The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. 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 for the West Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AIX
Rank 80 100 92
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -8
Contract jobs citing AIX 15 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.919% 0.134% 0.529%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.658% 0.719% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
Average daily rate £345 - £380
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 - £376
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 - £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £407 £375
% change year-on-year
-7.86% +8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.49% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +33.33%
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
322 417 320
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.72% 18.60% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 175 128
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £165 £153
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 65 59
Average hourly rate £18.00 £14.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.13% +7.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £27.60 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
AIX
England

AIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands AIX Daily Rate Trend

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram

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

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +20 9 £340 -
Shropshire - 1 £473 -
AIX
England

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 28 (75.68%) Oracle
2 25 (67.57%) UNIX
3 19 (51.35%) Shell Script
4 13 (35.14%) RDBMS
4 13 (35.14%) IBM
4 13 (35.14%) Solaris
5 9 (24.32%) Linux
5 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (24.32%) Migration
6 8 (21.62%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (21.62%) Finance
6 8 (21.62%) VMware
6 8 (21.62%) BPEL
6 8 (21.62%) Oracle BPEL
6 8 (21.62%) Oracle 11g
6 8 (21.62%) Oracle BI EE
7 7 (18.92%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (18.92%) Workflow
7 7 (18.92%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (18.92%) Windows
7 7 (18.92%) C
8 6 (16.22%) C++
8 6 (16.22%) WebLogic
8 6 (16.22%) ProC
8 6 (16.22%) Firewall
9 5 (13.51%) Veritas
9 5 (13.51%) J2EE
9 5 (13.51%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (13.51%) HPUX
9 5 (13.51%) CGI

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 5 (13.51%) J2EE
1 5 (13.51%) CGI
2 2 (5.405%) SAP Basis
3 1 (2.703%) Middleware
3 1 (2.703%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle BPEL
2 7 (18.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (16.22%) WebLogic
4 2 (5.405%) SAS
5 1 (2.703%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.405%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Firewall
2 5 (13.51%) SAN
3 1 (2.703%) LAN
3 1 (2.703%) WAN
3 1 (2.703%) DHCP
3 1 (2.703%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) RDBMS
2 8 (21.62%) Oracle 11g
2 8 (21.62%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (8.108%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (8.108%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.703%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.703%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) ProC
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 3 (8.108%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (8.108%) Investment Banking
2 3 (8.108%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Architect
1 7 (18.92%) Technical Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) DBA
2 6 (16.22%) Oracle DBA
2 6 (16.22%) C Developer
3 5 (13.51%) UNIX Developer
3 5 (13.51%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 5 (13.51%) Consultant
4 3 (8.108%) Administrator
4 3 (8.108%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (8.108%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (5.405%) Storage Consultant
5 2 (5.405%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 2 (5.405%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (5.405%) Storage Manager
5 2 (5.405%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.703%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.703%) Systems Support
6 1 (2.703%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.108%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (2.703%) HACMP
2 1 (2.703%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.703%) LPAR
2 1 (2.703%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 25 (67.57%) UNIX
2 13 (35.14%) Solaris
3 9 (24.32%) Linux
4 7 (18.92%) Windows
5 5 (13.51%) HPUX
6 3 (8.108%) SUSE
6 3 (8.108%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Migration
2 8 (21.62%) BPEL
3 7 (18.92%) Workflow
4 3 (8.108%) RDF
4 3 (8.108%) Business Transformation
4 3 (8.108%) Fund Management
4 3 (8.108%) Wealth Management
5 2 (5.405%) High Availability
5 2 (5.405%) Data Migration
5 2 (5.405%) Validation
5 2 (5.405%) Business Continuity
5 2 (5.405%) Service Delivery
5 2 (5.405%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.405%) ERP
5 2 (5.405%) SOA
6 1 (2.703%) Project Planning
6 1 (2.703%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Shell Script
2 7 (18.92%) C
3 6 (16.22%) C++
4 3 (8.108%) Korn
5 1 (2.703%) Java
5 1 (2.703%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.108%) SLA
2 1 (2.703%) QA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (8.108%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (8.108%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (5.405%) SRDF
3 2 (5.405%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 2 (5.405%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.108%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (5.405%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 28 (75.68%) Oracle
2 13 (35.14%) IBM
3 8 (21.62%) VMware
4 5 (13.51%) Veritas
4 5 (13.51%) EMC
5 4 (10.81%) Sun
6 3 (8.108%) Sybase
7 2 (5.405%) SAP
7 2 (5.405%) NetApp
8 1 (2.703%) HP
8 1 (2.703%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.703%) webMethods
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