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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 164 181
Rank change year-on-year -29 +17 +53
Contract jobs citing AIX 3 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.071% 0.12% 0.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.44% 0.98% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £425 - £461
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.41%
75th Percentile £588 - £498
90th Percentile £625 - £538
England median daily rate £411 £381 £525
% change year-on-year +7.94% -27.43% -1.41%

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 686 508 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.18% 12.57% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 282 463
10th Percentile £163 £178 £172
25th Percentile £220 £275 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £440 £438
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £554
90th Percentile £619 £636 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 40 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.22 £15.88
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.19 £17.24
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.78 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -16.55% -2.16%
75th Percentile £21.38 £24.18 £44.28
90th Percentile £34.03 £51.00 £64.38
England median hourly rate £23.00 £58.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -60.34% +32.43% +75.17%

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

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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 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the North of England

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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 21 October 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 -29 3 £525 -
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware