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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 476 496
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +112
Contract jobs citing AIX 26 52 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.69% 1.12% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 38 36
10th Percentile - £226 £384
25th Percentile £171 £334 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £425 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -21.84% +4.77%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £675
90th Percentile £660 £590 £694
UK median daily rate £433 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.87% -10.00% -1.96%

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 3,791 4,663 6,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 14.34% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,500 2,982 4,631
10th Percentile £190 £200 £188
25th Percentile £300 £331 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £631
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 235 339
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.74 £20.15 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.07% +20.53% +98.66%
75th Percentile £60.31 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.25 £46.69
% change year-on-year -48.93% +5.48% +95.27%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AIX 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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
London +26 12 £415 +66.06% 1
Midlands -17 6 £450 -13.25% 1
East of England +8 5 £171 -54.40%
West Midlands -8 5 £450 -2.70%
Yorkshire -13 3 £525 -
North of England -13 3 £525 -
East Midlands -13 1 £450 -16.67% 1
AIX
UK

AIX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) CICS
1 1 (3.85%) CMS
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (3.85%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (3.85%) Sage X3
2 1 (3.85%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Azure API Management
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Google Ads
4 1 (3.85%) IaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Lucidchart
4 1 (3.85%) OCI
4 1 (3.85%) PaaS
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) HTTP
2 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) SSH
2 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.69%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) Internet
4 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) NAS
4 1 (3.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle Database
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (11.54%) DB2
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Ant
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Postman
2 3 (11.54%) SoapUI
2 3 (11.54%) Toad
3 2 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Consultant
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) IT Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) IT Support
2 5 (19.23%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Support Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Technical Support
2 5 (19.23%) Technical Support Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Integration Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DB2 Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) DBA
5 2 (7.69%) Management Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) SOAP
1 5 (19.23%) XML
2 4 (15.38%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (15.38%) Kafka
2 4 (15.38%) Middleware
3 3 (11.54%) EDI
3 3 (11.54%) LDAP
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) JSON
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) SAML
4 1 (3.85%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) HACMP
4 1 (3.85%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) Online Banking
4 1 (3.85%) PMI
4 1 (3.85%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Linux
2 17 (65.38%) Windows
3 10 (38.46%) Solaris
3 10 (38.46%) Unix
4 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (19.23%) Windows 10
5 5 (19.23%) Windows 7
5 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (11.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (7.69%) VMS
8 1 (3.85%) HPUX
8 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Migration
2 5 (19.23%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (15.38%) Agile
3 4 (15.38%) API Management
3 4 (15.38%) Key Management
3 4 (15.38%) RBAC
4 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
4 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (11.54%) Data Management
4 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (11.54%) Task Automation
5 2 (7.69%) Change Control
5 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Data Science
5 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (7.69%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Java
1 5 (19.23%) Python
1 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Korn
2 4 (15.38%) Perl
2 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) C
3 1 (3.85%) C++
3 1 (3.85%) COBOL
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) CAPM
3 1 (3.85%) CBAP
3 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SEPA
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.85%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Ansible
1 3 (11.54%) Puppet
2 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) IBM
3 5 (19.23%) Citrix
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
4 4 (15.38%) VMware
5 3 (11.54%) BeyondTrust
5 3 (11.54%) CyberArk
5 3 (11.54%) MuleSoft
5 3 (11.54%) Perforce
6 2 (7.69%) NetApp
7 1 (3.85%) Brocade
7 1 (3.85%) Dell
7 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.85%) EMC
7 1 (3.85%) HP
7 1 (3.85%) Sage
7 1 (3.85%) Splunk
7 1 (3.85%) Veritas