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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 443 509
Rank change year-on-year -95 +66 +95
Contract jobs citing AIX 45 36 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.14% 0.094%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.06% 0.98% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 16
10th Percentile £126 £355 £400
25th Percentile £235 £391 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £468 £495
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £432 £500 £542
90th Percentile £469 £668 £588
UK median daily rate £408 £481 £498
% change year-on-year -15.32% -3.27% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.95 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £23.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile £24.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 - £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 4,261 3,656 5,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.22% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,821 2,395 3,667
10th Percentile £180 £200 £177
25th Percentile £265 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £445 £475 £458
% change year-on-year -6.32% +3.71% -10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 128 377
10th Percentile £14.80 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.81 £42.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.64% +90.00% -15.06%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £30.78 £22.50
% change year-on-year -25.28% +36.80% -15.03%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -56 16 £436 +20.28% 3
North West -22 15 £436 - 1
East of England -18 9 £127 -69.48% 2
West Midlands -51 9 £413 -13.16% 1
Midlands -65 9 £413 -9.14% 1
London -38 8 £416 -42.62% 2
South West -24 3 £308 - 4
Yorkshire -63 1 - - 2
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 8 (17.78%) CICS
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.11%) Azure
1 5 (11.11%) Azure API Management
2 2 (4.44%) Lucidchart
3 1 (2.22%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) Firewall
2 5 (11.11%) HTTP
3 4 (8.89%) Kerberos
3 4 (8.89%) SAN
3 4 (8.89%) SSH
4 3 (6.67%) SNMP
5 2 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.44%) LAN
5 2 (4.44%) NAS
5 2 (4.44%) RS-232
5 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.44%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) Oracle Database
2 8 (17.78%) DataStage
2 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
3 7 (15.56%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (13.33%) DB2
5 3 (6.67%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Ant
1 3 (6.67%) JUnit
1 3 (6.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Introscope
2 1 (2.22%) TestDirector
2 1 (2.22%) Toad
General
1 21 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
8 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Designer
3 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Designer
4 7 (15.56%) Support Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Technical Support
4 7 (15.56%) Technical Support Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Consultant
5 6 (13.33%) Management Consultant
5 6 (13.33%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (11.11%) Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) AIX Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) Backup Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) IBM Storage Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) Middleware Developer
8 2 (4.44%) SAN Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) SAN Storage Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.89%) Middleware
2 5 (11.11%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (11.11%) Kafka
2 5 (11.11%) SOAP
2 5 (11.11%) XML
3 4 (8.89%) LDAP
3 4 (8.89%) OAuth
3 4 (8.89%) SAML
4 3 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (4.44%) EDI
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.78%) BYOD
2 8 (17.78%) Mainframe
2 8 (17.78%) VSAM
3 6 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (6.67%) PMI
6 2 (4.44%) Clustering
6 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.44%) Replication
6 2 (4.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (71.11%) Linux
2 31 (68.89%) Windows
3 22 (48.89%) Unix
4 14 (31.11%) Solaris
5 10 (22.22%) Windows Server
6 9 (20.00%) Windows 10
6 9 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (15.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Roadmaps
2 9 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 8 (17.78%) Business Case
3 8 (17.78%) Design Patterns
3 8 (17.78%) Process Improvement
4 6 (13.33%) Agile
4 6 (13.33%) Asset Management
4 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (13.33%) RBAC
4 6 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
5 5 (11.11%) API Management
6 4 (8.89%) Data Centre Operations
6 4 (8.89%) Data Protection
6 4 (8.89%) ITIL
6 4 (8.89%) Key Management
6 4 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (6.67%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (6.67%) Migration
7 3 (6.67%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) SQL
2 13 (28.89%) PowerShell
3 10 (22.22%) Bash
3 10 (22.22%) Python
4 8 (17.78%) COBOL
5 7 (15.56%) Perl
6 6 (13.33%) Java
7 5 (11.11%) Korn
7 5 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 3 (6.67%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.22%) Jython
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CAPM
5 2 (4.44%) CBAP
5 2 (4.44%) HNC
5 2 (4.44%) HND
5 2 (4.44%) MCSE
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (4.44%) PMP
6 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.89%) NIST
1 4 (8.89%) SOC 2
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.44%) SEPA
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
1 6 (13.33%) KVM
1 6 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.89%) Firmware
2 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) PowerHA
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) IBM BigFix
1 6 (13.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (6.67%) Ansible
2 3 (6.67%) Nagios
2 3 (6.67%) Netcool
2 3 (6.67%) OpenView
2 3 (6.67%) Tivoli
2 3 (6.67%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 3 (6.67%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.44%) SCCM
3 2 (4.44%) SCOM
3 2 (4.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.22%) CA Wily
4 1 (2.22%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.22%) Puppet
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (73.33%) IBM
2 16 (35.56%) Oracle
3 12 (26.67%) VMware
4 9 (20.00%) Citrix
5 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.89%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (8.89%) CyberArk
7 3 (6.67%) BMC
7 3 (6.67%) HP
7 3 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 3 (6.67%) Splunk
8 2 (4.44%) Brocade
8 2 (4.44%) Cisco
8 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.22%) Perforce