HPUX Contract Job Trends

HP-UX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HPUX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 507 579
Rank change year-on-year -118 +72 +100
Contract jobs citing HPUX 5 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.058% 0.007%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.11% 0.42% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £472 £447 £329
25th Percentile £486 £491 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £650 £373
Median % change year-on-year -23.54% +74.50% -29.05%
75th Percentile £502 £738 £408
90th Percentile £504 £775 £426
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £650 £373
% change year-on-year -23.54% +74.50% -32.27%

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 4,704 4,084 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 13.96% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,064 2,692 3,912
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £320 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.28% -7.13%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £658 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 179 396
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.22 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.11 £15.44
Median hourly rate £42.50 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.77% +9.91% -44.02%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.94 £22.00
% change year-on-year +107.08% +4.26% -29.60%

HPUX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HPUX job vacancy trend in the UK

HPUX
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

HPUX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

HPUX
Top 6 Contract Job 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 1 May 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
UK excluding London -103 5 £497 -23.54%
England -105 5 £497 -0.60%
North West -41 4 £497 -33.73%
North of England -68 4 £497 -31.45%
Work from Home -37 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

HPUX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Billing
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Optimisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
2 4 (80.00%) AIX
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Solaris
2 4 (80.00%) SUSE
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) RBAC
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Runbook
2 4 (80.00%) Security Hardening
2 4 (80.00%) Storage Management
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (20.00%) ERD
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
1 4 (80.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (80.00%) RHCE
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) HP
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) NetCracker