The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AIX
Rank 177 178 192
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +14
Contract jobs citing AIX 26 39 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.405% 0.496% 0.455%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.065% 2.492% 2.382%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 24
Average daily rate £450 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £333 £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £494 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £21.00 £46.25 £62.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.59% -26.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £38.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-3.89% +28.33%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1259 1565 1847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.59% 19.91% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 974 1231
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 96 106
Average hourly rate £30.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
AIX
London

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London AIX Daily Rate Trend

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AIX across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London AIX Daily Rate Histogram

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London AIX Hourly Rate Trend

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 (46.94%) Linux
2 19 (38.78%) UNIX
2 19 (38.78%) Solaris
3 16 (32.65%) Red Hat
3 16 (32.65%) Finance
4 15 (30.61%) Oracle
5 12 (24.49%) HP
5 12 (24.49%) Banking
6 10 (20.41%) VMware
6 10 (20.41%) IBM
6 10 (20.41%) Windows
6 10 (20.41%) HPUX
7 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (18.37%) LPAR
8 8 (16.33%) WebSphere
8 8 (16.33%) SAN
8 8 (16.33%) Migration
9 7 (14.29%) Shell Script
9 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
9 7 (14.29%) SQL
9 7 (14.29%) Perl
9 7 (14.29%) SUSE
9 7 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (12.24%) Oracle 8/8i
10 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
10 6 (12.24%) EMC
11 5 (10.20%) NetApp
11 5 (10.20%) Veritas
11 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 8 (16.33%) WebSphere
2 5 (10.20%) SOAP
3 4 (8.163%) .NET
4 3 (6.122%) HTML
5 2 (4.082%) REST
5 2 (4.082%) Middleware
6 1 (2.041%) COM
6 1 (2.041%) EJB
6 1 (2.041%) JSP
6 1 (2.041%) XML
6 1 (2.041%) soapUI
6 1 (2.041%) Java EE
6 1 (2.041%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.163%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (6.122%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (6.122%) IIS
3 2 (4.082%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 2 (4.082%) Apache
4 1 (2.041%) FileNet
4 1 (2.041%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.041%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.041%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.041%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (2.041%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (2.041%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (2.041%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (4.082%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.041%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) SAN
2 3 (6.122%) HTTP
2 3 (6.122%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.082%) SSL
3 2 (4.082%) HTTPS
3 2 (4.082%) Internet
3 2 (4.082%) X.509
4 1 (2.041%) Firewall
4 1 (2.041%) NetScreen
4 1 (2.041%) DMZ
4 1 (2.041%) LDAP
4 1 (2.041%) DNS
4 1 (2.041%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (8.163%) DB2
5 3 (6.122%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (4.082%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (4.082%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (4.082%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 7
7 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (2.041%) PowerCenter
7 1 (2.041%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (2.041%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.041%) Oracle 9i
7 1 (2.041%) DTS
7 1 (2.041%) MySQL
7 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (2.041%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (2.041%) Oracle OWB
7 1 (2.041%) DB2 UDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.122%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.041%) Introscope
2 1 (2.041%) Ant
2 1 (2.041%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.041%) Hudson
2 1 (2.041%) JBehave
2 1 (2.041%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.041%) Selenium
2 1 (2.041%) Maven
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Banking
3 5 (10.20%) Retail
3 5 (10.20%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.082%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.041%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Administrator
1 12 (24.49%) Consultant
2 8 (16.33%) AIX Consultant
3 5 (10.20%) Architect
4 4 (8.163%) WebSphere Administrator
4 4 (8.163%) DBA
4 4 (8.163%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (6.122%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.122%) AIX Specialist
5 3 (6.122%) UNIX Administrator
5 3 (6.122%) Technical Specialist
5 3 (6.122%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.082%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.082%) Solaris Administrator
6 2 (4.082%) WebSphere Application Server Administrator
6 2 (4.082%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (4.082%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.082%) Solaris Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.082%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.082%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) LPAR
2 5 (10.20%) Clustering
3 3 (6.122%) HACMP
3 3 (6.122%) iSeries
4 2 (4.082%) PKI
4 2 (4.082%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.082%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.082%) DataPower
4 2 (4.082%) Firmware
4 2 (4.082%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.041%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.041%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.041%) SWIFT
5 1 (2.041%) Replication
5 1 (2.041%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.041%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 23 (46.94%) Linux
2 19 (38.78%) UNIX
2 19 (38.78%) Solaris
3 10 (20.41%) Windows
3 10 (20.41%) HPUX
4 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (14.29%) SUSE
6 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.041%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.041%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.33%) Migration
2 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (6.122%) ITIL
3 3 (6.122%) Data Protection
3 3 (6.122%) Information Security
4 2 (4.082%) B2B
4 2 (4.082%) Configuration Management
4 2 (4.082%) Risk Management
4 2 (4.082%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (4.082%) Change Management
4 2 (4.082%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (2.041%) ITSM
5 1 (2.041%) Identity Management
5 1 (2.041%) Service Management
5 1 (2.041%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (2.041%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.041%) ETL
5 1 (2.041%) UML
5 1 (2.041%) OO
5 1 (2.041%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 7 (14.29%) SQL
1 7 (14.29%) Perl
2 3 (6.122%) C
2 3 (6.122%) sed
2 3 (6.122%) AWK
3 2 (4.082%) Korn
3 2 (4.082%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (4.082%) Bourne shell
3 2 (4.082%) ActionScript
3 2 (4.082%) C++
3 2 (4.082%) Java
3 2 (4.082%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.082%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.082%) Python
4 1 (2.041%) COBOL
4 1 (2.041%) C#
4 1 (2.041%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.122%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.082%) RHCT
3 2 (4.082%) Degree
3 2 (4.082%) RHCE
4 1 (2.041%) IBM AIX Certification
4 1 (2.041%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.041%) MCSE
4 1 (2.041%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) SLA
1 1 (2.041%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (10.20%) VMware ESX
3 3 (6.122%) XenApp
4 2 (4.082%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (4.082%) Samba
4 2 (4.082%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.082%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (4.082%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (4.082%) NFS
4 2 (4.082%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.041%) Veritas File System
5 1 (2.041%) vSphere
5 1 (2.041%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.163%) Data Guard
2 2 (4.082%) BladeLogic
2 2 (4.082%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (4.082%) OpenView
2 2 (4.082%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.041%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (2.041%) Control-M
3 1 (2.041%) CA SiteMinder
3 1 (2.041%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.041%) Puppet
3 1 (2.041%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Red Hat
2 15 (30.61%) Oracle
3 12 (24.49%) HP
4 10 (20.41%) VMware
4 10 (20.41%) IBM
5 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
5 6 (12.24%) EMC
6 5 (10.20%) NetApp
6 5 (10.20%) Veritas
7 4 (8.163%) Cisco
8 3 (6.122%) Citrix
8 3 (6.122%) Brocade
9 2 (4.082%) Hummingbird
9 2 (4.082%) Sun
9 2 (4.082%) Intel
9 2 (4.082%) Reuters
9 2 (4.082%) Bloomberg
9 2 (4.082%) Symantec
10 1 (2.041%) ATG
10 1 (2.041%) Micro Focus
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Posted: 20 May 2013