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 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 162 179 210
Rank change year-on-year +17 +31 +12
Contract jobs citing AIX 4 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.72% 0.83% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £351 - £406
25th Percentile £353 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £378 £447 £538
90th Percentile £384 £531 -
England median daily rate £454 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -15.53% +2.38% +2.94%

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 557 725 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.90% 15.21% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 495 652
10th Percentile £163 £167 £165
25th Percentile £210 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £575
90th Percentile £635 £650 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 80 57
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.95 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.00 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -44.25% +63.35%
75th Percentile £19.75 £19.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £41.50 £30.68 £49.52
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

AIX
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

AIX
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

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 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
North West - 2 - -
Yorkshire +6 1 £350 -39.13%
North East -2 1 £375 -6.25%
AIX
England

AIX
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) NAS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) AIX Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AIX Support
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Support
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) HPUX
3 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (25.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) KVM
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk