HPUX Contracts

HP-UX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 597 673
Rank change year-on-year +95 +76 +140
Contract jobs citing HPUX 17 3 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.007% 0.067%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.42% 0.052% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 23
10th Percentile £447 £329 £420
25th Percentile £491 £343 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £373 £525
Median % change year-on-year +74.50% -29.05% +11.11%
75th Percentile £738 £408 £575
90th Percentile £775 £426 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £373 £550
% change year-on-year +74.50% -32.27% +22.22%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

HPUX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HPUX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HPUX in the UK

HPUX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HPUX.

Daily rate trend for HPUX in the UK

HPUX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HPUX over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HPUX in the UK

HPUX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HPUX.

Hourly rate trend for HPUX in the UK

HPUX
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +63 12 £650 +74.50%
England +71 11 £500 +34.23%
North of England +32 6 £725 +126.56%
Work from Home +54 5 £448 +5.41% 1
Scotland - 4 £650 -
North West - 4 £750 -
Yorkshire +15 2 £700 +118.75%
South East - 2 £488 -

HPUX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 3 (17.65%) NAS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
1 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (29.41%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) HPUX Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Unix DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
1 8 (47.06%) Replication
2 7 (41.18%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Linux
1 16 (94.12%) Solaris
2 12 (70.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (52.94%) Windows
4 8 (47.06%) AIX
4 8 (47.06%) Unix
5 5 (29.41%) CentOS
5 5 (29.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (64.71%) High Availability
3 9 (52.94%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 6 (35.29%) DevOps
4 6 (35.29%) DevSecOps
4 6 (35.29%) Planning and Forecasting
4 6 (35.29%) Service Management
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Systems Thinking
5 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
5 5 (29.41%) ITSM
6 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
7 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
7 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (11.76%) Migration
8 2 (11.76%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Bash
2 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
3 3 (17.65%) Perl
3 3 (17.65%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) KVM
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
1 5 (29.41%) Progress Chef
1 5 (29.41%) Puppet
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) IBM
2 8 (47.06%) HP
2 8 (47.06%) Sun
3 7 (41.18%) Unisys
4 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
5 4 (23.53%) VMware
6 1 (5.88%) SAP