HPUX Contracts in the UK excluding London

HP-UX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HPUX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HPUX over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 396 445
Rank change year-on-year +72 +49 +56
Contract jobs citing HPUX 12 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.014% 0.071%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.55% 0.092% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £485 £329 £393
25th Percentile £563 £343 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £373 £550
Median % change year-on-year +74.50% -32.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £750 £408 £588
90th Percentile £775 £426 £628
UK median daily rate £650 £373 £525
% change year-on-year +74.50% -29.05% +11.11%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,195 3,275 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.19% 15.77% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,176 3,246
10th Percentile £178 £173 £163
25th Percentile £241 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 320 334
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.94 £22.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -29.60% +56.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

HPUX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HPUX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HPUX in the UK excluding London

HPUX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HPUX in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for HPUX in the UK excluding London

HPUX
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HPUX in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HPUX in the UK excluding London

HPUX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HPUX in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for HPUX in the UK excluding London

HPUX
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HPUX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North of England +23 6 £725 +126.56%
North West - 4 £750 -
Scotland - 4 £650 -
Yorkshire +8 2 £700 +118.75%
South East - 2 £488 -
HPUX
UK

HPUX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) NAS
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Architect
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Unix DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 8 (66.67%) Replication
2 7 (58.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Solaris
2 9 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (66.67%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) AIX
4 4 (33.33%) CentOS
4 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 4 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (83.33%) High Availability
3 9 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 6 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 6 (50.00%) Service Management
4 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
5 5 (41.67%) ITSM
6 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
7 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (16.67%) Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
8 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
8 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
8 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) KVM
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 4 (33.33%) Puppet
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) IBM
1 8 (66.67%) Sun
2 7 (58.33%) Unisys
3 4 (33.33%) HP
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (16.67%) VMware