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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 181 161
Rank change year-on-year -46 -20 +23
Contract jobs citing AIX 28 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.37% 0.076% 0.049%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.22% 0.48% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 2 0
10th Percentile £408 £425 -
25th Percentile £458 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £588 -
90th Percentile £688 £625 -
England median daily rate £500 £415 £436
% change year-on-year +20.44% -4.83% -19.77%

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 869 628 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.40% 15.86% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 420 336
10th Percentile £182 £180 £186
25th Percentile £239 £278 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £466
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -14.21% +5.97%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £594
90th Percentile £615 £625 £800
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 24 45
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £16.90 £15.18 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.98 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +2.73% -17.88%
75th Percentile £43.56 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £178.75 £19.77 £31.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.58 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.22% -50.84% +8.98%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 - 23 £506 - 1
Yorkshire -36 4 £405 -22.86%
North East - 4 - -
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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) OCI
3 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
1 3 (10.71%) FTP
2 2 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (7.14%) NAS
2 2 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 14 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 14 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 14 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) GitLab
2 8 (28.57%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (25.00%) Banking
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Senior
3 9 (32.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Lead
6 3 (10.71%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Administrator
7 2 (7.14%) Backup Administrator
7 2 (7.14%) IBM Storage Administrator
7 2 (7.14%) SAN Administrator
7 2 (7.14%) SAN Storage Administrator
7 2 (7.14%) Storage Administrator
7 2 (7.14%) Storage and Backup Administrator
8 1 (3.57%) Designer
8 1 (3.57%) Optimisation Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 14 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Public Cloud
2 7 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (17.86%) Replication
4 4 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.57%) BYOD
6 1 (3.57%) FPGA
6 1 (3.57%) Grid Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
6 1 (3.57%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (92.86%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) Unix
3 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (21.43%) Solaris
5 5 (17.86%) HPUX
5 5 (17.86%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (17.86%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Migration
2 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (39.29%) Data Migration
5 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
5 9 (32.14%) Storage Management
6 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (17.86%) Data Encryption
8 5 (17.86%) ITIL
8 5 (17.86%) Security Hardening
9 4 (14.29%) Agile
9 4 (14.29%) Change Management
9 4 (14.29%) Performance Management
9 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (14.29%) RBAC
9 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (14.29%) Runbook
9 4 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Java
1 3 (10.71%) Kotlin
2 2 (7.14%) Bash
2 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.14%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) CISSP
3 4 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (14.29%) RHCE
4 3 (10.71%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (10.71%) NFS
2 3 (10.71%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Firmware
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Ansible
1 14 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 14 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (17.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (10.71%) PowerBroker
3 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
3 3 (10.71%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 22 (78.57%) Oracle
2 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (17.86%) HP
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.71%) IBM
4 3 (10.71%) Veritas
4 3 (10.71%) VMware
5 2 (7.14%) Brocade
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco
6 1 (3.57%) Mellanox
6 1 (3.57%) Solarflare