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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 155 175
Rank change year-on-year -56 +20 +48
Contract jobs citing AIX 14 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.82% 1.29% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £390 £351 -
25th Percentile £418 £353 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £363 £495
Median % change year-on-year +23.45% -26.77% -1.00%
75th Percentile £467 £378 £496
90th Percentile £469 £384 £526
England median daily rate £411 £452 £495
% change year-on-year -9.02% -8.69% -10.00%

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 768 544 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.32% 16.60% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 330 477
10th Percentile £137 £163 £160
25th Percentile £188 £243 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - -14.71%
75th Percentile £500 £547 £500
90th Percentile £621 £625 £586
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 57
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £14.90
25th Percentile £17.59 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.42 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% +15.24% -38.90%
75th Percentile £51.60 £32.13 £25.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £69.42 £63.75
England median hourly rate £23.00 £41.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -43.90% +64.00% -6.26%

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
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 26 February 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 -19 13 £448 - 1
Yorkshire -66 1 - - 2
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 7 (50.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (7.14%) NAS
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) DataStage
2 6 (42.86%) DB2
2 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 6 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Advertising
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Designer
1 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Designer
2 6 (42.86%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Backup Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) IBM Storage Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) SAN Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) SAN Storage Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 7 (50.00%) BYOD
2 7 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 7 (50.00%) VSAM
3 6 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
1 13 (92.86%) Unix
2 7 (50.00%) Solaris
3 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Business Case
1 7 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 7 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 7 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (42.86%) Asset Management
2 6 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
3 1 (7.14%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Bash
1 7 (50.00%) COBOL
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
1 6 (42.86%) KVM
1 6 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) IBM BigFix
1 6 (42.86%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) IBM
2 8 (57.14%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Brocade
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco