The first table below looks at the demand for PowerHA skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerHA 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 System Software category for the England 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 PowerHA
Rank 505 544 556
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +12
Contract jobs citing PowerHA 8 15 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.028% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.201% 0.352% 0.372%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 8
Average daily rate £250 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £342 £365
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £390 £416
UK excluding London average daily rate £215 - £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3981 4264 4033
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.575% 7.994% 7.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2071 1786
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 595 619
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
PowerHA
UK

PowerHA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PowerHA across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

England PowerHA Jobs Demand Trend

PowerHA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England PowerHA Daily Rate Trend

PowerHA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PowerHA across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England PowerHA Daily Rate Histogram

PowerHA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerHA within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
North West - 5 £180 -
South West +28 1 - -
London +26 1 £413 +10.00%
South East +15 1 £450 -
PowerHA
UK

PowerHA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing PowerHA 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 PowerHA.

1 10 (100.00%) AIX
2 9 (90.00%) UNIX
3 6 (60.00%) SAN
3 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (50.00%) Linux
4 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (40.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (40.00%) Veritas
5 4 (40.00%) IBM
5 4 (40.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) VMware
6 3 (30.00%) VMware ESX
6 3 (30.00%) Clustering
6 3 (30.00%) HACMP
6 3 (30.00%) Change Management
6 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (30.00%) Tru64
6 3 (30.00%) Windows
6 3 (30.00%) DNS
6 3 (30.00%) MS Office
6 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (20.00%) Bash shell
7 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (20.00%) Brocade
7 2 (20.00%) Korn
7 2 (20.00%) Veritas File System
7 2 (20.00%) ITIL
7 2 (20.00%) Oracle

PowerHA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing PowerHA 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 PowerHA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) AIX Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AIX Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Design Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) AIX Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX Technical Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Support Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) UNIX Support
4 1 (10.00%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
1 3 (30.00%) HACMP
2 2 (20.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) AIX
2 9 (90.00%) UNIX
3 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Tru64
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (20.00%) Korn
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (30.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Veritas File System
4 1 (10.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) Veritas
2 4 (40.00%) IBM
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Brocade
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) Hitachi
4 2 (20.00%) HP
4 2 (20.00%) EMC
4 2 (20.00%) Symantec