AIX Contracts in the North of England

IBM AIX
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 174 190
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +51
Contract jobs citing AIX 5 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.86% 0.89% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £354 - £506
25th Percentile £359 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £463 £447 £538
90th Percentile £575 £531 £547
England median daily rate £436 £415 £575
% change year-on-year +4.94% -27.83% +10.58%

All Operating Systems
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 582 677 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.59% 14.11% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 445 587
10th Percentile £181 £178 £169
25th Percentile £270 £275 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £593
90th Percentile £621 £688 £688
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 81 68
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.16
25th Percentile £13.90 £10.95 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.47 £16.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -27.27% +20.55%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £19.75 £48.00 £47.88
England median hourly rate £20.38 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.50% -41.18% +93.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AIX in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AIX in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AIX in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AIX in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for AIX in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Yorkshire +5 4 £400 -30.43% 1
North East -3 1 £375 -6.25% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (20.00%) SSH
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) AIX Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AIX Support
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Unix Support
3 1 (20.00%) Unix Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Solaris
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Key Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Korn
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Splunk