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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 445 503
Rank change year-on-year -91 +58 +70
Contract jobs citing AIX 63 29 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.54% 0.87% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 21
10th Percentile £304 £363 £400
25th Percentile £363 £404 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £489 £500 £588
90th Percentile £653 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £443 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -6.84% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.95 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile £24.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 - -

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 4,091 3,348 5,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.78% 13.99% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,665 2,290 3,468
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -1.63% -6.86%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £459 £467 £475
% change year-on-year -1.66% -1.74% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 156 370
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.11 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -11.11% -47.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.63 £61.90
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% -2.22% -47.06%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -50 30 £459 +18.45%
North West -10 25 £467 -
South West - 16 £371 -
West Midlands -59 7 £413 -13.16%
Midlands -59 7 £413 -10.81%
London -80 6 £635 +52.95% 2
Yorkshire -53 5 £405 +1.25%
East of England -26 3 £212 -59.63%
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 (14.29%) CICS
2 5 (7.94%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.59%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (6.35%) Azure
3 3 (4.76%) GCP
4 2 (3.17%) GitHub
4 2 (3.17%) Lucidchart
4 2 (3.17%) OCI
5 1 (1.59%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.40%) SNMP
2 9 (14.29%) Firewall
3 8 (12.70%) SAN
4 5 (7.94%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (6.35%) NAS
6 3 (4.76%) DNS
6 3 (4.76%) FTP
7 2 (3.17%) LAN
7 2 (3.17%) RS-232
7 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.17%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.29%) DataStage
3 7 (11.11%) DB2
4 5 (7.94%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.17%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) Introscope
General
1 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.40%) Finance
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Military
9 1 (1.59%) Advertising
9 1 (1.59%) International Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Consultant
2 12 (19.05%) Management Consultant
3 9 (14.29%) Designer
3 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Designer
4 7 (11.11%) Administrator
5 6 (9.52%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.94%) Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Backup Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) DBA
7 4 (6.35%) IBM Storage Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (6.35%) SAN Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) SAN Storage Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) Storage Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) Unix Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) AIX Administrator
8 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.40%) REST
2 10 (15.87%) Middleware
3 2 (3.17%) HTML
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.29%) BYOD
2 9 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 9 (14.29%) VSAM
3 6 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (7.94%) Replication
5 4 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.76%) Clustering
6 3 (4.76%) PMI
6 3 (4.76%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.76%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.59%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (79.37%) Linux
2 29 (46.03%) Windows
3 27 (42.86%) Unix
4 19 (30.16%) Solaris
5 10 (15.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (14.29%) Windows Server
7 5 (7.94%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (6.35%) HPUX
8 4 (6.35%) SUSE
9 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
9 3 (4.76%) Windows 7
9 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
2 13 (20.63%) Migration
3 11 (17.46%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (17.46%) Storage Management
4 10 (15.87%) ITIL
4 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
4 10 (15.87%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (14.29%) Business Case
5 9 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 9 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 9 (14.29%) Security Hardening
6 8 (12.70%) Agile
7 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
8 6 (9.52%) Asset Management
8 6 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (9.52%) Project Delivery
8 6 (9.52%) RBAC
8 6 (9.52%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.27%) PowerShell
2 24 (38.10%) Python
2 24 (38.10%) SQL
3 16 (25.40%) Search Processing Language
4 10 (15.87%) Bash
5 9 (14.29%) COBOL
6 4 (6.35%) Java
7 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.76%) Perl
8 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.59%) Jython
9 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (39.68%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Degree
4 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.35%) CISSP
5 4 (6.35%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (6.35%) RHCE
6 3 (4.76%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.17%) CAPM
7 2 (3.17%) CBAP
7 2 (3.17%) HNC
7 2 (3.17%) HND
7 2 (3.17%) MCSE
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (3.17%) PMP
8 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) GRC
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (11.11%) Firmware
3 6 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 6 (9.52%) KVM
4 5 (7.94%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (4.76%) NFS
6 3 (4.76%) PowerHA
6 3 (4.76%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (1.59%) Docker
7 1 (1.59%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 17 (26.98%) Nagios
1 17 (26.98%) Tivoli
2 16 (25.40%) ZABBIX
3 15 (23.81%) Netcool
4 13 (20.63%) OpenView
4 13 (20.63%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 7 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (9.52%) IBM BigFix
6 6 (9.52%) vCenter Server
7 4 (6.35%) Data Guard
7 4 (6.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (4.76%) Ansible
8 3 (4.76%) PowerBroker
8 3 (4.76%) Progress Chef
9 2 (3.17%) Terraform
10 1 (1.59%) CA Wily
10 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
10 1 (1.59%) Puppet
10 1 (1.59%) SCCM
10 1 (1.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 38 (60.32%) IBM
2 17 (26.98%) HP
2 17 (26.98%) SolarWinds
3 16 (25.40%) BMC
3 16 (25.40%) Oracle
3 16 (25.40%) Splunk
4 15 (23.81%) VMware
5 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
6 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
7 5 (7.94%) Brocade
7 5 (7.94%) Cisco
8 3 (4.76%) Citrix
8 3 (4.76%) Veritas
9 1 (1.59%) Dell
9 1 (1.59%) EMC