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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 483 478
Rank change year-on-year -57 -5 +42
Contract jobs citing AIX 86 31 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.97% 0.83% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 22 38
10th Percentile £311 £188 £226
25th Percentile £406 £401 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £436 £415
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% +4.94% -26.22%
75th Percentile £628 £497 £553
90th Percentile £688 £731 £588
UK median daily rate £477 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +0.42% +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 4,368 3,726 4,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.68% 13.60% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,814 2,489 3,269
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £468 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.19% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 223 348
10th Percentile £16.04 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.04 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -8.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.60 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.88% -43.11%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -40 43 £472 +21.81% 2
North West - 37 £477 - 2
South West - 16 £371 -
Midlands -45 15 £500 +5.26% 2
West Midlands -46 15 £500 +5.26% 2
London -71 9 £575 +8.01% 2
Yorkshire -49 5 £405 +1.25%
North East -39 4 - -
East of England -20 1 - -
South East - 1 £700 - 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 9 (10.47%) CICS
2 5 (5.81%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (33.72%) AWS
2 14 (16.28%) OCI
3 5 (5.81%) Azure
4 4 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.49%) GCP
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.33%) GitHub
6 2 (2.33%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.16%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.60%) SNMP
2 13 (15.12%) SAN
3 9 (10.47%) Firewall
4 5 (5.81%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (4.65%) NAS
5 4 (4.65%) NetScaler
6 3 (3.49%) DNS
6 3 (3.49%) FTP
7 1 (1.16%) LAN
7 1 (1.16%) RS-232
7 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.16%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.60%) Oracle Database
2 14 (16.28%) Oracle Exadata
2 14 (16.28%) RDBMS
2 14 (16.28%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.47%) DataStage
3 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.14%) Db2
5 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (13.95%) GitLab
2 9 (10.47%) Git
3 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.49%) JIRA
4 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.16%) Introscope
General
1 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.93%) Finance
3 12 (13.95%) Banking
4 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Military
9 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Advertising
10 1 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.16%) International Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (18.60%) Consultant
2 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (13.95%) Management Consultant
3 12 (13.95%) Senior
4 9 (10.47%) Administrator
4 9 (10.47%) Designer
4 9 (10.47%) Infrastructure Designer
4 9 (10.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.30%) Architect
5 8 (9.30%) Unix Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Backup Administrator
6 6 (6.98%) SAN Administrator
6 6 (6.98%) SAN Storage Administrator
6 6 (6.98%) Storage Administrator
6 6 (6.98%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 6 (6.98%) Technical Specialist
7 5 (5.81%) AIX Administrator
7 5 (5.81%) Lead
8 4 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.60%) REST
2 14 (16.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 10 (11.63%) Middleware
4 2 (2.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.07%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.95%) Public Cloud
3 9 (10.47%) BYOD
3 9 (10.47%) Mainframe
3 9 (10.47%) VSAM
4 7 (8.14%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (8.14%) Replication
5 6 (6.98%) Clustering
6 5 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (3.49%) PMI
7 3 (3.49%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.16%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.16%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (81.40%) Linux
2 35 (40.70%) Unix
3 32 (37.21%) Windows
4 23 (26.74%) Solaris
5 13 (15.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (9.30%) Windows Server
7 7 (8.14%) HPUX
7 7 (8.14%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (8.14%) SUSE
8 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Migration
2 19 (22.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (18.60%) CI/CD
4 14 (16.28%) Dashboard Development
4 14 (16.28%) ITIL
4 14 (16.28%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (15.12%) Roadmaps
5 13 (15.12%) Security Hardening
6 12 (13.95%) Data Migration
6 12 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (13.95%) Storage Management
7 11 (12.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (11.63%) Data Centre Operations
9 9 (10.47%) Agile
9 9 (10.47%) Business Case
9 9 (10.47%) Design Patterns
9 9 (10.47%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (10.47%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.40%) Python
2 26 (30.23%) PowerShell
3 24 (27.91%) SQL
4 16 (18.60%) Search Processing Language
5 10 (11.63%) Bash
6 9 (10.47%) COBOL
7 6 (6.98%) Perl
8 4 (4.65%) Java
8 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.49%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.16%) Jython
11 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Degree
3 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.81%) CISSP
4 5 (5.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (5.81%) RHCE
5 3 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.33%) CAPM
6 2 (2.33%) CBAP
6 2 (2.33%) PMP
7 1 (1.16%) HNC
7 1 (1.16%) HND
7 1 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.16%) MCSE
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) GRC
2 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.33%) NIST
2 2 (2.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (19.77%) Oracle RAC
2 10 (11.63%) Firmware
3 9 (10.47%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.98%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.98%) KVM
4 6 (6.98%) PowerHA
5 4 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (3.49%) NFS
6 3 (3.49%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (1.16%) Docker
7 1 (1.16%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 18 (20.93%) Terraform
2 17 (19.77%) Nagios
2 17 (19.77%) Tivoli
3 16 (18.60%) Ansible
3 16 (18.60%) Data Guard
3 16 (18.60%) Oracle RMAN
3 16 (18.60%) ZABBIX
4 15 (17.44%) Netcool
5 13 (15.12%) OpenView
5 13 (15.12%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 10 (11.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 6 (6.98%) IBM BigFix
7 6 (6.98%) vCenter Server
8 3 (3.49%) PowerBroker
8 3 (3.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.33%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
10 1 (1.16%) Opsview
10 1 (1.16%) SCCM
10 1 (1.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 42 (48.84%) IBM
2 28 (32.56%) Oracle
3 20 (23.26%) HP
4 19 (22.09%) VMware
5 17 (19.77%) SolarWinds
6 16 (18.60%) BMC
6 16 (18.60%) Splunk
7 10 (11.63%) Red Hat
8 9 (10.47%) Cisco
9 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
10 5 (5.81%) Brocade
11 4 (4.65%) Veritas
12 3 (3.49%) Commvault
12 3 (3.49%) Veeam
13 2 (2.33%) Dell
14 1 (1.16%) Broadcom
14 1 (1.16%) Citrix
14 1 (1.16%) EMC
14 1 (1.16%) Mellanox
14 1 (1.16%) NetApp