AIX Contracts in the Thames Valley

IBM AIX
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing AIX 4 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% - 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.90% - 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £414 - £463
25th Percentile £445 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 - £697
90th Percentile £634 - £700
South East median daily rate £494 £538 £638
% change year-on-year -8.14% -15.69% +18.60%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 391 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.90% 14.56% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 281 318
10th Percentile £213 £193 £213
25th Percentile £329 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile - £19.13 £19.52
Median hourly rate £14.20 £38.75 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -63.35% -20.43% +143.50%
75th Percentile £18.58 £57.13 £62.97
90th Percentile £23.63 £61.60 £78.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing AIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for AIX in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AIX in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for AIX in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AIX in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for AIX in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 2 £563 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £488 -
AIX
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Unix DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
2 2 (50.00%) HPUX
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Korn
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) HP