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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 344 348
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 +73
Contract jobs citing AIX 24 43 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.20% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.03% 1.28% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 43
10th Percentile £388 £400 £378
25th Percentile £425 £472 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £600
90th Percentile £595 £599 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -11.83% +2.62% +2.94%

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 2,337 3,366 4,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.40% 15.80% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 2,178 2,911
10th Percentile £181 £177 £166
25th Percentile £250 £280 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £567 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 349 303
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.35 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £18.87 £25.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% -40.59% +112.50%
75th Percentile £41.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £23.98 £47.50
% change year-on-year -8.24% -49.53% +111.11%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +14 10 £575 - 16
Midlands +7 7 £475 -14.80% 50
North of England +15 6 £388 -3.13% 59
West Midlands - 6 £475 - 21
Yorkshire +10 4 £400 -30.43% 30
East Midlands 0 1 £391 -29.87% 29
North East -6 1 £375 -6.25% 3
North West - 1 - - 26
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
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 2 (8.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) OCI
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) IaaS
4 2 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) SAN
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.17%) HTTP
4 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
4 1 (4.17%) NAS
4 1 (4.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) Introscope
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Banking
4 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) Database Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Unix Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Database Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Unix Support
4 3 (12.50%) Unix Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Support
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
1 4 (16.67%) HTML
1 4 (16.67%) Middleware
2 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (12.50%) Ajax
2 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (12.50%) CSS
2 3 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 3 (12.50%) JMS
2 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.17%) J2EE
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Clustering
1 4 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Linux
2 15 (62.50%) Unix
3 10 (41.67%) Solaris
4 9 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (12.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (4.17%) CentOS
7 1 (4.17%) HPUX
7 1 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) ITIL
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) High Availability
3 7 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (29.17%) Problem Management
4 6 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Service Management
6 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (16.67%) Database Tuning
6 4 (16.67%) DevOps
6 4 (16.67%) Storage Management
7 3 (12.50%) Case Management
7 3 (12.50%) Data Management
7 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 3 (12.50%) OWASP
7 3 (12.50%) SDLC
7 3 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Python
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Bash
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (12.50%) Perl
2 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
4 1 (4.17%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (4.17%) C
4 1 (4.17%) Korn
4 1 (4.17%) VB
4 1 (4.17%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
2 3 (12.50%) NCSC
3 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (8.33%) Docker
5 1 (4.17%) KVM
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (25.00%) Puppet
2 5 (20.83%) Data Guard
3 4 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle Flashback
3 4 (16.67%) Tivoli
3 4 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.17%) CA Wily
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (4.17%) Nagios
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Oracle
1 15 (62.50%) VMware
2 11 (45.83%) Red Hat
3 8 (33.33%) IBM
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
5 4 (16.67%) Dell
5 4 (16.67%) Dynatrace
6 3 (12.50%) MuleSoft
7 2 (8.33%) Google
7 2 (8.33%) Splunk
8 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
8 1 (4.17%) HP
8 1 (4.17%) IBM Sterling