AIX Contract Job Trends in the North West

IBM AIX
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 124 136
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +31
Contract jobs citing AIX 15 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.52% 0.098% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.93% 0.65% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £383 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.31%
75th Percentile £464 - -
90th Percentile £469 - -
England median daily rate £408 £471 £495
% change year-on-year -13.53% -4.80% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 382 307 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.36% 15.03% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 197 214
10th Percentile £134 £156 £163
25th Percentile £163 £213 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £420
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -4.76% -11.58%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £518
90th Percentile £620 £588 £585
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 69
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.82 -
25th Percentile £20.73 £21.05 £10.95
Median hourly rate £41.94 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.45% +51.13% -46.67%
75th Percentile £63.50 £58.38 £19.75
90th Percentile £70.85 £81.11 £48.00
England median hourly rate £22.81 £34.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -32.91% +51.11% -15.09%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AIX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

AIX job vacancy trend in the North West

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AIX

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AIX

AIX
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Manchester - 9 £436 - 1
Lancashire - 4 - -
Cheshire - 2 - -
AIX
England

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (53.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) DataStage
2 6 (40.00%) DB2
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 8 (53.33%) Influencing Skills
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Designer
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Designer
2 6 (40.00%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) BYOD
1 8 (53.33%) Data Centre
1 8 (53.33%) Mainframe
1 8 (53.33%) VSAM
2 6 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (93.33%) Unix
3 8 (53.33%) Solaris
4 6 (40.00%) Windows
4 6 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Business Case
1 8 (53.33%) Design Patterns
1 8 (53.33%) Process Improvement
1 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 6 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Migration
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (6.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (6.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) COBOL
2 6 (40.00%) Bash
2 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (40.00%) KVM
1 6 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) IBM BigFix
1 6 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) IBM
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle