AIX Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IBM AIX
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 123 122
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 +40
Contract jobs citing AIX 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.086% 0.055% 0.097%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.96% 0.50% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile £618 £725 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £750 £436
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +71.92% +0.87%
75th Percentile £653 £775 £446
90th Percentile - - £449
Central London median daily rate £635 £750 £436
% change year-on-year -15.33% +71.92% +0.87%

All Operating Systems
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 208 200 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.95% 11.03% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 144 186
10th Percentile £200 £258 £250
25th Percentile £368 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £649
90th Percentile £690 £732 £725
Central London median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £19.30 £24.25 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.38 £25.00 £25.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +1.85% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.50 £28.19
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.95 £28.90
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

AIX job vacancy trend in the City of London

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AIX

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AIX

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Introscope
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Jython
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle