West Sussex HP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the West Sussex 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	36
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	15	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	6.726 %	8.134 %
Daily rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£240
Average daily rate	£442	£256
% change on same period last year	+72.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£483	£272
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£333
% change on same period last year	-6.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.14	£14.08
Average hourly rate	£14.64	£15.24
% change on same period last year	-3.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.14	£16.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.51	£23.11
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
Vendors West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	223	209
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.297 %	0.212 %
Daily rates quoted	47	66
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£329
Average daily rate	£401	£340
% change on same period last year	+17.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£358
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.22	£18.86
Average hourly rate	£18.74	£20.13
% change on same period last year	-6.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.27	£21.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.26	£24.93
% change on same period last year	-6.69 %
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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 West Sussex 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 West Sussex 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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 July 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 West Sussex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Crawley	+1	6	-	-
Gatwick	+7	5	£367	+33.33 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 18 (50.00 %) OpenView 2 15 (41.67 %) ITIL 3 14 (38.89 %) PRINCE2 3 14 (38.89 %) Windows 4 13 (36.11 %) Stakeholder Management 4 13 (36.11 %) BMC 5 10 (27.78 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 7 (19.44 %) Citrix 6 7 (19.44 %) Cisco 6 7 (19.44 %) Microsoft 6 7 (19.44 %) Service Delivery 7 6 (16.67 %) IBM 7 6 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 7 6 (16.67 %) LAN 7 6 (16.67 %) WAN

7 6 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 6 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 6 (16.67 %) Cisco IPT 8 5 (13.89 %) SCOM 8 5 (13.89 %) MS Office 8 5 (13.89 %) Intel 8 5 (13.89 %) PRINCE 8 5 (13.89 %) Remedy 8 5 (13.89 %) Project Management 9 4 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 9 4 (11.11 %) VMware 9 4 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 9 4 (11.11 %) Sun 9 4 (11.11 %) Active Directory 9 4 (11.11 %) SAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 6 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 6 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (2.778 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (2.778 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 5 (13.89 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.778 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 6 (16.67 %) LAN 1 6 (16.67 %) WAN 1 6 (16.67 %) Cisco IPT 2 4 (11.11 %) SAN 3 3 (8.333 %) Internet 4 2 (5.556 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (5.556 %) DNS 5 1 (2.778 %) DHCP 5 1 (2.778 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2 2 (5.556 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 3 (8.333 %) Finance 2 1 (2.778 %) Legal 2 1 (2.778 %) Insurance 2 1 (2.778 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 14 (38.89 %) Project Manager 2 5 (13.89 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 5 (13.89 %) Administrator 2 5 (13.89 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 3 (8.333 %) Server Administrator 3 3 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 3 3 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support 4 2 (5.556 %) Field Engineer 4 2 (5.556 %) Operations Manager 4 2 (5.556 %) Field Service Engineer 4 2 (5.556 %) Analyst 4 2 (5.556 %) Consultant 4 2 (5.556 %) Systems Administrator 4 2 (5.556 %) Windows Administrator 4 2 (5.556 %) Security Manager 4 2 (5.556 %) Helpdesk Support 4 2 (5.556 %) Network Administrator 4 2 (5.556 %) Server Engineer 4 2 (5.556 %) Data Manager 5 1 (2.778 %) Server Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (11.11 %) Clustering 2 2 (5.556 %) Firmware 2 2 (5.556 %) HACMP	Operating Systems 1 14 (38.89 %) Windows 2 4 (11.11 %) Windows NT 2 4 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (8.333 %) UNIX 3 3 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (5.556 %) AIX 4 2 (5.556 %) Solaris 4 2 (5.556 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (41.67 %) ITIL 2 14 (38.89 %) PRINCE2 3 13 (36.11 %) Stakeholder Management 4 7 (19.44 %) Service Delivery 5 5 (13.89 %) PRINCE 5 5 (13.89 %) Project Management 6 2 (5.556 %) OO 6 2 (5.556 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (2.778 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.778 %) Service Management 7 1 (2.778 %) Data Management 7 1 (2.778 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (2.778 %) Technical Architecture	Qualifications 1 10 (27.78 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software 1 4 (11.11 %) Active Directory 2 3 (8.333 %) NetBackup 2 3 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.778 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (2.778 %) ISA Server 3 1 (2.778 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 18 (50.00 %) OpenView 2 6 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 3 5 (13.89 %) SCOM 4 3 (8.333 %) MOM 4 3 (8.333 %) BMC Marimba 5 2 (5.556 %) NNM 5 2 (5.556 %) Legato 6 1 (2.778 %) Tivoli 6 1 (2.778 %) OVSD
Vendors 1 13 (36.11 %) BMC 2 7 (19.44 %) Microsoft 2 7 (19.44 %) Cisco 2 7 (19.44 %) Citrix 3 6 (16.67 %) IBM 4 5 (13.89 %) Remedy 4 5 (13.89 %) Intel 5 4 (11.11 %) VMware 5 4 (11.11 %) Sun 6 3 (8.333 %) Compaq 7 2 (5.556 %) VERITAS 8 1 (2.778 %) Lotus 8 1 (2.778 %) Websense 8 1 (2.778 %) Altiris 8 1 (2.778 %) Dell 8 1 (2.778 %) Interwoven