Blackpool AIX Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Blackpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Blackpool region.

IBM AIX
Location Aldershot Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Scotland Shropshire South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tonbridge UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	7	13	-
Rank change year-on-year	+6 -
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Blackpool	6.250 %	2.128 %	-
As % of the Operating Systems category	25.00 %	14.29 %	-
Daily rates quoted	2	0	0
Average daily rate	£266	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£340	£400
% change year-on-year	-4.410 % -15.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	£26.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	-3.840 % -35.00 %
All Operating Systems Blackpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Operating Systems category	8	7	1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Blackpool	25.00 %	14.89 %	2.128 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4	1
Average daily rate	£266	£419	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-36.47 % +39.58 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£310	£335
% change year-on-year	+0.800 % -7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2	0
Average hourly rate	-	£19.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.00	£17.50	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-14.28 % -2.770 %
AIX Lancashire

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AIX across the Blackpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

AIX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AIX across the Blackpool region.

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AIX across the Blackpool region.

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool region citing AIX also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited AIX.

1 3 (100.00 %) Tivoli 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 3 (100.00 %) IBM 2 2 (66.67 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (33.33 %) SAN 3 1 (33.33 %) Apache 3 1 (33.33 %) RDBMS 3 1 (33.33 %) BMC PATROL 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (33.33 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool region citing AIX also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited AIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (33.33 %) RDBMS	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Support	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C
Systems Management 1 3 (100.00 %) Tivoli 2 1 (33.33 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 3 (100.00 %) IBM