AIX Contract Job Trends in the South West

IBM AIX
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 113 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing AIX 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.35% 0.12% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.93% 0.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £285 - -
25th Percentile £294 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 - -
75th Percentile £373 - -
90th Percentile £489 - -
England median daily rate £415 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -12.63% -12.04% +2.86%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 375 349 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.80% 20.14% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 252 361
10th Percentile £205 £208 £170
25th Percentile £350 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +7.07% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 31 62
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.31 £18.51 £36.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £66.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +20.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.70 - -
England median hourly rate £32.57 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +32.06% +17.43% -27.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

AIX job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX in the South West over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Wiltshire - 11 £308 - 3
AIX
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Consultant
1 8 (72.73%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Event Correlation
3 1 (9.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Nagios
1 11 (100.00%) Netcool
1 11 (100.00%) ZABBIX
2 10 (90.91%) OpenView
2 10 (90.91%) Tivoli
2 10 (90.91%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) BMC
1 11 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 11 (100.00%) Splunk
2 10 (90.91%) HP
2 10 (90.91%) IBM