The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AIX
Rank 222 174 170
Rank change year-on-year
-48 -4
Contract jobs citing AIX 397 617 673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.856% 1.058% 1.102%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.964% 5.223% 5.289%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 227 278
Average daily rate £400 £410 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.43% +5.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £300 £287
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £407 £375
% change year-on-year
-7.86% +8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 15
Average hourly rate £29.75 £41.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.31% +27.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £21.40 £27.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £49.00 £58.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +33.33%
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10015 11813 12724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.59% 20.26% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5378 5865 6230
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £199 £195 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 1187 1248
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.21 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

AIX Daily Rate Trend

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AIX within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

AIX Hourly Rate Trend

AIX
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AIX within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

AIX Hourly Rate Histogram

AIX
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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 -45 344 £400 -2.43%
London +13 132 £408 -0.60%
South East -29 81 £413 -7.82%
North West -22 65 £375 -1.96%
Hampshire -21 46 £340 -21.38%
Cheshire -3 42 £375 -9.42%
Scotland +12 39 £375 +17.18%
City of London +1 25 £450 +12.50%
Chester +3 18 £463 +19.35%
Basingstoke 0 18 £425 -
West Midlands +20 15 £345 -
Surrey +16 15 £425 -12.82%
Edinburgh +12 15 £375 +6.00%
Yorkshire +4 13 £444 +10.93%
North East +9 11 £261 -1.41%
West Yorkshire +7 11 £488 +21.87%
Glasgow -10 11 £389 +122.14%
Leeds 0 10 £488 -
East Midlands -4 10 £348 -18.23%
Erskine - 10 £425 -
Renfrewshire - 10 £425 -
Birmingham +20 9 £340 -
Manchester -34 9 £413 +21.32%
Tyne and Wear +8 8 £261 -1.41%
Camberley +4 8 £425 +3.03%
South West +4 8 £410 +13.88%
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 8 £261 -1.41%
Milton Keynes -3 6 £225 -33.57%
Buckinghamshire -3 6 £225 -33.57%
Kent -3 6 £500 +2.56%

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 459 (60.63%) UNIX
2 406 (53.63%) Linux
3 303 (40.03%) Oracle
4 270 (35.67%) Solaris
5 231 (30.52%) Windows
6 228 (30.12%) Finance
7 208 (27.48%) IBM
8 160 (21.14%) Shell Script
9 156 (20.61%) Red Hat
10 141 (18.63%) SAN
11 139 (18.36%) Banking
12 133 (17.57%) Migration
13 127 (16.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 115 (15.19%) SQL
15 113 (14.93%) WebSphere
16 110 (14.53%) VMware
17 108 (14.27%) DB2
18 105 (13.87%) Perl
18 105 (13.87%) Tivoli
19 103 (13.61%) Veritas
20 102 (13.47%) HPUX
20 102 (13.47%) ITIL
21 97 (12.81%) EMC
22 93 (12.29%) SQL Server
23 89 (11.76%) HP
24 85 (11.23%) Oracle 11g
25 78 (10.30%) Sun
26 72 (9.511%) Security Cleared
27 70 (9.247%) Oracle RAC
28 69 (9.115%) Microsoft

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 113 (14.93%) WebSphere
2 48 (6.341%) Middleware
3 25 (3.303%) J2EE
4 16 (2.114%) .NET
4 16 (2.114%) SAP Basis
5 15 (1.982%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
6 13 (1.717%) SOAP
7 10 (1.321%) JDBC
8 9 (1.189%) Web Services
8 9 (1.189%) XML
9 7 (0.925%) CGI
9 7 (0.925%) JMS
10 6 (0.793%) SPNEGO
11 5 (0.661%) Spring
11 5 (0.661%) HTML
12 4 (0.528%) XSD
12 4 (0.528%) XSLT
12 4 (0.528%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.528%) Java EE
13 3 (0.396%) REST
Application Platforms
1 44 (5.812%) WebSphere Application Server
2 34 (4.491%) WebSphere MQ
3 33 (4.359%) Apache
4 30 (3.963%) WebLogic
5 25 (3.303%) Tomcat
6 23 (3.038%) SharePoint
7 19 (2.510%) IBM HTTP Server
7 19 (2.510%) IIS
8 16 (2.114%) SAS
9 14 (1.849%) ESB
10 13 (1.717%) WebSphere Process Server
11 12 (1.585%) MS Exchange
12 11 (1.453%) FileNet
12 11 (1.453%) MQSeries
13 10 (1.321%) Oracle Workflow
13 10 (1.321%) Oracle Application Server
14 9 (1.189%) Exchange Server 2010
14 9 (1.189%) WebSphere Message Broker
14 9 (1.189%) Oracle BPEL
15 5 (0.661%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 37 (4.888%) MS Office
2 17 (2.246%) MS Excel
3 6 (0.793%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.528%) MS Project
5 2 (0.264%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.132%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 14 (1.849%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (1.585%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.057%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (0.925%) AWD
4 7 (0.925%) Oracle Applications
4 7 (0.925%) SAP R/3
5 4 (0.528%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.396%) Maximo
7 2 (0.264%) WebTrends
7 2 (0.264%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.132%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.132%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.132%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.132%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 141 (18.63%) SAN
2 35 (4.624%) NAS
3 31 (4.095%) Firewall
3 31 (4.095%) DNS
4 29 (3.831%) TCP/IP
5 28 (3.699%) SSL
6 27 (3.567%) HTTP
7 25 (3.303%) LDAP
8 19 (2.510%) Internet
9 15 (1.982%) DHCP
10 14 (1.849%) FTP
11 11 (1.453%) Network Security
11 11 (1.453%) LAN
12 10 (1.321%) HTTPS
12 10 (1.321%) WAN
13 8 (1.057%) X.509
14 6 (0.793%) ATM
14 6 (0.793%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.793%) SMS
14 6 (0.793%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (14.27%) DB2
2 93 (12.29%) SQL Server
3 85 (11.23%) Oracle 11g
4 49 (6.473%) Oracle 8/8i
5 29 (3.831%) RDBMS
6 27 (3.567%) Oracle Exadata
7 24 (3.170%) Oracle 10g
8 19 (2.510%) MySQL
9 18 (2.378%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (2.114%) SQL Server 2008
11 15 (1.982%) SQL Server 2005
12 12 (1.585%) Oracle BI EE
13 11 (1.453%) SQL Server 2000
13 11 (1.453%) OLAP
14 10 (1.321%) Ingres
15 7 (0.925%) Sybase ASE
15 7 (0.925%) SQL Server 7
16 6 (0.793%) IBM InfoSphere
17 5 (0.661%) Oracle OLAP
17 5 (0.661%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (2.246%) Ant
2 16 (2.114%) Subversion
3 15 (1.982%) ClearCase
4 12 (1.585%) Selenium
5 11 (1.453%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.453%) JIRA
5 11 (1.453%) ProC
6 10 (1.321%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (1.321%) Maven
6 10 (1.321%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (1.057%) TestDirector
7 8 (1.057%) Hudson
8 5 (0.661%) WinRunner
8 5 (0.661%) QuickTest Pro
9 4 (0.528%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.396%) Build Forge
10 3 (0.396%) ClearQuest
11 2 (0.264%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.264%) JUnit
11 2 (0.264%) Introscope
General
1 228 (30.12%) Finance
2 139 (18.36%) Banking
3 56 (7.398%) Investment Banking
4 39 (5.152%) Retail
5 17 (2.246%) Financial Institution
6 16 (2.114%) Telecoms
7 11 (1.453%) French Language
8 7 (0.925%) Dutch Language
8 7 (0.925%) Corporate Banking
8 7 (0.925%) Manufacturing
8 7 (0.925%) Billing
9 4 (0.528%) Games
10 3 (0.396%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (0.264%) Law
11 2 (0.264%) Legal
11 2 (0.264%) German Language
11 2 (0.264%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.132%) Back Office
12 1 (0.132%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.132%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (17.70%) Administrator
2 99 (13.08%) Consultant
3 85 (11.23%) DBA
4 81 (10.70%) Architect
5 62 (8.190%) Systems Administrator
6 60 (7.926%) Oracle DBA
7 58 (7.662%) UNIX Administrator
8 57 (7.530%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 44 (5.812%) Developer
10 35 (4.624%) Analyst
11 32 (4.227%) Infrastructure Architect
12 29 (3.831%) Technical Architect
13 27 (3.567%) AIX Administrator
14 25 (3.303%) Project Manager
15 23 (3.038%) Infrastructure Manager
16 20 (2.642%) UNIX Engineer
16 20 (2.642%) WebSphere Administrator
17 19 (2.510%) SAP Consultant
18 17 (2.246%) Infrastructure Project Manager
19 16 (2.114%) DB2 DBA
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.587%) Clustering
2 45 (5.945%) HACMP
2 45 (5.945%) Mainframe
3 32 (4.227%) LPAR
4 29 (3.831%) Symmetrix DMX
5 22 (2.906%) Wiki
6 19 (2.510%) Replication
7 12 (1.585%) iSeries
8 11 (1.453%) IBM Mainframe
8 11 (1.453%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.453%) Firmware
9 8 (1.057%) DLPAR
10 7 (0.925%) SaaS
10 7 (0.925%) Data Integration
10 7 (0.925%) Grid Computing
10 7 (0.925%) PKI
11 6 (0.793%) AS400
11 6 (0.793%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.661%) DataPower
12 5 (0.661%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 459 (60.63%) UNIX
2 406 (53.63%) Linux
3 270 (35.67%) Solaris
4 231 (30.52%) Windows
5 127 (16.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 102 (13.47%) HPUX
7 58 (7.662%) Windows Server 2008
8 51 (6.737%) Windows Server 2003
9 46 (6.077%) SUSE
10 21 (2.774%) Windows XP
11 17 (2.246%) zOS
12 16 (2.114%) Tru64
13 9 (1.189%) VMS
14 6 (0.793%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.528%) Windows NT
15 4 (0.528%) Windows 2000
15 4 (0.528%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.396%) Debian
16 3 (0.396%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.396%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (17.57%) Migration
2 102 (13.47%) ITIL
3 59 (7.794%) Change Management
4 44 (5.812%) Problem Management
5 37 (4.888%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (4.888%) Project Management
6 32 (4.227%) Configuration Management
7 24 (3.170%) RDF
7 24 (3.170%) Disaster Recovery
7 24 (3.170%) Change Control
8 23 (3.038%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (2.906%) E-Commerce
10 19 (2.510%) Identity Management
11 18 (2.378%) Capacity Planning
11 18 (2.378%) PRINCE2
12 16 (2.114%) SOA
12 16 (2.114%) Workflow
12 16 (2.114%) Validation
12 16 (2.114%) BPEL
12 16 (2.114%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 160 (21.14%) Shell Script
2 115 (15.19%) SQL
3 105 (13.87%) Perl
4 60 (7.926%) Java
5 59 (7.794%) Korn
6 31 (4.095%) C++
7 30 (3.963%) C
8 25 (3.303%) PL/SQL
9 19 (2.510%) Python
9 19 (2.510%) Bash shell
10 15 (1.982%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.453%) VB
12 9 (1.189%) COBOL
13 8 (1.057%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.793%) PHP
15 5 (0.661%) Jython
15 5 (0.661%) ABAP
16 4 (0.528%) JCL
16 4 (0.528%) C#
17 3 (0.396%) sed
Qualifications
1 72 (9.511%) Security Cleared
2 28 (3.699%) SC Cleared
3 23 (3.038%) DV Cleared
4 14 (1.849%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 12 (1.585%) RHCE
6 10 (1.321%) Degree
7 7 (0.925%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.661%) RHCT
8 5 (0.661%) SAP Certification
9 4 (0.528%) IBM Certification
9 4 (0.528%) IBM AIX Certification
9 4 (0.528%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.528%) MCSE
10 3 (0.396%) CISSP
11 2 (0.264%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.264%) OCP
11 2 (0.264%) IBM WebSphere Certification
11 2 (0.264%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.264%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.264%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.170%) SLA
2 13 (1.717%) QA
3 9 (1.189%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.396%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.264%) Basel II
5 2 (0.264%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (9.247%) Oracle RAC
2 62 (8.190%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 56 (7.398%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (6.341%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 29 (3.831%) Active Directory
6 24 (3.170%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 18 (2.378%) VMware ESX
8 14 (1.849%) NFS
8 14 (1.849%) Oracle RMAN
8 14 (1.849%) Veritas File System
9 12 (1.585%) PowerHA
10 11 (1.453%) SRDF
10 11 (1.453%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 11 (1.453%) Samba
11 7 (0.925%) Hyper-V
12 5 (0.661%) XenApp
13 4 (0.528%) vSphere
13 4 (0.528%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.396%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.264%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 105 (13.87%) Tivoli
2 53 (7.001%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 26 (3.435%) Data Guard
3 26 (3.435%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 22 (2.906%) Netcool
5 18 (2.378%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 13 (1.717%) NetBackup
7 12 (1.585%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 12 (1.585%) BladeLogic
8 11 (1.453%) Control-M
9 10 (1.321%) EMC NetWorker
10 9 (1.189%) Puppet
10 9 (1.189%) OpenView Configuration Management
11 7 (0.925%) OpenView
12 6 (0.793%) BMC PATROL
12 6 (0.793%) McAfee ePO
12 6 (0.793%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.793%) Cobbler
13 5 (0.661%) Netcool/OMNIbus
13 5 (0.661%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 303 (40.03%) Oracle
2 208 (27.48%) IBM
3 156 (20.61%) Red Hat
4 110 (14.53%) VMware
5 103 (13.61%) Veritas
6 97 (12.81%) EMC
7 89 (11.76%) HP
8 78 (10.30%) Sun
9 69 (9.115%) Microsoft
10 41 (5.416%) Sybase
11 40 (5.284%) SAP
11 40 (5.284%) Citrix
12 28 (3.699%) NetApp
13 21 (2.774%) BMC
13 21 (2.774%) Brocade
14 19 (2.510%) Cisco
15 17 (2.246%) Symantec
16 16 (2.114%) JBoss
17 14 (1.849%) Siebel
18 13 (1.717%) ATG
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