The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Chester region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AIX
Rank 7 10 9
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -1
Contract jobs citing AIX 18 11 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 12.95% 9.402% 9.202%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.62% 31.43% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
Average daily rate £463 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £378 £385
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £428 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £407 £375
% change year-on-year
-7.86% +8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +33.33%
All Operating Systems
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
52 35 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 37.41% 29.91% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 13
Average daily rate £300 £363 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.24% +18.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £494 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+203.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
AIX
Cheshire

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AIX across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Chester AIX Jobs Demand Trend

AIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester AIX Daily Rate Trend

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester AIX Hourly Rate Trend

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 23 (79.31%) UNIX
2 19 (65.52%) Linux
3 13 (44.83%) VMware
4 12 (41.38%) Project Management
5 11 (37.93%) Citrix
6 10 (34.48%) SAP
6 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (31.03%) Oracle
8 8 (27.59%) ITIL
8 8 (27.59%) PRINCE2
8 8 (27.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 7 (24.14%) Service Management
9 7 (24.14%) Windows
10 6 (20.69%) DB2
10 6 (20.69%) MS Office
10 6 (20.69%) MS Exchange
10 6 (20.69%) Tivoli
10 6 (20.69%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
10 6 (20.69%) Migration
11 5 (17.24%) Change Management
11 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
11 5 (17.24%) Tru64
11 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
12 4 (13.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (13.79%) SAP Certification
13 3 (10.34%) Clustering
13 3 (10.34%) Programme Management

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 6 (20.69%) MS Exchange
2 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (20.69%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.897%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) SAN
2 2 (6.897%) DNS
3 1 (3.448%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) DB2
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (6.897%) Legal
2 1 (3.448%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Manager
1 8 (27.59%) Project Manager
2 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 5 (17.24%) Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) UNIX Specialist
4 3 (10.34%) Programme Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Migration Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 2 (6.897%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (6.897%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.897%) Administrator
6 1 (3.448%) Analyst
6 1 (3.448%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.448%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.448%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.448%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.448%) UNIX Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Clustering
1 3 (10.34%) HACMP
2 2 (6.897%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 23 (79.31%) UNIX
2 19 (65.52%) Linux
3 7 (24.14%) Windows
4 5 (17.24%) Tru64
4 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.448%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Project Management
2 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (27.59%) ITIL
3 8 (27.59%) PRINCE2
4 7 (24.14%) Service Management
5 6 (20.69%) Migration
6 5 (17.24%) Change Management
6 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
7 3 (10.34%) Programme Management
8 2 (6.897%) Information Security
8 2 (6.897%) Data Migration
8 2 (6.897%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 2 (6.897%) Service Delivery
9 1 (3.448%) Risk Assessment
9 1 (3.448%) Change Control
9 1 (3.448%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 4 (13.79%) SAP Certification
3 2 (6.897%) CISSP
4 1 (3.448%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.897%) PowerHA
3 2 (6.897%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Tivoli
2 4 (13.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) VMware
2 11 (37.93%) Citrix
3 10 (34.48%) SAP
4 9 (31.03%) Oracle
5 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.897%) IBM
6 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.448%) HP
7 1 (3.448%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.448%) NetApp
7 1 (3.448%) Veritas
7 1 (3.448%) ArcSight
7 1 (3.448%) Brocade
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