The first table below looks at the demand for HPUX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HPUX over the 3 months to 21 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 Edinburgh 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP-UX
Rank 50 60 68
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +8
Contract jobs citing HPUX 7 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.855% 0.456% 0.308%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.375% 2.976% 1.887%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
Average daily rate £475 £390 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.79% +21.87%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £333
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +50.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 - £27.50
All Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
160 168 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 19.54% 15.31% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 69 52
Average daily rate £360 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £118 £243 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 13
Average hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.73% +58.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
HPUX
Scotland

HPUX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh HPUX Hourly Rate Trend

HPUX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 12 (66.67%) AIX
1 12 (66.67%) Solaris
2 10 (55.56%) UNIX
2 10 (55.56%) Windows
3 8 (44.44%) Linux
4 7 (38.89%) Oracle
4 7 (38.89%) ITIL
5 6 (33.33%) MySQL
5 6 (33.33%) DB2
5 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 6 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
6 5 (27.78%) Banking
6 5 (27.78%) Migration
6 5 (27.78%) HP
7 4 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (22.22%) Finance
7 4 (22.22%) Replication
7 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
8 3 (16.67%) IBM
9 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
9 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
9 2 (11.11%) EMC
9 2 (11.11%) SAN
9 2 (11.11%) NetApp
9 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (11.11%) Symantec
9 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
9 2 (11.11%) Brocade
9 2 (11.11%) Corporate Banking

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (5.556%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.556%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
1 2 (11.11%) NAS
1 2 (11.11%) Connectrix
2 1 (5.556%) Firewall
2 1 (5.556%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MySQL
1 6 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) UNIX Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Security Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (11.11%) HPUX Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Designer
5 1 (5.556%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Replication
2 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.11%) Celerra
2 2 (11.11%) Hedge funds
2 2 (11.11%) Symmetrix
2 2 (11.11%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) AIX
1 12 (66.67%) Solaris
2 10 (55.56%) UNIX
2 10 (55.56%) Windows
3 8 (44.44%) Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
5 1 (5.556%) Network Design
5 1 (5.556%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) Perl
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) CISSP
1 1 (5.556%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.556%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) SRDF
2 2 (11.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (11.11%) EMC TimeFinder
1 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) HP
3 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) EMC
4 2 (11.11%) NetApp
4 2 (11.11%) Symantec
4 2 (11.11%) Brocade
5 1 (5.556%) Sun