The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 23 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 Manchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AIX
Rank 64 36 54
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +18
Contract jobs citing AIX 9 55 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.963% 4.250% 1.415%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.357% 19.37% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 3
Average daily rate £413 £340 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.32% -17.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £260 £403
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £362 £443
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 £30.94
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +29.29%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
168 284 150
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 17.97% 21.95% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 104 59
Average daily rate £275 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 39 35
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £25.00 £22.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
AIX
North West

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester AIX Hourly Rate Trend

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 20 (74.07%) UNIX
2 16 (59.26%) Banking
3 12 (44.44%) IBM
4 11 (40.74%) Tivoli
4 11 (40.74%) Shell Script
4 11 (40.74%) Windows
5 10 (37.04%) Solaris
5 10 (37.04%) Middleware
6 9 (33.33%) Retail
7 8 (29.63%) Java
7 8 (29.63%) Oracle
8 7 (25.93%) HPUX
8 7 (25.93%) LDAP
8 7 (25.93%) SAN
8 7 (25.93%) HP
9 6 (22.22%) SAS
9 6 (22.22%) SMS
9 6 (22.22%) Kerberos
9 6 (22.22%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 6 (22.22%) Perl
9 6 (22.22%) Project Planning
9 6 (22.22%) Network Security
9 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
9 6 (22.22%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
9 6 (22.22%) X.509
9 6 (22.22%) Change Management
9 6 (22.22%) Identity Management
9 6 (22.22%) SPNEGO
10 5 (18.52%) Finance
10 5 (18.52%) Migration

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 10 (37.04%) Middleware
2 6 (22.22%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
2 6 (22.22%) SPNEGO
3 5 (18.52%) WebSphere
4 3 (11.11%) XML
5 2 (7.407%) XSD
5 2 (7.407%) XSLT
5 2 (7.407%) SOAP
5 2 (7.407%) Web Services
5 2 (7.407%) J2EE
5 2 (7.407%) JMS
6 1 (3.704%) EDIFACT
6 1 (3.704%) EDI
6 1 (3.704%) COM
6 1 (3.704%) XBRL
Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) SAS
2 4 (14.81%) CICS
2 4 (14.81%) WebLogic
3 2 (7.407%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) LDAP
1 7 (25.93%) SAN
2 6 (22.22%) SMS
2 6 (22.22%) Kerberos
2 6 (22.22%) Network Security
2 6 (22.22%) X.509
3 4 (14.81%) Firewall
4 3 (11.11%) Internet
4 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (11.11%) SNA
5 1 (3.704%) DNS
5 1 (3.704%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) OLAP
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) Base SAS
3 3 (11.11%) DB2
4 2 (7.407%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (7.407%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (3.704%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (7.407%) JUnit
General
1 16 (59.26%) Banking
2 9 (33.33%) Retail
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 1 (3.704%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.704%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (14.81%) Administrator
2 4 (14.81%) SAS Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Storage Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.407%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (7.407%) SAS Consultant
4 2 (7.407%) Technical Administrator
4 2 (7.407%) AIX Administrator
4 2 (7.407%) Designer
4 2 (7.407%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.407%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.407%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (3.704%) EDI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
2 5 (18.52%) Grid Computing
2 5 (18.52%) Mainframe
3 4 (14.81%) HACMP
3 4 (14.81%) VSAM
3 4 (14.81%) PKI
4 3 (11.11%) LPAR
4 3 (11.11%) Online Banking
4 3 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (11.11%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (7.407%) DLPAR
6 1 (3.704%) Clustering
6 1 (3.704%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (74.07%) UNIX
2 11 (40.74%) Windows
3 10 (37.04%) Solaris
4 7 (25.93%) HPUX
5 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (14.81%) Linux
5 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.704%) SUSE
6 1 (3.704%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Project Planning
1 6 (22.22%) Change Management
1 6 (22.22%) Identity Management
2 5 (18.52%) Migration
3 4 (14.81%) ETL
3 4 (14.81%) ITIL
4 3 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (7.407%) OOA/OOD
5 2 (7.407%) OO
5 2 (7.407%) SOA
5 2 (7.407%) Web Development
5 2 (7.407%) Unit Testing
5 2 (7.407%) Regression Testing
6 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.704%) PRINCE
6 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (3.704%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Shell Script
2 8 (29.63%) Java
3 6 (22.22%) Perl
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) JCL
6 1 (3.704%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (3.704%) COBOL
6 1 (3.704%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.704%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) QA
2 1 (3.704%) Basel II
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.81%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
1 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.704%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (3.704%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Tivoli
2 6 (22.22%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (3.704%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) IBM
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle
3 7 (25.93%) HP
4 5 (18.52%) Brocade
4 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 4 (14.81%) Cisco
5 4 (14.81%) Citrix
5 4 (14.81%) CA
5 4 (14.81%) CheckPoint
5 4 (14.81%) VMware
6 2 (7.407%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.704%) Unica
7 1 (3.704%) Cognos
7 1 (3.704%) SAP
7 1 (3.704%) Hitachi
7 1 (3.704%) Veritas
7 1 (3.704%) Sun