The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AIX
Rank 66 52 62
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +10
Contract jobs citing AIX 9 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.001% 0.860% 0.260%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.186% 4.516% 1.282%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £400 £400 £349
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £347 £400 £327
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £400 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £380
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £30.94
% change year-on-year
+6.06% +6.66%
All Operating Systems
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
215 155 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 23.92% 19.04% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 47 74
Average daily rate £338 £325 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -6.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £116 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 3
Average hourly rate £14.50 £26.00 £175.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.23% -85.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
AIX
Scotland

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow AIX Hourly Rate Trend

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 13 (65.00%) UNIX
2 12 (60.00%) Oracle
3 11 (55.00%) Linux
4 10 (50.00%) Windows
4 10 (50.00%) IBM
4 10 (50.00%) Solaris
5 9 (45.00%) Oracle 8/8i
5 9 (45.00%) Finance
5 9 (45.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (40.00%) EMC
7 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
7 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
8 6 (30.00%) SQL
8 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
8 6 (30.00%) HP
8 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (25.00%) Citrix
10 4 (20.00%) SAN
10 4 (20.00%) Sun
10 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
10 4 (20.00%) Windows XP
10 4 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (20.00%) VMware
10 4 (20.00%) VMware ESX
10 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
10 4 (20.00%) WebSphere
11 3 (15.00%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (15.00%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (15.00%) Time Management
11 3 (15.00%) Data Guard

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (15.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (5.000%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (15.00%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.000%) Intranet
2 1 (5.000%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (15.00%) InterSystems Cache
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle 9i
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (5.000%) SAP HANA
5 1 (5.000%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.000%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (5.000%) WinRunner
2 1 (5.000%) TestDirector
2 1 (5.000%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Designer
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Administrator
1 5 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Designer
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) DBA
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Team Leader
5 1 (5.000%) SAP Architect
5 1 (5.000%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.000%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.000%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) PDA
1 1 (5.000%) Symmetrix DMX
1 1 (5.000%) Clustering
1 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) UNIX
2 11 (55.00%) Linux
3 10 (50.00%) Windows
3 10 (50.00%) Solaris
4 9 (45.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (20.00%) Windows XP
7 3 (15.00%) Tru64
7 3 (15.00%) HPUX
8 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) Time Management
2 2 (10.00%) Migration
2 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.000%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (5.000%) Release Management
3 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
3 1 (5.000%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
3 1 (5.000%) Security Architecture
3 1 (5.000%) Database Caching
3 1 (5.000%) Test Strategy
3 1 (5.000%) Project Management
3 1 (5.000%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.000%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.000%) Java
3 1 (5.000%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) SCSA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (15.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (10.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (10.00%) Netcool
3 1 (5.000%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (5.000%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (5.000%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Oracle
2 10 (50.00%) IBM
3 8 (40.00%) EMC
4 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (30.00%) HP
6 5 (25.00%) Citrix
7 4 (20.00%) Sun
7 4 (20.00%) VMware
8 3 (15.00%) Dell
8 3 (15.00%) Symantec
9 2 (10.00%) InterSystems
10 1 (5.000%) McAfee
10 1 (5.000%) Veritas
10 1 (5.000%) Sybase
10 1 (5.000%) SAP