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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 507 543
Rank change year-on-year +39 +36 +105
Contract jobs citing AIX 26 47 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.73% 0.91% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 38
10th Percentile £385 £360 £450
25th Percentile £407 £389 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £569
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.09% +9.38%
75th Percentile £494 £588 £675
90th Percentile £688 £591 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -10.59% +1.19% +2.94%

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 3,584 5,157 7,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.97% 13.89% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 3,416 5,328
10th Percentile £200 £190 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 396 368
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £18.47
Median hourly rate £19.27 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% -41.18% +88.89%
75th Percentile £49.63 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -41.18% +88.89%

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 July 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 July 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 +49 13 £415 +8.97% 28
Midlands +10 7 £475 -14.80% 7
West Midlands - 6 £475 -
North of England +10 5 £388 -3.13% 8
Yorkshire +2 4 £400 -30.43% 2
North East 0 1 £375 -6.25% 1
East Midlands -6 1 £391 -29.87% 7
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 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.85%) Documentum
2 1 (3.85%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (11.54%) MS Visio
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (7.69%) Sage X3
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure API Management
2 4 (15.38%) GCP
3 3 (11.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) HTTP
1 5 (19.23%) SAN
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.85%) Internet
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) SMS
4 1 (3.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) Oracle Database
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 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
4 1 (3.85%) Introscope
4 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.69%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Administrator
1 5 (19.23%) Developer
1 5 (19.23%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (19.23%) Unix Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Consultant
2 4 (15.38%) Integration Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Unix Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Unix Systems Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Unix Support
3 3 (11.54%) Unix Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Support
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Unix Linux 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
4 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) J2EE
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) Node.js
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (3.85%) React
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Online Banking
2 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Linux
2 20 (76.92%) Unix
3 10 (38.46%) Windows
4 8 (30.77%) Solaris
5 7 (26.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (15.38%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (11.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (7.69%) HPUX
8 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) ITIL
2 5 (19.23%) Migration
2 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (15.38%) Agile
3 4 (15.38%) API Management
3 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (15.38%) DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
4 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
4 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
4 3 (11.54%) Data Management
4 3 (11.54%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 2 (7.69%) Data Science
5 2 (7.69%) Key Management
5 2 (7.69%) Microservices
5 2 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (7.69%) Problem Management
5 2 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) Perl
3 5 (19.23%) Korn
4 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
5 2 (7.69%) C
6 1 (3.85%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.85%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (3.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) CISM
3 2 (7.69%) CISSP
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) SLA
2 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 3 (11.54%) SEPA
3 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.69%) NIST
4 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
1 5 (19.23%) Puppet
2 4 (15.38%) Tivoli
2 4 (15.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) CA Wily
5 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.85%) Nagios
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Oracle
2 14 (53.85%) IBM
3 12 (46.15%) VMware
4 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
5 3 (11.54%) MuleSoft
5 3 (11.54%) Perforce
5 3 (11.54%) Splunk
6 2 (7.69%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (7.69%) CyberArk
6 2 (7.69%) Google
6 2 (7.69%) HP
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.69%) Sage
7 1 (3.85%) Adobe
7 1 (3.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.85%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (3.85%) Siebel