The first table below looks at the demand for HPUX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 390 361 434
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +73
Contract jobs citing HPUX 144 223 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.309% 0.382% 0.257%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.437% 1.880% 1.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 89 80
Average daily rate £375 £500 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £365 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £340
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +47.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 - £27.50
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10019 11863 12507
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.53% 20.34% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5373 5940 6098
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £200 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1172 1234
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.21 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%

HPUX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

HPUX Daily Rate Trend

HPUX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HPUX within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

HPUX Daily Rate Histogram

HPUX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HPUX within the UK.

HPUX Hourly Rate Trend

HPUX
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HPUX within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -8 132 £375 -25.00%
London +14 47 £431 +4.54%
Yorkshire +20 32 £375 -
South East +21 29 £298 -30.00%
City of London +13 16 £475 +21.01%
West Yorkshire +1 16 - -
Berkshire +16 14 £238 -36.66%
North West -5 12 £450 +20.00%
Leeds - 9 - -
Scotland -7 8 £475 +21.79%
Edinburgh +7 7 £475 +21.79%
Slough -7 6 £254 -21.92%
Lancashire - 6 - -
Surrey +20 5 £419 -11.84%
Camberley +3 5 £419 +1.51%
Bradford -5 5 - -
Lytham St Annes - 5 - -
Hampshire -6 4 - -
Reading +4 3 £250 -7.40%
East of England -1 3 £250 -3.84%
Manchester -3 3 £450 +50.00%
South West -19 3 £350 -30.00%
Amersham - 3 - -
Buckinghamshire - 3 - -
Hertfordshire +8 2 £231 +17.83%
West Midlands +8 2 £375 -11.76%
Merseyside 0 2 £500 -
Gloucestershire -1 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £363 -
Stevenage - 2 £231 -

HPUX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 234 (72.00%) Linux
2 171 (52.62%) UNIX
3 168 (51.69%) HP
4 162 (49.85%) Solaris
5 143 (44.00%) Oracle
6 101 (31.08%) AIX
7 90 (27.69%) Windows
8 87 (26.77%) Red Hat
9 77 (23.69%) ITIL
10 74 (22.77%) Perl
11 70 (21.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 67 (20.62%) SAN
13 65 (20.00%) Shell Script
13 65 (20.00%) IBM
14 62 (19.08%) Finance
15 55 (16.92%) Migration
16 54 (16.62%) SQL
17 53 (16.31%) EMC
17 53 (16.31%) VMware
18 48 (14.77%) Sun
19 45 (13.85%) Middleware
20 42 (12.92%) Change Management
21 41 (12.62%) Oracle 11g
22 38 (11.69%) Java
23 37 (11.38%) WebLogic
24 36 (11.08%) Oracle 10g
24 36 (11.08%) SOA
24 36 (11.08%) VMware Infrastructure
25 35 (10.77%) NAS
26 34 (10.46%) Security Cleared

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 45 (13.85%) Middleware
2 32 (9.846%) WebSphere
3 23 (7.077%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (6.462%) XML
5 19 (5.846%) J2EE
6 18 (5.538%) JDBC
7 16 (4.923%) HTML
7 16 (4.923%) XHTML
7 16 (4.923%) Ajax
8 15 (4.615%) JSTL
8 15 (4.615%) JMS
8 15 (4.615%) Struts
8 15 (4.615%) EJB
8 15 (4.615%) JSP
8 15 (4.615%) Servlets
9 14 (4.308%) XSLT
9 14 (4.308%) XMLBeans
10 9 (2.769%) .NET
11 7 (2.154%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
11 7 (2.154%) SPNEGO
Application Platforms
1 37 (11.38%) WebLogic
2 34 (10.46%) Oracle Application Server
3 32 (9.846%) ESB
4 27 (8.308%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 26 (8.000%) Oracle 10gAS
6 24 (7.385%) Oracle Service Bus
7 19 (5.846%) WebSphere Application Server
7 19 (5.846%) Apache
8 15 (4.615%) MQSeries
9 11 (3.385%) Tomcat
9 11 (3.385%) IIS
10 7 (2.154%) WebSphere MQ
11 6 (1.846%) WebSphere Message Broker
12 5 (1.538%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.615%) Exchange Server 5.5
13 2 (0.615%) Exchange Server 2000
13 2 (0.615%) Exchange Server 2003
13 2 (0.615%) MS Exchange
13 2 (0.615%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.308%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.538%) MS Excel
1 5 (1.538%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.615%) MS Office
2 2 (0.615%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.308%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (4.308%) Tridion
2 12 (3.692%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (1.538%) Oracle Retail
3 5 (1.538%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.615%) SAP R/3
4 2 (0.615%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.308%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.308%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 67 (20.62%) SAN
2 35 (10.77%) NAS
3 18 (5.538%) Internet
4 16 (4.923%) Firewall
5 15 (4.615%) DNS
6 12 (3.692%) LDAP
7 11 (3.385%) DHCP
8 10 (3.077%) Network Security
9 9 (2.769%) Connectrix
10 8 (2.462%) SMS
11 7 (2.154%) Kerberos
11 7 (2.154%) X.509
12 5 (1.538%) TCP/IP
13 4 (1.231%) LAN
13 4 (1.231%) Fibre Channel
14 3 (0.923%) WAN
14 3 (0.923%) BIG-IP
15 2 (0.615%) VLAN
15 2 (0.615%) IPv4
15 2 (0.615%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.62%) Oracle 11g
2 36 (11.08%) Oracle 10g
3 33 (10.15%) DB2
4 28 (8.615%) SQL Server
5 23 (7.077%) RDBMS
6 18 (5.538%) MySQL
7 17 (5.231%) Oracle 8/8i
8 11 (3.385%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (2.462%) Sybase IQ
9 8 (2.462%) Sybase ASE
10 6 (1.846%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.846%) TOAD
11 5 (1.538%) GIS
12 3 (0.923%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.615%) OLTP
13 2 (0.615%) VLDB
13 2 (0.615%) Informix
13 2 (0.615%) SQL Server 2005
13 2 (0.615%) SQL Server 2008
14 1 (0.308%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 19 (5.846%) Subversion
2 16 (4.923%) Eclipse
3 15 (4.615%) Ant
4 14 (4.308%) JUnit
4 14 (4.308%) Log4j
4 14 (4.308%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 6 (1.846%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.231%) ClearCase
6 4 (1.231%) TortoiseSVN
7 2 (0.615%) Maven
8 1 (0.308%) JIRA
8 1 (0.308%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.308%) Rational Performance Tester
8 1 (0.308%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.308%) NetBeans
8 1 (0.308%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.308%) LoadRunner
General
1 62 (19.08%) Finance
2 27 (8.308%) Retail
3 26 (8.000%) Banking
4 15 (4.615%) Telecoms
5 12 (3.692%) Games
5 12 (3.692%) Financial Institution
6 5 (1.538%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.538%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.231%) French Language
8 3 (0.923%) Dutch Language
9 2 (0.615%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.615%) Marketing
10 1 (0.308%) Advertising
10 1 (0.308%) Back Office
10 1 (0.308%) Billing
Job Titles
1 87 (26.77%) Administrator
2 48 (14.77%) Consultant
3 36 (11.08%) Architect
3 36 (11.08%) Developer
4 31 (9.538%) Systems Administrator
5 26 (8.000%) UNIX Administrator
6 23 (7.077%) UNIX Engineer
7 22 (6.769%) Middleware Administrator
8 20 (6.154%) Infrastructure Architect
8 20 (6.154%) DBA
9 17 (5.231%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.231%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 16 (4.923%) Analyst
11 14 (4.308%) J2EE Developer
11 14 (4.308%) Linux Administrator
11 14 (4.308%) Java/J2EE Developer
12 12 (3.692%) Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.692%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 12 (3.692%) Oracle DBA
12 12 (3.692%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.846%) Clustering
2 22 (6.769%) CLARiiON
3 16 (4.923%) Web 2.0
4 15 (4.615%) Computer Science
5 14 (4.308%) Replication
6 10 (3.077%) LPAR
7 9 (2.769%) Symmetrix
7 9 (2.769%) EMC Centera
8 8 (2.462%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.462%) Symmetrix DMX
9 7 (2.154%) Firmware
10 6 (1.846%) Statistics
11 5 (1.538%) HP Superdome
11 5 (1.538%) RIA
12 4 (1.231%) PKI
12 4 (1.231%) Hedge funds
13 3 (0.923%) Equities
13 3 (0.923%) HACMP
14 2 (0.615%) Mathematics
14 2 (0.615%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 234 (72.00%) Linux
2 171 (52.62%) UNIX
3 162 (49.85%) Solaris
4 101 (31.08%) AIX
5 90 (27.69%) Windows
6 70 (21.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (8.308%) Oracle Linux
8 23 (7.077%) Windows Server 2008
9 21 (6.462%) SUSE
10 18 (5.538%) Windows Server 2003
11 9 (2.769%) VMS
11 9 (2.769%) zOS
12 8 (2.462%) Windows 2000 Server
13 5 (1.538%) Mac OS X
14 4 (1.231%) Windows NT
15 3 (0.923%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.615%) CentOS
16 2 (0.615%) OpenVMS
17 1 (0.308%) NetWare
17 1 (0.308%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (23.69%) ITIL
2 55 (16.92%) Migration
3 42 (12.92%) Change Management
4 36 (11.08%) SOA
5 26 (8.000%) BPEL
6 21 (6.462%) ERP
7 17 (5.231%) E-Commerce
8 16 (4.923%) Load Balancing
9 14 (4.308%) Content Management
9 14 (4.308%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (4.308%) UML
9 14 (4.308%) OO
9 14 (4.308%) RAD
10 13 (4.000%) Service Management
11 12 (3.692%) Risk Analysis
11 12 (3.692%) Data Migration
12 11 (3.385%) High Availability
13 10 (3.077%) TOGAF
13 10 (3.077%) Configuration Management
14 9 (2.769%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (22.77%) Perl
2 65 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 54 (16.62%) SQL
4 38 (11.69%) Java
5 21 (6.462%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.154%) Bash shell
7 14 (4.308%) XPath
8 12 (3.692%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.385%) C
10 8 (2.462%) PHP
11 7 (2.154%) Python
12 6 (1.846%) C#
12 6 (1.846%) Korn
13 5 (1.538%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.538%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.231%) C++
14 4 (1.231%) AWK
15 2 (0.615%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.615%) Bourne shell
15 2 (0.615%) sed
Qualifications
1 34 (10.46%) Security Cleared
2 18 (5.538%) Degree
3 16 (4.923%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.615%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.692%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (3.692%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (3.385%) CCNA
7 7 (2.154%) OCA
8 6 (1.846%) RHCE
8 6 (1.846%) IBM Certification
8 6 (1.846%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.846%) OCP
8 6 (1.846%) MCP
8 6 (1.846%) MCSE
8 6 (1.846%) HP ASE
8 6 (1.846%) MCITP
9 5 (1.538%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.538%) MCSA
10 4 (1.231%) IBM AIX Certification
11 2 (0.615%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.462%) SLA
2 5 (1.538%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.615%) ISO/IEC 17799
4 1 (0.308%) TickIT
System Software
1 36 (11.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (6.769%) VMware ESX
3 17 (5.231%) Active Directory
4 13 (4.000%) vSphere
5 12 (3.692%) SRDF
6 10 (3.077%) NFS
6 10 (3.077%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 9 (2.769%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (2.462%) Oracle RMAN
8 8 (2.462%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 6 (1.846%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.538%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.923%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 3 (0.923%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.615%) Samba
12 2 (0.615%) Veritas File System
13 1 (0.308%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.308%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.308%) Xen
13 1 (0.308%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 33 (10.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 23 (7.077%) Tivoli
3 9 (2.769%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 9 (2.769%) EMC TimeFinder
3 9 (2.769%) NetBackup
3 9 (2.769%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (2.462%) HP Data Protector
5 5 (1.538%) Unicenter
5 5 (1.538%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (1.231%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.923%) HP SIM
7 3 (0.923%) BMC PATROL
7 3 (0.923%) OpenView
7 3 (0.923%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 3 (0.923%) Nagios
8 2 (0.615%) BladeLogic
8 2 (0.615%) Puppet
8 2 (0.615%) Oracle Identity Manager
8 2 (0.615%) Splunk
9 1 (0.308%) Cacti
Vendors
1 168 (51.69%) HP
2 143 (44.00%) Oracle
3 87 (26.77%) Red Hat
4 65 (20.00%) IBM
5 53 (16.31%) EMC
5 53 (16.31%) VMware
6 48 (14.77%) Sun
7 34 (10.46%) Veritas
8 27 (8.308%) Cisco
9 16 (4.923%) ATG
9 16 (4.923%) Blue Martini
10 15 (4.615%) F5
10 15 (4.615%) SAP
11 14 (4.308%) Interwoven
11 14 (4.308%) Elastic Path
12 12 (3.692%) Microsoft
13 10 (3.077%) Sybase
13 10 (3.077%) Brocade
14 9 (2.769%) NetApp
14 9 (2.769%) Citrix
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