The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Surrey 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AIX
Rank 63 84 95
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +11
Contract jobs citing AIX 15 14 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.230% 0.871% 0.378%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.777% 3.723% 1.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 4
Average daily rate £425 £488 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% +25.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £428 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £516 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £380
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £30.94
% change year-on-year
+6.06% +6.66%
All Operating Systems
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
314 376 453
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 25.74% 23.40% 24.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 145 188
Average daily rate £340 £300 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £135 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 87 45
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
AIX
South East

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Camberley 0 6 £425 +3.03%
Reigate +5 2 - - 1
Dorking - 2 - -
Horley - 2 - -
Redhill - 2 - - 1
Guildford - - - -
Staines - - - -
AIX
South East

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 16 (80.00%) Solaris
1 16 (80.00%) UNIX
2 12 (60.00%) Linux
3 11 (55.00%) Veritas
4 10 (50.00%) Migration
5 9 (45.00%) EMC
6 8 (40.00%) Finance
6 8 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (35.00%) NAS
7 7 (35.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 7 (35.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 7 (35.00%) HPUX
7 7 (35.00%) Shell Script
8 6 (30.00%) SAN
8 6 (30.00%) NFS
9 5 (25.00%) Oracle
9 5 (25.00%) Banking
9 5 (25.00%) Investment Banking
10 4 (20.00%) Equities
10 4 (20.00%) SQL
10 4 (20.00%) Windows
11 3 (15.00%) IBM
11 3 (15.00%) Sun
11 3 (15.00%) HP
11 3 (15.00%) Firmware
11 3 (15.00%) Symmetrix DMX
12 2 (10.00%) XenApp
12 2 (10.00%) vSphere
12 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) NAS
2 6 (30.00%) SAN
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) IPsec
3 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 2 (10.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
2 5 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) UNIX Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Support Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) UNIX Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) DBA
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.000%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Equities
2 3 (15.00%) Firmware
2 3 (15.00%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (5.000%) Clustering
3 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Solaris
1 16 (80.00%) UNIX
2 12 (60.00%) Linux
3 8 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (35.00%) HPUX
5 4 (20.00%) Windows
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (10.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (5.000%) Fund Management
3 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.000%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 7 (35.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 6 (30.00%) NFS
3 2 (10.00%) XenApp
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (5.000%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Veritas
2 9 (45.00%) EMC
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 3 (15.00%) IBM
4 3 (15.00%) Sun
4 3 (15.00%) HP
5 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (10.00%) Citrix
5 2 (10.00%) Hitachi
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.000%) SAP