The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 41 57 27
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -30
Contract jobs citing HP 77 56 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 4.144% 2.507% 4.921%
As % of the Vendors category 8.922% 5.453% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 20 31
Average daily rate £275 £318 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.38% -15.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £167 £202 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.17% +5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 4
Average hourly rate £11.35 £12.00 £10.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.41% +10.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.76 £9.88 £9.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.71 £28.75 £11.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.71 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-11.54% -11.42%
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
863 1027 734
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 46.45% 45.97% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 516 301
Average daily rate £320 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 76 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.90% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.75 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
HP
England

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 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
West Yorkshire +14 49 £275 -15.38%
South Yorkshire +4 17 £244 -11.36%
North Yorkshire +3 6 £363 -4.91%
East Yorkshire 0 4 £325 -18.75%
HP
England

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 49 (36.57%) Windows
2 36 (26.87%) Oracle
3 32 (23.88%) Linux
4 26 (19.40%) UNIX
5 25 (18.66%) SQL
6 23 (17.16%) Microsoft
6 23 (17.16%) VMware
7 20 (14.93%) ITIL
8 19 (14.18%) SAN
8 19 (14.18%) Firewall
9 17 (12.69%) HPUX
9 17 (12.69%) MS Office
10 16 (11.94%) Cisco
10 16 (11.94%) Security Cleared
11 15 (11.19%) Finance
12 14 (10.45%) Juniper
13 13 (9.701%) Red Hat
13 13 (9.701%) Windows Server 2008
13 13 (9.701%) Oracle 11g
13 13 (9.701%) Oracle RAC
13 13 (9.701%) HP Quality Center
14 12 (8.955%) Test Scripting
14 12 (8.955%) VMware Infrastructure
14 12 (8.955%) Active Directory
15 11 (8.209%) IBM
15 11 (8.209%) .NET
16 10 (7.463%) SQL Server
16 10 (7.463%) Oracle 8/8i
16 10 (7.463%) OpenView
16 10 (7.463%) Wireless

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 11 (8.209%) .NET
2 5 (3.731%) XML
3 4 (2.985%) HTML
4 3 (2.239%) LAMP
4 3 (2.239%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.239%) SOAP
4 3 (2.239%) JMS
5 2 (1.493%) Middleware
5 2 (1.493%) REST
5 2 (1.493%) RESTful
5 2 (1.493%) Java EE
6 1 (0.746%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.746%) X-Windows
6 1 (0.746%) J2EE
6 1 (0.746%) Web Services
6 1 (0.746%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.970%) IIS
2 6 (4.478%) MS Exchange
3 5 (3.731%) Apache
4 4 (2.985%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.985%) ESB
5 3 (2.239%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (2.239%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.493%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.493%) SAS
6 2 (1.493%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.493%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (1.493%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (1.493%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (1.493%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.746%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.746%) AquaLogic
7 1 (0.746%) AquaLogic Service Bus
7 1 (0.746%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (12.69%) MS Office
2 2 (1.493%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.493%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.493%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (3.731%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (2.985%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.985%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.493%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (1.493%) SAP HR
3 2 (1.493%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.493%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.746%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.18%) SAN
1 19 (14.18%) Firewall
2 10 (7.463%) Wireless
3 9 (6.716%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (6.716%) NAS
4 5 (3.731%) iSCSI
4 5 (3.731%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (3.731%) BIG-IP
4 5 (3.731%) HTTP
4 5 (3.731%) DNS
5 4 (2.985%) DHCP
6 3 (2.239%) VLAN
6 3 (2.239%) MPLS
6 3 (2.239%) WAN
7 2 (1.493%) LDAP
7 2 (1.493%) LAN
7 2 (1.493%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.493%) VPN
7 2 (1.493%) OSPF
7 2 (1.493%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.701%) Oracle 11g
2 10 (7.463%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.463%) Oracle 8/8i
3 9 (6.716%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.478%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (4.478%) RDBMS
4 6 (4.478%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (2.239%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (2.239%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (1.493%) MySQL
6 2 (1.493%) DB2
6 2 (1.493%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.746%) Oracle OWB
7 1 (0.746%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.746%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 7 (5.224%) LoadRunner
2 4 (2.985%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (2.239%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.239%) Talend Open Studio
3 3 (2.239%) Selenium
4 2 (1.493%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.746%) JIRA
5 1 (0.746%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.746%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.746%) Maven
5 1 (0.746%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.746%) JMeter
5 1 (0.746%) WinRunner
General
1 15 (11.19%) Finance
2 9 (6.716%) Retail
3 2 (1.493%) Telecoms
3 2 (1.493%) Banking
3 2 (1.493%) Local Government
4 1 (0.746%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (21.64%) Analyst
2 12 (8.955%) DBA
3 11 (8.209%) Test Analyst
3 11 (8.209%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (7.463%) Administrator
5 9 (6.716%) Tester
5 9 (6.716%) Oracle DBA
6 8 (5.970%) Network Engineer
6 8 (5.970%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.478%) Performance Tester
7 6 (4.478%) Hardware Engineer
7 6 (4.478%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.731%) IT Support
8 5 (3.731%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (3.731%) Network Specialist
8 5 (3.731%) Support Analyst
8 5 (3.731%) Consultant
9 4 (2.985%) Support Technician
9 4 (2.985%) Developer
9 4 (2.985%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.970%) HP Superdome
2 3 (2.239%) Clustering
2 3 (2.239%) NHS
3 2 (1.493%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.493%) VSAM
3 2 (1.493%) VAX
3 2 (1.493%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.493%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.746%) iPhone
4 1 (0.746%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.746%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.746%) Celerra
4 1 (0.746%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (0.746%) EqualLogic
4 1 (0.746%) iPad
4 1 (0.746%) Replication
4 1 (0.746%) Symmetrix
4 1 (0.746%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.746%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.746%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 49 (36.57%) Windows
2 32 (23.88%) Linux
3 26 (19.40%) UNIX
4 17 (12.69%) HPUX
5 13 (9.701%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (6.716%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (5.970%) Solaris
8 7 (5.224%) Windows XP
9 5 (3.731%) Windows 7
10 4 (2.985%) SUSE
10 4 (2.985%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.239%) CentOS
11 3 (2.239%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (2.239%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (2.239%) Debian
11 3 (2.239%) AIX
11 3 (2.239%) VMS
12 2 (1.493%) OpenVMS
12 2 (1.493%) OS/390
12 2 (1.493%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (14.93%) ITIL
2 12 (8.955%) Test Scripting
3 10 (7.463%) Change Management
4 9 (6.716%) SOA
5 8 (5.970%) Migration
6 7 (5.224%) Incident Management
6 7 (5.224%) Test Management
7 6 (4.478%) Service Management
7 6 (4.478%) Project Management
7 6 (4.478%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (4.478%) Performance Testing
8 5 (3.731%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (3.731%) RDF
9 4 (2.985%) ETL
9 4 (2.985%) Regression Testing
9 4 (2.985%) Service Delivery
9 4 (2.985%) Database Security
10 3 (2.239%) Manual Testing
10 3 (2.239%) Test Strategy
10 3 (2.239%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.66%) SQL
2 7 (5.224%) Shell Script
3 6 (4.478%) Java
3 6 (4.478%) PL/SQL
4 5 (3.731%) PHP
5 4 (2.985%) C
6 3 (2.239%) VBScript
7 2 (1.493%) VB
7 2 (1.493%) COBOL
7 2 (1.493%) JCL
7 2 (1.493%) AWK
7 2 (1.493%) sed
8 1 (0.746%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.746%) Lisp
8 1 (0.746%) C#
8 1 (0.746%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.716%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.224%) ISEB
4 5 (3.731%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.985%) CCNP
5 4 (2.985%) BC Cleared
5 4 (2.985%) Degree
6 3 (2.239%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.239%) CCNA
6 3 (2.239%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.239%) MCSE
7 2 (1.493%) MCITP
8 1 (0.746%) MCTS
8 1 (0.746%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.746%) CCSE
8 1 (0.746%) PMP
8 1 (0.746%) CCA
8 1 (0.746%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.746%) CCIE
8 1 (0.746%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.731%) SLA
2 3 (2.239%) QA
3 2 (1.493%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.746%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (9.701%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (8.955%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (8.955%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.970%) vSphere
4 6 (4.478%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (2.239%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.239%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (2.239%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (2.239%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.493%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 2 (1.493%) XenApp
6 2 (1.493%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.746%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.746%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.746%) RACF
Systems Management
1 13 (9.701%) HP Quality Center
2 10 (7.463%) OpenView
2 10 (7.463%) FortiGate
3 6 (4.478%) OVSD
4 5 (3.731%) NetBackup
5 4 (2.985%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (2.985%) Data Guard
6 3 (2.239%) Cacti
6 3 (2.239%) Puppet
6 3 (2.239%) CA Wily
6 3 (2.239%) Backup Exec
6 3 (2.239%) Nagios
6 3 (2.239%) Tivoli
7 2 (1.493%) Control-M
7 2 (1.493%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.493%) SCCM
7 2 (1.493%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.746%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.746%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.746%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 36 (26.87%) Oracle
2 23 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.16%) VMware
3 16 (11.94%) Cisco
4 14 (10.45%) Juniper
5 13 (9.701%) Red Hat
6 11 (8.209%) IBM
7 9 (6.716%) CheckPoint
8 8 (5.970%) EMC
8 8 (5.970%) TippingPoint
8 8 (5.970%) Brocade
9 7 (5.224%) NetApp
10 6 (4.478%) Symantec
10 6 (4.478%) Citrix
10 6 (4.478%) F5
11 5 (3.731%) Dell
12 4 (2.985%) SAP
12 4 (2.985%) Perforce
13 3 (2.239%) SolarWinds
13 3 (2.239%) 3PAR
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Rate: £280.00 - £320.00 per day
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