The first table below looks at the demand for the AIX Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
AIX Engineer
Rank 526 550 574
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +24
Contract jobs requiring an AIX Engineer 15 20 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.031% 0.034% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.037% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 10
Average daily rate £238 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £275 £344
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £415 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £425 £360
% change year-on-year
-47.05% +18.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £22.50 - £31.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 - £31.88
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

AIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AIX Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

AIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

AIX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AIX Engineer within the UK.

AIX Engineer Daily Rate Trend

AIX Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AIX Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

AIX Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

AIX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AIX Engineer within the UK.

AIX Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

AIX Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX Engineer within the UK 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
England +13 15 £238 -36.66%
London +26 2 £400 +28.00%
Cambridgeshire - 1 £238 -
East of England - 1 £238 -
Hampshire - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
South East - - - -
Portsmouth - - - -
Cambridge - - - -
Leeds - - - -

AIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited AIX Engineer in their job title 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 with AIX Engineer in their job title.

1 23 (100.00%) AIX
2 21 (91.30%) UNIX
3 14 (60.87%) SAN
4 13 (56.52%) IBM
5 12 (52.17%) Migration
6 10 (43.48%) Oracle
7 9 (39.13%) HACMP
7 9 (39.13%) Shell Script
7 9 (39.13%) Brocade
7 9 (39.13%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (34.78%) Banking
8 8 (34.78%) Hitachi
9 6 (26.09%) Clustering
9 6 (26.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (21.74%) QA
10 5 (21.74%) PowerHA
10 5 (21.74%) Change Control
11 4 (17.39%) Tivoli
11 4 (17.39%) Linux
12 3 (13.04%) Veritas
12 3 (13.04%) Perl
12 3 (13.04%) EMC
12 3 (13.04%) Firmware
12 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
12 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
12 3 (13.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (13.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 2 (8.696%) LPAR
13 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure

AIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited AIX Engineer in their job title 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 with AIX Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) SAN
2 2 (8.696%) DNS
General
1 8 (34.78%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) HACMP
2 6 (26.09%) Clustering
3 3 (13.04%) Firmware
4 2 (8.696%) LPAR
4 2 (8.696%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) AIX
2 21 (91.30%) UNIX
3 4 (17.39%) Linux
4 1 (4.348%) Windows
4 1 (4.348%) Tru64
4 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Migration
2 9 (39.13%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (21.74%) Change Control
4 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (4.348%) Change Management
5 1 (4.348%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Shell Script
2 3 (13.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (8.696%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) PowerHA
2 3 (13.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.348%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) IBM
2 10 (43.48%) Oracle
3 9 (39.13%) Brocade
4 8 (34.78%) Hitachi
5 3 (13.04%) Veritas
5 3 (13.04%) EMC
6 2 (8.696%) VMware
6 2 (8.696%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.348%) Red Hat