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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 436 508
Rank change year-on-year -85 +72 +82
Contract jobs citing AIX 56 33 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.13% 0.092%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.38% 0.96% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 18
10th Percentile £257 £351 £400
25th Percentile £311 £392 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% -11.83% +2.62%
75th Percentile £485 £528 £588
90th Percentile £520 £674 £600
UK median daily rate £416 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -16.80% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.95 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £23.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile £24.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 - £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 4,045 3,428 5,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.23% 13.98% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,683 2,348 3,468
10th Percentile £185 £200 £180
25th Percentile £306 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.40% -12.08%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 146 370
10th Percentile £15.45 £16.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.46 £18.11 £14.72
Median hourly rate £34.57 £24.83 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% +12.86% -35.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.71 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +25.71% +12.09% -37.19%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -44 22 £459 +26.62% 5
North West -28 21 £459 - 3
South West -19 12 £310 - 1
London -58 10 £416 -42.62%
East of England -30 6 £127 -69.48%
West Midlands -61 6 £413 -13.16%
Midlands -70 6 £413 -9.14%
Yorkshire -64 1 - - 2
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 9 (16.07%) CICS
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.79%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.93%) Azure
1 5 (8.93%) Azure API Management
2 4 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (3.57%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.43%) SNMP
2 9 (16.07%) Firewall
3 5 (8.93%) HTTP
3 5 (8.93%) SAN
4 2 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.57%) LAN
4 2 (3.57%) NAS
4 2 (3.57%) RS-232
4 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.57%) X.400
5 1 (1.79%) DNS
5 1 (1.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) Oracle Database
2 9 (16.07%) DataStage
3 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.71%) DB2
5 4 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Ant
1 3 (5.36%) JUnit
1 3 (5.36%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) Introscope
2 1 (1.79%) TestDirector
2 1 (1.79%) Toad
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Finance
3 10 (17.86%) Banking
4 9 (16.07%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.79%) Advertising
10 1 (1.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (16.07%) Consultant
1 9 (16.07%) Designer
1 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Designer
2 8 (14.29%) Analyst
2 8 (14.29%) Management Consultant
3 6 (10.71%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (10.71%) Technical Specialist
4 5 (8.93%) Administrator
4 5 (8.93%) Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Technical Support
5 4 (7.14%) Technical Support Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) AIX Administrator
6 3 (5.36%) Server Administrator
7 2 (3.57%) Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Junior
7 2 (3.57%) SAN Administrator
7 2 (3.57%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) Middleware
2 12 (21.43%) REST
3 5 (8.93%) IBM Integration Bus
3 5 (8.93%) Kafka
3 5 (8.93%) SOAP
3 5 (8.93%) XML
4 2 (3.57%) EDI
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.07%) BYOD
2 9 (16.07%) Mainframe
2 9 (16.07%) VSAM
3 6 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Clustering
5 3 (5.36%) PMI
6 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.57%) Replication
6 2 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (76.79%) Linux
2 33 (58.93%) Windows
3 29 (51.79%) Unix
4 17 (30.36%) Solaris
5 10 (17.86%) Windows Server
6 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (10.71%) Windows 10
7 6 (10.71%) Windows 7
7 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (7.14%) HPUX
8 4 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (7.14%) SUSE
8 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (19.64%) Dashboard Development
2 10 (17.86%) Migration
2 10 (17.86%) Roadmaps
3 9 (16.07%) Business Case
3 9 (16.07%) Design Patterns
3 9 (16.07%) ITIL
3 9 (16.07%) Process Improvement
3 9 (16.07%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (14.29%) Security Hardening
5 7 (12.50%) Storage Management
6 6 (10.71%) Agile
6 6 (10.71%) Asset Management
6 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.71%) Performance Management
6 6 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (10.71%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (10.71%) RBAC
6 6 (10.71%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (8.93%) Change Management
7 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (37.50%) SQL
2 20 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 18 (32.14%) Python
4 12 (21.43%) Search Processing Language
5 9 (16.07%) COBOL
6 8 (14.29%) Bash
6 8 (14.29%) Perl
7 6 (10.71%) Java
8 5 (8.93%) Korn
8 5 (8.93%) PL/SQL
9 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.79%) Jython
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) Degree
4 4 (7.14%) CISSP
4 4 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (7.14%) RHCE
5 3 (5.36%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.57%) CAPM
6 2 (3.57%) CBAP
6 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) HNC
6 2 (3.57%) HND
6 2 (3.57%) MCSE
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) GRC
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) NIST
2 2 (3.57%) SEPA
2 2 (3.57%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
2 6 (10.71%) KVM
3 5 (8.93%) Firmware
3 5 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.36%) PowerHA
5 1 (1.79%) NFS
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (21.43%) Nagios
1 12 (21.43%) ZABBIX
2 11 (19.64%) Netcool
2 11 (19.64%) Tivoli
3 10 (17.86%) OpenView
3 10 (17.86%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 6 (10.71%) IBM BigFix
4 6 (10.71%) vCenter Server
5 3 (5.36%) Ansible
5 3 (5.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (3.57%) SCCM
6 2 (3.57%) SCOM
7 1 (1.79%) CA Wily
7 1 (1.79%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.79%) PowerBroker
7 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (69.64%) IBM
2 18 (32.14%) Oracle
3 14 (25.00%) HP
4 13 (23.21%) VMware
5 12 (21.43%) BMC
5 12 (21.43%) SolarWinds
5 12 (21.43%) Splunk
6 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
7 6 (10.71%) Citrix
8 2 (3.57%) Brocade
8 2 (3.57%) Cisco
9 1 (1.79%) Perforce
9 1 (1.79%) Veritas