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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AIX 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.03% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £441 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £502 - -
North West median daily rate £566 - -

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 119 126 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.34% 18.37% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 96 64
10th Percentile £167 £206 £300
25th Percentile £313 £313 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £370 £468
Median % change year-on-year +15.54% -20.86% -5.56%
75th Percentile £548 £455 £550
90th Percentile £627 £513 £623
North West median daily rate £448 £368 £425
% change year-on-year +21.60% -13.41% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile £16.59 - £16.39
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £22.09
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -27.57% +26.23%
75th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £23.66
90th Percentile £17.77 £18.90 £23.97
North West median hourly rate £59.89 £16.72 £18.13
% change year-on-year +258.19% -7.78% -19.42%

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

AIX
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

AIX
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 7 £483 -
Chester - 1 - - 1
AIX
North West

AIX
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQLPlus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Unix Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Unix Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) FPGA
3 1 (12.50%) Grid Computing
3 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Unix
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (50.00%) HPUX
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (50.00%) Solaris
3 4 (50.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Storage Management
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Management
3 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 3 (37.50%) Runbook
3 3 (37.50%) Security Hardening
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 1 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Ruby
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) RHCE
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) NFS
1 3 (37.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) PowerBroker
1 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
1 3 (37.50%) Tivoli
1 3 (37.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (50.00%) HP
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Veritas
5 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (12.50%) Glassbox
5 1 (12.50%) IBM
5 1 (12.50%) Mellanox
5 1 (12.50%) NetScout
5 1 (12.50%) Remedy
5 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (12.50%) Solarflare
5 1 (12.50%) Splunk