HPUX Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

HP-UX
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring HPUX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HPUX 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - -
North West median daily rate £491 £750 -
% change year-on-year -34.60% - -

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

HPUX falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 78 50 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.10% 12.05% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 40 44
10th Percentile £188 £250 £126
25th Percentile £300 £343 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £389 £481
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -19.07% +37.43%
75th Percentile £485 £474 £541
90th Percentile £588 £571 £582
North West median daily rate £370 £393 £438
% change year-on-year -5.85% -10.17% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £21.36 £14.00
25th Percentile - £21.83 £16.54
Median hourly rate - £23.14 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +30.56% -5.84%
75th Percentile - £23.92 -
90th Percentile - £24.08 £17.73
North West median hourly rate £61.00 £24.18 £16.00
% change year-on-year +152.27% +51.13% -45.39%

HPUX
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HPUX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

HPUX job vacancy trend in Cheshire

HPUX
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing HPUX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing HPUX

HPUX
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing HPUX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing HPUX

HPUX
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HPUX within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 1 £506 -
HPUX
North West

HPUX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat