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 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 560 496 479
Rank change year-on-year -64 -17 +37
Contract jobs citing AIX 59 25 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.089% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.30% 0.64% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 17 33
10th Percentile £426 - £216
25th Percentile £477 £171 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £415 £381
Median % change year-on-year +26.46% +8.97% -30.73%
75th Percentile £663 £475 £463
90th Percentile £698 £660 £495
UK median daily rate £526 £415 £425
% change year-on-year +26.70% -2.32% -15.00%

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 4,529 3,898 4,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.79% 13.93% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 2,553 2,843
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £275 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 277 215
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £22.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -58.33% +28.51%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +2.47% -52.55% +21.14%

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 8 October 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 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
North of England -34 28 £500 -4.76% 6
North West - 23 £566 - 3
West Midlands -35 14 £525 +16.67% 4
Midlands -41 14 £525 +16.67% 4
London -88 8 £519 +24.95% 7
South West - 6 £700 - 1
Yorkshire -33 4 £405 -22.86% 3
North East - 4 - -
South East - 2 £700 - 1
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 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) JBoss
2 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (49.15%) AWS
2 15 (25.42%) OCI
3 6 (10.17%) Azure
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (5.08%) GCP
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.39%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.34%) SAN
2 5 (8.47%) SNMP
3 4 (6.78%) DNS
3 4 (6.78%) NetScaler
4 3 (5.08%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (5.08%) FTP
5 2 (3.39%) NAS
6 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) Oracle Database
2 15 (25.42%) Oracle Exadata
2 15 (25.42%) RDBMS
2 15 (25.42%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) Db2
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.69%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) GitLab
2 9 (15.25%) Git
3 4 (6.78%) JIRA
4 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Banking
3 10 (16.95%) Finance
4 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.08%) Military
7 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) International Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (20.34%) Senior
3 10 (16.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Unix Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Consultant
6 7 (11.86%) Architect
7 6 (10.17%) Lead
8 5 (8.47%) Administrator
9 4 (6.78%) Backup Administrator
9 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (6.78%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Management Consultant
9 4 (6.78%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) SAN Administrator
9 4 (6.78%) SAN Storage Administrator
9 4 (6.78%) Storage Administrator
9 4 (6.78%) Storage and Backup Administrator
10 3 (5.08%) DBA
10 3 (5.08%) Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) Terraform
2 15 (25.42%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (8.47%) REST
4 2 (3.39%) HTML
5 1 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) Data Centre
2 12 (20.34%) Public Cloud
3 6 (10.17%) Replication
4 5 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.78%) Clustering
6 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.69%) FPGA
8 1 (1.69%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (83.05%) Linux
2 21 (35.59%) Unix
3 17 (28.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (27.12%) Solaris
4 16 (27.12%) Windows
5 8 (13.56%) HPUX
6 7 (11.86%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (11.86%) SUSE
7 3 (5.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Migration
2 20 (33.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (28.81%) ITIL
4 14 (23.73%) CI/CD
4 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (20.34%) Data Migration
5 12 (20.34%) Root Cause Analysis
5 12 (20.34%) Security Hardening
6 11 (18.64%) Change Management
6 11 (18.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (16.95%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (16.95%) Storage Management
8 9 (15.25%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (11.86%) DevOps
9 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.86%) Project Delivery
9 7 (11.86%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (11.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 6 (10.17%) Data Centre Operations
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) Python
2 9 (15.25%) SQL
3 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.47%) Java
5 5 (8.47%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (6.78%) Perl
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.39%) Bash
9 1 (1.69%) C
9 1 (1.69%) C++
9 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (42.37%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) CISSP
4 5 (8.47%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (8.47%) RHCE
5 3 (5.08%) Degree
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (32.20%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (10.17%) Firmware
3 4 (6.78%) NFS
3 4 (6.78%) PowerHA
3 4 (6.78%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.39%) Docker
6 1 (1.69%) SRDF
6 1 (1.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 21 (35.59%) Ansible
2 17 (28.81%) Data Guard
2 17 (28.81%) Oracle RMAN
3 9 (15.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 7 (11.86%) NetBackup
4 7 (11.86%) Tivoli
5 6 (10.17%) Nagios
6 5 (8.47%) ZABBIX
7 4 (6.78%) Netcool
8 3 (5.08%) OpenView
8 3 (5.08%) PowerBroker
8 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
8 3 (5.08%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (1.69%) BladeLogic
9 1 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.69%) Opsview
9 1 (1.69%) Puppet
9 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (49.15%) Oracle
2 15 (25.42%) IBM
3 12 (20.34%) HP
3 12 (20.34%) Red Hat
4 11 (18.64%) VMware
5 9 (15.25%) Veritas
6 7 (11.86%) Cisco
7 6 (10.17%) SolarWinds
7 6 (10.17%) Splunk
8 5 (8.47%) BMC
8 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
9 4 (6.78%) Brocade
9 4 (6.78%) Commvault
9 4 (6.78%) Dell
9 4 (6.78%) Veeam
10 3 (5.08%) NetApp
11 2 (3.39%) Broadcom
11 2 (3.39%) EMC
11 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace