The first table below looks at the demand for the AIX Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AIX Specialist
Rank 523 557 568
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +11
Contract jobs requiring an AIX Specialist 7 21 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.036% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.039% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 12
Average daily rate £463 £425 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.82% +14.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £325 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £425 £395
% change year-on-year
+11.76% +7.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

AIX Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

AIX Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

AIX Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

AIX Specialist Daily Rate Trend

AIX Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

AIX Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

AIX Specialist
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX Specialist within the UK 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
England +33 6 £450 +5.88%
London +23 6 £450 +38.46%
City of London +12 3 £475 +46.15%
Scotland - 1 £475 -
Edinburgh - 1 £475 -

AIX Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited AIX Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) AIX
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) UNIX
3 5 (33.33%) HPUX
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 5 (33.33%) HP
4 4 (26.67%) SAN
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (26.67%) Solaris
4 4 (26.67%) Mainframe
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 4 (26.67%) SUSE
5 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) LPAR
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) AS400
5 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 3 (20.00%) Sun
5 3 (20.00%) C
6 2 (13.33%) Tivoli
6 2 (13.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (13.33%) HACMP
7 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
7 1 (6.667%) French Language
7 1 (6.667%) German Language
7 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
7 1 (6.667%) TIBCO
7 1 (6.667%) Middleware

AIX Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited AIX Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) Middleware
1 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Apache
1 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.667%) LDAP
General
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) French Language
3 1 (6.667%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Mainframe
2 3 (20.00%) AS400
2 3 (20.00%) LPAR
3 2 (13.33%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) AIX
2 5 (33.33%) HPUX
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) UNIX
3 4 (26.67%) SUSE
3 4 (26.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Tivoli
1 2 (13.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) HP
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (6.667%) TIBCO
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (6.667%) JBoss
4 1 (6.667%) IBM