The first table below looks at the demand for HPUX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HPUX over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP-UX
Rank 108 119 115
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Contract jobs citing HPUX 14 17 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.571% 0.530% 0.513%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.703% 3.142% 2.479%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
Average daily rate £238 £375 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% +87.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £287 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £460 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £340
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +47.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 - £19.25
All Operating Systems
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
518 541 605
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.12% 16.86% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 204 204
Average daily rate £330 £325 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 52 38
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.58 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.99% -8.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.00 £9.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
HPUX
South East

HPUX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HPUX across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Berkshire HPUX Jobs Demand Trend

HPUX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HPUX across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire HPUX Daily Rate Trend

HPUX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HPUX across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire HPUX Hourly Rate Trend

HPUX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HPUX within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Slough -7 6 £254 -21.92%
Reading +4 3 £250 -7.40%
HPUX
South East

HPUX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing HPUX 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited HPUX.

1 20 (76.92%) Linux
2 16 (61.54%) HP
2 16 (61.54%) UNIX
3 15 (57.69%) Oracle
4 12 (46.15%) Solaris
5 10 (38.46%) Telecoms
6 8 (30.77%) SUSE
7 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
7 7 (26.92%) CCNA
7 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (23.08%) ITIL
9 5 (19.23%) Degree
9 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
9 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
9 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
9 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
10 4 (15.38%) Network Management
10 4 (15.38%) Migration
11 3 (11.54%) VMware
11 3 (11.54%) NetBackup
11 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
11 3 (11.54%) SAN
11 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
12 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
12 2 (7.692%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (7.692%) Change Control
12 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
12 2 (7.692%) EMC

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing HPUX also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HPUX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.846%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.846%) Apache
1 1 (3.846%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) SAN
2 1 (3.846%) LAN
2 1 (3.846%) WAN
2 1 (3.846%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.846%) DNS
2 1 (3.846%) Internet
2 1 (3.846%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.846%) MySQL
General
1 10 (38.46%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.692%) Marketing
2 2 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Support Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) UNIX Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (7.692%) HPUX Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) OSS Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.846%) Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) UNIX Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Linux Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) HPUX Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Architect
5 1 (3.846%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.846%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.846%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Linux
2 16 (61.54%) UNIX
3 12 (46.15%) Solaris
4 8 (30.77%) SUSE
5 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (7.692%) Windows
7 1 (3.846%) OpenBSD
7 1 (3.846%) FreeBSD
7 1 (3.846%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) ITIL
2 4 (15.38%) Network Management
2 4 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (7.692%) Change Control
3 2 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.846%) Operations Management
4 1 (3.846%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
2 2 (7.692%) C
3 1 (3.846%) C++
3 1 (3.846%) Perl
3 1 (3.846%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) CCNA
1 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (19.23%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.846%) SCSA
5 1 (3.846%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.846%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.846%) RHCE
5 1 (3.846%) HPUX Certification
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.692%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.846%) Xen
3 1 (3.846%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.846%) VirtualBox
3 1 (3.846%) Postfix
3 1 (3.846%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.846%) OpenView
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) HP
2 15 (57.69%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
4 3 (11.54%) VMware
5 2 (7.692%) EMC
5 2 (7.692%) Brocade
6 1 (3.846%) Cisco
6 1 (3.846%) IBM
6 1 (3.846%) Sun
6 1 (3.846%) Intel
6 1 (3.846%) JBoss
6 1 (3.846%) Veritas
6 1 (3.846%) Remedy
6 1 (3.846%) Egenera