AIX Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

IBM AIX
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AIX 1 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - 1.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.95% - 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £495
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £497
North West median daily rate - - £495
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

AIX falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 105 66 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.89% 14.60% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 39 67
10th Percentile £185 £250 £137
25th Percentile £305 £316 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £400 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% -19.19% +41.43%
75th Percentile £436 £544 £563
90th Percentile £488 £598 £586
North West median daily rate £358 £390 £438
% change year-on-year -8.21% -10.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile - £17.55 £16.75
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.07
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.09 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -27.57% +25.44% -41.61%
75th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £19.06
90th Percentile £18.90 - £21.43
North West median hourly rate £21.46 £22.09 £18.00
% change year-on-year -2.85% +22.72% -52.00%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AIX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

AIX job vacancy trend in Cheshire

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AIX

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AIX

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) IBM BigFix
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM