South East HPUX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP-UX skills within the South East 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	205	126
Rank change on same period last year	-79
Matching contract IT job ads	43	208
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.210 %
As % of the category below	1.425 %	4.656 %
Daily rates quoted	17	72
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£322
Average daily rate	£345	£333
% change on same period last year	+3.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£349
% change on same period last year	+14.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£25.83
Average hourly rate	£50.00	£28.27
% change on same period last year	+76.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£65.00	£30.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.43	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+0.40 %
Operating Systems South East
Matching contract IT job ads	3017	4467
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.021 %	4.519 %
Daily rates quoted	572	1059
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£329
Average daily rate	£342	£346
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	655	744
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.70	£23.31
Average hourly rate	£22.13	£24.59
% change on same period last year	-10.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.55	£25.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
HPUX England

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 South East 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 South East 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 South East 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 South East 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 South East 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
Berkshire	-39	16	£341	+1.44 %
Hampshire	+8	12	£357	-1.31 %
Buckinghamshire	-8	6	£278	+12.31 %
Surrey	-13	2	£444	+14.33 %
Home Counties	-	2	-	-
Kent	+10	1	£315	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 92 (69.17 %) UNIX 2 76 (57.14 %) Solaris 3 67 (50.38 %) HP 4 46 (34.59 %) Oracle 5 35 (26.32 %) Linux 5 35 (26.32 %) AIX 6 33 (24.81 %) Windows 7 29 (21.80 %) SAN 8 26 (19.55 %) SQL 9 25 (18.80 %) Sun 10 20 (15.04 %) Perl 11 19 (14.29 %) TCP/IP 12 18 (13.53 %) Security Cleared 13 17 (12.78 %) IBM 14 16 (12.03 %) Tivoli Storage Manager

14 16 (12.03 %) Shell Script 15 15 (11.28 %) Migration 15 15 (11.28 %) Oracle RAC 15 15 (11.28 %) Tivoli 16 13 (9.774 %) Red Hat 16 13 (9.774 %) EMC 16 13 (9.774 %) SC Cleared 17 12 (9.023 %) Korn 17 12 (9.023 %) Finance 17 12 (9.023 %) OpenView 17 12 (9.023 %) VERITAS 17 12 (9.023 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 11 (8.271 %) Replication 19 9 (6.767 %) VMware 19 9 (6.767 %) Retail

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 4 (3.008 %) J2EE 1 4 (3.008 %) XML 1 4 (3.008 %) Middleware 2 2 (1.504 %) .NET 2 2 (1.504 %) WebSphere 3 1 (0.752 %) XML Messaging 3 1 (0.752 %) SAP Basis 3 1 (0.752 %) WBIMB 3 1 (0.752 %) ODBC 3 1 (0.752 %) EDI 3 1 (0.752 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.008 %) WebLogic 2 3 (2.256 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (2.256 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (1.504 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 2 (1.504 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (1.504 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (1.504 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (0.752 %) SAS 4 1 (0.752 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (0.752 %) Apache 4 1 (0.752 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 5 (3.759 %) MS Office 2 2 (1.504 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (2.256 %) Oracle 11i 1 3 (2.256 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 29 (21.80 %) SAN 2 19 (14.29 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (3.008 %) DNS 4 3 (2.256 %) Ethernet 5 2 (1.504 %) Internet 6 1 (0.752 %) BOOTP 6 1 (0.752 %) SS7 6 1 (0.752 %) TELNET 6 1 (0.752 %) X.400 6 1 (0.752 %) X.500 6 1 (0.752 %) FTP 6 1 (0.752 %) HTTP 6 1 (0.752 %) LDAP 6 1 (0.752 %) GPRS 6 1 (0.752 %) GSM 6 1 (0.752 %) UMTS 6 1 (0.752 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (9.023 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 6 (4.511 %) Oracle Discoverer 2 6 (4.511 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (4.511 %) Oracle Reports 3 5 (3.759 %) Oracle 9i 3 5 (3.759 %) Informix 4 4 (3.008 %) MySQL 4 4 (3.008 %) Ingres 5 3 (2.256 %) SQL Server 5 3 (2.256 %) RDBMS 6 2 (1.504 %) BusinessObjects 6 2 (1.504 %) Oracle OLAP 6 2 (1.504 %) OLAP 6 2 (1.504 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.752 %) Data Mining 7 1 (0.752 %) TOAD 7 1 (0.752 %) DB2 7 1 (0.752 %) Oracle 11g 7 1 (0.752 %) DB2 UDB
Development Applications 1 6 (4.511 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (1.504 %) ERwin 3 1 (0.752 %) ProC 3 1 (0.752 %) Eclipse	General 1 12 (9.023 %) Finance 2 9 (6.767 %) Retail 3 8 (6.015 %) Billing 4 7 (5.263 %) Telecoms 5 5 (3.759 %) Front Office 5 5 (3.759 %) Back Office 6 4 (3.008 %) Government 7 2 (1.504 %) Legal 8 1 (0.752 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 36 (27.07 %) Administrator 2 28 (21.05 %) Systems Administrator 3 22 (16.54 %) Consultant 4 20 (15.04 %) UNIX Administrator 5 16 (12.03 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 9 (6.767 %) UNIX Engineer 7 8 (6.015 %) Linux Systems Administrator 7 8 (6.015 %) Linux Administrator 7 8 (6.015 %) Developer 8 7 (5.263 %) Test Engineer 9 6 (4.511 %) Support Engineer 10 5 (3.759 %) Infrastructure Engineer 10 5 (3.759 %) Technical Consultant 10 5 (3.759 %) Architect 10 5 (3.759 %) DBA 10 5 (3.759 %) UNIX Support 10 5 (3.759 %) UNIX Support Engineer 11 4 (3.008 %) Project Manager 12 3 (2.256 %) Tester 12 3 (2.256 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 11 (8.271 %) Replication 2 6 (4.511 %) Mainframe 3 4 (3.008 %) Clustering 4 2 (1.504 %) Blackberry 5 1 (0.752 %) PKI 5 1 (0.752 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 92 (69.17 %) UNIX 2 76 (57.14 %) Solaris 3 35 (26.32 %) Linux 3 35 (26.32 %) AIX 4 33 (24.81 %) Windows 5 8 (6.015 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (2.256 %) Windows XP 6 3 (2.256 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (1.504 %) Tru64 7 2 (1.504 %) SUSE 8 1 (0.752 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (0.752 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (13.53 %) Security Cleared 2 15 (11.28 %) Migration 3 13 (9.774 %) SC Cleared 4 5 (3.759 %) Project Management 5 4 (3.008 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (3.008 %) Load Balancing 6 2 (1.504 %) BC Cleared 6 2 (1.504 %) Service Management 6 2 (1.504 %) Data Security 6 2 (1.504 %) Technical Architecture 6 2 (1.504 %) ITIL 6 2 (1.504 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (1.504 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (0.752 %) E-business 7 1 (0.752 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (0.752 %) Logistics 7 1 (0.752 %) Change Management 7 1 (0.752 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (0.752 %) UML 7 1 (0.752 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 26 (19.55 %) SQL 2 20 (15.04 %) Perl 3 16 (12.03 %) Shell Script 4 12 (9.023 %) Korn 5 9 (6.767 %) Java 6 8 (6.015 %) C 7 7 (5.263 %) C++ 8 5 (3.759 %) PL/SQL 8 5 (3.759 %) AWK 9 2 (1.504 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (0.752 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 3 (2.256 %) MCSE 1 3 (2.256 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (2.256 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 2 (1.504 %) CCNP 2 2 (1.504 %) CCNA 2 2 (1.504 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (0.752 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.752 %) CCIE 3 1 (0.752 %) Degree 3 1 (0.752 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (6.767 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 3 (2.256 %) QA 3 2 (1.504 %) SLA	System Software 1 15 (11.28 %) Oracle RAC 2 7 (5.263 %) NetBackup 3 4 (3.008 %) Active Directory 4 3 (2.256 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (1.504 %) Samba 6 1 (0.752 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (0.752 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 1 (0.752 %) Oracle RMAN 6 1 (0.752 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 16 (12.03 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 15 (11.28 %) Tivoli 3 12 (9.023 %) OpenView 4 6 (4.511 %) Unicenter 4 6 (4.511 %) BMC PATROL 5 5 (3.759 %) Tivoli Monitoring 6 3 (2.256 %) HP Data Protector 7 2 (1.504 %) EMC NetWorker 7 2 (1.504 %) Legato 8 1 (0.752 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 67 (50.38 %) HP 2 46 (34.59 %) Oracle 3 25 (18.80 %) Sun 4 17 (12.78 %) IBM 5 13 (9.774 %) EMC 5 13 (9.774 %) Red Hat 6 12 (9.023 %) VERITAS 7 9 (6.767 %) VMware 8 8 (6.015 %) NetApp 8 8 (6.015 %) CA 9 7 (5.263 %) Microsoft 10 6 (4.511 %) BMC 11 5 (3.759 %) Cisco 12 4 (3.008 %) Brocade 13 2 (1.504 %) BladeLogic 13 2 (1.504 %) Baan 13 2 (1.504 %) Symantec 13 2 (1.504 %) Business Objects 13 2 (1.504 %) SAP 13 2 (1.504 %) Siebel