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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 476 491
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 +83
Contract jobs citing AIX 29 47 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.73% 1.03% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 32
10th Percentile £162 £214 £428
25th Percentile £171 £250 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £378 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -28.00% -
75th Percentile £463 £464 £606
90th Percentile £655 £498 £686
UK median daily rate £415 £420 £500
% change year-on-year -1.17% -16.00% -4.76%

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 3,991 4,542 6,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.14% 14.21% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,602 2,809 4,407
10th Percentile £185 £203 £185
25th Percentile £275 £330 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £586 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 209 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.96
25th Percentile £18.59 £23.10 £19.18
Median hourly rate £23.50 £60.00 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year -60.83% +25.27% +91.58%
75th Percentile £48.06 £70.00 £65.05
90th Percentile £67.00 - £76.92
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £53.00 £44.42
% change year-on-year -53.77% +19.32% +85.08%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +2 11 £415 +66.06%
Midlands -18 8 £450 -2.70% 1
East of England 0 7 £171 -54.40% 6
West Midlands -19 7 £450 -2.70% 1
Yorkshire -27 3 £525 -
North of England -27 3 £525 -
East Midlands -10 1 £450 +5.88%
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 1 (3.45%) CICS
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (3.45%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Visio
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (3.45%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Azure API Management
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Google Ads
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Lucidchart
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) SSH
2 4 (13.79%) HTTP
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) Kerberos
3 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.90%) SAN
5 1 (3.45%) Internet
5 1 (3.45%) LAN
5 1 (3.45%) NAS
5 1 (3.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle Database
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (10.34%) DB2
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Ant
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) Postman
2 3 (10.34%) SoapUI
2 3 (10.34%) Toad
3 2 (6.90%) JUnit
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
4 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Support Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Technical Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Technical Support
2 7 (24.14%) Technical Support Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Consultant
4 5 (17.24%) Developer
4 5 (17.24%) IT Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) IT Support
4 5 (17.24%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Integration Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Management Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) Administrator
6 3 (10.34%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) DB2 Administrator
7 2 (6.90%) DBA
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) LDAP
1 5 (17.24%) SOAP
1 5 (17.24%) XML
2 4 (13.79%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (13.79%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) Middleware
3 3 (10.34%) EDI
3 3 (10.34%) OAuth
3 3 (10.34%) SAML
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Replication
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) HACMP
4 1 (3.45%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.45%) Online Banking
4 1 (3.45%) PMI
4 1 (3.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 21 (72.41%) Linux
2 20 (68.97%) Windows
3 12 (41.38%) Solaris
4 10 (34.48%) Unix
5 7 (24.14%) Windows 10
5 7 (24.14%) Windows 7
5 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (10.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (6.90%) VMS
9 1 (3.45%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Proactive Monitoring
2 6 (20.69%) Key Management
2 6 (20.69%) RBAC
3 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
3 5 (17.24%) Migration
4 4 (13.79%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) API Management
4 4 (13.79%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
4 4 (13.79%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
5 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (10.34%) Data Management
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
6 2 (6.90%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.90%) Problem Management
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Korn
3 4 (13.79%) Perl
3 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) C
5 1 (3.45%) C++
5 1 (3.45%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) CAPM
2 1 (3.45%) CBAP
2 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.45%) PMP
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (13.79%) NIST
1 4 (13.79%) SOC 2
2 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
2 3 (10.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (3.45%) Docker
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (3.45%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Ansible
1 3 (10.34%) Puppet
2 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.45%) Data Guard
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Oracle
2 8 (27.59%) IBM
3 7 (24.14%) Citrix
4 5 (17.24%) BeyondTrust
4 5 (17.24%) CyberArk
4 5 (17.24%) Red Hat
5 4 (13.79%) VMware
6 3 (10.34%) MuleSoft
6 3 (10.34%) Perforce
7 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
7 2 (6.90%) NetApp
8 1 (3.45%) Brocade
8 1 (3.45%) Dell
8 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (3.45%) EMC
8 1 (3.45%) HP
8 1 (3.45%) Splunk
8 1 (3.45%) Veritas