The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 107 108 97
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -11
Contract jobs citing AIX 8 31 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.391% 0.935% 0.714%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.584% 4.294% 3.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 10
Average daily rate £410 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.88% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £263 £361
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £425 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £22.50 - £32.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £38.50 £30.94
% change year-on-year
-3.89% +24.44%
All Operating Systems
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
505 722 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 24.66% 21.79% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 354 238
Average daily rate £325 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £288 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 69 95
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.90 £13.00 £12.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.40 £41.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
AIX
England

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 West 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
Bristol +9 2 - -
Wiltshire +8 2 £460 -
Somerset +4 2 £232 -14.86%
Dorset -12 1 - -
AIX
England

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) UNIX
3 5 (31.25%) IBM
4 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
5 3 (18.75%) SAN
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (12.50%) Replication
6 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (12.50%) Finance
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (12.50%) EMC
6 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (12.50%) LAN
6 2 (12.50%) WAN
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (12.50%) Windows
6 2 (12.50%) Solaris
6 2 (12.50%) SLA
6 2 (12.50%) Tivoli
6 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (12.50%) Data Guard
6 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
7 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
7 1 (6.250%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (6.250%) Veritas Cluster Server

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 1 (6.250%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) MS Exchange
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle 9iAS
1 1 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (6.250%) Wireless
3 1 (6.250%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.250%) DB2
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) DBA
1 4 (25.00%) AIX Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (12.50%) UNIX Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) UNIX Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) UNIX Support
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Designer
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Design Authority
4 1 (6.250%) Server Technician
4 1 (6.250%) DB2 DBA
4 1 (6.250%) Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Business Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Business Objects Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Support Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.250%) Clustering
2 1 (6.250%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.250%) Firmware
2 1 (6.250%) HACMP
2 1 (6.250%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) UNIX
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Solaris
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.250%) Linux
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
2 1 (6.250%) Quality Management
2 1 (6.250%) E-business
2 1 (6.250%) Migration
2 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.250%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (6.250%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Tivoli
1 2 (12.50%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.250%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (6.250%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (6.250%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (6.250%) StorageTek
4 1 (6.250%) Veritas
4 1 (6.250%) Symantec
4 1 (6.250%) VMware
4 1 (6.250%) Blue Coat
4 1 (6.250%) Brocade
4 1 (6.250%) ProCurve
4 1 (6.250%) HP
4 1 (6.250%) Dell
4 1 (6.250%) Business Objects
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco
Bristol, South West
Our large public sector client is looking for a AIX/IBM support engineer for an urgent (initial) three month contract to start ASAP. You will provide support across...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Our large public sector client is looking for a AIX/IBM support engineer for an initial three month contract to start ASAP. You will provide support across a...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £20 - £25 per hour
Posted: 14 May 2013
Wiltshire
Candidates will be familiar with all aspects of AIX operating systems versions 5.3 & 6.1 Other skills required: UNIX Shell programming TCPIP network configuration NFS PowerHA version...
Sanderson
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 15 May 2013