The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HP over the 3 months to 17 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 North West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP
Rank 100 121 111
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -10
Permanent jobs citing HP 179 139 149
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 2.511% 1.971% 2.171%
As % of the Vendors category 5.434% 4.238% 4.340%
Number of salaries quoted 139 117 118
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,400 £27,100 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £52,300
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Vendors
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3294 3280 3433
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 46.20% 46.52% 50.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2715 2825 2985
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
HP
England

HP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West HP Salary Trend

HP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing HP across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West HP Salary Histogram

HP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester +4 81 £41,000 +6.49%
Cheshire +21 73 £42,500 +6.25%
Lancashire +4 10 £22,500 -35.71%
Merseyside +17 5 £65,000 +62.50%
Cumbria - 3 £30,000 -
HP
England

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 142 (37.87%) Windows
2 116 (30.93%) Cisco
3 114 (30.40%) Finance
4 113 (30.13%) VMware
5 98 (26.13%) SAN
6 95 (25.33%) UNIX
7 89 (23.73%) Microsoft
8 88 (23.47%) Linux
9 77 (20.53%) IBM
10 72 (19.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 71 (18.93%) VMware Infrastructure
12 65 (17.33%) HP Quality Center
13 63 (16.80%) MS Exchange
14 62 (16.53%) AIX
14 62 (16.53%) Citrix
15 61 (16.27%) ITIL
16 56 (14.93%) Windows Server 2003
17 54 (14.40%) Active Directory
18 53 (14.13%) C
19 51 (13.60%) SQL
19 51 (13.60%) Red Hat
20 50 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
21 49 (13.07%) MS Excel
22 48 (12.80%) NetApp
22 48 (12.80%) ISEB
22 48 (12.80%) VoIP
22 48 (12.80%) Firewall
23 47 (12.53%) Microsoft Certification
24 46 (12.27%) PHP
25 45 (12.00%) Cisco Certification

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 40 (10.67%) WebSphere
2 16 (4.267%) .NET
3 6 (1.600%) HTML
3 6 (1.600%) Velocity
4 5 (1.333%) COM
5 4 (1.067%) Web Services
5 4 (1.067%) XML
5 4 (1.067%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.800%) SOAP
7 2 (0.533%) Apache Flex
7 2 (0.533%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.533%) Spring
7 2 (0.533%) J2EE
8 1 (0.267%) Middleware
8 1 (0.267%) CSS
8 1 (0.267%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.267%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 63 (16.80%) MS Exchange
2 37 (9.867%) Exchange Server 2010
3 36 (9.600%) WebSphere MQ
4 28 (7.467%) SharePoint
5 24 (6.400%) IIS
6 20 (5.333%) Exchange Server 2003
7 13 (3.467%) Exchange Server 2007
7 13 (3.467%) Apache
8 9 (2.400%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (1.867%) Lync
10 6 (1.600%) Confluence
10 6 (1.600%) Tomcat
10 6 (1.600%) SAS
11 5 (1.333%) WebLogic
11 5 (1.333%) Lotus Domino
11 5 (1.333%) WebLogic Integration
11 5 (1.333%) SharePoint 2010
12 4 (1.067%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.533%) MS Project Server
13 2 (0.533%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 49 (13.07%) MS Excel
2 21 (5.600%) MS Office
3 11 (2.933%) Office 365
4 5 (1.333%) MS Project
5 3 (0.800%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.533%) MS PowerPoint
7 1 (0.267%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.267%) DOC1
7 1 (0.267%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.600%) assyst
2 5 (1.333%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (1.333%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.267%) Exstream
3 1 (0.267%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.267%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.267%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.267%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.267%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.267%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 98 (26.13%) SAN
2 48 (12.80%) Firewall
2 48 (12.80%) VoIP
3 40 (10.67%) LAN
4 34 (9.067%) DNS
5 31 (8.267%) TCP/IP
6 30 (8.000%) VPN
7 29 (7.733%) WAN
8 23 (6.133%) Wireless
9 22 (5.867%) DHCP
10 20 (5.333%) WLAN
10 20 (5.333%) Unified Communications
11 18 (4.800%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (4.533%) Network Security
13 15 (4.000%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (3.467%) VLAN
15 12 (3.200%) MPLS
15 12 (3.200%) HTTP
16 9 (2.400%) Cisco PIX
17 8 (2.133%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.47%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (2.933%) SQL Server 2005
4 9 (2.400%) MySQL
5 8 (2.133%) DB2
5 8 (2.133%) MS Access
6 7 (1.867%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.867%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.533%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (0.533%) Informix
7 2 (0.533%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.267%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.267%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.267%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.267%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.267%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 17 (4.533%) LoadRunner
2 16 (4.267%) Subversion
3 8 (2.133%) Selenium
4 6 (1.600%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (1.600%) Hudson
4 6 (1.600%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.600%) Maven
4 6 (1.600%) JIRA
4 6 (1.600%) Bugzilla
4 6 (1.600%) ClearCase
5 4 (1.067%) JUnit
5 4 (1.067%) Redmine
6 2 (0.533%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (0.267%) Ant
7 1 (0.267%) Cucumber
General
1 114 (30.40%) Finance
2 28 (7.467%) Banking
3 15 (4.000%) Telecoms
4 12 (3.200%) Marketing
5 11 (2.933%) Advertising
6 8 (2.133%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.867%) Legal
8 6 (1.600%) Billing
9 5 (1.333%) Retail
9 5 (1.333%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.800%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.267%) Back Office
11 1 (0.267%) Games
11 1 (0.267%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (17.87%) Administrator
2 52 (13.87%) Systems Administrator
3 38 (10.13%) Linux Administrator
4 37 (9.867%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 37 (9.867%) Analyst
5 33 (8.800%) Consultant
6 29 (7.733%) Tester
7 27 (7.200%) Test Manager
7 27 (7.200%) Test Analyst
8 20 (5.333%) UNIX Administrator
9 17 (4.533%) Architect
9 17 (4.533%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.533%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 15 (4.000%) Windows Administrator
11 14 (3.733%) Server Engineer
11 14 (3.733%) Test Leader
12 13 (3.467%) Technical Manager
12 13 (3.467%) Windows Systems Administrator
12 13 (3.467%) Team Leader
13 12 (3.200%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.00%) Clustering
2 44 (11.73%) Replication
3 25 (6.667%) Mainframe
4 20 (5.333%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (2.667%) Blackberry
5 10 (2.667%) CLARiiON
6 8 (2.133%) Fat Client
6 8 (2.133%) Thin Client
7 7 (1.867%) AS400
8 6 (1.600%) Firmware
8 6 (1.600%) Computer Science
9 5 (1.333%) N-Tier
9 5 (1.333%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.067%) EqualLogic
11 3 (0.800%) HP StorageWorks
11 3 (0.800%) Life Science
11 3 (0.800%) Celerra
11 3 (0.800%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.533%) Mathematics
12 2 (0.533%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 142 (37.87%) Windows
2 95 (25.33%) UNIX
3 88 (23.47%) Linux
4 72 (19.20%) Windows Server 2008
5 62 (16.53%) AIX
6 56 (14.93%) Windows Server 2003
7 50 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 28 (7.467%) Solaris
9 24 (6.400%) HPUX
10 19 (5.067%) Windows 7
11 15 (4.000%) Windows XP
12 8 (2.133%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (1.867%) Windows 2000 Server
13 7 (1.867%) zOS
14 6 (1.600%) VMS
15 5 (1.333%) Windows Vista
15 5 (1.333%) SUSE
16 2 (0.533%) Fedora
16 2 (0.533%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.533%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (16.27%) ITIL
2 45 (12.00%) Configuration Management
3 38 (10.13%) High Availability
4 30 (8.000%) Performance Testing
5 24 (6.400%) Change Management
6 23 (6.133%) Project Management
7 22 (5.867%) Migration
8 21 (5.600%) Performance Management
9 20 (5.333%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (4.800%) Network Design
11 16 (4.267%) Test Management
11 16 (4.267%) Time Management
11 16 (4.267%) Release Management
12 15 (4.000%) Incident Management
13 14 (3.733%) Problem Management
13 14 (3.733%) Test Scripting
14 13 (3.467%) Integration Testing
15 12 (3.200%) User Acceptance Testing
15 12 (3.200%) E-Commerce
15 12 (3.200%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 53 (14.13%) C
2 51 (13.60%) SQL
3 46 (12.27%) PHP
4 43 (11.47%) Perl
5 18 (4.800%) VB
6 15 (4.000%) C#
7 13 (3.467%) Java
8 10 (2.667%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.667%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.600%) C++
10 5 (1.333%) VBScript
10 5 (1.333%) FoxPro (VFP)
11 3 (0.800%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.267%) Python
12 1 (0.267%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.267%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 48 (12.80%) ISEB
2 47 (12.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (9.067%) MCSE
5 28 (7.467%) ISTQB
6 25 (6.667%) CCNA
7 20 (5.333%) MCP
8 19 (5.067%) CCNP
8 19 (5.067%) MCITP
9 16 (4.267%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (3.467%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (3.200%) CCIE
11 12 (3.200%) Citrix Certification
12 10 (2.667%) A+ Certification
12 10 (2.667%) ISEB Practitioner
12 10 (2.667%) HP APS
13 9 (2.400%) Degree
14 7 (1.867%) CCSE
14 7 (1.867%) Check Point Certification
14 7 (1.867%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.600%) SLA
2 12 (3.200%) QA
3 5 (1.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.800%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.533%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (18.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (14.40%) Active Directory
3 41 (10.93%) vSphere
4 17 (4.533%) XenApp
5 14 (3.733%) VMware ESX
6 11 (2.933%) Hyper-V
7 10 (2.667%) ISA Server
7 10 (2.667%) XenDesktop
7 10 (2.667%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.600%) SpamAssassin
8 6 (1.600%) FreeRADIUS
8 6 (1.600%) Sendmail
8 6 (1.600%) XenServer
8 6 (1.600%) NFS
9 4 (1.067%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.533%) MetaFrame
10 2 (0.533%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.533%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 1 (0.267%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.267%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 65 (17.33%) HP Quality Center
2 27 (7.200%) SCCM
3 15 (4.000%) SolarWinds Orion
4 13 (3.467%) Nagios
5 10 (2.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 9 (2.400%) Tivoli
7 8 (2.133%) SCOM
7 8 (2.133%) MOM
8 6 (1.600%) OpenView
8 6 (1.600%) HP Data Protector
8 6 (1.600%) Cacti
8 6 (1.600%) WSUS
9 3 (0.800%) BladeLogic
10 2 (0.533%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.533%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.533%) HP UCMDB
10 2 (0.533%) HP SIM
11 1 (0.267%) Cisco UCCX
11 1 (0.267%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.267%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 116 (30.93%) Cisco
2 113 (30.13%) VMware
3 89 (23.73%) Microsoft
4 77 (20.53%) IBM
5 62 (16.53%) Citrix
6 51 (13.60%) Red Hat
7 48 (12.80%) NetApp
8 31 (8.267%) EMC
9 20 (5.333%) Oracle
9 20 (5.333%) Brocade
10 19 (5.067%) SolarWinds
11 18 (4.800%) Dell
12 17 (4.533%) CheckPoint
13 14 (3.733%) Fortinet
14 12 (3.200%) ProCurve
14 12 (3.200%) Juniper
15 10 (2.667%) SAP
16 9 (2.400%) Avaya
16 9 (2.400%) 3Com
16 9 (2.400%) F5
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