The first table below looks at the demand for Tru64 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tru64 over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Tru64 UNIX
Rank 519 576 577
Rank change year-on-year
+57 +1
Contract jobs citing Tru64 10 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.022% 0.014% 0.011%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.100% 0.068% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
Average daily rate £250 £375 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +92.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £339 £139
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £400 £399
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £400 £160
% change year-on-year
-37.50% +150.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.00
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10015 11813 12724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.59% 20.26% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5378 5865 6230
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 £199 £195 £213
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 956 1187 1248
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 £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%

Tru64
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Tru64 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Tru64 Jobs Demand Trend

Tru64
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Tru64 within the UK.

Tru64 Daily Rate Trend

Tru64
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tru64 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Tru64 Daily Rate Histogram

Tru64
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Tru64 within the UK.

Tru64 Hourly Rate Trend

Tru64
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tru64 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +48 10 £250 -33.33%
North West - 10 £250 -
Chester - 5 - -
Cheshire - 5 - -
Merseyside - 2 - -
Liverpool - 2 - -

Tru64
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Tru64 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 Tru64.

1 16 (100.00%) UNIX
1 16 (100.00%) AIX
2 13 (81.25%) Windows
3 11 (68.75%) MS Office
3 11 (68.75%) Linux
4 10 (62.50%) ITIL
4 10 (62.50%) Shell Script
4 10 (62.50%) Configuration Management
4 10 (62.50%) Change Management
5 8 (50.00%) Service Management
6 7 (43.75%) Tivoli
7 6 (37.50%) Service Delivery
7 6 (37.50%) Oracle
8 5 (31.25%) SAP
8 5 (31.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 5 (31.25%) SAP R/3
8 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
9 4 (25.00%) IBM
9 4 (25.00%) Project Management
9 4 (25.00%) VMware
9 4 (25.00%) Clustering
9 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (18.75%) PowerHA
10 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (18.75%) VMware ESX
10 3 (18.75%) Finance
10 3 (18.75%) HP
10 3 (18.75%) SAN
10 3 (18.75%) SQL
10 3 (18.75%) DNS

Tru64
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Tru64 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 Tru64. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.250%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (6.250%) Confluence
2 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (6.250%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.250%) IIS
2 1 (6.250%) Apache
2 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 9iAS
Applications
1 11 (68.75%) MS Office
2 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) SAN
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 1 (6.250%) Internet
2 1 (6.250%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 2 (12.50%) SQLPlus
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (6.250%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (6.250%) DTS
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) UNIX Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Storage Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) AIX Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) SAN Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Tivoli Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) AIX Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Backup Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) DBA
4 1 (6.250%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.250%) Applications Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.250%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) UNIX
1 16 (100.00%) AIX
2 13 (81.25%) Windows
3 11 (68.75%) Linux
4 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (12.50%) Solaris
6 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000
6 1 (6.250%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) ITIL
1 10 (62.50%) Configuration Management
1 10 (62.50%) Change Management
2 8 (50.00%) Service Management
3 6 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
5 1 (6.250%) Change Control
5 1 (6.250%) Capacity Management
5 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.250%) C#
4 1 (6.250%) Java
4 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.250%) VB
4 1 (6.250%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) PowerHA
3 3 (18.75%) VMware ESX
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.250%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle Statspack
2 1 (6.250%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.250%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) SAP
2 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
3 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (18.75%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) NetApp
5 2 (12.50%) Brocade
6 1 (6.250%) Symantec
6 1 (6.250%) EMC
6 1 (6.250%) Citrix
6 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.250%) Cognos
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Posted: 20 May 2013