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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 455 519
Rank change year-on-year -63 +64 +63
Contract jobs citing AIX 30 39 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.73% 1.03% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 17
10th Percentile £126 £349 £390
25th Percentile £137 £379 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £450 £491 £575
90th Percentile £680 £634 £588
UK median daily rate £408 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -9.44% -10.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 4,111 3,798 5,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.06% 13.90% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,733 2,394 3,801
10th Percentile £175 £200 £180
25th Percentile £263 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £565 £595 £600
90th Percentile £675 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 134 290
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.33 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.00 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.49% +45.74% +29.00%
75th Percentile £63.63 £67.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% - +30.00%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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
London +4 10 £416 +42.87% 1
East of England -10 10 £127 -69.48%
Midlands -32 10 £450 -0.88%
West Midlands -33 9 £450 -2.70%
East Midlands -26 1 £450 +26.05%
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 (3.33%) CICS
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.33%) IaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.33%) PaaS
3 1 (3.33%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) SSH
2 5 (16.67%) HTTP
2 5 (16.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.33%) NAS
3 1 (3.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Oracle Database
2 10 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (6.67%) DB2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Ant
1 3 (10.00%) JUnit
1 3 (10.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (3.33%) TestDirector
2 1 (3.33%) Toad
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 10 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Consultant
4 6 (20.00%) Management Consultant
5 5 (16.67%) Developer
6 4 (13.33%) IT Analyst
6 4 (13.33%) IT Support
6 4 (13.33%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Administrator
7 2 (6.67%) DB2 Administrator
7 2 (6.67%) Integration Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead
7 2 (6.67%) Middleware Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) DBA
8 1 (3.33%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) LDAP
2 5 (16.67%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (16.67%) Kafka
2 5 (16.67%) OAuth
2 5 (16.67%) SAML
2 5 (16.67%) SOAP
2 5 (16.67%) XML
3 4 (13.33%) Middleware
4 2 (6.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Replication
2 2 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.33%) PMI
3 1 (3.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 27 (90.00%) Windows
2 20 (66.67%) Linux
3 10 (33.33%) Solaris
3 10 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 10 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 10 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (16.67%) Unix
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.67%) VMS
6 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 8 (26.67%) RBAC
3 7 (23.33%) Key Management
4 6 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (16.67%) API Management
5 5 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.33%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
7 3 (10.00%) Agile
7 3 (10.00%) ITIL
7 3 (10.00%) Migration
8 2 (6.67%) Business Analysis
8 2 (6.67%) Change Control
8 2 (6.67%) Change Management
8 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (6.67%) Performance Management
8 2 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) Korn
2 5 (16.67%) Perl
2 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 4 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.00%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) CAPM
2 1 (3.33%) CBAP
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.33%) PMP
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (13.33%) NIST
1 4 (13.33%) SOC 2
2 3 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
1 2 (6.67%) SCCM
1 2 (6.67%) SCOM
2 1 (3.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Oracle
2 12 (40.00%) IBM
3 10 (33.33%) Citrix
4 7 (23.33%) BeyondTrust
4 7 (23.33%) CyberArk
5 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (10.00%) VMware
7 2 (6.67%) NetApp
8 1 (3.33%) Brocade
8 1 (3.33%) EMC
8 1 (3.33%) HP
8 1 (3.33%) Perforce
8 1 (3.33%) Veritas