Northern Ireland AIX Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Northern Ireland region.

IBM AIX
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Buckinghamshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Scotland Shropshire South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tonbridge UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 12 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	-	12	27
Matching contract IT job ads	0	6	2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland	-	6.818 %	1.282 %
As % of the Operating Systems category	-	24.00 %	4.255 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5	2
Average daily rate	-	£325	£223
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- +46.06 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£339	£400
% change year-on-year	-4.120 % -15.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	£26.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	-3.840 % -35.00 %
All Operating Systems Northern Ireland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Operating Systems category	17	25	47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland	17.89 %	28.41 %	30.13 %
Daily rates quoted	12	10	9
Average daily rate	£225	£325	£225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-30.76 % +44.44 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£310	£330
% change year-on-year	+1.610 % -6.060 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	2
Average hourly rate	-	-	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.00	£17.50	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-14.28 % -2.770 %
AIX UK

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.

AIX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AIX across the Northern Ireland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

AIX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AIX across the Northern Ireland region.