HPUX Job Trends

HP-UX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HPUX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 621 712 703
Rank change year-on-year +91 -9 +324
Permanent jobs citing HPUX 26 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.044% 0.004% 0.019%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.52% 0.024% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 25 0 10
10th Percentile £52,750 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,500 - £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 - £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £59,500 - £88,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,998 8,283 8,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.43% 14.99% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,724 4,764 6,932
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,324 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,704 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,775 £88,525 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.21% +4.44% -

HPUX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HPUX job vacancy trend in the UK

HPUX
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HPUX.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HPUX

HPUX
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HPUX within the UK over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +90 26 £58,000 - 3
UK excluding London - 26 £58,000 - 2
South East - 26 £58,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (96.15%) Exchange Server 2003
1 25 (96.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) DHCP
1 22 (84.62%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) SMTP
2 3 (11.54%) X.400
2 3 (11.54%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 26 (100.00%) Oracle Database 10g
General
1 1 (3.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 23 (88.46%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (88.46%) Systems Support
2 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Messaging Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Solaris Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Solaris Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Solaris
1 26 (100.00%) Unix
2 25 (96.15%) Windows
2 25 (96.15%) Windows Server 2003
3 22 (84.62%) Windows 7
3 22 (84.62%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL
2 3 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (11.54%) Problem Management
3 1 (3.85%) Agile
3 1 (3.85%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Perl
1 22 (84.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (96.15%) DV Cleared
2 25 (96.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (88.46%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (96.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) Oracle
2 25 (96.15%) Microsoft
2 25 (96.15%) VMware
3 4 (15.38%) HP