The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP 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 Vendors for the West Sussex 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 22 36 38
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +2
Contract jobs citing HP 20 20 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 5.141% 3.003% 2.727%
As % of the Vendors category 9.569% 7.117% 5.505%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 4
Average daily rate £375 £331 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.20% +3.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £300 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £385 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £15.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.66 - £10.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.65 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-10.09% -17.56%
All Vendors
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
209 281 218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 53.73% 42.19% 49.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 146 93
Average daily rate £400 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £235 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £488 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 22
Average hourly rate £26.00 £15.30 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+69.93% -23.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.75 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.60 £31.00 £21.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
South East

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex HP Daily Rate Trend

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Sussex HP Daily Rate Histogram

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HP across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex HP Hourly Rate Trend

HP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Sussex HP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 West Sussex region 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
Crawley +8 8 £413 +24.52%
Worthing +3 6 £335 +3.07%
Gatwick - 1 - -
HP
South East

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 32 (80.00%) Windows
2 26 (65.00%) VMware
3 21 (52.50%) SAN
4 19 (47.50%) NetApp
4 19 (47.50%) Firewall
5 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
6 16 (40.00%) DHCP
6 16 (40.00%) DNS
7 14 (35.00%) Juniper
8 13 (32.50%) Finance
8 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
8 13 (32.50%) TCP/IP
8 13 (32.50%) LAN
9 12 (30.00%) Clustering
10 11 (27.50%) ProCurve
10 11 (27.50%) Citrix
10 11 (27.50%) CheckPoint
10 11 (27.50%) Blackberry
10 11 (27.50%) vSphere
11 10 (25.00%) XenApp
11 10 (25.00%) Cisco
11 10 (25.00%) WAN
11 10 (25.00%) ITIL
11 10 (25.00%) WSUS
11 10 (25.00%) Backup Exec
12 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
12 9 (22.50%) HP SIM
12 9 (22.50%) VMware ESXi
13 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (20.00%) NetBackup

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 Development
1 6 (15.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.000%) .NET
2 2 (5.000%) Web Services
3 1 (2.500%) COM
Application Platforms
1 8 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 7 (17.50%) MS Exchange
3 2 (5.000%) IIS
3 2 (5.000%) Apache
3 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (5.000%) Zimbra
4 1 (2.500%) Lync
4 1 (2.500%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) MS Office
2 3 (7.500%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.500%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (52.50%) SAN
2 19 (47.50%) Firewall
3 16 (40.00%) DHCP
3 16 (40.00%) DNS
4 13 (32.50%) TCP/IP
4 13 (32.50%) LAN
5 10 (25.00%) WAN
6 5 (12.50%) NetScaler
6 5 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (12.50%) SNMP
6 5 (12.50%) VPN
7 2 (5.000%) ADSL
7 2 (5.000%) Broadband
7 2 (5.000%) SSL
7 2 (5.000%) MPLS
7 2 (5.000%) IP Telephony
7 2 (5.000%) Wireless
7 2 (5.000%) VLAN
8 1 (2.500%) Network Security
8 1 (2.500%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (7.500%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.000%) MySQL
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) LoadRunner
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Online Betting
2 5 (12.50%) Back Office
3 3 (7.500%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.500%) Advertising
4 2 (5.000%) Banking
4 2 (5.000%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Analyst
2 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Wintel Analyst
5 3 (7.500%) Consultant
6 2 (5.000%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.000%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (5.000%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Performance Test Manager
6 2 (5.000%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) Performance Manager
7 1 (2.500%) IT Support
7 1 (2.500%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (2.500%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.500%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Clustering
2 11 (27.50%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.000%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.500%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 32 (80.00%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 4 (10.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (5.000%) Solaris
5 2 (5.000%) Linux
6 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) ITIL
2 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 4 (10.00%) ETL
3 4 (10.00%) Project Management
3 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (10.00%) Web Testing
4 3 (7.500%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (7.500%) Business Continuity
5 2 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (5.000%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (2.500%) Performance Management
6 1 (2.500%) PRINCE
6 1 (2.500%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.000%) Java
4 1 (2.500%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) MCSE
1 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (12.50%) CCNP
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.500%) MCITP
5 2 (5.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.500%) VCP5
6 1 (2.500%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (2.500%) CCNA
6 1 (2.500%) ISEB
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (27.50%) vSphere
3 10 (25.00%) XenApp
4 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (22.50%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (12.50%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 5 (12.50%) VMware ESX
6 2 (5.000%) Postfix
7 1 (2.500%) XenServer
7 1 (2.500%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.500%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) WSUS
1 10 (25.00%) Backup Exec
2 9 (22.50%) HP SIM
3 8 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 6 (15.00%) HP Quality Center
5 5 (12.50%) SCOM
6 2 (5.000%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (65.00%) VMware
2 19 (47.50%) NetApp
3 14 (35.00%) Juniper
4 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
5 11 (27.50%) ProCurve
5 11 (27.50%) Citrix
5 11 (27.50%) CheckPoint
6 10 (25.00%) Cisco
7 8 (20.00%) Symantec
8 6 (15.00%) F5
9 5 (12.50%) SolarWinds
9 5 (12.50%) LANDesk
9 5 (12.50%) IBM
10 4 (10.00%) Altiris
11 3 (7.500%) StorageTek
12 2 (5.000%) Oracle
12 2 (5.000%) SAP
12 2 (5.000%) Sun
12 2 (5.000%) Avaya
12 2 (5.000%) CommVault