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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

 HP-UX
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank605366
Rank change year-on-year
Down-7Up+13
Matching contract IT job ads8726
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire0.762 %0.793 %1.429 %
As % of the Operating Systems category5.369 %5.512 %8.176 %
Daily rates quoted115
Average daily rate£275£350£428
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42 %-18.24 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£400
% change year-on-year
--18.75 %
Hourly rates quoted001
Average hourly rate--£33.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£42.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-35.29 %+21.42 %
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
149127318
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire14.19 %14.38 %17.48 %
Daily rates quoted451861
Average daily rate£300£265£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.20 %-11.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£125£150
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£376£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£310£306£334
% change year-on-year
+1.550 %-8.530 %
Hourly rates quoted231754
Average hourly rate£9.50£11.46£15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.10 %-23.60 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£8.80£8.50£10.97
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£18.40£25.00£34.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
HPUX YorkshireHPUX
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
LeedsUp+66£275-21.42 %
HPUX YorkshireHPUX
Yorkshire

HPUX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

112 (57.14 %)HP
27 (33.33 %)Red Hat
36 (28.57 %)SAN
36 (28.57 %)Linux
45 (23.81 %)UNIX
45 (23.81 %)Informix
45 (23.81 %)Oracle
45 (23.81 %)LAN
54 (19.05 %)VMS
54 (19.05 %)C
54 (19.05 %)Windows
54 (19.05 %)Red Hat Linux
63 (14.29 %)Performance Testing
63 (14.29 %)ITIL
72 (9.524 %)VMware
72 (9.524 %)Retail
72 (9.524 %)WebLogic
72 (9.524 %)MS Project
72 (9.524 %)Cisco
72 (9.524 %)Solaris
81 (4.762 %)VMware Infrastructure
81 (4.762 %)HP Superdome
81 (4.762 %)IBM
81 (4.762 %)Microsoft
81 (4.762 %)Active Directory
81 (4.762 %)OpenView
81 (4.762 %)ISO17799
81 (4.762 %)NetWare
81 (4.762 %)SNMP
81 (4.762 %)VPN

HPUX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (9.524 %)WebLogic
21 (4.762 %)Apache
21 (4.762 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (9.524 %)MS Project
21 (4.762 %)MS Office
21 (4.762 %)MS Excel
21 (4.762 %)MS Visio
21 (4.762 %)MS PowerPoint
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (28.57 %)SAN
25 (23.81 %)LAN
31 (4.762 %)SNMP
31 (4.762 %)VPN
31 (4.762 %)SSL
31 (4.762 %)Firewall
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (23.81 %)Informix
21 (4.762 %)SQL Server
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (9.524 %)Retail
21 (4.762 %)Finance
21 (4.762 %)Legal
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (28.57 %)Architect
16 (28.57 %)Technical Architect
25 (23.81 %)Consultant
33 (14.29 %)Senior Consultant
33 (14.29 %)UNIX Specialist
42 (9.524 %)Administrator
51 (4.762 %)Capacity Planner
51 (4.762 %)Systems Administrator
51 (4.762 %)Systems Engineer
51 (4.762 %)Technical Consultant
51 (4.762 %)Senior Technical Consultant
51 (4.762 %)Technical Manager
51 (4.762 %)Implementation Manager
51 (4.762 %)Storage Administrator
51 (4.762 %)UNIX Engineer
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (4.762 %)HP Superdome
11 (4.762 %)N-Tier
11 (4.762 %)Blackberry
11 (4.762 %)Mainframe
11 (4.762 %)Clustering
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (28.57 %)Linux
25 (23.81 %)UNIX
34 (19.05 %)VMS
34 (19.05 %)Windows
34 (19.05 %)Red Hat Linux
42 (9.524 %)Solaris
51 (4.762 %)NetWare
51 (4.762 %)AIX
51 (4.762 %)Windows 2000
51 (4.762 %)Windows XP
51 (4.762 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (4.762 %)Windows Mobile
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (14.29 %)Performance Testing
13 (14.29 %)ITIL
21 (4.762 %)PRINCE2
21 (4.762 %)ERP
21 (4.762 %)Service Management
21 (4.762 %)Service Delivery
21 (4.762 %)Project Management
21 (4.762 %)Penetration Testing
21 (4.762 %)Incident Management
21 (4.762 %)User Acceptance Testing
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14 (19.05 %)C
21 (4.762 %)Java
21 (4.762 %)SQL
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (4.762 %)CISSP
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (4.762 %)ISO17799
11 (4.762 %)ISO27001
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (4.762 %)VMware Infrastructure
11 (4.762 %)Active Directory
11 (4.762 %)Terminal Services
11 (4.762 %)Squid
11 (4.762 %)Novell eDirectory
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (4.762 %)OpenView
11 (4.762 %)Norton AntiVirus
11 (4.762 %)WSUS
11 (4.762 %)OVPM
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
112 (57.14 %)HP
27 (33.33 %)Red Hat
35 (23.81 %)Oracle
42 (9.524 %)VMware
42 (9.524 %)Cisco
51 (4.762 %)IBM
51 (4.762 %)Microsoft
51 (4.762 %)Hitachi
51 (4.762 %)Novell
51 (4.762 %)Veritas
51 (4.762 %)EMC
51 (4.762 %)Intel
51 (4.762 %)Citrix
51 (4.762 %)Juniper
51 (4.762 %)Symantec