AIX Contract Job Trends in the North of England

IBM AIX
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 169 178
Rank change year-on-year -38 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing AIX 34 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.49% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.42% 0.88% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 4
10th Percentile £391 £354 -
25th Percentile £411 £359 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -3.13% -23.81%
75th Percentile £484 £463 £447
90th Percentile £501 £575 £531
England median daily rate £457 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.44% -10.00% -13.04%

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 770 570 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.17% 15.97% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 371 454
10th Percentile £180 £181 £178
25th Percentile £300 £279 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £560
90th Percentile £625 £622 £688
England median daily rate £459 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 21 81
10th Percentile £16.58 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.20 £10.95
Median hourly rate £22.81 £17.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% +9.38% -28.60%
75th Percentile £48.75 £18.87 £20.00
90th Percentile £178.75 £19.75 £48.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £19.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +68.26% -22.74% -41.18%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

AIX job vacancy trend in the North of England

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AIX

AIX
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 28 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the North of England

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AIX

AIX
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 28 June 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 West - 28 £469 - 5
Yorkshire -46 5 £405 +1.25%
North East -34 3 - - 1
AIX
England

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (26.47%) CICS
2 3 (8.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) OCI
3 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (8.82%) FTP
2 3 (8.82%) NAS
2 3 (8.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) DataStage
2 6 (17.65%) Db2
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle Exadata
2 6 (17.65%) RDBMS
2 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) GitLab
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.88%) Git
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (20.59%) Banking
5 6 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
8 3 (8.82%) Military
9 1 (2.94%) Advertising
9 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Designer
1 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Designer
2 6 (17.65%) Technical Specialist
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Unix Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Backup Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Developer
5 3 (8.82%) IBM Storage Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) SAN Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) SAN Storage Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Storage Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) DBA
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Middleware
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) Data Centre
2 9 (26.47%) BYOD
2 9 (26.47%) Mainframe
2 9 (26.47%) VSAM
3 6 (17.65%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (17.65%) Public Cloud
4 4 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (8.82%) Replication
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (91.18%) Linux
2 22 (64.71%) Unix
3 13 (38.24%) Solaris
4 7 (20.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (17.65%) Windows
5 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
6 4 (11.76%) HPUX
6 4 (11.76%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (11.76%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Migration
1 10 (29.41%) Storage Management
2 9 (26.47%) Business Case
2 9 (26.47%) Design Patterns
2 9 (26.47%) Process Improvement
2 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
3 6 (17.65%) Asset Management
3 6 (17.65%) Data Migration
3 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (17.65%) Security Hardening
3 6 (17.65%) Virtual Environments
4 5 (14.71%) Agile
4 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.71%) ITIL
4 5 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.76%) Performance Management
5 4 (11.76%) Runbook
5 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Bash
1 9 (26.47%) COBOL
1 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (8.82%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) Kotlin
3 3 (8.82%) Python
4 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) CISSP
2 4 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (11.76%) RHCE
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 6 (17.65%) KVM
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (8.82%) Firmware
3 3 (8.82%) NFS
3 3 (8.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Ansible
1 6 (17.65%) Data Guard
1 6 (17.65%) IBM BigFix
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
1 6 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 6 (17.65%) vCenter Server
2 3 (8.82%) PowerBroker
2 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
2 3 (8.82%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) IBM
2 13 (38.24%) Oracle
3 12 (35.29%) VMware
4 7 (20.59%) Red Hat
5 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
6 4 (11.76%) HP
7 3 (8.82%) Brocade
7 3 (8.82%) Cisco
7 3 (8.82%) Veritas