The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HP over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 69 78 70
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -8
Permanent jobs citing HP 17 14 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.598% 1.024% 2.207%
As % of the Vendors category 3.680% 2.389% 6.055%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 21
Average salary £42,500 £62,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.00% +31.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £38,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,600 £77,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
462 586 578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 43.42% 42.87% 36.44%
Number of salaries quoted 297 428 423
Average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
HP
Scotland

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh HP Salary Trend

HP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing HP across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh HP Salary Histogram

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (36.11%) Windows
3 12 (33.33%) Finance
3 12 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 9 (25.00%) ISEB
4 9 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
5 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 8 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 8 (22.22%) SAN
5 8 (22.22%) LoadRunner
6 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (19.44%) SQL
6 7 (19.44%) Performance Testing
7 6 (16.67%) Test Management
7 6 (16.67%) Hyper-V
7 6 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 6 (16.67%) ISTQB
7 6 (16.67%) Retail
8 5 (13.89%) Clustering
8 5 (13.89%) WebSphere
8 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (13.89%) VBScript
8 5 (13.89%) Java
8 5 (13.89%) MS Excel
8 5 (13.89%) Dell
8 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
8 5 (13.89%) DNS

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (13.89%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.778%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.333%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.556%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (5.556%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.556%) IIS
2 2 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.556%) MS Project
2 2 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) SAN
2 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
2 5 (13.89%) DNS
2 5 (13.89%) LAN
2 5 (13.89%) WAN
3 4 (11.11%) DHCP
4 2 (5.556%) NAS
5 1 (2.778%) VPN
5 1 (2.778%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.333%) MS Access
2 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.778%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.778%) Selenium
2 1 (2.778%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 6 (16.67%) Retail
4 3 (8.333%) Banking
5 2 (5.556%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Analyst
2 7 (19.44%) Test Analyst
2 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Test Team Leader
3 6 (16.67%) Team Leader
4 5 (13.89%) Performance Tester
4 5 (13.89%) Performance Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Systems Support Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Performance Test Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Tester
4 5 (13.89%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Systems Support
5 3 (8.333%) Software Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Head of Testing
5 3 (8.333%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.556%) Account Manager
6 2 (5.556%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.556%) Field Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.556%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Clustering
2 3 (8.333%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.778%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Windows
2 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (8.333%) Windows 7
6 2 (5.556%) Linux
6 2 (5.556%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.778%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (19.44%) Performance Testing
3 6 (16.67%) Test Management
3 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (13.89%) SOA
4 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 3 (8.333%) Matrix Management
6 3 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (8.333%) Functional Testing
6 3 (8.333%) Software Distribution
6 3 (8.333%) ITIL
7 2 (5.556%) Configuration Management
7 2 (5.556%) Project Planning
8 1 (2.778%) Business Development
8 1 (2.778%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.778%) Data Migration
8 1 (2.778%) Integration Testing
8 1 (2.778%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (2.778%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) VBScript
2 5 (13.89%) Java
3 4 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (2.778%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.778%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) ISEB
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (8.333%) Degree
5 3 (8.333%) MCSE
6 1 (2.778%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.778%) Xen
3 1 (2.778%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.778%) XenDesktop
3 1 (2.778%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (11.11%) SCOM
3 3 (8.333%) SCCM
3 3 (8.333%) Tivoli
3 3 (8.333%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.778%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Dell
3 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 4 (11.11%) Fujitsu
4 3 (8.333%) EMC
5 2 (5.556%) Symantec
5 2 (5.556%) Citrix
5 2 (5.556%) Oracle
6 1 (2.778%) Brocade
6 1 (2.778%) ProCurve
6 1 (2.778%) Cisco
6 1 (2.778%) NetApp