The first table below looks at the demand for HPUX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HPUX 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Cheshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP-UX
Rank 60 56 69
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +13
Contract jobs citing HPUX 1 11 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.139% 1.361% 0.402%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.526% 5.164% 1.262%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £205 £400 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.68% +53.65%
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 - £27.50
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
190 213 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 26.32% 26.36% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 99 198
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £199 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £478 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 9
Average hourly rate £19.50 £22.41 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.98% +60.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £30.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
HPUX
North West

HPUX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire HPUX Hourly Rate Trend

HPUX
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat