The first table below looks at the demand for AIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 97 101 75
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -26
Contract jobs citing AIX 13 11 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.700% 0.492% 1.258%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.510% 2.461% 6.150%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 10
Average daily rate £444 £400 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.93% +22.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £355 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £440 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £407 £375
% change year-on-year
-7.86% +8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +33.33%
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
518 447 374
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 27.88% 20.01% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 207 148
Average daily rate £308 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 75 52
Average hourly rate £12.75 £13.00 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.92% -22.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.55 £30.00 £24.00
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +7 11 £488 +21.87%
South Yorkshire +3 1 £335 -33.00%
AIX
England

AIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 17 (89.47%) Linux
2 14 (73.68%) Oracle
2 14 (73.68%) UNIX
3 12 (63.16%) Solaris
4 9 (47.37%) Tomcat
5 8 (42.11%) IBM
6 7 (36.84%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (36.84%) Java
6 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
6 7 (36.84%) WebSphere
6 7 (36.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (31.58%) Finance
7 6 (31.58%) Windows
7 6 (31.58%) HPUX
8 5 (26.32%) MySQL
8 5 (26.32%) PHP
8 5 (26.32%) SQL
8 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
8 5 (26.32%) Middleware
9 4 (21.05%) Games
9 4 (21.05%) IBM HTTP Server
9 4 (21.05%) DB2
9 4 (21.05%) J2EE
9 4 (21.05%) Perl
9 4 (21.05%) IIS
9 4 (21.05%) MS Office
9 4 (21.05%) JDBC
9 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
9 4 (21.05%) FTP
9 4 (21.05%) HTTP

AIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 7 (36.84%) WebSphere
2 5 (26.32%) Middleware
3 4 (21.05%) J2EE
3 4 (21.05%) JDBC
4 3 (15.79%) Web Services
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (5.263%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 9 (47.37%) Tomcat
2 7 (36.84%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (21.05%) IBM HTTP Server
3 4 (21.05%) IIS
3 4 (21.05%) MQSeries
3 4 (21.05%) ESB
4 3 (15.79%) WebSphere Process Server
4 3 (15.79%) Documentum
4 3 (15.79%) Apache
4 3 (15.79%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (10.53%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (5.263%) AquaLogic Service Bus
6 1 (5.263%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (5.263%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (5.263%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (5.263%) AquaLogic
6 1 (5.263%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Office
2 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) FTP
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) SAN
3 1 (5.263%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.263%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) MySQL
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Build Forge
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Games
2 4 (21.05%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 1 (5.263%) Back Office
4 1 (5.263%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Support Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Operations Support Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Designer
3 3 (15.79%) Designer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.263%) AIX Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX Support
5 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) LPAR
1 1 (5.263%) DLPAR
1 1 (5.263%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Linux
2 14 (73.68%) UNIX
3 12 (63.16%) Solaris
4 7 (36.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (31.58%) Windows
5 6 (31.58%) HPUX
6 2 (10.53%) VMS
7 1 (5.263%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (5.263%) SUSE
7 1 (5.263%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) SOA
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.263%) BPEL
3 1 (5.263%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.263%) Validation
3 1 (5.263%) Migration
3 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.263%) Project Management
3 1 (5.263%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) PHP
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Perl
3 4 (21.05%) Bash shell
4 1 (5.263%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
1 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) PureDisk
1 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
1 1 (5.263%) Tivoli
1 1 (5.263%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Oracle
2 8 (42.11%) IBM
3 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.79%) Siebel
5 3 (15.79%) JBoss
5 3 (15.79%) HP
6 2 (10.53%) VMware
6 2 (10.53%) Adobe
7 1 (5.263%) Brocade
7 1 (5.263%) BMC
7 1 (5.263%) Veritas
7 1 (5.263%) Symantec
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