The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales 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 South Wales 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 38 37 38
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing AIX 3 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 0.901% 1.247% 2.153%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.797% 5.208% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
Average daily rate £375 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
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
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
79 96 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 23.72% 23.94% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 44 43
Average daily rate £325 £210 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.76% -37.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £105 £105
10% offered a daily rate of more than £377 £425 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.32 £9.00 £10.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.55 £15.30 £18.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
AIX
Wales

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales AIX Daily Rate Trend

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales 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
Cardiff +4 2 £375 -11.76%
Newport 0 1 - -
AIX
Wales

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 7 (46.67%) Oracle
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
1 7 (46.67%) UNIX
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Internet
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (40.00%) MS Office
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (40.00%) COBOL
2 6 (40.00%) WebLogic
2 6 (40.00%) IIS
2 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) iSeries
3 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) OS/400
4 3 (20.00%) RPG
4 3 (20.00%) DB2
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Clustering
5 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) AS400

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.667%) Web Services
2 1 (6.667%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) XSD
2 1 (6.667%) XSLT
2 1 (6.667%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) MS Office
2 2 (13.33%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 1 (6.667%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.667%) HTTP
3 1 (6.667%) DNS
3 1 (6.667%) HTTPS
3 1 (6.667%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (6.667%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) TestDirector
2 1 (6.667%) ClearCase
2 1 (6.667%) Ant
2 1 (6.667%) ClearQuest
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) DBA
1 6 (40.00%) Applications Support
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (33.33%) Applications Support Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Windows Support Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) AS400 Support
3 1 (6.667%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) iSeries
2 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) AS400
3 1 (6.667%) DataPower
3 1 (6.667%) HACMP
3 1 (6.667%) Grid Computing
3 1 (6.667%) LPAR
3 1 (6.667%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
1 7 (46.67%) UNIX
2 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) OS/400
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (13.33%) UML
3 2 (13.33%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) Numerical Analysis
4 1 (6.667%) Performance Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) COBOL
1 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (20.00%) RPG
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (6.667%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Rackspace
4 1 (6.667%) EMC
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat