AIX Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AIX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AIX over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

IBM AIX UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	288	217	279
Rank change year-on-year	-71	+62
Contract jobs citing AIX	334	574	401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.79%	1.16%	0.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category	3.84%	5.08%	3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted	182	366	206
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	-11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£267	£316
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£525	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£380	£425
% change year-on-year	+7.89%	-10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	6	13
Median hourly rate	£11.23	£40.25	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-72.11%	+0.62%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£11.23	£37.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	-70.06%	-6.25%

AIX is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	8704	11289	11412
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	20.50%	22.87%	22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted	5419	7238	6743
Median daily rate	£413	£400	£363
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.12%	+10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£175	£201	£175
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£563	£550	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£348
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	511	583	905
Median hourly rate	£16.50	£16.50	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£11.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£42.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.00	£16.20
% change year-on-year	-8.82%	+4.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing AIX as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Operating Systems category.

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing AIX in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for AIX in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing AIX in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for AIX in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for AIX in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the England region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
South East	+29	108	£425	-	5
North West	+2	77	£425	-	4
London	-50	74	£500	+23.76%	6
North East	-8	26	£320	+13.18%	5
West Midlands	+19	14	£466	+21.10%
East Midlands	0	8	£463	+16.35%
Yorkshire	-22	8	£404	-10.27%
South West	+10	7	£423	-	2
East of England	-2	6	£500	+17.64%
Midlands	-	3	£400	-
AIX UK

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing AIX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for AIX.

1	404 (72.79%)	Linux
2	293 (52.79%)	Unix
3	260 (46.85%)	Oracle
4	239 (43.06%)	Solaris
5	209 (37.66%)	IBM
6	160 (28.83%)	Windows
7	155 (27.93%)	Migration
8	141 (25.41%)	Security Cleared
9	129 (23.24%)	SC Cleared
10	114 (20.54%)	Red Hat
11	105 (18.92%)	SAN
12	102 (18.38%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13	100 (18.02%)	Data Centre
14	91 (16.40%)	Finance
15	90 (16.22%)	VMware

16	89 (16.04%)	Oracle Database
17	86 (15.50%)	Puppet
18	84 (15.14%)	HPUX
19	76 (13.69%)	Perl
20	74 (13.33%)	ITIL
21	73 (13.15%)	Firewall
21	73 (13.15%)	Agile Software Development
22	70 (12.61%)	Shell Script
23	69 (12.43%)	DevOps
24	68 (12.25%)	SQL
25	67 (12.07%)	Java
26	65 (11.71%)	Middleware
27	64 (11.53%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
28	63 (11.35%)	Configuration Management
28	63 (11.35%)	Veritas

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Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	54 (9.73%)	WebLogic
1	54 (9.73%)	WebSphere
2	49 (8.83%)	Apache
3	43 (7.75%)	Tomcat
4	27 (4.86%)	JBoss
5	22 (3.96%)	WebSphere Application Server
6	20 (3.60%)	iPlanet
6	20 (3.60%)	nginx
7	17 (3.06%)	Oracle Application Server
8	15 (2.70%)	OpenStack
9	14 (2.52%)	IIS
10	9 (1.62%)	IBM HTTP Server
11	8 (1.44%)	Liferay
11	8 (1.44%)	Oracle SOA Suite
12	7 (1.26%)	GlassFish
12	7 (1.26%)	Oracle Service Bus
13	6 (1.08%)	MS Exchange
14	5 (0.90%)	MQSeries
15	4 (0.72%)	Mule
16	3 (0.54%)	Adobe Experience Manager

Applications
1	4 (0.72%)	Microsoft Excel
1	4 (0.72%)	Microsoft Office
2	3 (0.54%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	2 (0.36%)	Microsoft Project
4	1 (0.18%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	18 (3.24%)	Oracle Utilities
2	10 (1.80%)	Oracle EBS
3	7 (1.26%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	7 (1.26%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	7 (1.26%)	Siebel CRM
4	6 (1.08%)	Oracle Applications
5	4 (0.72%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
5	4 (0.72%)	Maximo
6	3 (0.54%)	MFGPRO
7	2 (0.36%)	Oracle BPM
7	2 (0.36%)	Oracle EBS R12
7	2 (0.36%)	Oracle Financials
7	2 (0.36%)	SAP ERP
8	1 (0.18%)	Infor M3
8	1 (0.18%)	SAP BPC
8	1 (0.18%)	SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8	1 (0.18%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	24 (4.32%)	Amazon AWS
2	14 (2.52%)	Cloud Computing
3	12 (2.16%)	Microsoft Azure
4	9 (1.62%)	SaaS
5	5 (0.90%)	IaaS
6	4 (0.72%)	PaaS
7	1 (0.18%)	Amazon S3
7	1 (0.18%)	GitHub
7	1 (0.18%)	IBM Cloud
7	1 (0.18%)	IBM PureFlex

Communications & Networking
1	105 (18.92%)	SAN
2	73 (13.15%)	Firewall
3	40 (7.21%)	DNS
4	33 (5.95%)	TCP/IP
5	28 (5.05%)	LDAP
5	28 (5.05%)	SSL
6	18 (3.24%)	Fibre Channel
7	16 (2.88%)	HTTP
8	14 (2.52%)	SSH
8	14 (2.52%)	WAN
9	13 (2.34%)	LAN
10	9 (1.62%)	FTP
10	9 (1.62%)	VLAN
11	7 (1.26%)	Cisco ASA
11	7 (1.26%)	Internet
11	7 (1.26%)	Kerberos
11	7 (1.26%)	NAS
11	7 (1.26%)	tcpdump
12	5 (0.90%)	DMZ
12	5 (0.90%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	89 (16.04%)	Oracle Database
2	37 (6.67%)	SQL Server
3	31 (5.59%)	DB2
4	21 (3.78%)	Relational Database
5	20 (3.60%)	Oracle Database 11g
6	19 (3.42%)	RDBMS
7	15 (2.70%)	Oracle Database 12c
8	13 (2.34%)	Oracle Database 10g
9	12 (2.16%)	SQLPlus
10	8 (1.44%)	MySQL
11	7 (1.26%)	Data Warehouse
11	7 (1.26%)	DB2 UDB
11	7 (1.26%)	Hadoop
11	7 (1.26%)	Oracle9i Database
12	6 (1.08%)	Big Data
13	5 (0.90%)	PostgreSQL
14	4 (0.72%)	GIS
14	4 (0.72%)	NoSQL
15	3 (0.54%)	MS Access
15	3 (0.54%)	Oracle Exadata

Development Applications
1	36 (6.49%)	Jenkins
2	27 (4.86%)	ProC
3	26 (4.68%)	Git (software)
4	10 (1.80%)	AppScan
5	8 (1.44%)	GitLab
6	7 (1.26%)	Ant
6	7 (1.26%)	Subversion
7	4 (0.72%)	Introscope
7	4 (0.72%)	Maven
8	2 (0.36%)	Atlassian Bamboo
8	2 (0.36%)	JIRA
9	1 (0.18%)	ClearCase
9	1 (0.18%)	ClearQuest
9	1 (0.18%)	JUnit
9	1 (0.18%)	Talend Open Studio
9	1 (0.18%)	TeamCity
9	1 (0.18%)	Visual Studio

General
1	91 (16.40%)	Finance
2	38 (6.85%)	Banking
3	16 (2.88%)	Retail
4	11 (1.98%)	Telecoms
5	9 (1.62%)	Pharmaceutical
6	8 (1.44%)	Local Government
7	7 (1.26%)	Electronics
7	7 (1.26%)	Manufacturing
7	7 (1.26%)	Marketing
8	5 (0.90%)	Investment Banking
9	4 (0.72%)	Financial Institution
10	3 (0.54%)	Games
11	1 (0.18%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	74 (13.33%)	Architect
2	61 (10.99%)	AIX Engineer
3	56 (10.09%)	Administrator
4	50 (9.01%)	Unix Engineer
5	37 (6.67%)	Analyst
5	37 (6.67%)	DBA
6	35 (6.31%)	DevOps Engineer
7	31 (5.59%)	Consultant
7	31 (5.59%)	Developer
8	30 (5.41%)	Systems Administrator
8	30 (5.41%)	Systems Engineer
9	29 (5.23%)	Solaris Engineer
10	26 (4.68%)	Oracle Architect
11	25 (4.50%)	Linux Engineer
11	25 (4.50%)	Unix Administrator
12	24 (4.32%)	AIX Administrator
12	24 (4.32%)	Linux Administrator
13	23 (4.14%)	Oracle DBA
13	23 (4.14%)	Unix Systems Engineer
14	20 (3.60%)	Infrastructure Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	65 (11.71%)	Middleware
2	34 (6.13%)	HTML
3	19 (3.42%)	J2EE
4	11 (1.98%)	Oracle Fusion
5	10 (1.80%)	jQuery
5	10 (1.80%)	Web Services
5	10 (1.80%)	XML
6	8 (1.44%)	SOAP
6	8 (1.44%)	WebSphere MQ
7	7 (1.26%)	HTML5
8	6 (1.08%)	YAML
9	5 (0.90%)	Oracle GoldenGate
9	5 (0.90%)	REST
9	5 (0.90%)	SAP Basis
9	5 (0.90%)	XSLT
10	4 (0.72%)	Java EE
10	4 (0.72%)	Java SE
10	4 (0.72%)	JSON
10	4 (0.72%)	WSDL
10	4 (0.72%)	X-Windows

Miscellaneous
1	100 (18.02%)	Data Centre
2	40 (7.21%)	Mainframe
3	37 (6.67%)	Clustering
4	25 (4.50%)	Replication
5	13 (2.34%)	Analytical Skills
6	11 (1.98%)	Management Information System
7	10 (1.80%)	PKI
8	9 (1.62%)	HACMP
8	9 (1.62%)	Linux Command Line
9	8 (1.44%)	iSeries
9	8 (1.44%)	Life Science
10	7 (1.26%)	HP Storage
10	7 (1.26%)	LPAR
10	7 (1.26%)	Public Cloud
11	6 (1.08%)	IBM XIV
12	5 (0.90%)	AS400
12	5 (0.90%)	Hybrid Cloud
13	4 (0.72%)	DataPower
13	4 (0.72%)	EMC VNX
13	4 (0.72%)	PMI

Operating Systems
1	404 (72.79%)	Linux
2	293 (52.79%)	Unix
3	239 (43.06%)	Solaris
4	160 (28.83%)	Windows
5	102 (18.38%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	84 (15.14%)	HPUX
7	41 (7.39%)	Windows Server
8	39 (7.03%)	SUSE
9	34 (6.13%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10	23 (4.14%)	Windows Server 2008
11	19 (3.42%)	Oracle Linux
12	14 (2.52%)	Windows Server 2012
13	11 (1.98%)	Windows Server 2003
14	6 (1.08%)	zOS
15	5 (0.90%)	CentOS
16	4 (0.72%)	VMS
16	4 (0.72%)	Windows 7
17	2 (0.36%)	Ubuntu
17	2 (0.36%)	Windows 10
18	1 (0.18%)	Data ONTAP

Processes & Methodologies
1	155 (27.93%)	Migration
2	74 (13.33%)	ITIL
3	73 (13.15%)	Agile Software Development
4	69 (12.43%)	DevOps
5	63 (11.35%)	Configuration Management
6	45 (8.11%)	Performance Tuning
7	36 (6.49%)	SDLC
8	34 (6.13%)	High Availability
9	33 (5.95%)	Waterfall
10	31 (5.59%)	Load Balancing
11	26 (4.68%)	Change Management
12	24 (4.32%)	Open Source
13	20 (3.60%)	Data Migration
14	19 (3.42%)	Requirements Analysis
15	18 (3.24%)	Validation
16	16 (2.88%)	Service Management
17	15 (2.70%)	ITIL V3
18	14 (2.52%)	Mentoring
18	14 (2.52%)	Project Management
18	14 (2.52%)	Web Operations

Programming Languages
1	76 (13.69%)	Perl
2	70 (12.61%)	Shell Script
3	68 (12.25%)	SQL
4	67 (12.07%)	Java
5	44 (7.93%)	JavaScript
6	43 (7.75%)	Python
7	35 (6.31%)	C
8	32 (5.77%)	Bash Shell
9	30 (5.41%)	PHP
10	26 (4.68%)	Korn
11	23 (4.14%)	PL/SQL
12	15 (2.70%)	VBScript
13	13 (2.34%)	PowerShell
14	10 (1.80%)	Ruby
15	7 (1.26%)	JCL
16	6 (1.08%)	Jython
17	5 (0.90%)	XPath
18	4 (0.72%)	Groovy
19	2 (0.36%)	C#
19	2 (0.36%)	Tcl

Qualifications
1	141 (25.41%)	Security Cleared
2	129 (23.24%)	SC Cleared
3	29 (5.23%)	Degree
4	8 (1.44%)	IRCA
5	5 (0.90%)	CISSP
5	5 (0.90%)	ISEB
6	4 (0.72%)	PMI Certification
7	2 (0.36%)	GCIA
7	2 (0.36%)	GCIH
7	2 (0.36%)	ITIL Certification
7	2 (0.36%)	RHCSA
8	1 (0.18%)	CCNA
8	1 (0.18%)	Cisco Certification
8	1 (0.18%)	MCP
8	1 (0.18%)	MCSE
8	1 (0.18%)	Microsoft Certification
8	1 (0.18%)	SAP Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	12 (2.16%)	QA
2	8 (1.44%)	GxP
2	8 (1.44%)	PCI DSS
3	5 (0.90%)	SLA
4	4 (0.72%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	2 (0.36%)	COBIT
5	2 (0.36%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	1 (0.18%)	COSO
6	1 (0.18%)	JSP 440
6	1 (0.18%)	PMO

System Software
1	45 (8.11%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	29 (5.23%)	Active Directory
3	27 (4.86%)	Virtual Machines
4	26 (4.68%)	Oracle RAC
5	23 (4.14%)	Veritas Volume Manager
6	22 (3.96%)	Docker
7	17 (3.06%)	Oracle Clusterware
7	17 (3.06%)	Veritas Cluster Server
8	13 (2.34%)	VMware ESXi
9	10 (1.80%)	NFS
9	10 (1.80%)	PowerHA
9	10 (1.80%)	vSphere
10	9 (1.62%)	Hyper-V
11	8 (1.44%)	KVM
12	6 (1.08%)	SRDF
13	5 (0.90%)	Veritas File System
14	4 (0.72%)	GPFS
15	3 (0.54%)	Samba
16	2 (0.36%)	iptables
16	2 (0.36%)	Time Sharing Option

Systems Management
1	86 (15.50%)	Puppet
2	64 (11.53%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
3	36 (6.49%)	Ansible
4	22 (3.96%)	NetBackup
5	18 (3.24%)	Tivoli
6	16 (2.88%)	EMC NetWorker
7	15 (2.70%)	HP Data Protector
7	15 (2.70%)	Oracle RMAN
8	14 (2.52%)	Opscode Chef
9	13 (2.34%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
10	11 (1.98%)	Backup Exec
10	11 (1.98%)	BladeLogic
10	11 (1.98%)	Data Guard
10	11 (1.98%)	SCOM
11	8 (1.44%)	IBM BigFix
11	8 (1.44%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
12	7 (1.26%)	Netcool
12	7 (1.26%)	Rundeck
13	6 (1.08%)	Oracle Identity Management
14	5 (0.90%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

Vendors
1	260 (46.85%)	Oracle
2	209 (37.66%)	IBM
3	114 (20.54%)	Red Hat
4	90 (16.22%)	VMware
5	63 (11.35%)	HP
5	63 (11.35%)	Veritas
6	54 (9.73%)	Cisco
7	42 (7.57%)	SAP
8	33 (5.95%)	Microsoft
9	30 (5.41%)	Sun
10	27 (4.86%)	EMC
11	22 (3.96%)	Brocade
11	22 (3.96%)	F5
12	18 (3.24%)	Citrix
13	16 (2.88%)	NetApp
14	15 (2.70%)	Symantec
15	13 (2.34%)	Siebel
16	11 (1.98%)	BMC
17	10 (1.80%)	CA
17	10 (1.80%)	Dell