The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cambridge region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Hewlett-Packard Company.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 96 114 90
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -24
Permanent jobs citing HP 27 9 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.488% 0.448% 1.587%
As % of the Vendors category 3.624% 1.233% 5.724%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 28
Average salary £35,000 £51,250 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.70% +24.24%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,400 £34,250
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £70,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50% -
All Vendors
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
745 730 594
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 41.05% 36.32% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 627 656 532
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,661 £30,000 £27,031
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,450 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
HP
Cambridgeshire

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge HP Jobs Demand Trend

HP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing HP across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge HP Salary Trend

HP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing HP across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge HP Salary Histogram

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HP.

1 34 (58.62%) VMware
2 26 (44.83%) Citrix
3 25 (43.10%) Windows
4 24 (41.38%) UNIX
4 24 (41.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (39.66%) Cisco
5 23 (39.66%) SQL
6 21 (36.21%) SAN
6 21 (36.21%) NetApp
6 21 (36.21%) Finance
7 20 (34.48%) vSphere
8 18 (31.03%) Linux
9 17 (29.31%) XenDesktop
10 15 (25.86%) HP Quality Center
10 15 (25.86%) Selenium
10 15 (25.86%) QuickTest Pro
11 14 (24.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
12 13 (22.41%) Java
12 13 (22.41%) JIRA
12 13 (22.41%) MCITP
12 13 (22.41%) XenApp
12 13 (22.41%) XenServer
13 12 (20.69%) HTML
13 12 (20.69%) XML
13 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
13 12 (20.69%) VMware ESX
14 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2008
15 10 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (17.24%) Software Testing

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (20.69%) HTML
1 12 (20.69%) XML
2 1 (1.724%) COM
Application Platforms
1 10 (17.24%) MS Exchange
2 6 (10.34%) Apache
3 5 (8.621%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (6.897%) SharePoint
5 3 (5.172%) Exchange Server 2000
5 3 (5.172%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (5.172%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (5.172%) IIS
6 2 (3.448%) Site Server
7 1 (1.724%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.724%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.448%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.897%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (36.21%) SAN
2 8 (13.79%) Firewall
2 8 (13.79%) NetScaler
3 7 (12.07%) Unified Communications
3 7 (12.07%) DNS
4 6 (10.34%) LAN
4 6 (10.34%) WAN
4 6 (10.34%) TCP/IP
4 6 (10.34%) SSL
4 6 (10.34%) VLAN
5 5 (8.621%) Internet
6 4 (6.897%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (5.172%) iSCSI
7 3 (5.172%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (3.448%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (3.448%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (3.448%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.724%) NAS
9 1 (1.724%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.724%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.34%) MySQL
3 4 (6.897%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Selenium
1 15 (25.86%) QuickTest Pro
2 13 (22.41%) JIRA
General
1 21 (36.21%) Finance
2 2 (3.448%) Games
3 1 (1.724%) Back Office
3 1 (1.724%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Analyst
2 15 (25.86%) Test Analyst
3 12 (20.69%) Administrator
3 12 (20.69%) Consultant
4 11 (18.97%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (12.07%) Linux Administrator
5 7 (12.07%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 7 (12.07%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (8.621%) VMware Consultant
6 5 (8.621%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.897%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (6.897%) Support Analyst
7 4 (6.897%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (6.897%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 4 (6.897%) Citrix Consultant
7 4 (6.897%) IT Support
8 3 (5.172%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (5.172%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.448%) Architect
9 2 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Replication
1 6 (10.34%) Open Source
2 4 (6.897%) CCTV
3 3 (5.172%) Celerra
3 3 (5.172%) EqualLogic
3 3 (5.172%) Blackberry
4 2 (3.448%) CLARiiON
4 2 (3.448%) Clustering
4 2 (3.448%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.448%) Online Games
5 1 (1.724%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.724%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (43.10%) Windows
2 24 (41.38%) UNIX
3 18 (31.03%) Linux
4 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (15.52%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (12.07%) Windows 7
8 3 (5.172%) Windows XP
9 2 (3.448%) Debian
10 1 (1.724%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.724%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (1.724%) CentOS
10 1 (1.724%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.24%) Software Testing
1 10 (17.24%) Load Balancing
2 8 (13.79%) Test Scripting
3 7 (12.07%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (12.07%) E-Commerce
4 6 (10.34%) Network Design
5 5 (8.621%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (8.621%) Test Management
5 5 (8.621%) Manual Testing
5 5 (8.621%) ITIL
6 4 (6.897%) Service Management
6 4 (6.897%) Data Management
7 3 (5.172%) Business Development
8 2 (3.448%) Information Security
8 2 (3.448%) High Availability
9 1 (1.724%) TOGAF
9 1 (1.724%) Mobile Device Management
9 1 (1.724%) Data Analysis
9 1 (1.724%) Bioinformatics
9 1 (1.724%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) SQL
2 13 (22.41%) Java
3 7 (12.07%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.448%) Perl
4 2 (3.448%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.724%) Bash shell
5 1 (1.724%) Python
5 1 (1.724%) C
5 1 (1.724%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 13 (22.41%) MCITP
3 10 (17.24%) CCEE
3 10 (17.24%) CCIA
3 10 (17.24%) ISEB
3 10 (17.24%) Citrix Certification
4 9 (15.52%) CCEA
5 7 (12.07%) RHCE
6 6 (10.34%) CCAA
7 5 (8.621%) MCTS
7 5 (8.621%) NCDA
7 5 (8.621%) NCIE
8 4 (6.897%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (6.897%) Security Cleared
9 3 (5.172%) VCDX
10 2 (3.448%) MCP
10 2 (3.448%) MCSE
10 2 (3.448%) MCSA
10 2 (3.448%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) QA
2 4 (6.897%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (41.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (34.48%) vSphere
3 17 (29.31%) XenDesktop
4 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
4 13 (22.41%) XenApp
4 13 (22.41%) XenServer
5 12 (20.69%) VMware ESX
6 6 (10.34%) Postfix
6 6 (10.34%) Sendmail
7 4 (6.897%) ISA Server
7 4 (6.897%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.448%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (3.448%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (1.724%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.724%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.724%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) HP Quality Center
2 7 (12.07%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 6 (10.34%) Nagios
3 6 (10.34%) OSSEC
3 6 (10.34%) SCCM
4 3 (5.172%) SCOM
4 3 (5.172%) NetBackup
4 3 (5.172%) Backup Exec
5 2 (3.448%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 34 (58.62%) VMware
2 26 (44.83%) Citrix
3 23 (39.66%) Cisco
4 21 (36.21%) NetApp
5 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
6 9 (15.52%) Red Hat
7 8 (13.79%) IBM
7 8 (13.79%) Symantec
8 7 (12.07%) Veeam
9 6 (10.34%) EMC
9 6 (10.34%) TippingPoint
9 6 (10.34%) SolarWinds
10 5 (8.621%) Oracle
11 4 (6.897%) BMC
11 4 (6.897%) Dell
11 4 (6.897%) Remedy
12 3 (5.172%) CommVault
13 2 (3.448%) Juniper
13 2 (3.448%) ProCurve
14 1 (1.724%) Isilon
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Candidates must possess UK single-nationality and have resided in the UK for a minimum of 5 years in order to obtain the security clearance level needed for...
LEXSTRA
Salary: £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Experience with administration of Linux systems on modern HP server hardware and SAN disk systems... The main technical skills needed are Red Hat Linux and Net App Storage.
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013