 %) Solaris 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 3 2 (14.29 %) UNIX 3 2 (14.29 %) Tru64 4 1 (7.143 %) NetWare 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (35.71 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (14.29 %) Data Protection 3 2 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (14.29 %) Migration 4 1 (7.143 %) Project Planning 4 1 (7.143 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (7.143 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) Stress Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) Test Management 4 1 (7.143 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (7.143 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 2 (14.29 %) PL/SQL 1 2 (14.29 %) SQL 1 2 (14.29 %) Shell Script 2 1 (7.143 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) MCSE 1 1 (7.143 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (7.143 %) CCVP
System Software 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (7.143 %) Active Directory 2 1 (7.143 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 1 1 (7.143 %) OpenView 1 1 (7.143 %) NNM 1 1 (7.143 %) OVPI 1 1 (7.143 %) HP Data Protector
Vendors 1 3 (21.43 %) Sun 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 3 1 (7.143 %) Cisco 3 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 3 1 (7.143 %) CommVault 3 1 (7.143 %) Hitachi 3 1 (7.143 %) Novell