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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 473 473
Rank change year-on-year -66 0 +47
Contract jobs citing AIX 83 32 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.90% 0.85% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 22 39
10th Percentile £310 £171 £228
25th Percentile £406 £363 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.53% +4.52% -29.67%
75th Percentile £638 £488 £550
90th Percentile £688 £635 £589
UK median daily rate £494 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +9.78% -2.70% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.75 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £22.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 - -

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 4,363 3,759 4,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.62% 13.53% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,796 2,502 3,163
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -5.64% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £471 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.78% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 231 296
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.46
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.13 £16.77
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -20.00% -32.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £24.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +7.38% -11.93% -35.88%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -37 38 £480 +20.00% 1
North West - 32 £494 - 1
Midlands -38 16 £500 +5.26% 1
West Midlands -51 16 £500 +5.26% 1
South West - 16 £371 -
London -68 9 £575 +38.56% 4
Yorkshire -45 5 £405 +1.25%
North East - 4 - -
South East - 2 £700 - 2
East of England -19 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 6 (7.23%) CICS
2 5 (6.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.20%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.35%) AWS
2 15 (18.07%) OCI
3 6 (7.23%) Azure
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) GCP
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.41%) GitHub
6 2 (2.41%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.20%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.28%) SNMP
2 15 (18.07%) SAN
3 6 (7.23%) Firewall
4 5 (6.02%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (4.82%) NAS
5 4 (4.82%) NetScaler
6 3 (3.61%) DNS
6 3 (3.61%) FTP
7 1 (1.20%) LAN
7 1 (1.20%) RS-232
7 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.20%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) Oracle Database
2 15 (18.07%) Oracle Exadata
2 15 (18.07%) RDBMS
2 15 (18.07%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.23%) DataStage
3 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.82%) Db2
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) GitLab
2 9 (10.84%) Git
3 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) JIRA
4 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.20%) Introscope
General
1 19 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Banking
4 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.61%) Military
7 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.20%) International Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (19.28%) Consultant
2 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) Management Consultant
3 12 (14.46%) Senior
4 9 (10.84%) Administrator
4 9 (10.84%) Architect
4 9 (10.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Unix Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Backup Administrator
6 6 (7.23%) Designer
6 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Designer
6 6 (7.23%) Lead
6 6 (7.23%) SAN Administrator
6 6 (7.23%) SAN Storage Administrator
6 6 (7.23%) Storage Administrator
6 6 (7.23%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 5 (6.02%) AIX Administrator
8 4 (4.82%) DBA
8 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) REST
2 15 (18.07%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 7 (8.43%) Middleware
4 2 (2.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.46%) Public Cloud
3 8 (9.64%) Replication
4 7 (8.43%) Clustering
5 6 (7.23%) BYOD
5 6 (7.23%) Mainframe
5 6 (7.23%) VSAM
6 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.61%) PMI
8 3 (3.61%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 1 (1.20%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (1.20%) FPGA
10 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (79.52%) Linux
2 30 (36.14%) Unix
2 30 (36.14%) Windows
3 21 (25.30%) Solaris
4 13 (15.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.64%) HPUX
6 7 (8.43%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (8.43%) SUSE
7 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.35%) Migration
2 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (19.28%) CI/CD
4 15 (18.07%) ITIL
5 14 (16.87%) Dashboard Development
5 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (16.87%) Root Cause Analysis
5 14 (16.87%) Security Hardening
6 13 (15.66%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (14.46%) Data Migration
7 12 (14.46%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (14.46%) Roadmaps
7 12 (14.46%) Storage Management
8 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (13.25%) Data Centre Operations
9 10 (12.05%) Agile
9 10 (12.05%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (9.64%) DevOps
10 8 (9.64%) Project Delivery
11 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (33.73%) Python
2 23 (27.71%) PowerShell
3 21 (25.30%) SQL
4 16 (19.28%) Search Processing Language
5 7 (8.43%) Bash
5 7 (8.43%) Perl
6 6 (7.23%) COBOL
7 5 (6.02%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.82%) Java
9 3 (3.61%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.20%) Jython
11 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) Degree
3 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) CISSP
4 5 (6.02%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (6.02%) RHCE
5 3 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.41%) CAPM
6 2 (2.41%) CBAP
6 2 (2.41%) PMP
7 1 (1.20%) HNC
7 1 (1.20%) HND
7 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.20%) MCSE
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) GRC
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.41%) NIST
2 2 (2.41%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (21.69%) Oracle RAC
2 11 (13.25%) Firmware
3 7 (8.43%) PowerHA
4 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.61%) KVM
5 3 (3.61%) NFS
5 3 (3.61%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.20%) Docker
6 1 (1.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 19 (22.89%) Terraform
2 18 (21.69%) Ansible
3 17 (20.48%) Data Guard
3 17 (20.48%) Nagios
3 17 (20.48%) Oracle RMAN
3 17 (20.48%) Tivoli
4 16 (19.28%) ZABBIX
5 15 (18.07%) Netcool
6 13 (15.66%) OpenView
6 13 (15.66%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 11 (13.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 3 (3.61%) IBM BigFix
8 3 (3.61%) NetBackup
8 3 (3.61%) PowerBroker
8 3 (3.61%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.61%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.20%) Opsview
9 1 (1.20%) SCCM
9 1 (1.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (44.58%) IBM
2 29 (34.94%) Oracle
3 21 (25.30%) HP
4 17 (20.48%) SolarWinds
5 16 (19.28%) BMC
5 16 (19.28%) Splunk
5 16 (19.28%) VMware
6 10 (12.05%) Red Hat
7 9 (10.84%) Cisco
8 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
9 5 (6.02%) Brocade
9 5 (6.02%) Veritas
10 4 (4.82%) Commvault
10 4 (4.82%) Veeam
11 3 (3.61%) Dell
12 2 (2.41%) Broadcom
12 2 (2.41%) NetApp
13 1 (1.20%) Citrix
13 1 (1.20%) EMC
13 1 (1.20%) Mellanox