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 Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 43 57 29
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -28
Contract jobs citing HP 49 34 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 3.904% 2.173% 4.800%
As % of the Vendors category 8.797% 4.809% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 15
Average daily rate £275 £325 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -10.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £213 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £464 £378 £446
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.17% +5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 2
Average hourly rate £11.35 £10.30 £11.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.19% -13.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.58 £9.90 £11.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.86 £16.80 £11.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-11.54% -11.42%
All Vendors
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
557 707 403
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 44.38% 45.18% 35.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 363 154
Average daily rate £285 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.30% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £170 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 41
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.76 £10.30 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £31.50 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
Yorkshire

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire HP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leeds -6 20 £275 -15.38%
Bradford - 9 £350 -
Huddersfield -2 4 - -
Halifax - 3 £168 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 £275 -
HP
Yorkshire

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 28 (34.57%) Windows
2 24 (29.63%) Oracle
3 20 (24.69%) SQL
3 20 (24.69%) UNIX
4 17 (20.99%) Linux
5 15 (18.52%) VMware
6 13 (16.05%) Finance
6 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
7 12 (14.81%) HPUX
8 11 (13.58%) SAN
8 11 (13.58%) HP Quality Center
9 10 (12.35%) Cisco
9 10 (12.35%) Oracle 8/8i
9 10 (12.35%) Oracle RAC
9 10 (12.35%) Oracle 11g
10 9 (11.11%) Test Scripting
10 9 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (11.11%) Retail
11 8 (9.877%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (9.877%) SOA
11 8 (9.877%) ITIL
11 8 (9.877%) HP Superdome
11 8 (9.877%) VMware Infrastructure
12 7 (8.642%) MS Office
12 7 (8.642%) .NET
12 7 (8.642%) SQL Server
12 7 (8.642%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (8.642%) Shell Script
12 7 (8.642%) Active Directory
13 6 (7.407%) OpenView

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 7 (8.642%) .NET
2 4 (4.938%) XML
3 3 (3.704%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.704%) SOAP
3 3 (3.704%) JMS
4 2 (2.469%) Middleware
4 2 (2.469%) HTML
4 2 (2.469%) LAMP
4 2 (2.469%) RESTful
4 2 (2.469%) Java EE
4 2 (2.469%) REST
5 1 (1.235%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.235%) Web Services
5 1 (1.235%) XML Schema
5 1 (1.235%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.938%) MS Exchange
1 4 (4.938%) ESB
2 2 (2.469%) SAS
2 2 (2.469%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.469%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.469%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (2.469%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (2.469%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (2.469%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (2.469%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.235%) AquaLogic Service Bus
3 1 (1.235%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.235%) AquaLogic
3 1 (1.235%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.235%) Oracle 10gAS
3 1 (1.235%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.235%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.235%) IIS
3 1 (1.235%) MQSeries
Applications
1 7 (8.642%) MS Office
2 2 (2.469%) Office 365
3 1 (1.235%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.235%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.173%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (4.938%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.938%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.469%) SAP HR
3 2 (2.469%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (2.469%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.469%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (1.235%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.58%) SAN
2 5 (6.173%) Firewall
3 4 (4.938%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (3.704%) VLAN
4 3 (3.704%) HTTP
5 2 (2.469%) MPLS
5 2 (2.469%) LAN
5 2 (2.469%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.469%) DNS
5 2 (2.469%) WAN
5 2 (2.469%) iSCSI
5 2 (2.469%) NAS
5 2 (2.469%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.469%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.235%) DMVPN
6 1 (1.235%) FCoE
6 1 (1.235%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.235%) DHCP
6 1 (1.235%) VPN
6 1 (1.235%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) Oracle 8/8i
1 10 (12.35%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (8.642%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.642%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.407%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (7.407%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (6.173%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (2.469%) SQLPlus
6 2 (2.469%) DB2
7 1 (1.235%) MySQL
7 1 (1.235%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.235%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 4 (4.938%) QuickTest Pro
1 4 (4.938%) LoadRunner
2 3 (3.704%) Selenium
2 3 (3.704%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (2.469%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.469%) Talend Open Studio
4 1 (1.235%) JMeter
4 1 (1.235%) WinRunner
General
1 13 (16.05%) Finance
2 9 (11.11%) Retail
3 2 (2.469%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Analyst
2 10 (12.35%) Test Analyst
3 9 (11.11%) DBA
4 7 (8.642%) Oracle DBA
5 6 (7.407%) Tester
5 6 (7.407%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (6.173%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.173%) Administrator
6 5 (6.173%) Consultant
7 4 (4.938%) Architect
7 4 (4.938%) Developer
7 4 (4.938%) Service Analyst
7 4 (4.938%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (3.704%) IT Support
8 3 (3.704%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (3.704%) Performance Tester
8 3 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.704%) Programmer
9 2 (2.469%) Business Analyst
9 2 (2.469%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.877%) HP Superdome
2 3 (3.704%) NHS
3 2 (2.469%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.469%) VSAM
3 2 (2.469%) VAX
3 2 (2.469%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.469%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.235%) EqualLogic
4 1 (1.235%) iPad
4 1 (1.235%) Celerra
4 1 (1.235%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.235%) iPhone
4 1 (1.235%) Replication
4 1 (1.235%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 28 (34.57%) Windows
2 20 (24.69%) UNIX
3 17 (20.99%) Linux
4 12 (14.81%) HPUX
5 9 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (9.877%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (6.173%) Windows XP
8 3 (3.704%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.469%) MVS
9 2 (2.469%) OS/390
9 2 (2.469%) zOS
9 2 (2.469%) VMS
9 2 (2.469%) OpenVMS
9 2 (2.469%) AIX
9 2 (2.469%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.469%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.235%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.235%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (11.11%) Test Scripting
2 8 (9.877%) SOA
2 8 (9.877%) ITIL
3 6 (7.407%) Migration
3 6 (7.407%) Test Management
4 5 (6.173%) Performance Testing
4 5 (6.173%) Change Management
4 5 (6.173%) RDF
4 5 (6.173%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (4.938%) Incident Management
5 4 (4.938%) Database Security
6 3 (3.704%) Software Testing
6 3 (3.704%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (3.704%) Manual Testing
6 3 (3.704%) Regression Testing
6 3 (3.704%) ETL
7 2 (2.469%) Project Management
7 2 (2.469%) CRM
7 2 (2.469%) UML
7 2 (2.469%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) SQL
2 7 (8.642%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.938%) Java
3 4 (4.938%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.704%) PHP
4 3 (3.704%) VBScript
5 2 (2.469%) JCL
5 2 (2.469%) VB
5 2 (2.469%) COBOL
5 2 (2.469%) AWK
5 2 (2.469%) sed
6 1 (1.235%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.235%) C
6 1 (1.235%) C#
6 1 (1.235%) Perl
6 1 (1.235%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 6 (7.407%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.173%) ISEB
3 4 (4.938%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.704%) BC Cleared
4 3 (3.704%) CCNP
4 3 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.469%) CCNA
5 2 (2.469%) Degree
5 2 (2.469%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.235%) MCITP
6 1 (1.235%) MCTS
6 1 (1.235%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.235%) MCSE
6 1 (1.235%) MCSA
6 1 (1.235%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.235%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.704%) QA
2 2 (2.469%) SLA
3 1 (1.235%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (12.35%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (9.877%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.642%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.407%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (6.173%) vSphere
6 2 (2.469%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 2 (2.469%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.469%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.235%) XenApp
7 1 (1.235%) VMware ESX
7 1 (1.235%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (13.58%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (7.407%) OpenView
3 4 (4.938%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (4.938%) OVSD
3 4 (4.938%) Data Guard
4 3 (3.704%) NetBackup
4 3 (3.704%) Tivoli
5 2 (2.469%) Control-M
5 2 (2.469%) SCCM
5 2 (2.469%) CA Endevor
5 2 (2.469%) CA Wily
6 1 (1.235%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (1.235%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (1.235%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.235%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.235%) PureDisk
6 1 (1.235%) DameWare
6 1 (1.235%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (1.235%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
Vendors
1 24 (29.63%) Oracle
2 15 (18.52%) VMware
3 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
4 10 (12.35%) Cisco
5 5 (6.173%) Symantec
5 5 (6.173%) IBM
6 4 (4.938%) Dell
6 4 (4.938%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.938%) NetApp
6 4 (4.938%) SAP
6 4 (4.938%) Perforce
6 4 (4.938%) Brocade
7 3 (3.704%) 3PAR
7 3 (3.704%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.704%) EMC
8 2 (2.469%) Citrix
8 2 (2.469%) Websense
8 2 (2.469%) Business Objects
8 2 (2.469%) Blue Coat
8 2 (2.469%) Barracuda Networks
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Rate: From £280 to £300 per day
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