South East AIX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM AIX skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM AIX
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Guernsey Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	106
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	172	231
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.242 %	0.233 %
As % of the category below	6.659 %	5.610 %
Daily rates quoted	67	65
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£357
Average daily rate	£347	£371
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£396
% change on same period last year	-4.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.85	£32.00
Average hourly rate	£43.31	£33.57
% change on same period last year	+29.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.77	£35.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.86	£35.16
% change on same period last year	-0.86 %
Operating Systems South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2583	4118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.637 %	4.161 %
Daily rates quoted	587	993
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£326
Average daily rate	£338	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	475	850
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.89	£21.55
Average hourly rate	£24.38	£22.76
% change on same period last year	+7.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.88	£23.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
AIX England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 South East 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 South East region.

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AIX across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AIX across the South East region.

AIX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AIX across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hampshire	+14	68	£346	-5.25 %
Berkshire	+54	51	£359	-16.42 %
Middlesex	+2	24	£352	-9.74 %
Buckinghamshire	-14	6	£263	-19.96 %
Surrey	-3	5	£380	-
West Sussex	+11	5	£250	-23.07 %
Thames Valley	+11	4	-	-
Oxfordshire	-	2	-	-
M4 Corridor	-	1	-	-
Kent	+2	1	-	-
Home Counties	+20	1	-	-

AIX England

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 187 (60.91 %) UNIX 2 129 (42.02 %) Solaris 3 102 (33.22 %) Windows 4 94 (30.62 %) IBM 5 72 (23.45 %) WebSphere 6 60 (19.54 %) Finance 7 55 (17.92 %) SAN 8 54 (17.59 %) SQL 9 49 (15.96 %) DB2 10 47 (15.31 %) Tivoli 11 45 (14.66 %) Java 12 44 (14.33 %) Sun 13 42 (13.68 %) Shell Script 14 36 (11.73 %) TCP/IP 15 35 (11.40 %) Linux

15 35 (11.40 %) Korn 16 34 (11.07 %) Oracle 17 32 (10.42 %) TestDirector 18 31 (10.10 %) Microsoft 18 31 (10.10 %) HPUX 19 29 (9.446 %) WebSphere Application Server 19 29 (9.446 %) Security Cleared 20 28 (9.121 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 20 28 (9.121 %) Disaster Recovery 21 27 (8.795 %) CONTROL-M 22 24 (7.818 %) Perl 23 23 (7.492 %) HP 23 23 (7.492 %) Windows Server 2003 23 23 (7.492 %) HACMP 23 23 (7.492 %) Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 72 (23.45 %) WebSphere 2 21 (6.840 %) HTML 3 16 (5.212 %) XML 4 15 (4.886 %) J2EE 5 10 (3.257 %) .NET 6 9 (2.932 %) .NET Framework 7 8 (2.606 %) Middleware 8 5 (1.629 %) Oracle Streams 9 3 (0.977 %) WebServices 9 3 (0.977 %) JDBC 9 3 (0.977 %) ASP 9 3 (0.977 %) XSD 9 3 (0.977 %) XSLT 10 1 (0.326 %) XHTML 10 1 (0.326 %) J2SE 10 1 (0.326 %) CSS 10 1 (0.326 %) JSP 10 1 (0.326 %) WSE 10 1 (0.326 %) SAP XI 10 1 (0.326 %) SAP Basis	Application Platforms 1 29 (9.446 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 20 (6.515 %) WebSphere MQ 3 15 (4.886 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 9 (2.932 %) WPS 5 5 (1.629 %) IIS 6 4 (1.303 %) WebLogic 6 4 (1.303 %) ESB 7 3 (0.977 %) Lotus Notes 7 3 (0.977 %) MQSeries 7 3 (0.977 %) MS Exchange 7 3 (0.977 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 2 (0.651 %) Apache 8 2 (0.651 %) Oracle Application Server 8 2 (0.651 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 1 (0.326 %) Oracle 10gAS 9 1 (0.326 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 1 (0.326 %) GroupWise 9 1 (0.326 %) SAS 9 1 (0.326 %) Oracle 9iAS 9 1 (0.326 %) JBoss
Applications 1 11 (3.583 %) MS Excel 2 4 (1.303 %) MS Office 3 3 (0.977 %) MS Project 4 2 (0.651 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.326 %) Shockwave	Business Applications 1 5 (1.629 %) Sophis VALUE
Communications & Networking 1 55 (17.92 %) SAN 2 36 (11.73 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (1.303 %) HTTP 3 4 (1.303 %) DNS 4 3 (0.977 %) Firewall 4 3 (0.977 %) SSH 4 3 (0.977 %) VPN 4 3 (0.977 %) LAN 4 3 (0.977 %) WAN 5 2 (0.651 %) DHCP 5 2 (0.651 %) FirePass 6 1 (0.326 %) iSCSI 6 1 (0.326 %) Wireless 6 1 (0.326 %) HTTPS 6 1 (0.326 %) SSL 6 1 (0.326 %) UMTS 6 1 (0.326 %) VoIP 6 1 (0.326 %) Broadband 6 1 (0.326 %) GPRS 6 1 (0.326 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 49 (15.96 %) DB2 2 13 (4.235 %) SQL Server 3 8 (2.606 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 7 (2.280 %) Oracle 9i 4 7 (2.280 %) BusinessObjects 4 7 (2.280 %) DB2 UDB 5 6 (1.954 %) Oracle 10g 6 5 (1.629 %) DataStage 6 5 (1.629 %) RDBMS 7 4 (1.303 %) MS Access 7 4 (1.303 %) SQL Server 2000 7 4 (1.303 %) Oracle 11g 8 3 (0.977 %) SQLPlus 8 3 (0.977 %) Oracle Reports 9 2 (0.651 %) Datawarehouse 9 2 (0.651 %) ETL 10 1 (0.326 %) SQL Server 7 10 1 (0.326 %) BusinessObjects XI 10 1 (0.326 %) Base SAS
Development Applications 1 32 (10.42 %) TestDirector 2 5 (1.629 %) ClearQuest 2 5 (1.629 %) ClearCase 3 3 (0.977 %) PVCS 4 2 (0.651 %) Eclipse 4 2 (0.651 %) Oracle Designer 10g 5 1 (0.326 %) Ant 5 1 (0.326 %) MSI 5 1 (0.326 %) Flash	General 1 60 (19.54 %) Finance 2 20 (6.515 %) Government 3 8 (2.606 %) Insurance 4 6 (1.954 %) Auditing 5 5 (1.629 %) Banking 5 5 (1.629 %) Telecoms 6 4 (1.303 %) Financial Institution 6 4 (1.303 %) Retail 7 3 (0.977 %) Health 8 2 (0.651 %) Billing 9 1 (0.326 %) Home Office 9 1 (0.326 %) Education
Job Titles 1 57 (18.57 %) Administrator 2 36 (11.73 %) Analyst 3 30 (9.772 %) Systems Administrator 4 29 (9.446 %) Tester 5 24 (7.818 %) AIX Administrator 6 22 (7.166 %) DBA 7 21 (6.840 %) Developer 8 20 (6.515 %) Consultant 8 20 (6.515 %) UNIX Administrator 9 19 (6.189 %) Project Manager 10 17 (5.537 %) Storage Specialist 11 16 (5.212 %) Infrastructure Manager 11 16 (5.212 %) Test Analyst 11 16 (5.212 %) Architect 11 16 (5.212 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 12 15 (4.886 %) Applications Support 12 15 (4.886 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 13 12 (3.909 %) Test Engineer 14 11 (3.583 %) Oracle DBA 15 9 (2.932 %) Applications Manager	Miscellaneous 1 23 (7.492 %) HACMP 2 19 (6.189 %) Replication 3 17 (5.537 %) Clustering 4 6 (1.954 %) Client/Server 5 5 (1.629 %) Mainframe 6 3 (0.977 %) Management Information System 6 3 (0.977 %) AS400 7 2 (0.651 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 2 (0.651 %) Firmware 7 2 (0.651 %) Derivative 8 1 (0.326 %) IBM Mainframe 8 1 (0.326 %) PKI 8 1 (0.326 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 187 (60.91 %) UNIX 2 129 (42.02 %) Solaris 3 102 (33.22 %) Windows 4 35 (11.40 %) Linux 5 31 (10.10 %) HPUX 6 23 (7.492 %) Windows Server 2003 7 17 (5.537 %) Tru64 8 15 (4.886 %) OpenVMS 9 13 (4.235 %) Windows XP 10 12 (3.909 %) Windows 2000 11 4 (1.303 %) VMS 12 3 (0.977 %) Windows NT 12 3 (0.977 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 3 (0.977 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (9.446 %) Security Cleared 2 28 (9.121 %) Disaster Recovery 3 23 (7.492 %) Migration 4 22 (7.166 %) SC Cleared 5 18 (5.863 %) Service Management 6 16 (5.212 %) Project Planning 7 15 (4.886 %) ITIL 7 15 (4.886 %) PRINCE2 8 13 (4.235 %) Project Management 8 13 (4.235 %) Test Scripting 9 10 (3.257 %) Load Balancing 10 9 (2.932 %) Workflow 11 8 (2.606 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 8 (2.606 %) Service Delivery 12 7 (2.280 %) Stakeholder Management 12 7 (2.280 %) SOA 13 6 (1.954 %) Systems Analysis 14 4 (1.303 %) Change Management 14 4 (1.303 %) Data Migration 15 3 (0.977 %) ITSM
Programming Languages 1 54 (17.59 %) SQL 2 45 (14.66 %) Java 3 42 (13.68 %) Shell Script 4 35 (11.40 %) Korn 5 24 (7.818 %) Perl 6 11 (3.583 %) VB 7 10 (3.257 %) C 8 8 (2.606 %) C++ 9 6 (1.954 %) Tcl 10 5 (1.629 %) VB6 11 4 (1.303 %) Transact-SQL 12 3 (0.977 %) VBScript 13 2 (0.651 %) PL/SQL 13 2 (0.651 %) REXX 14 1 (0.326 %) JCL 14 1 (0.326 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 7 (2.280 %) Sun Certification 2 4 (1.303 %) HP APS 2 4 (1.303 %) MCP 2 4 (1.303 %) MCSE 2 4 (1.303 %) MCSA 2 4 (1.303 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (0.977 %) ISEB 3 3 (0.977 %) Degree 4 2 (0.651 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 2 (0.651 %) IBM AIX Certification 5 1 (0.326 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 5 1 (0.326 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 1 (0.326 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (0.326 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (0.326 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (0.326 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.303 %) ISO8583 2 3 (0.977 %) QA 3 2 (0.651 %) SLA 3 2 (0.651 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 15 (4.886 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 12 (3.909 %) Active Directory 3 8 (2.606 %) Oracle RMAN 4 7 (2.280 %) NetBackup 5 3 (0.977 %) NFS 6 2 (0.651 %) Terminal Services 6 2 (0.651 %) RACF 6 2 (0.651 %) Oracle RAC 7 1 (0.326 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (0.326 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 1 (0.326 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (0.326 %) ISA Server 7 1 (0.326 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 47 (15.31 %) Tivoli 2 28 (9.121 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 27 (8.795 %) CONTROL-M 4 7 (2.280 %) Netcool 5 5 (1.629 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 6 3 (0.977 %) Unicenter 6 3 (0.977 %) CA SiteMinder 6 3 (0.977 %) Oracle Statspack 7 2 (0.651 %) MIMEsweeper 7 2 (0.651 %) Netcool/Webtop 7 2 (0.651 %) Legato 7 2 (0.651 %) Tivoli Monitoring 7 2 (0.651 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 1 (0.326 %) MAINVIEW 8 1 (0.326 %) Tivoli NetView 8 1 (0.326 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 94 (30.62 %) IBM 2 44 (14.33 %) Sun 3 34 (11.07 %) Oracle 4 31 (10.10 %) Microsoft 5 23 (7.492 %) HP 6 11 (3.583 %) VERITAS 7 10 (3.257 %) Cisco 8 9 (2.932 %) Citrix 9 8 (2.606 %) Compaq 10 7 (2.280 %) SAP 10 7 (2.280 %) Business Objects 11 6 (1.954 %) VMware 11 6 (1.954 %) Sophis 12 5 (1.629 %) Remedy 12 5 (1.629 %) Sybase 12 5 (1.629 %) EMC 13 4 (1.303 %) Siebel 14 3 (0.977 %) Vignette 14 3 (0.977 %) Intel 14 3 (0.977 %) CA