The first table below looks at the demand for HPUX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 72 70 68
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -2
Contract jobs citing HPUX 3 18 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.318% 1.371% 0.098%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.754% 6.294% 0.671%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £450 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
171 286 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 18.15% 21.78% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 104 59
Average daily rate £275 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 39 34
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £25.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
HPUX
North West

HPUX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester HPUX Hourly Rate Trend

HPUX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 17 (85.00%) Solaris
2 16 (80.00%) Perl
2 16 (80.00%) IBM
3 15 (75.00%) Java
3 15 (75.00%) UNIX
4 14 (70.00%) Retail
5 13 (65.00%) Linux
6 10 (50.00%) SQL
6 10 (50.00%) WebSphere
7 9 (45.00%) Ajax
7 9 (45.00%) Blue Martini
7 9 (45.00%) Web 2.0
7 9 (45.00%) Bash shell
7 9 (45.00%) J2EE
7 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (45.00%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (45.00%) HTML
7 9 (45.00%) JDBC
7 9 (45.00%) XHTML
7 9 (45.00%) Windows
7 9 (45.00%) E-Commerce
7 9 (45.00%) Internet
7 9 (45.00%) ATG
8 8 (40.00%) Finance
8 8 (40.00%) Interwoven
8 8 (40.00%) Tridion
8 8 (40.00%) RDBMS
8 8 (40.00%) JMS
8 8 (40.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
8 8 (40.00%) Eclipse

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 10 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 9 (45.00%) Ajax
2 9 (45.00%) J2EE
2 9 (45.00%) HTML
2 9 (45.00%) JDBC
2 9 (45.00%) XHTML
3 8 (40.00%) JMS
3 8 (40.00%) JSP
3 8 (40.00%) Servlets
3 8 (40.00%) Struts
3 8 (40.00%) XML
3 8 (40.00%) XSLT
3 8 (40.00%) EJB
3 8 (40.00%) JSTL
3 8 (40.00%) XMLBeans
4 6 (30.00%) Middleware
4 6 (30.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
4 6 (30.00%) SPNEGO
Application Platforms
1 9 (45.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (40.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.000%) IIS
Business Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Tridion
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Internet
2 6 (30.00%) X.509
2 6 (30.00%) Kerberos
2 6 (30.00%) SMS
2 6 (30.00%) LDAP
2 6 (30.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.000%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 8 (40.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 8 (40.00%) Eclipse
1 8 (40.00%) Ant
1 8 (40.00%) JUnit
1 8 (40.00%) Subversion
1 8 (40.00%) Log4j
General
1 14 (70.00%) Retail
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) Banking
3 7 (35.00%) Games
4 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
1 9 (45.00%) Java Developer
2 8 (40.00%) J2EE Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) AIX Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) DBA
4 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Network Support
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (5.000%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Solaris
2 15 (75.00%) UNIX
3 13 (65.00%) Linux
4 9 (45.00%) Windows
5 7 (35.00%) AIX
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (5.000%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (40.00%) UML
2 8 (40.00%) OO
2 8 (40.00%) RAD
2 8 (40.00%) Content Management
3 6 (30.00%) Change Management
3 6 (30.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.000%) Database Tuning
5 1 (5.000%) ITIL
5 1 (5.000%) Service Management
5 1 (5.000%) BPR
5 1 (5.000%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Perl
2 15 (75.00%) Java
3 10 (50.00%) SQL
4 9 (45.00%) Bash shell
4 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (40.00%) XPath
6 6 (30.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (5.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (30.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) IBM
2 9 (45.00%) Blue Martini
2 9 (45.00%) ATG
3 8 (40.00%) Interwoven
3 8 (40.00%) Elastic Path
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle
5 3 (15.00%) HP
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.000%) Sun