The first table below looks at the demand for HPUX skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HPUX over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP-UX
Rank 93 107 86
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -21
Contract jobs citing HPUX 3 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.178% 0.089% 0.430%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.904% 0.473% 2.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
Average daily rate £359 £425 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.52% +30.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £332 £425 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £425 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £333
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +50.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 - £27.50
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
332 423 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.75% 18.83% 17.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 177 123
Average daily rate £299 £310 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.62% +8.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £180 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £419
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 66 60
Average hourly rate £15.21 £15.00 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% +13.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £28.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
HPUX
England

HPUX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands HPUX Hourly Rate Trend

HPUX
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Herefordshire - 1 £359 -
Shropshire - 1 £325 -
HPUX
England

HPUX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 12 (70.59%) UNIX
2 10 (58.82%) Oracle
3 9 (52.94%) IBM
4 8 (47.06%) Windows
5 7 (41.18%) Linux
5 7 (41.18%) HP
5 7 (41.18%) Shell Script
6 6 (35.29%) Migration
6 6 (35.29%) Windows 2000 Server
7 5 (29.41%) AIX
7 5 (29.41%) Solaris
8 4 (23.53%) Windows NT
8 4 (23.53%) ClearCase
8 4 (23.53%) DB2
8 4 (23.53%) Java
8 4 (23.53%) IBM Certification
8 4 (23.53%) SAN
8 4 (23.53%) zOS
8 4 (23.53%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
8 4 (23.53%) EAI
8 4 (23.53%) SOA
8 4 (23.53%) Subversion
8 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
8 4 (23.53%) Finance
8 4 (23.53%) Middleware
8 4 (23.53%) TortoiseSVN
8 4 (23.53%) WebSphere
8 4 (23.53%) ESB
8 4 (23.53%) WebSphere Message Broker

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 (23.53%) Middleware
1 4 (23.53%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) WebSphere MQ
1 4 (23.53%) ESB
1 4 (23.53%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 3 (17.65%) WebLogic
3 2 (11.76%) MS Exchange
3 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 5.5
3 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2000
3 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (5.882%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) X.500
4 1 (5.882%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) DB2
1 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) ClearCase
1 4 (23.53%) Subversion
1 4 (23.53%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) UNIX Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) WebSphere Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) WebSphere Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Storage Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Storage Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Tivoli Specialist
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Support
5 1 (5.882%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) HPUX Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) UNIX Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) UNIX Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) HP Superdome
2 1 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) UNIX
2 8 (47.06%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Linux
4 6 (35.29%) Windows 2000 Server
5 5 (29.41%) AIX
5 5 (29.41%) Solaris
6 4 (23.53%) Windows NT
6 4 (23.53%) zOS
7 1 (5.882%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Migration
2 4 (23.53%) EAI
2 4 (23.53%) SOA
2 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
2 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Validation
3 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
3 2 (11.76%) ITIL V3
3 2 (11.76%) High Availability
3 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
4 1 (5.882%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Shell Script
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 1 (5.882%) Pascal
4 1 (5.882%) PowerHouse
4 1 (5.882%) SQL
4 1 (5.882%) C
4 1 (5.882%) C++
4 1 (5.882%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) IBM Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Samba
1 2 (11.76%) SRDF
1 2 (11.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (5.882%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (5.882%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.882%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (5.882%) Tivoli Remote Control
2 1 (5.882%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Oracle
2 9 (52.94%) IBM
3 7 (41.18%) HP
4 2 (11.76%) Sun
4 2 (11.76%) EMC
4 2 (11.76%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) NetApp
5 1 (5.882%) BMC
5 1 (5.882%) Progress