HPUX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HP-UX
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 359 371
Rank change year-on-year -109 +12 +40
Contract jobs citing HPUX 9 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.053% 0.011%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.29% 0.32% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £478 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £320
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +118.75% -44.35%
75th Percentile £603 £775 -
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £497 £650 £463
% change year-on-year -23.54% +40.54% +2.78%

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 3,137 2,468 3,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.50% 16.20% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 1,564 1,996
10th Percentile £185 £178 £181
25th Percentile £267 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £556 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +2.17% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 212 285
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.35 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.44 £16.50
Median hourly rate £27.88 £22.53 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -43.68% +36.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.80 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £24.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% -12.73% -35.29%

HPUX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

HPUX job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

HPUX
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HPUX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HPUX

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 6 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HPUX in the UK excluding London

HPUX
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HPUX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HPUX

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 6 August 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
North West -48 5 £494 -34.13%
North of England -68 5 £494 -31.86%
Midlands - 2 - -
South East - 2 £700 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
HPUX
UK

HPUX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Billing
3 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
4 1 (11.11%) FPGA
4 1 (11.11%) Grid Computing
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) AIX
2 7 (77.78%) Solaris
2 7 (77.78%) Unix
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (55.56%) SUSE
4 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Management
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) RBAC
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) Runbook
2 4 (44.44%) Security Hardening
2 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
2 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
1 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CISSP
1 4 (44.44%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (44.44%) RHCE
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) HP
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Broadcom
4 2 (22.22%) Dell
4 2 (22.22%) NetApp
4 2 (22.22%) NetCracker
4 2 (22.22%) Veritas
5 1 (11.11%) Mellanox
5 1 (11.11%) Solarflare