The first table below looks at the demand for PowerHA skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerHA over the 3 months to 22 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 System Software 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM PowerHA
Rank 526 571 569
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -2
Contract jobs citing PowerHA 8 15 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.025% 0.028%
As % of the System Software category 0.181% 0.320% 0.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
Average daily rate £250 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £342 £371
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £390 £421
UK excluding London average daily rate £215 - £383
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4421 4683 4368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.381% 7.900% 7.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 2133 2251 1924
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 632 645
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.18 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

PowerHA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PowerHA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

PowerHA Jobs Demand Trend

PowerHA
Daily Rate Trend

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

PowerHA Daily Rate Trend

PowerHA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PowerHA within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

PowerHA Daily Rate Histogram

PowerHA
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerHA within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +49 8 £250 -33.33%
North West - 5 £180 -
Cheshire - 3 £180 -
Chester - 2 - -
South West +28 1 - -
London +19 1 £413 +10.00%
South East +17 1 £450 -
Wiltshire +9 1 - -
City of London +6 1 £413 +19.56%
Surrey - 1 £450 -
Manchester - 1 £175 -
Knutsford - 1 £180 -

PowerHA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PowerHA 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 PowerHA.

1 13 (100.00%) AIX
2 11 (84.62%) UNIX
3 8 (61.54%) SAN
4 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
4 6 (46.15%) Linux
5 5 (38.46%) Veritas
5 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
5 5 (38.46%) HACMP
5 5 (38.46%) Clustering
5 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (30.77%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (30.77%) Migration
6 4 (30.77%) IBM
7 3 (23.08%) DNS
7 3 (23.08%) Windows
7 3 (23.08%) Perl
7 3 (23.08%) MS Office
7 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
7 3 (23.08%) Tru64
7 3 (23.08%) Project Management
7 3 (23.08%) VMware
7 3 (23.08%) VMware ESX
7 3 (23.08%) Change Management
7 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (23.08%) Bash shell
8 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (15.38%) Veritas File System
8 2 (15.38%) LPAR
8 2 (15.38%) Brocade

PowerHA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PowerHA 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 PowerHA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Dutch Language
2 1 (7.692%) French Language
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) UNIX Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) AIX Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AIX Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Design Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX Technical Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) AIX Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Support Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.692%) UNIX Support
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) HACMP
1 5 (38.46%) Clustering
2 2 (15.38%) LPAR
2 2 (15.38%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) AIX
2 11 (84.62%) UNIX
3 6 (46.15%) Linux
4 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Tru64
6 2 (15.38%) Solaris
7 1 (7.692%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
2 3 (23.08%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 2 (15.38%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) Bash shell
3 2 (15.38%) Korn
3 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (23.08%) VMware ESX
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Veritas File System
4 1 (7.692%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Tivoli
1 2 (15.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Veritas
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Brocade
4 2 (15.38%) Symantec
4 2 (15.38%) Hitachi
4 2 (15.38%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) EMC
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle
5 1 (7.692%) Sun