AIX Contract Job Trends in Manchester

IBM AIX
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 84 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +25
Contract jobs citing AIX 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.080% 0.096% 0.062%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.89% 0.75% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 - £355
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.18%
North West median daily rate £436 - £495
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 112 134 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.92% 12.85% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 95 126
10th Percentile £159 £178 £221
25th Percentile £190 £282 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £423
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -5.33% -17.16%
75th Percentile £500 £557 £524
90th Percentile £640 £600 £613
North West median daily rate £358 £385 £438
% change year-on-year -7.01% -12.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 19
10th Percentile £21.17 - £17.58
25th Percentile £21.46 - £18.49
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +98.28% +14.85% -36.88%
75th Percentile £63.50 - £68.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £21.46 £22.09 £18.25
% change year-on-year -2.85% +21.04% -45.93%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AIX job vacancy trend in Manchester

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AIX

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AIX

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (100.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) BYOD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware