AIX Contract Job Trends in England

IBM AIX
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 451 526
Rank change year-on-year -74 +75 +83
Contract jobs citing AIX 31 35 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.092% 0.14% 0.087%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.74% 0.95% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 14
10th Percentile £126 £361 £446
25th Percentile £148 £390 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £452 £498
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% -9.15% -9.55%
75th Percentile £467 £548 £566
90th Percentile £498 £682 £588
UK median daily rate £416 £471 £500
% change year-on-year -11.83% -5.75% -8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £24.25 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.50 - £52.50

All Operating Systems
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,215 3,682 5,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.55% 14.25% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 2,327 3,762
10th Percentile £178 £200 £180
25th Percentile £263 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £461
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +2.98% -11.30%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £439 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -7.63% +2.15% -9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 119 365
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.76 £19.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £22.69 £44.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.01% +78.00% -4.73%
75th Percentile £52.51 £67.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.75 £71.40
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £25.22
% change year-on-year -23.41% +22.07% -2.00%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AIX job vacancy trend in England

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AIX

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX in England over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in England

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AIX

AIX
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 6 months to 10 February 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
North West -20 9 £448 - 3
North of England -59 9 £448 +19.33% 5
East of England -13 8 £127 -69.48% 1
London -33 8 £416 -42.62% 1
Midlands -53 6 £475 +21.48%
West Midlands - 5 £500 -
East Midlands -34 1 £450 +15.09%
AIX
UK

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (19.35%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
1 5 (16.13%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Firewall
2 5 (16.13%) HTTP
3 4 (12.90%) Kerberos
3 4 (12.90%) SSH
4 1 (3.23%) LAN
4 1 (3.23%) RS-232
4 1 (3.23%) SAN
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) Oracle Database
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (19.35%) DataStage
4 4 (12.90%) DB2
4 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Ant
1 3 (9.68%) JUnit
1 3 (9.68%) SoapUI
2 1 (3.23%) TestDirector
2 1 (3.23%) Toad
General
1 17 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
1 8 (25.81%) Technical Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Support Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Technical Support
2 7 (22.58%) Technical Support Analyst
3 6 (19.35%) Designer
3 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Designer
4 5 (16.13%) Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Consultant
5 4 (12.90%) Management Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (6.45%) Integration Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Middleware Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Administrator
8 1 (3.23%) DB2 Administrator
8 1 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Operations Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) Middleware
2 5 (16.13%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (16.13%) Kafka
2 5 (16.13%) SOAP
2 5 (16.13%) XML
3 4 (12.90%) LDAP
3 4 (12.90%) OAuth
3 4 (12.90%) SAML
4 2 (6.45%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) BYOD
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
1 6 (19.35%) Mainframe
1 6 (19.35%) VSAM
2 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) HP Storage
5 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Linux
1 23 (74.19%) Windows
2 14 (45.16%) Unix
3 11 (35.48%) Solaris
4 8 (25.81%) Windows 10
4 8 (25.81%) Windows 7
4 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (3.23%) VMS
8 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Roadmaps
2 8 (25.81%) Proactive Monitoring
3 6 (19.35%) Business Case
3 6 (19.35%) Design Patterns
3 6 (19.35%) Process Improvement
4 5 (16.13%) API Management
5 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
5 4 (12.90%) Key Management
5 4 (12.90%) Privileged Access Management
5 4 (12.90%) RBAC
6 3 (9.68%) Asset Management
6 3 (9.68%) ITIL
6 3 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (9.68%) Task Automation
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (9.68%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (6.45%) Agile
7 2 (6.45%) Change Management
7 2 (6.45%) Performance Management
7 2 (6.45%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) COBOL
3 5 (16.13%) Bash
3 5 (16.13%) Java
3 5 (16.13%) Korn
3 5 (16.13%) Perl
3 5 (16.13%) PL/SQL
3 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) HNC
2 1 (3.23%) HND
2 1 (3.23%) MCSE
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
1 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.45%) SEPA
1 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.68%) KVM
3 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) IBM BigFix
1 3 (9.68%) vCenter Server
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) SCCM
2 2 (6.45%) SCOM
3 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 21 (67.74%) IBM
2 13 (41.94%) Oracle
3 9 (29.03%) VMware
4 8 (25.81%) Citrix
5 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
6 4 (12.90%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (12.90%) CyberArk
7 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.23%) Brocade
8 1 (3.23%) EMC
8 1 (3.23%) HP
8 1 (3.23%) NetApp
8 1 (3.23%) Perforce
8 1 (3.23%) Veritas