AIX Contracts in Scotland

IBM AIX
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring AIX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AIX over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 128 134
Rank change year-on-year +23 +6 +25
Contract jobs citing AIX 11 1 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.045% 1.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.23% 0.28% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 17
10th Percentile £510 - £377
25th Percentile £544 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £455
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.75%
75th Percentile £589 - £500
90th Percentile £653 - £585
UK median daily rate £481 £545 £513
% change year-on-year -11.70% +6.34% +1.59%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing AIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AIX in Scotland

AIX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AIX in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for AIX in Scotland

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in Scotland

AIX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AIX in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for AIX in Scotland

AIX
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow - 6 £588 -
Edinburgh +9 5 £570 -
AIX
UK

AIX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) IIS
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) OCI
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) IaaS
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Database Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Database Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 1 (9.09%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (18.18%) Ajax
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) Entity Framework
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) JMS
2 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Clustering
1 4 (36.36%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
3 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (45.45%) Solaris
5 3 (27.27%) Unix
6 1 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (45.45%) High Availability
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) Database Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Proactive Maintenance
3 3 (27.27%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) Case Management
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) OWASP
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) VB
3 1 (9.09%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Data Guard
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle Flashback
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
3 3 (27.27%) Puppet
4 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (18.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) Dell
4 4 (36.36%) Dynatrace
4 4 (36.36%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) IBM
6 1 (9.09%) Google