South West AIX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM AIX skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM AIX
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Faversham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Hinckley Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Prescot Reading Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Winchester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	119
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	27	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	3.479 %	3.105 %
Daily rates quoted	11	10
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£393
Average daily rate	£395	£415
% change on same period last year	-4.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£404	£377
% change on same period last year	+7.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	£42.50
Average hourly rate	£38.00	£43.13
% change on same period last year	-11.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	£43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.29	£37.55
% change on same period last year	+1.94 %
Operating Systems South West
Matching contract IT job ads	776	1256
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.023 %	1.332 %
Daily rates quoted	192	254
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£318
Average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	174	252
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.92	£21.97
Average hourly rate	£25.25	£23.30
% change on same period last year	+8.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.58	£24.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
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 West 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 West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AIX across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 West region.

AIX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AIX across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing AIX within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Dorset	+8	9	£402	-9.14 %
Bristol	+8	7	£438	+68.26 %
Gloucestershire	+2	5	-	-
Somerset	+1	2	-	-

AIX England

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 49 (65.33 %) Unix 2 37 (49.33 %) Solaris 3 17 (22.67 %) IBM 4 15 (20.00 %) Windows 4 15 (20.00 %) HPUX 4 15 (20.00 %) VERITAS 5 13 (17.33 %) NetBackup 6 11 (14.67 %) Sun 6 11 (14.67 %) SAN 7 10 (13.33 %) HP 7 10 (13.33 %) EMC 8 8 (10.67 %) Migration 8 8 (10.67 %) AutoSys 8 8 (10.67 %) Linux 9 7 (9.333 %) Siebel

9 7 (9.333 %) LDAP 9 7 (9.333 %) Symantec 9 7 (9.333 %) Project Management 9 7 (9.333 %) Red Hat 9 7 (9.333 %) Legato 9 7 (9.333 %) CLARiiON 10 6 (8.000 %) Finance 10 6 (8.000 %) Backup Exec 10 6 (8.000 %) IP Telephony 10 6 (8.000 %) WebSphere 10 6 (8.000 %) Project Planning 10 6 (8.000 %) MVS 10 6 (8.000 %) Shell Script 10 6 (8.000 %) JCL 10 6 (8.000 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (8.000 %) WebSphere 2 1 (1.333 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.333 %) SAP Basis	Application Platforms 1 5 (6.667 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 3 (4.000 %) MQSI 3 1 (1.333 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.333 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 5 (6.667 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 11 (14.67 %) SAN 2 7 (9.333 %) LDAP 3 6 (8.000 %) IP Telephony 4 2 (2.667 %) SMS 4 2 (2.667 %) DHCP 4 2 (2.667 %) DNS 5 1 (1.333 %) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (6.667 %) DB2 2 4 (5.333 %) ETL 3 2 (2.667 %) RDBMS 4 1 (1.333 %) DB2 UDB 4 1 (1.333 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 1 (1.333 %) Ant 1 1 (1.333 %) ClearCase
General 1 6 (8.000 %) Finance 2 2 (2.667 %) Education 2 2 (2.667 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (2.667 %) Banking 3 1 (1.333 %) Retail 3 1 (1.333 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.333 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 30 (40.00 %) Administrator 2 18 (24.00 %) UNIX Administrator 3 14 (18.67 %) Systems Administrator 4 12 (16.00 %) Analyst 5 9 (12.00 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 8 (10.67 %) AIX Administrator 6 8 (10.67 %) Consultant 6 8 (10.67 %) Project Manager 7 6 (8.000 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 7 6 (8.000 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 5 (6.667 %) Contracts Manager 9 4 (5.333 %) DB2 DBA 9 4 (5.333 %) DBA 10 3 (4.000 %) Senior Analyst 10 3 (4.000 %) Storage Consultant 10 3 (4.000 %) Operations Analyst 10 3 (4.000 %) UNIX Specialist 10 3 (4.000 %) Storage Administrator 11 2 (2.667 %) Technical Manager 11 2 (2.667 %) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (9.333 %) CLARiiON 2 4 (5.333 %) HACMP 3 3 (4.000 %) Replication 4 2 (2.667 %) Celerra 5 1 (1.333 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 49 (65.33 %) Unix 2 37 (49.33 %) Solaris 3 15 (20.00 %) Windows 3 15 (20.00 %) HPUX 4 8 (10.67 %) Linux 5 6 (8.000 %) MVS 6 5 (6.667 %) SUSE 7 3 (4.000 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (1.333 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (10.67 %) Migration 2 7 (9.333 %) Project Management 3 6 (8.000 %) Project Planning 4 5 (6.667 %) Change Management 4 5 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 4 5 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (5.333 %) Data Migration 6 3 (4.000 %) Problem Management 6 3 (4.000 %) Service Management 6 3 (4.000 %) ITIL 7 2 (2.667 %) Security Management 8 1 (1.333 %) Disaster Recovery 8 1 (1.333 %) CRM 8 1 (1.333 %) ERP 8 1 (1.333 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 6 (8.000 %) SQL 1 6 (8.000 %) Shell Script 1 6 (8.000 %) JCL 2 4 (5.333 %) Korn 3 3 (4.000 %) Perl 4 1 (1.333 %) Java 4 1 (1.333 %) AWK
Qualifications 1 4 (5.333 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)	System Software 1 13 (17.33 %) NetBackup 2 6 (8.000 %) Backup Exec 3 4 (5.333 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (4.000 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 8 (10.67 %) AutoSys 2 7 (9.333 %) Legato 3 5 (6.667 %) Tivoli 3 5 (6.667 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 4 (5.333 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 4 4 (5.333 %) EMC NetWorker 5 3 (4.000 %) Unicenter 6 1 (1.333 %) DiskXtender 6 1 (1.333 %) RepliStor	Vendors 1 17 (22.67 %) IBM 2 15 (20.00 %) VERITAS 3 11 (14.67 %) Sun 4 10 (13.33 %) HP 4 10 (13.33 %) EMC 5 7 (9.333 %) Red Hat 5 7 (9.333 %) Symantec 5 7 (9.333 %) Siebel 6 6 (8.000 %) Oracle 7 5 (6.667 %) Microsoft 7 5 (6.667 %) CommVault 8 4 (5.333 %) StorageTek 8 4 (5.333 %) VMware 8 4 (5.333 %) CA 9 3 (4.000 %) Brocade 9 3 (4.000 %) Fujitsu 9 3 (4.000 %) Cisco 9 3 (4.000 %) Intel 10 2 (2.667 %) Infovista 10 2 (2.667 %) Sybase