AIX Contracts in the Midlands

IBM AIX
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring AIX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AIX over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 122 155
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 +35
Contract jobs citing AIX 10 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.95% 2.63% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £365 £460 £478
25th Percentile £425 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £558 £495
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +12.63% -13.91%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £518
90th Percentile £490 £600 £557
England median daily rate £454 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -15.53% +2.38% +2.94%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 253 419 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 15.20% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 268 433
10th Percentile £150 £145 £158
25th Percentile £200 £190 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £377 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.74% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £558
90th Percentile £578 £612 £688
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 38
10th Percentile £15.16 £12.86 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.27 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.50 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.05% +3.59%
75th Percentile £19.63 £23.75 £19.98
90th Percentile £24.21 - £30.61
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing AIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AIX in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AIX in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AIX in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AIX in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for AIX in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands - 6 £475 -
East Midlands +3 4 £391 -29.87%
AIX
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Introscope
1 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Unix Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Support
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Unix Support
2 2 (20.00%) Unix Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AIX Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) AIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) J2EE
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Unix
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Business Development
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Tivoli
1 4 (40.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (20.00%) CA Wily
2 2 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle
3 4 (40.00%) IBM
4 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
4 2 (20.00%) Google
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Splunk
5 1 (10.00%) HP