The first table below looks at the demand for HPUX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HPUX over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucestershire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP-UX
Rank 36 35 47
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +12
Contract jobs citing HPUX 2 34 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.738% 4.978% 0.704%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.198% 16.75% 2.308%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 30 0
Average daily rate - £500 -
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
91 203 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 33.58% 29.72% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 110 52
Average daily rate £450 £500 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +58.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £400 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 16
Average hourly rate £18.90 £31.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +65.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £20.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £31.50 £24.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
HPUX
South West

HPUX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire HPUX Hourly Rate Trend

HPUX
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat