The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HP over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

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

HP
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank10493106
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+13
Matching permanent IT job ads298631731977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.476 %2.588 %2.071 %
As % of the Vendors category5.197 %5.517 %4.666 %
Number of salaries quoted247525691456
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,000£27,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
-+6.66 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
574595751742374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.65 %46.91 %44.38 %
Number of salaries quoted484194776133886
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

HP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing HP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

HP Demand Trend

HP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing HP within the UK.

HP Salary Trend

HP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing HP over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

HP Salary Histogram

HP
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-172728£42,500-
LondonDown-61202£47,500+5.55 %
South EastDown-22620£41,000-1.20 %
City of LondonUp+3294£52,500-2.77 %
East of EnglandDown-22178£38,250-11.04 %
BerkshireDown-28166£42,500+6.25 %
South WestDown-4165£40,000+15.94 %
YorkshireDown-4160£37,500-
SurreyDown-39154£43,750+2.94 %
North WestDown-4145£39,000-2.50 %
ScotlandDown-7108£41,000-8.88 %
West MidlandsUp+5106£35,000-
West YorkshireDown-15101£38,000+8.57 %
ReadingDown-1489£45,000+15.38 %
East MidlandsUp+281£37,500+10.29 %
BuckinghamshireUp+371£37,500-16.66 %
LeedsUp+669£38,000+8.57 %
HertfordshireDown-1863£44,000-2.22 %
GloucestershireUp+1762£47,500+18.75 %
ManchesterDown-1561£37,500-6.25 %
WalesUp+1050£32,500-8.45 %
StainesDown-750£46,500+2.19 %
South WalesUp+1149£32,500-9.72 %
HampshireDown-4649£40,000+14.28 %
CheshireDown-947£40,000+6.66 %
Milton KeynesUp+3645£36,000-19.10 %
WiltshireUp+743£26,500-24.28 %
EssexDown-1743£38,250-15.00 %
BirminghamDown-840£42,000+29.23 %
GlasgowDown-138£42,500+1.19 %

HP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

12800 (46.56 %)Windows
22433 (40.46 %)VMware
32147 (35.70 %)Microsoft
42044 (33.99 %)Cisco
51638 (27.24 %)SAN
61507 (25.06 %)VMware Infrastructure
71402 (23.31 %)Citrix
81257 (20.90 %)Active Directory
91255 (20.87 %)Linux
101254 (20.85 %)Windows Server 2008
111061 (17.64 %)Windows Server 2003
121054 (17.53 %)UNIX
131037 (17.24 %)Finance
141024 (17.03 %)MS Excel
15999 (16.61 %)IBM
16986 (16.40 %)ITIL
17966 (16.06 %)MS Exchange
18955 (15.88 %)SQL
19937 (15.58 %)EMC
20882 (14.67 %)NetApp
21866 (14.40 %)Oracle
22825 (13.72 %)Firewall
23727 (12.09 %)Dell
24714 (11.87 %)Microsoft Certification
25703 (11.69 %)HP Quality Center
26699 (11.62 %)vSphere
27678 (11.27 %)DNS
28667 (11.09 %)SQL Server
29601 (9.993 %)Cisco Certification
30587 (9.761 %)TCP/IP

HP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1247 (4.107 %).NET
2181 (3.010 %)WebSphere
3174 (2.893 %)XML
4149 (2.478 %)J2EE
5139 (2.311 %)Middleware
6108 (1.796 %)Web Services
785 (1.413 %)HTML
880 (1.330 %)Spring
973 (1.214 %)SOAP
1051 (0.848 %)CSS
1140 (0.665 %)ASP
1237 (0.615 %).NET Framework
1333 (0.549 %)LAMP
1431 (0.515 %)Application Packaging
1530 (0.499 %)Forefront TMG
1629 (0.482 %)BAPI
1629 (0.482 %)MFC
1728 (0.466 %)JSP
1822 (0.366 %)Swing
1921 (0.349 %)Java EE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1966 (16.06 %)MS Exchange
2509 (8.464 %)Exchange Server 2010
3466 (7.749 %)Exchange Server 2007
4357 (5.936 %)IIS
5352 (5.853 %)Exchange Server 2003
6323 (5.371 %)SharePoint
7303 (5.038 %)Apache
8146 (2.428 %)Tomcat
9144 (2.394 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
10112 (1.862 %)WebLogic
1169 (1.147 %)WebSphere Application Server
1255 (0.915 %)SharePoint 2010
1255 (0.915 %)Lync
1347 (0.782 %)MQSeries
1445 (0.748 %)WebSphere MQ
1543 (0.715 %)BizTalk Server
1641 (0.682 %)CMS
1740 (0.665 %)Lotus Notes
1740 (0.665 %)ESB
1834 (0.565 %)Exchange Server 2000
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11024 (17.03 %)MS Excel
2344 (5.720 %)MS Office
3145 (2.411 %)MS Visio
462 (1.031 %)MS PowerPoint
549 (0.815 %)MATLAB
645 (0.748 %)MS Project
718 (0.299 %)Office 365
817 (0.283 %)Google Apps
916 (0.266 %)DOC1
1015 (0.249 %)PrintSoft PReS
116 (0.100 %)Photoshop
116 (0.100 %)Acrobat
125 (0.083 %)Adobe Illustrator
134 (0.067 %)Final Cut Pro
143 (0.050 %)PowerPivot
143 (0.050 %)Vectorworks
143 (0.050 %)InDesign
143 (0.050 %)InfoPath
143 (0.050 %)CINEMA 4D
152 (0.033 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
142 (0.698 %)Oracle EBS
230 (0.499 %)Remedy ITSM
326 (0.432 %)Exstream
423 (0.382 %)BASE24
521 (0.349 %)SAP Retail
620 (0.333 %)Oracle EBS R12
715 (0.249 %)SAP GRC
715 (0.249 %)Dynamics CRM
715 (0.249 %)SAP SCM
814 (0.233 %)CA Clarity
814 (0.233 %)SAP CRM
913 (0.216 %)Temenos T24
1012 (0.200 %)Summit
1111 (0.183 %)Dynamics AX
1210 (0.166 %)VisionPLUS
1210 (0.166 %)Oracle ERP
1210 (0.166 %)Metrica
139 (0.150 %)assyst
139 (0.150 %)SAP ERP
148 (0.133 %)SAP FI
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11638 (27.24 %)SAN
2825 (13.72 %)Firewall
3678 (11.27 %)DNS
4587 (9.761 %)TCP/IP
5579 (9.628 %)LAN
6565 (9.395 %)WAN
7469 (7.798 %)DHCP
8373 (6.202 %)VPN
9343 (5.703 %)Internet
10305 (5.071 %)NAS
11273 (4.539 %)Wireless
12217 (3.608 %)VoIP
13207 (3.442 %)VLAN
14185 (3.076 %)MPLS
15173 (2.877 %)HTTP
16171 (2.843 %)Cisco ASA
17159 (2.644 %)iSCSI
18124 (2.062 %)Fibre Channel
19121 (2.012 %)Ethernet
20107 (1.779 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1667 (11.09 %)SQL Server
2183 (3.043 %)SQL Server 2008
3182 (3.026 %)MySQL
4179 (2.976 %)SQL Server 2005
5103 (1.713 %)DB2
657 (0.948 %)Oracle 8/8i
756 (0.931 %)SQL Server 2000
855 (0.915 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
950 (0.831 %)Oracle 11g
1047 (0.782 %)Oracle 10g
1047 (0.782 %)RDBMS
1144 (0.732 %)ETL
1239 (0.648 %)Data Warehouse
1239 (0.648 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1332 (0.532 %)Oracle Reports
1425 (0.416 %)GIS
1521 (0.349 %)TOAD
1616 (0.266 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1715 (0.249 %)Oracle 9i
1814 (0.233 %)Oracle BI EE
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1358 (5.953 %)LoadRunner
2353 (5.870 %)QuickTest Pro
3111 (1.846 %)Subversion
497 (1.613 %)Selenium
593 (1.546 %)TestDirector
678 (1.297 %)ClearCase
762 (1.031 %)Eclipse
852 (0.865 %)Ant
951 (0.848 %)JIRA
951 (0.848 %)Git (software)
951 (0.848 %)Team Foundation Server
1048 (0.798 %)Bugzilla
1147 (0.782 %)Maven
1245 (0.748 %)JMeter
1340 (0.665 %)FitNesse
1438 (0.632 %)SilkPerformer
1536 (0.599 %)WinRunner
1630 (0.499 %)JUnit
1728 (0.466 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1728 (0.466 %)Redmine
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11037 (17.24 %)Finance
2330 (5.487 %)Banking
3285 (4.739 %)Telecoms
4241 (4.007 %)Retail
5124 (2.062 %)Back Office
671 (1.181 %)Investment Banking
769 (1.147 %)Legal
863 (1.048 %)Law
961 (1.014 %)Marketing
1046 (0.765 %)Manufacturing
1127 (0.449 %)Advertising
1127 (0.449 %)Front Office
1127 (0.449 %)Retail Banking
1218 (0.299 %)Electronics
1316 (0.266 %)Games
1316 (0.266 %)French Language
1415 (0.249 %)Billing
1415 (0.249 %)General Ledger
1415 (0.249 %)Financial Institution
1514 (0.233 %)Automotive
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1998 (16.59 %)Analyst
2781 (12.99 %)Consultant
3543 (9.029 %)Architect
4452 (7.516 %)Administrator
5399 (6.635 %)Support Engineer
6338 (5.620 %)Test Analyst
7333 (5.537 %)Support Analyst
8263 (4.373 %)Systems Administrator
9250 (4.157 %)Systems Engineer
10247 (4.107 %)Infrastructure Engineer
11217 (3.608 %)Tester
12209 (3.475 %)Network Engineer
13194 (3.226 %)3rd Line Support
14175 (2.910 %)Project Manager
15174 (2.893 %)Technical Support
16163 (2.710 %)Infrastructure Analyst
17162 (2.694 %)Test Manager
18159 (2.644 %)Technical Consultant
19157 (2.611 %)Technical Architect
19157 (2.611 %)Infrastructure Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1359 (5.969 %)Clustering
2215 (3.575 %)CLARiiON
3205 (3.409 %)Blackberry
4138 (2.295 %)Computer Science
5119 (1.979 %)Replication
6116 (1.929 %)Cloud Computing
7102 (1.696 %)HP StorageWorks
8100 (1.663 %)Management Information System
988 (1.463 %)Mathematics
1082 (1.363 %)Enterprise Storage
1181 (1.347 %)Client/Server
1276 (1.264 %)Open Source
1375 (1.247 %)Thin Client
1375 (1.247 %)Fat Client
1467 (1.114 %)Mainframe
1560 (0.998 %)EqualLogic
1656 (0.931 %)SaaS
1656 (0.931 %)Physics
1751 (0.848 %)Celerra
1850 (0.831 %)Symmetrix
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12800 (46.56 %)Windows
21255 (20.87 %)Linux
31254 (20.85 %)Windows Server 2008
41061 (17.64 %)Windows Server 2003
51054 (17.53 %)UNIX
6540 (8.979 %)Solaris
7418 (6.950 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8358 (5.953 %)Windows 7
9316 (5.254 %)Windows XP
10298 (4.955 %)HPUX
11251 (4.174 %)AIX
12146 (2.428 %)Windows 2000 Server
13104 (1.729 %)Windows 2000
1488 (1.463 %)Windows Vista
1569 (1.147 %)SUSE
1651 (0.848 %)Debian
1750 (0.831 %)Ubuntu
1848 (0.798 %)LynxOS
1848 (0.798 %)VxWorks
1935 (0.582 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1986 (16.40 %)ITIL
2514 (8.547 %)Project Management
3334 (5.554 %)Service Delivery
4328 (5.454 %)Test Scripting
5270 (4.490 %)Disaster Recovery
6260 (4.323 %)Service Management
7237 (3.941 %)PRINCE2
8233 (3.874 %)Test Management
9221 (3.675 %)Change Management
10219 (3.642 %)Migration
11212 (3.525 %)Performance Testing
12210 (3.492 %)Agile Software Development
13207 (3.442 %)Software Testing
14180 (2.993 %)Load Balancing
15174 (2.893 %)Test Automation
16158 (2.627 %)User Acceptance Testing
17154 (2.561 %)Waterfall
18152 (2.527 %)Configuration Management
19150 (2.494 %)Problem Management
20145 (2.411 %)E-Commerce
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1955 (15.88 %)SQL
2486 (8.081 %)Java
3338 (5.620 %)Perl
4300 (4.988 %)C
5228 (3.791 %)Shell Script
6207 (3.442 %)C++
7205 (3.409 %)C#
8146 (2.428 %)Python
9140 (2.328 %)VB
10118 (1.962 %)VBScript
11104 (1.729 %)Bash shell
1299 (1.646 %)PowerShell
1398 (1.630 %)PL/SQL
1479 (1.314 %)JavaScript
1575 (1.247 %)PHP
1650 (0.831 %)T-SQL
1738 (0.632 %)Korn
1832 (0.532 %)VB6
1923 (0.382 %)VBA
2021 (0.349 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1714 (11.87 %)Microsoft Certification
2601 (9.993 %)Cisco Certification
3560 (9.312 %)MCSE
4490 (8.148 %)Degree
5474 (7.882 %)ISEB
6461 (7.665 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7410 (6.817 %)MCITP
8386 (6.418 %)Security Cleared
9367 (6.102 %)CCNA
10276 (4.589 %)CCNP
11247 (4.107 %)ISTQB
11247 (4.107 %)SC Cleared
12221 (3.675 %)Citrix Certification
13165 (2.744 %)CCA
14151 (2.511 %)DV Cleared
15147 (2.444 %)MCP
16145 (2.411 %)HP ASE
17133 (2.212 %)ITIL Certification
18125 (2.078 %)HP AIS
19122 (2.029 %)MCTS
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1320 (5.321 %)QA
2217 (3.608 %)SLA
366 (1.097 %)ISO/IEC 27001
444 (0.732 %)DO-178B
537 (0.615 %)PCI DSS
620 (0.333 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
717 (0.283 %)ISO 9001
717 (0.283 %)ISO 8583
815 (0.249 %)COBIT
96 (0.100 %)ISO/IEC 17799
105 (0.083 %)ISO 9000
113 (0.050 %)COSO
122 (0.033 %)WAI
122 (0.033 %)Solvency II
131 (0.017 %)Data Quality
131 (0.017 %)BS25999
131 (0.017 %)21 CFR Part 11
131 (0.017 %)GAMP
131 (0.017 %)GxP
131 (0.017 %)TickIT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11507 (25.06 %)VMware Infrastructure
21257 (20.90 %)Active Directory
3699 (11.62 %)vSphere
4522 (8.680 %)VMware ESX
5510 (8.480 %)Hyper-V
6407 (6.768 %)XenApp
7195 (3.242 %)VMware ESXi
8193 (3.209 %)XenDesktop
9137 (2.278 %)XenServer
1095 (1.580 %)Terminal Services
1187 (1.447 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1285 (1.413 %)Xen
1368 (1.131 %)vCloud
1461 (1.014 %)ISA Server
1461 (1.014 %)NFS
1558 (0.964 %)VMware Server
1647 (0.782 %)Terminal Server
1741 (0.682 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1837 (0.615 %)UAG
1936 (0.599 %)MetaFrame
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1703 (11.69 %)HP Quality Center
2410 (6.817 %)NetBackup
3221 (3.675 %)OpenView
4219 (3.642 %)Backup Exec
5193 (3.209 %)SCOM
6164 (2.727 %)Tivoli
7145 (2.411 %)SCCM
8137 (2.278 %)Nagios
9123 (2.045 %)HP SIM
10111 (1.846 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1193 (1.546 %)vCenter
1283 (1.380 %)HP Data Protector
1369 (1.147 %)WSUS
1464 (1.064 %)Netcool
1558 (0.964 %)EMC NetWorker
1649 (0.815 %)CiscoWorks
1746 (0.765 %)ServiceCenter
1845 (0.748 %)MOM
1845 (0.748 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1942 (0.698 %)Puppet
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12433 (40.46 %)VMware
22147 (35.70 %)Microsoft
32044 (33.99 %)Cisco
41402 (23.31 %)Citrix
5999 (16.61 %)IBM
6937 (15.58 %)EMC
7882 (14.67 %)NetApp
8866 (14.40 %)Oracle
9727 (12.09 %)Dell
10562 (9.345 %)Red Hat
11457 (7.599 %)Symantec
12376 (6.252 %)Sun
13306 (5.088 %)Brocade
14266 (4.423 %)Veritas
15262 (4.357 %)Juniper
16203 (3.375 %)CheckPoint
16203 (3.375 %)3PAR
17189 (3.143 %)SAP
18174 (2.893 %)ProCurve
19143 (2.378 %)Hitachi