Chester HPUX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP-UX skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HPUX over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Benfleet Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Kent Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pudsey Reading Sale Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Swansea Teesside Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Malling West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	28
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.923 %	2.222 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£344
% change on same period last year	+5.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.74	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-15.46 %
Operating Systems Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	52	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.085 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£236
Average daily rate	£289	£250
% change on same period last year	+15.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£264
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£318
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.56	£15.81
Average hourly rate	£26.17	£16.04
% change on same period last year	+63.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.78	£16.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.05	£21.81
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
HPUX Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HPUX across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 3 (100.00 %) AIX 1 3 (100.00 %) Tru64 2 2 (66.67 %) SAN 3 1 (33.33 %) HACMP 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Incident Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Problem Management 3 1 (33.33 %) FMCG 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) DNS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (66.67 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) DNS	General 1 1 (33.33 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 3 (100.00 %) AIX 1 3 (100.00 %) Tru64 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Incident Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Problem Management