AIX Contracts in England

IBM AIX
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring AIX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AIX over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 503 578
Rank change year-on-year +54 +75 +76
Contract jobs citing AIX 36 39 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.05% 0.77% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 36
10th Percentile £355 £396 £384
25th Percentile £394 £423 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% +2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £652
90th Percentile £668 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £481 £545 £513
% change year-on-year -11.70% +6.34% +1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £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 3,414 5,072 8,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.64% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 3,461 5,863
10th Percentile £200 £181 £193
25th Percentile £313 £289 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 369 384
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.75 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AIX in England.

Daily rate trend for AIX in England

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in England

AIX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AIX in England.

Hourly rate trend for AIX in England

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 1 May 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
Midlands +21 10 £454 -18.57%
London +43 9 £415 -17.38% 3
West Midlands - 6 £475 -
East of England +32 5 £415 +10.53%
South East +37 4 £494 -8.14% 2
North of England +17 4 £363 -9.38%
East Midlands +3 4 £391 -29.87%
North West - 2 - -
South West - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +6 1 £350 -39.13%
North East -2 1 £375 -6.25%
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 2 (5.56%) CMS
1 2 (5.56%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.78%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (5.56%) Sage X3
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (8.33%) Azure API Management
4 3 (8.33%) OCI
5 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.78%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) SAN
2 5 (13.89%) HTTP
3 2 (5.56%) NAS
4 1 (2.78%) Firewall
4 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Ant
2 2 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Introscope
2 2 (5.56%) LoadRunner
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (5.56%) SoapUI
2 2 (5.56%) Toad
3 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JUnit
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 5 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.56%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Unix Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Administrator
2 7 (19.44%) Unix Administrator
3 5 (13.89%) Consultant
3 5 (13.89%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 4 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Integration Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Unix Support
5 3 (8.33%) Unix Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Database Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Security Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Middleware
2 3 (8.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (8.33%) Kafka
2 3 (8.33%) SOAP
2 3 (8.33%) Web Services
2 3 (8.33%) XML
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (5.56%) EDI
3 2 (5.56%) HTML
3 2 (5.56%) J2EE
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (86.11%) Unix
2 29 (80.56%) Linux
3 10 (27.78%) Solaris
3 10 (27.78%) Windows
4 7 (19.44%) HPUX
5 5 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (11.11%) CentOS
6 4 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (11.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (19.44%) Configuration Management
2 6 (16.67%) ITIL
3 5 (13.89%) Migration
3 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 3 (8.33%) API Management
5 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.33%) Coaching
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (8.33%) High Availability
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (8.33%) Service Management
5 3 (8.33%) Task Automation
6 2 (5.56%) Patch Management
6 2 (5.56%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (5.56%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (5.56%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Perl
1 7 (19.44%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) Bash
2 6 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 5 (13.89%) Java
3 5 (13.89%) Korn
3 5 (13.89%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.56%) C
6 1 (2.78%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.78%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) CISM
3 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) NIST
2 4 (11.11%) SLA
3 3 (8.33%) GDPR
4 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.56%) SEPA
5 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.89%) Docker
3 3 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.56%) KVM
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Ansible
2 9 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 9 (25.00%) Puppet
3 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (11.11%) Tivoli
4 4 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (8.33%) SCCM
6 2 (5.56%) CA Wily
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (2.78%) Nagios
7 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) VMware
2 14 (38.89%) Oracle
3 12 (33.33%) IBM
4 7 (19.44%) Red Hat
5 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 5 (13.89%) HP
7 3 (8.33%) Google
7 3 (8.33%) Splunk
8 2 (5.56%) AppDynamics
8 2 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (5.56%) CyberArk
8 2 (5.56%) Perforce
8 2 (5.56%) Sage
9 1 (2.78%) Adobe
9 1 (2.78%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (2.78%) Perfecto Mobile
9 1 (2.78%) Siebel