The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AIX
Rank 82 89 78
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -11
Contract jobs citing AIX 38 16 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.558% 0.604% 1.283%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.897% 3.340% 7.129%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 13
Average daily rate £375 £320 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £204 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £374 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £31.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £38.50 £30.94
% change year-on-year
-3.89% +24.44%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
551 479 505
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.59% 18.08% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 192 168
Average daily rate £360 £320 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £120 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 39 36
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +41.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £31.70 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
AIX
UK

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland AIX Hourly Rate Trend

AIX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Edinburgh +14 15 £375 +6.00%
Glasgow -14 10 £335 +91.42%
Renfrewshire - 10 £425 -
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
AIX
UK

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 39 (54.93%) Solaris
2 37 (52.11%) UNIX
2 37 (52.11%) Windows
3 31 (43.66%) Linux
4 23 (32.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (28.17%) Windows Server 2003
6 19 (26.76%) IBM
6 19 (26.76%) Oracle
7 17 (23.94%) Finance
7 17 (23.94%) Banking
8 16 (22.54%) Security Cleared
8 16 (22.54%) Netcool
8 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
9 15 (21.13%) HPUX
10 13 (18.31%) Windows XP
10 13 (18.31%) SAN
11 11 (15.49%) Clustering
11 11 (15.49%) Veritas
11 11 (15.49%) Tivoli
11 11 (15.49%) SQL
12 10 (14.08%) Red Hat
12 10 (14.08%) HP
13 9 (12.68%) Oracle 8/8i
13 9 (12.68%) Migration
13 9 (12.68%) WebSphere
14 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
14 8 (11.27%) NAS
14 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
14 8 (11.27%) DB2
14 8 (11.27%) EMC

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 9 (12.68%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.817%) J2EE
3 1 (1.408%) SVG
3 1 (1.408%) Middleware
3 1 (1.408%) WCF
3 1 (1.408%) Silverlight
3 1 (1.408%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.042%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (7.042%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (4.225%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (2.817%) WebSphere Portal
3 2 (2.817%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.408%) CICS
4 1 (1.408%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (7.042%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.408%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) SAN
2 8 (11.27%) NAS
3 6 (8.451%) DHCP
3 6 (8.451%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.451%) DNS
4 3 (4.225%) Internet
4 3 (4.225%) SNMP
5 2 (2.817%) Connectrix
5 2 (2.817%) HTTP
5 2 (2.817%) Intranet
6 1 (1.408%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.408%) SSL
6 1 (1.408%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) Oracle 8/8i
2 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.27%) DB2
3 6 (8.451%) MySQL
4 5 (7.042%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (4.225%) SQL Server 7
5 3 (4.225%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (4.225%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (4.225%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (4.225%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.408%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (1.408%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.408%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.408%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.408%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (7.042%) WinRunner
1 5 (7.042%) TestDirector
1 5 (7.042%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (4.225%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (2.817%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 17 (23.94%) Finance
1 17 (23.94%) Banking
2 2 (2.817%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (2.817%) Financial Institution
2 2 (2.817%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.408%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Administrator
2 13 (18.31%) Architect
3 12 (16.90%) UNIX Administrator
4 6 (8.451%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 6 (8.451%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (8.451%) Designer
5 5 (7.042%) UNIX Consultant
5 5 (7.042%) Consultant
6 4 (5.634%) DBA
6 4 (5.634%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.634%) WebSphere Administrator
7 3 (4.225%) SQL Server DBA
7 3 (4.225%) Technical Specialist
7 3 (4.225%) SQL DBA
7 3 (4.225%) Security Consultant
7 3 (4.225%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.817%) Solutions Designer
8 2 (2.817%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.817%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (2.817%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Clustering
2 4 (5.634%) PDA
2 4 (5.634%) Replication
3 3 (4.225%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.817%) HACMP
4 2 (2.817%) Celerra
4 2 (2.817%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.817%) Symmetrix
4 2 (2.817%) EMC Centera
4 2 (2.817%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.408%) SaaS
5 1 (1.408%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.408%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (54.93%) Solaris
2 37 (52.11%) UNIX
2 37 (52.11%) Windows
3 31 (43.66%) Linux
4 23 (32.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (28.17%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (21.13%) HPUX
7 13 (18.31%) Windows XP
8 6 (8.451%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (5.634%) zOS
10 3 (4.225%) Windows NT
10 3 (4.225%) Tru64
11 2 (2.817%) SUSE
11 2 (2.817%) Ubuntu
11 2 (2.817%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (12.68%) Migration
2 6 (8.451%) ITIL
2 6 (8.451%) Configuration Management
2 6 (8.451%) Risk Analysis
2 6 (8.451%) Software Distribution
3 5 (7.042%) Test Automation
3 5 (7.042%) Security Architecture
4 4 (5.634%) Problem Management
4 4 (5.634%) Release Management
4 4 (5.634%) Test Scripting
5 3 (4.225%) SOA
6 2 (2.817%) Time Management
6 2 (2.817%) Capacity Management
6 2 (2.817%) OO
7 1 (1.408%) ERP
7 1 (1.408%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.408%) Service Management
7 1 (1.408%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.408%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.408%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) SQL
2 5 (7.042%) Perl
3 4 (5.634%) Java
4 3 (4.225%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.408%) Korn
5 1 (1.408%) Bourne shell
5 1 (1.408%) VBScript
5 1 (1.408%) ABAP
5 1 (1.408%) COBOL
5 1 (1.408%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.408%) BC Cleared
3 1 (1.408%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.408%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.225%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (9.859%) VMware ESX
2 6 (8.451%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.634%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.817%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.817%) XenDesktop
4 2 (2.817%) SRDF
4 2 (2.817%) NFS
5 1 (1.408%) MetaFrame
5 1 (1.408%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 16 (22.54%) Netcool
2 11 (15.49%) Tivoli
3 6 (8.451%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 5 (7.042%) NetBackup
4 5 (7.042%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (7.042%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (4.225%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 2 (2.817%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (2.817%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (2.817%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (2.817%) EMC TimeFinder
6 2 (2.817%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.817%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 1 (1.408%) CA Wily
7 1 (1.408%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Oracle
1 19 (26.76%) IBM
2 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.49%) Veritas
4 10 (14.08%) Red Hat
4 10 (14.08%) HP
5 8 (11.27%) EMC
5 8 (11.27%) Citrix
6 7 (9.859%) VMware
7 5 (7.042%) McAfee
8 4 (5.634%) Symantec
9 3 (4.225%) Sun
10 2 (2.817%) NetApp
10 2 (2.817%) Brocade
10 2 (2.817%) Dell
10 2 (2.817%) InterSystems
11 1 (1.408%) CA
11 1 (1.408%) Adobe
11 1 (1.408%) Sybase
11 1 (1.408%) SAP