AIX Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

IBM AIX
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AIX 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 2.93% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.91% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile £678 - -
North West median daily rate £469 - -

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 22 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 7.17% 13.19% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 6
10th Percentile £185 £156 £174
25th Percentile £268 £309 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £200
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +162.50% -13.51%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £215
90th Percentile £680 £586 £435
North West median daily rate £428 £400 £445
% change year-on-year +6.98% -10.01% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £22.28 - £22.72
25th Percentile £30.94 - £31.44
Median hourly rate £45.63 £18.87 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.81% -60.69% +12.94%
75th Percentile £60.07 - -
90th Percentile £68.58 - £49.50
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £17.44 £14.88
% change year-on-year +325.80% +17.24% -44.91%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AIX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

AIX job vacancy trend in Lancashire

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing AIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing AIX

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing AIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing AIX

AIX
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Blackpool - 5 £625 - 5
Preston - 4 - - 2
AIX
North West

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle Database
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle Exadata
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 4 (44.44%) Db2
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) GitLab
2 4 (44.44%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Public Cloud
2 4 (44.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Migration
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Data Encryption
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
2 4 (44.44%) KVM
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Data Guard
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle RMAN
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) IBM BigFix
2 4 (44.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) IBM