The first table below looks at the demand for HP ASE in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP ASE 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Accredited Systems Engineer (HP ASE)
Rank 521 584 576
Rank change year-on-year
+63 -8
Contract jobs citing HP ASE 13 2 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.003% 0.017%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.152% 0.020% 0.105%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
Average daily rate £380 - £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 - £370
10% offered a daily rate of more than £396 - £555
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.00
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8550 10235 9482
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 17.26% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4574 5344 4533
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £539 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 564 657
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%

HP ASE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HP ASE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

HP ASE Jobs Demand Trend

HP ASE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HP ASE within the UK.

HP ASE Daily Rate Trend

HP ASE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP ASE within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

HP ASE Daily Rate Histogram

HP ASE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HP ASE within the UK.

HP ASE Hourly Rate Trend

HP ASE
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP ASE within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +61 7 £380 -
London - 7 £380 -
Croydon - 2 £390 -

HP ASE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HP ASE 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 ASE.

1 21 (100.00%) HP
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 8 (38.10%) Cisco
3 8 (38.10%) Linux
3 8 (38.10%) Sybase
3 8 (38.10%) Replication
3 8 (38.10%) Sybase ASE
4 7 (33.33%) Data Management
4 7 (33.33%) VMware
4 7 (33.33%) Sybase IQ
4 7 (33.33%) Backup Exec
4 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (33.33%) HP MASE
4 7 (33.33%) XenServer
4 7 (33.33%) vSphere
4 7 (33.33%) HP StorageWorks
4 7 (33.33%) 3PAR
4 7 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (33.33%) NCDA
4 7 (33.33%) NCIE
4 7 (33.33%) ITIL
4 7 (33.33%) IBM
4 7 (33.33%) Symantec
4 7 (33.33%) Citrix
4 7 (33.33%) Hitachi
4 7 (33.33%) NetApp
4 7 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 7 (33.33%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 6 (28.57%) Capacity Management
5 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse

HP ASE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HP ASE 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 ASE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) Lync
Business Applications
1 2 (9.524%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
1 6 (28.57%) WAN
1 6 (28.57%) VLAN
2 4 (19.05%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Sybase ASE
2 7 (33.33%) Sybase IQ
3 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.524%) InterBase
4 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.524%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.524%) BusinessObjects
General
1 2 (9.524%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) DBA
1 8 (38.10%) Sybase DBA
2 7 (33.33%) Storage Consultant
2 7 (33.33%) Consultant
3 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Development DBA
3 6 (28.57%) Sybase Development DBA
3 6 (28.57%) Sybase Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Project Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.762%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Replication
2 7 (33.33%) HP StorageWorks
2 7 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (9.524%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) HPUX
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (19.05%) UNIX
3 4 (19.05%) Windows
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (9.524%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Data Management
1 7 (33.33%) ITIL
2 6 (28.57%) Capacity Management
3 3 (14.29%) Change Control
4 2 (9.524%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.762%) Change Management
5 1 (4.762%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (4.762%) Release Management
5 1 (4.762%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.524%) Shell Script
1 2 (9.524%) Perl
1 2 (9.524%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) HP MASE
1 7 (33.33%) NCDA
1 7 (33.33%) NCIE
2 6 (28.57%) HP AIS
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (33.33%) XenServer
1 7 (33.33%) vSphere
1 7 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Backup Exec
1 7 (33.33%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (4.762%) Nagios
2 1 (4.762%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) HP
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 8 (38.10%) Cisco
3 8 (38.10%) Sybase
4 7 (33.33%) VMware
4 7 (33.33%) 3PAR
4 7 (33.33%) IBM
4 7 (33.33%) Symantec
4 7 (33.33%) Citrix
4 7 (33.33%) Hitachi
4 7 (33.33%) NetApp
5 2 (9.524%) TIBCO
5 2 (9.524%) Business Objects
5 2 (9.524%) SAP