Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the West Midlands region.

 HP-UX
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank737199
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+28
Matching contract IT job ads71426
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands0.463 %0.814 %0.792 %
As % of the Operating Systems category3.211 %4.861 %4.414 %
Daily rates quoted291
Average daily rate£450£275£295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+63.63 %-6.770 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£400
% change year-on-year
--18.75 %
Hourly rates quoted006
Average hourly rate--£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£42.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-35.29 %+21.42 %
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
218288589
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands14.43 %16.74 %17.94 %
Daily rates quoted607079
Average daily rate£300£253£323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.81 %-21.70 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£149£190£125
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£350£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£310£306£334
% change year-on-year
+1.550 %-8.530 %
Hourly rates quoted5460172
Average hourly rate£13.50£15.00£15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00 %-3.220 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.50£11.00£10.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£34.50£22.00£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
HPUX EnglandHPUX
England

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.

HPUX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

HPUX
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The 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 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
HerefordshireDown-15£450+5.88 %
ShropshireNew entry-1£450-
WarwickshireNew entry-1--
HPUX EnglandHPUX
England

HPUX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

110 (71.43 %)Windows
27 (50.00 %)Security Cleared
36 (42.86 %)Clustering
36 (42.86 %)UNIX
36 (42.86 %)Citrix
36 (42.86 %)Windows Server 2003
45 (35.71 %)Lotus Domino
45 (35.71 %)Microsoft
45 (35.71 %)HP
54 (28.57 %)SC Cleared
54 (28.57 %)Government
54 (28.57 %)Active Directory
54 (28.57 %)Solaris
63 (21.43 %)AIX
63 (21.43 %)Oracle
63 (21.43 %)MS Excel
72 (14.29 %)AutoSys
72 (14.29 %)AWK
72 (14.29 %)SharePoint
72 (14.29 %)Borland
72 (14.29 %)CA
72 (14.29 %)Perl
72 (14.29 %)Linux
72 (14.29 %)PeopleSoft
72 (14.29 %)SAP
81 (7.143 %)COBOL
81 (7.143 %)PL/SQL
81 (7.143 %)SQL
81 (7.143 %)T-SQL
81 (7.143 %)SQL Server

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (7.143 %)ISPF
11 (7.143 %)SAP Basis
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (35.71 %)Lotus Domino
22 (14.29 %)SharePoint
31 (7.143 %)WebLogic
31 (7.143 %)CICS
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (21.43 %)MS Excel
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (7.143 %)SAP IS-U
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (7.143 %)SAN
11 (7.143 %)LAN
11 (7.143 %)WAN
11 (7.143 %)Firewall
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (7.143 %)SQL Server
11 (7.143 %)DB2
11 (7.143 %)SAP BW
11 (7.143 %)SQL Server 2000
11 (7.143 %)SQL Server 2005
11 (7.143 %)Oracle 11g
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (28.57 %)Government
21 (7.143 %)Automotive
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18 (57.14 %)Architect
25 (35.71 %)Technical Architect
34 (28.57 %)Solutions Designer
34 (28.57 %)Designer
43 (21.43 %)Solutions Architect
52 (14.29 %)Lead Designer
52 (14.29 %)Analyst
52 (14.29 %)Technical Designer
61 (7.143 %)Data Migration Analyst
61 (7.143 %)Senior Solutions Architect
61 (7.143 %)Data Analyst
61 (7.143 %)SAP Basis Consultant
61 (7.143 %)SAP Consultant
61 (7.143 %)Infrastructure Architect
61 (7.143 %)Consultant
61 (7.143 %)DBA
61 (7.143 %)Support Analyst
61 (7.143 %)Technical Support
61 (7.143 %)Senior Architect
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (42.86 %)Clustering
21 (7.143 %)Mainframe
21 (7.143 %)HP Superdome
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110 (71.43 %)Windows
26 (42.86 %)UNIX
26 (42.86 %)Windows Server 2003
34 (28.57 %)Solaris
43 (21.43 %)AIX
52 (14.29 %)Linux
61 (7.143 %)Windows Server 2008
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (7.143 %)Business Intelligence
11 (7.143 %)CRM
11 (7.143 %)Asset Management
11 (7.143 %)Data Migration
11 (7.143 %)Migration
11 (7.143 %)GAP Analysis
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (14.29 %)AWK
12 (14.29 %)Perl
21 (7.143 %)COBOL
21 (7.143 %)PL/SQL
21 (7.143 %)SQL
21 (7.143 %)T-SQL
21 (7.143 %)REXX
21 (7.143 %)JCL
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (50.00 %)Security Cleared
24 (28.57 %)SC Cleared
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (28.57 %)Active Directory
21 (7.143 %)VMware Infrastructure
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (14.29 %)AutoSys
21 (7.143 %)McAfee ePO
West Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (42.86 %)Citrix
25 (35.71 %)Microsoft
25 (35.71 %)HP
33 (21.43 %)Oracle
42 (14.29 %)Borland
42 (14.29 %)CA
42 (14.29 %)PeopleSoft
42 (14.29 %)SAP
51 (7.143 %)Sybase
51 (7.143 %)VMware
51 (7.143 %)McAfee