AIX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM AIX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 315 371
Rank change year-on-year -73 +56 +31
Contract jobs citing AIX 21 41 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.73% 1.64% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 16
10th Percentile - £360 £408
25th Percentile £126 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £171 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -62.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £311 £491 £545
90th Percentile £465 £616 £656
UK median daily rate £408 £445 £500
% change year-on-year -8.48% -10.95% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 2,893 2,499 3,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.73% 16.91% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 1,499 2,208
10th Percentile £163 £180 £160
25th Percentile £213 £236 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £619 £650 £655
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 150 266
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.95 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.61 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £26.09
Median % change year-on-year -29.65% +37.03% +18.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £70.00 £75.14
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year -38.66% +27.13% +29.00%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AIX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AIX job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AIX

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 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the UK excluding London

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AIX

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 26 December 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
East of England -15 11 £127 -69.48%
Midlands -42 10 £450 -0.88%
West Midlands -26 9 £450 -2.70%
East Midlands -21 1 £450 +26.05%
AIX
UK

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) SSH
2 5 (23.81%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle Database
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Analyst
2 11 (52.38%) Support Analyst
2 11 (52.38%) Technical Analyst
2 11 (52.38%) Technical Support
2 11 (52.38%) Technical Support Analyst
3 7 (33.33%) Consultant
4 6 (28.57%) Management Consultant
5 5 (23.81%) IT Analyst
5 5 (23.81%) IT Support
5 5 (23.81%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) LDAP
2 5 (23.81%) OAuth
2 5 (23.81%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) HP Storage
2 1 (4.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) Windows 10
2 11 (52.38%) Windows 7
2 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 10 (47.62%) Linux
4 9 (42.86%) Solaris
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Proactive Monitoring
2 8 (38.10%) RBAC
3 7 (33.33%) Key Management
4 6 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
6 4 (19.05%) Strategic Planning
7 1 (4.76%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (4.76%) Agile
7 1 (4.76%) Business Analysis
7 1 (4.76%) Change Management
7 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.76%) ITIL
7 1 (4.76%) Migration
7 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.76%) Project Management
7 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.76%) Service Management
7 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Bash
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 3 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CAPM
1 1 (4.76%) CBAP
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.76%) PMP
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (19.05%) NIST
1 4 (19.05%) SOC 2
2 3 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Citrix
1 11 (52.38%) Oracle
2 7 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
2 7 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 6 (28.57%) IBM
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Brocade
4 1 (4.76%) EMC
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) NetApp
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) Veritas
4 1 (4.76%) VMware