AIX Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM AIX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 359 367
Rank change year-on-year +55 +8 +52
Contract jobs citing AIX 35 40 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.19% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.59% 1.22% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 43
10th Percentile £358 £400 £378
25th Percentile £409 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £575
90th Percentile £606 £600 £668
UK median daily rate £481 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -11.70% +9.00% -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,206 3,284 4,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.25% 15.82% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 2,182 3,233
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £243 £258 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £468 £504
% change year-on-year +1.50% -7.14% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 321 337
10th Percentile £15.30 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.27 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.69 £22.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -43.59% +73.33%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AIX in the UK excluding London

AIX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AIX in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AIX in the UK excluding London

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the UK excluding London

AIX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AIX in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for AIX in the UK excluding London

AIX
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +23 11 £588 - 1
Midlands +18 10 £454 -18.57%
West Midlands - 6 £475 -
East of England +31 5 £415 +10.53%
South East +37 4 £494 -8.14% 2
North of England +21 4 £363 -9.38%
East Midlands +7 4 £391 -29.87%
South West - 2 - - 2
North West - 2 - -
Yorkshire +5 1 £350 -39.13%
North East -4 1 £375 -6.25%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
AIX
UK

AIX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (8.57%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) OCI
4 3 (8.57%) IaaS
5 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.86%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) SAN
2 2 (5.71%) HTTP
2 2 (5.71%) NAS
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Oracle Database
2 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) Introscope
2 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
3 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Administrator
1 7 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
2 6 (17.14%) Senior
2 6 (17.14%) Unix Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Database Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Database Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Unix Support
5 3 (8.57%) Unix Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Support
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Middleware
2 4 (11.43%) .NET
2 4 (11.43%) HTML
3 3 (8.57%) Web Services
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.71%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (5.71%) Ajax
4 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.71%) CSS
4 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
4 2 (5.71%) J2EE
4 2 (5.71%) JMS
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Clustering
1 4 (11.43%) Replication
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (77.14%) Linux
1 27 (77.14%) Unix
2 10 (28.57%) Solaris
3 9 (25.71%) Windows
4 7 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (11.43%) CentOS
5 4 (11.43%) HPUX
5 4 (11.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (25.71%) High Availability
1 9 (25.71%) ITIL
2 8 (22.86%) Configuration Management
3 6 (17.14%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (17.14%) Problem Management
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.14%) Service Management
4 5 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (11.43%) Database Tuning
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (11.43%) Storage Management
6 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.57%) Coaching
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Proactive Maintenance
6 3 (8.57%) SDLC
6 3 (8.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) Python
3 6 (17.14%) Bash
4 4 (11.43%) Perl
4 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.57%) Java
5 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) C
6 2 (5.71%) Korn
6 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.86%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.86%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.86%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) VB
7 1 (2.86%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) SLA
2 3 (8.57%) NIST
3 2 (5.71%) NCSC
4 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.71%) KVM
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Ansible
2 10 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 10 (28.57%) Puppet
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Data Guard
4 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 4 (11.43%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (11.43%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (11.43%) Oracle Flashback
5 4 (11.43%) SCCM
5 4 (11.43%) Tivoli
5 4 (11.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (5.71%) CA Wily
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (2.86%) Nagios
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) VMware
2 16 (45.71%) Oracle
3 11 (31.43%) Red Hat
4 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 8 (22.86%) IBM
6 4 (11.43%) Dell
6 4 (11.43%) Dynatrace
7 3 (8.57%) Google
7 3 (8.57%) Splunk
8 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
8 2 (5.71%) HP
9 1 (2.86%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (2.86%) Perfecto Mobile