AIX Contract Job Trends in the South East

IBM AIX
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 - 165
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing AIX 2 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.030% - 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% - 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - £360
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £435
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.56%
75th Percentile - - £469
90th Percentile - - £616
England median daily rate £503 £415 £425
% change year-on-year +21.16% -2.32% -20.93%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 778 603 807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.74% 17.28% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 428 537
10th Percentile £204 £188 £203
25th Percentile £334 £221 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £585
90th Percentile £645 £623 £638
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 48 39
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £15.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £18.87 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +105.19% -66.75% +1.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £25.86 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.47 £66.03 £70.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.08% -56.26% +20.22%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

AIX job vacancy trend in the South East

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AIX

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AIX

AIX
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Hampshire - 2 £700 -
AIX
England

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas