The first table below looks at the demand for HP Data Protector skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP Data Protector 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 of the Systems Management category.

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 Data Protector
Rank 504 539 521
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -18
Contract jobs citing HP Data Protector 30 47 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.064% 0.079% 0.108%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.935% 1.298% 1.817%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 23
Average daily rate £450 £344 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.90% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £275 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £476 £421 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £349 £208
% change year-on-year
+14.69% +68.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
Average hourly rate £23.00 £47.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.57% +120.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £47.50 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £49.50 £22.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £47.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-51.57% +120.93%
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3207 3620 3577
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.805% 6.106% 5.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 1813 1847 1704
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 173 231
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -13.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.53 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

HP Data Protector
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HP Data Protector within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

HP Data Protector Jobs Demand Trend

HP Data Protector
Daily Rate Trend

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

HP Data Protector Daily Rate Trend

HP Data Protector
Daily Rate Histogram

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

HP Data Protector Daily Rate Histogram

HP Data Protector
Hourly Rate Trend

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

HP Data Protector Hourly Rate Trend

HP Data Protector
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP Data Protector 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 +37 28 £450 +30.90%
London +14 17 £450 +30.90%
City of London +4 7 £450 +20.00%
South East +14 5 - -
East of England +17 4 - -
Norfolk +4 4 - -
Norwich +3 4 - -
Buckinghamshire -1 3 - -
Amersham - 3 - -
South West - 2 £390 -
Wiltshire - 2 £390 -
Portsmouth - 2 - -
Hampshire - 2 - -
Swindon - 1 £465 -

HP Data Protector
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 50 (100.00%) HP
2 31 (62.00%) Windows
3 30 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 25 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 25 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 21 (42.00%) UNIX
6 20 (40.00%) VMware
6 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
7 19 (38.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 18 (36.00%) SAN
9 15 (30.00%) DV Cleared
10 13 (26.00%) Citrix
11 12 (24.00%) Linux
12 11 (22.00%) ITIL
13 10 (20.00%) IBM
14 9 (18.00%) MS Exchange
14 9 (18.00%) HPUX
14 9 (18.00%) Red Hat
14 9 (18.00%) Service Management
14 9 (18.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (18.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (18.00%) vSphere
15 8 (16.00%) Service Delivery
15 8 (16.00%) Blackberry
15 8 (16.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 8 (16.00%) Dell
16 7 (14.00%) AIX
16 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
16 7 (14.00%) Shell Script
16 7 (14.00%) VMware ESX

HP Data Protector
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (6.000%) Middleware
2 1 (2.000%) Web Services
2 1 (2.000%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 9 (18.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (16.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 7 (14.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (8.000%) IIS
6 1 (2.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 18 (36.00%) SAN
2 5 (10.00%) DNS
2 5 (10.00%) DHCP
3 4 (8.000%) NAS
3 4 (8.000%) Firewall
4 3 (6.000%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.000%) Crystal Reports
General
1 4 (8.000%) Finance
2 3 (6.000%) Banking
2 3 (6.000%) Legal
3 2 (4.000%) Law
4 1 (2.000%) Retail
4 1 (2.000%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Administrator
2 11 (22.00%) UNIX Administrator
3 8 (16.00%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (14.00%) Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Operations Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (8.000%) Senior Windows Administrator
7 4 (8.000%) Windows Systems Administrator
7 4 (8.000%) Windows Administrator
7 4 (8.000%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 4 (8.000%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 3 (6.000%) Storage Specialist
8 3 (6.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.000%) 3rd Line Support
9 2 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
9 2 (4.000%) Support Specialist
9 2 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (4.000%) DBA
9 2 (4.000%) SQL DBA
9 2 (4.000%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Blackberry
2 7 (14.00%) LPAR
3 6 (12.00%) HACMP
4 4 (8.000%) Replication
5 3 (6.000%) Clustering
5 3 (6.000%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.000%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (4.000%) HP Superdome
6 2 (4.000%) Statistics
7 1 (2.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 31 (62.00%) Windows
2 25 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 25 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (42.00%) UNIX
4 12 (24.00%) Linux
5 9 (18.00%) HPUX
5 9 (18.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (14.00%) AIX
7 5 (10.00%) Solaris
8 1 (2.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) ITIL
2 9 (18.00%) Service Management
2 9 (18.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (16.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (4.000%) Information Assurance
4 2 (4.000%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (4.000%) Data Management
4 2 (4.000%) Migration
5 1 (2.000%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.000%) Benchmarking
5 1 (2.000%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.000%) Project Management
5 1 (2.000%) TOGAF
5 1 (2.000%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (2.000%) Change Management
5 1 (2.000%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.000%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) Shell Script
2 6 (12.00%) sed
2 6 (12.00%) AWK
3 4 (8.000%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.000%) SQL
4 1 (2.000%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) RHCT
3 6 (12.00%) RHCE
4 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.000%) MCITP
5 2 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.000%) MCSE
6 1 (2.000%) MCP
6 1 (2.000%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.000%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (38.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (18.00%) vSphere
4 7 (14.00%) VMware ESX
5 6 (12.00%) Samba
5 6 (12.00%) NFS
6 5 (10.00%) Hyper-V
7 4 (8.000%) DFS Replication
8 3 (6.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 2 (4.000%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (4.000%) XenApp
10 1 (2.000%) Xen
10 1 (2.000%) VMware Server
10 1 (2.000%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) HP SIM
2 6 (12.00%) OpenView
3 5 (10.00%) SCCM
4 4 (8.000%) SCOM
4 4 (8.000%) WSUS
4 4 (8.000%) Norton AntiVirus
4 4 (8.000%) Tivoli
5 3 (6.000%) NetBackup
6 2 (4.000%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (2.000%) Legato
7 1 (2.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (2.000%) HP NNM
7 1 (2.000%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) HP
2 20 (40.00%) VMware
3 13 (26.00%) Citrix
4 10 (20.00%) IBM
5 9 (18.00%) Red Hat
6 8 (16.00%) Dell
7 7 (14.00%) Veeam
7 7 (14.00%) SolarWinds
8 6 (12.00%) Veritas
8 6 (12.00%) Oracle
8 6 (12.00%) Cisco
8 6 (12.00%) Intel
9 5 (10.00%) Symantec
10 4 (8.000%) Websense
10 4 (8.000%) Microsoft
10 4 (8.000%) Sun
11 3 (6.000%) CommVault
11 3 (6.000%) Avaya
11 3 (6.000%) NetApp
11 3 (6.000%) Sophos
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This is a fixed term contract starting in May running through to 31st December and will likely to be extended for one year thereafter: Essential Skills: (candidates must...
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Posted: 20 May 2013