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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 180 165
Rank change year-on-year -33 -15 +28
Contract jobs citing AIX 37 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.50% 0.10% 0.098%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.48% 0.66% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 3 3
10th Percentile £404 £360 -
25th Percentile £458 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% - -23.81%
75th Percentile £638 £525 -
90th Percentile £688 £600 -
England median daily rate £489 £421 £415
% change year-on-year +16.03% +1.45% -26.22%

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 825 602 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.15% 15.08% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 399 359
10th Percentile £167 £180 £184
25th Percentile £235 £268 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -11.11% +0.84%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £588
90th Percentile £629 £613 £758
England median daily rate £470 £454 £488
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.96% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 20 60
10th Percentile £16.21 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £17.07 £13.90 £10.95
Median hourly rate £19.84 £17.72 £15.46
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +14.62% -29.73%
75th Percentile £27.33 £18.87 £19.39
90th Percentile £178.75 £19.75 £24.64
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +41.30% -32.35% -20.00%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 - 31 £497 - 2
Yorkshire -37 5 £405 +1.25%
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 5 (13.51%) CICS
2 3 (8.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) AWS
2 15 (40.54%) OCI
3 3 (8.11%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (8.11%) FTP
2 3 (8.11%) NAS
2 3 (8.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (40.54%) Oracle Database
1 15 (40.54%) Oracle Exadata
1 15 (40.54%) RDBMS
1 15 (40.54%) Relational Database
2 5 (13.51%) DataStage
3 3 (8.11%) Db2
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) GitLab
2 8 (21.62%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) JIRA
4 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.11%) Military
6 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Senior
3 9 (24.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Designer
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Designer
4 5 (13.51%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Backup Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Developer
6 3 (8.11%) IBM Storage Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) SAN Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) SAN Storage Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Storage Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 5 (13.51%) Middleware
3 2 (5.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Data Centre
1 12 (32.43%) Public Cloud
2 6 (16.22%) Replication
3 5 (13.51%) BYOD
3 5 (13.51%) Mainframe
3 5 (13.51%) VSAM
4 4 (10.81%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (10.81%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.70%) FPGA
6 1 (2.70%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 34 (91.89%) Linux
2 16 (43.24%) Unix
3 10 (27.03%) Solaris
4 8 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (13.51%) HPUX
5 5 (13.51%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (13.51%) SUSE
6 3 (8.11%) Windows
6 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Migration
2 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (32.43%) Data Migration
5 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
5 10 (27.03%) Storage Management
6 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
7 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (16.22%) Security Hardening
9 5 (13.51%) Agile
9 5 (13.51%) Business Case
9 5 (13.51%) Data Encryption
9 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
9 5 (13.51%) ITIL
9 5 (13.51%) Process Improvement
10 4 (10.81%) RBAC
10 4 (10.81%) Runbook
10 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Bash
1 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.51%) COBOL
2 5 (13.51%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) Kotlin
3 3 (8.11%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) CISSP
3 4 (10.81%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (10.81%) RHCE
4 3 (8.11%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (13.51%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.11%) Firmware
3 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.11%) KVM
3 3 (8.11%) NFS
3 3 (8.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) Ansible
1 15 (40.54%) Data Guard
1 15 (40.54%) Oracle RMAN
1 15 (40.54%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (8.11%) IBM BigFix
3 3 (8.11%) PowerBroker
3 3 (8.11%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.11%) Tivoli
3 3 (8.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (62.16%) Oracle
2 11 (29.73%) IBM
3 8 (21.62%) VMware
4 7 (18.92%) Red Hat
5 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
6 5 (13.51%) HP
7 3 (8.11%) Brocade
7 3 (8.11%) Cisco
7 3 (8.11%) Veritas
8 1 (2.70%) Mellanox
8 1 (2.70%) Solarflare