The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 36 37 53
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +16
Permanent jobs citing HP 15 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 4.438% 0.641% 0.794%
As % of the Vendors category 10.79% 1.613% 2.174%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 1
Average salary £38,750 £32,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.23% -4.41%
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50% -
All Vendors
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
139 62 92
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 41.12% 39.74% 36.51%
Number of salaries quoted 79 56 89
Average salary £39,500 £32,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.53% -12.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,400 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £45,700 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
HP
Cheshire

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester HP Salary Trend

HP
Salary Histogram

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

Chester HP Salary Histogram

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 11 (52.38%) IBM
2 10 (47.62%) Windows
3 9 (42.86%) HTTP
4 8 (38.10%) Financial Institution
4 8 (38.10%) Finance
4 8 (38.10%) EMC
4 8 (38.10%) SQL
5 7 (33.33%) SAN
5 7 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (28.57%) Selenium
6 6 (28.57%) Manual Testing
6 6 (28.57%) ISTQB
6 6 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
6 6 (28.57%) ISEB
6 6 (28.57%) ETL
6 6 (28.57%) SAS
6 6 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (23.81%) Migration
7 5 (23.81%) VBScript
7 5 (23.81%) Linux
7 5 (23.81%) NAS
7 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
8 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (19.05%) Network Management
8 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
8 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
8 4 (19.05%) AIX
8 4 (19.05%) UNIX
8 4 (19.05%) Solaris

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) SAS
2 2 (9.524%) MS Exchange
3 1 (4.762%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Project
1 2 (9.524%) AutoCAD
2 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) HTTP
2 7 (33.33%) SAN
3 5 (23.81%) NAS
4 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (14.29%) DNS
6 1 (4.762%) Firewall
6 1 (4.762%) LAN
6 1 (4.762%) WAN
6 1 (4.762%) SMTP
6 1 (4.762%) DHCP
6 1 (4.762%) VPN
6 1 (4.762%) LDAP
6 1 (4.762%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.762%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.762%) IMAP
6 1 (4.762%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Selenium
General
1 8 (38.10%) Financial Institution
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Administrator
2 6 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Administrator
4 4 (19.05%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (14.29%) Architect
5 3 (14.29%) UNIX Administrator
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 2 (9.524%) Server Administrator
6 2 (9.524%) Senior Windows Administrator
6 2 (9.524%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (9.524%) Senior UNIX Administrator
6 2 (9.524%) Support Technician
7 1 (4.762%) DBA
7 1 (4.762%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.762%) SQL DBA
7 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) Fat Client
1 2 (9.524%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (9.524%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.762%) Clustering
2 1 (4.762%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (23.81%) Linux
4 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (19.05%) AIX
4 4 (19.05%) UNIX
4 4 (19.05%) Solaris
5 3 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (9.524%) Windows 7
6 2 (9.524%) CentOS
6 2 (9.524%) Fedora
7 1 (4.762%) Debian
7 1 (4.762%) HPUX
7 1 (4.762%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Manual Testing
1 6 (28.57%) ETL
1 6 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 4 (19.05%) Network Management
3 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
4 3 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (9.524%) Product Management
6 1 (4.762%) Project Management
6 1 (4.762%) ITIL
6 1 (4.762%) Capacity Management
6 1 (4.762%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) VBScript
2 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.762%) C
4 1 (4.762%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) ISTQB
1 6 (28.57%) ISEB
2 2 (9.524%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (14.29%) vSphere
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.762%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.762%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.762%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) IBM
2 8 (38.10%) EMC
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
4 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 3 (14.29%) Citrix
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) Sun
4 3 (14.29%) Dell
5 2 (9.524%) BMC
6 1 (4.762%) TIBCO
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle
6 1 (4.762%) NetApp