Manchester HPUX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP-UX skills within the Manchester 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Telford UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	55
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	66	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.088 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	20.18 %	5.394 %
Daily rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum daily rate	£454	£222
Average daily rate	£473	£227
% change on same period last year	+108.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£493	£233
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£349
% change on same period last year	+14.13 %
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	£31.43	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+0.40 %
Operating Systems Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	327	241
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.436 %	0.244 %
Daily rates quoted	52	29
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£267
Average daily rate	£396	£277
% change on same period last year	+43.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£286
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	70
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.58	£15.46
Average hourly rate	£18.87	£16.71
% change on same period last year	+12.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.16	£17.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
HPUX North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HPUX across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Manchester region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HPUX within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	-2	3	-	-

HPUX North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 80 (96.39 %) Solaris 2 76 (91.57 %) AIX 3 73 (87.95 %) Tivoli 3 73 (87.95 %) Middleware 4 67 (80.72 %) UNIX 5 42 (50.60 %) Mainframe 6 41 (49.40 %) Shell Script 6 41 (49.40 %) Tandem 6 41 (49.40 %) Windows 7 40 (48.19 %) OMEGAMON 8 33 (39.76 %) HACMP 9 32 (38.55 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 32 (38.55 %) TCP/IP 9 32 (38.55 %) Change Management 9 32 (38.55 %) Korn

10 31 (37.35 %) SNA 10 31 (37.35 %) Perl 10 31 (37.35 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 10 31 (37.35 %) VERITAS 11 19 (22.89 %) Finance 11 19 (22.89 %) WebSphere 12 12 (14.46 %) Gentran 13 10 (12.05 %) Cisco 14 9 (10.84 %) WebSphere MQ 15 8 (9.639 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 8 (9.639 %) SSL 16 6 (7.229 %) WBIMB 17 5 (6.024 %) SQL 18 4 (4.819 %) Linux 18 4 (4.819 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 73 (87.95 %) Middleware 2 19 (22.89 %) WebSphere 3 6 (7.229 %) WBIMB 4 3 (3.614 %) STL	Application Platforms 1 12 (14.46 %) Gentran 2 9 (10.84 %) WebSphere MQ 3 8 (9.639 %) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 32 (38.55 %) TCP/IP 2 31 (37.35 %) SNA 3 8 (9.639 %) SSL 4 2 (2.410 %) VPN 4 2 (2.410 %) Internet 4 2 (2.410 %) MPLS 4 2 (2.410 %) Firewall 4 2 (2.410 %) BIG-IP 4 2 (2.410 %) VLAN 4 2 (2.410 %) Network Security 4 2 (2.410 %) HTTP 5 1 (1.205 %) SAN	General 1 19 (22.89 %) Finance 2 2 (2.410 %) Banking 2 2 (2.410 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 20 (24.10 %) Administrator 2 16 (19.28 %) Consultant 2 16 (19.28 %) AIX Administrator 3 12 (14.46 %) WebSphere Specialist 4 9 (10.84 %) Systems Administrator 4 9 (10.84 %) UNIX Administrator 5 8 (9.639 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 7 (8.434 %) UNIX Specialist 7 5 (6.024 %) Infrastructure Specialist 8 3 (3.614 %) Developer 8 3 (3.614 %) C++ Developer 9 2 (2.410 %) Systems Support 9 2 (2.410 %) Technical Specialist 9 2 (2.410 %) UNIX Support 9 2 (2.410 %) Linux Support 10 1 (1.205 %) WebSphere Engineer 10 1 (1.205 %) WebSphere Application Server Administra… 10 1 (1.205 %) WebSphere Consultant 10 1 (1.205 %) Server Administrator 10 1 (1.205 %) UNIX Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 42 (50.60 %) Mainframe 2 41 (49.40 %) Tandem 3 33 (39.76 %) HACMP 4 2 (2.410 %) PKI 4 2 (2.410 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 80 (96.39 %) Solaris 2 76 (91.57 %) AIX 3 67 (80.72 %) UNIX 4 41 (49.40 %) Windows 5 4 (4.819 %) Linux 6 2 (2.410 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (38.55 %) Change Management 2 3 (3.614 %) OO 2 3 (3.614 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (2.410 %) Risk Assessment 4 1 (1.205 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.205 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 41 (49.40 %) Shell Script 2 32 (38.55 %) Korn 3 31 (37.35 %) Perl 4 5 (6.024 %) SQL 5 3 (3.614 %) C++ 5 3 (3.614 %) Java	System Software 1 31 (37.35 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 73 (87.95 %) Tivoli 2 40 (48.19 %) OMEGAMON 3 32 (38.55 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 31 (37.35 %) VERITAS 2 10 (12.05 %) Cisco 3 4 (4.819 %) IBM 4 2 (2.410 %) Sun 4 2 (2.410 %) HP 4 2 (2.410 %) Red Hat 4 2 (2.410 %) CheckPoint