The first table below looks at the demand for PowerHA skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerHA 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 System Software category for the North West 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 PowerHA
Rank 113 - 124
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PowerHA 5 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.213% - 0.097%
As % of the System Software category 2.155% - 1.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £180 - -
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
232 255 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 9.898% 8.168% 8.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 101 119
Average daily rate £275 £313 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% +22.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £155 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £450 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 38 42
Average hourly rate £19.00 £17.25 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.14% +16.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.65 £11.48 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £30.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
PowerHA
England

PowerHA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West PowerHA Daily Rate Trend

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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheshire - 3 £180 -
Manchester - 1 £175 -
PowerHA
England

PowerHA
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 5 (100.00%) AIX
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Tru64
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) MS Office
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (60.00%) Clustering
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) Brocade
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 2 (40.00%) IBM
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) Hitachi
5 1 (20.00%) Perl
5 1 (20.00%) HACMP
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) Banking

PowerHA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (60.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) AIX Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AIX Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) AIX
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Tru64
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware ESX
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Brocade
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Hitachi