AIX Contracts

IBM AIX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 548 577
Rank change year-on-year +85 +29 +98
Contract jobs citing AIX 56 52 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.37% 0.89% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 64
10th Percentile £363 £400 £378
25th Percentile £414 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.32% +1.59%
75th Percentile £589 £594 £606
90th Percentile £675 £600 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £539 £500
% change year-on-year -11.83% +7.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AIX in the UK

AIX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AIX in the UK

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the UK

AIX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AIX in the UK

AIX
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +61 36 £454 -15.53% 6
UK excluding London +50 35 £475 -11.83% 4
Work from Home +61 25 £475 -13.64% 5
Scotland +19 11 £588 - 1
Midlands +24 10 £454 -21.04%
London +40 9 £415 -17.38% 3
West Midlands - 6 £475 -
East of England +35 5 £415 +10.53%
South East +34 4 £494 -8.14% 2
North of England +26 4 £363 -9.38%
East Midlands +4 4 £391 -32.00%
South West - 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - -
Yorkshire +13 1 £350 -39.13%
North East -2 1 £375 -6.25%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

AIX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (7.14%) CMS
2 3 (5.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (5.36%) Documentum
2 3 (5.36%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) IIS
3 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Sage X3
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.07%) Azure
2 15 (26.79%) AWS
3 11 (19.64%) OCI
4 5 (8.93%) GCP
5 3 (5.36%) Azure API Management
5 3 (5.36%) IaaS
6 2 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (1.79%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.79%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) SAN
2 5 (8.93%) HTTP
3 3 (5.36%) NAS
4 1 (1.79%) Firewall
4 1 (1.79%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.79%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle Database
2 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Ant
1 3 (5.36%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Introscope
2 2 (3.57%) LoadRunner
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.57%) SoapUI
2 2 (3.57%) Toad
3 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) JUnit
3 1 (1.79%) Postman
3 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Finance
3 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.14%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (16.07%) Unix Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Administrator
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
3 7 (12.50%) Unix Administrator
4 5 (8.93%) Consultant
4 5 (8.93%) Database Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.14%) Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.36%) Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Documentum Specialist
6 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Database Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Unix Support
6 3 (5.36%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) Middleware
2 5 (8.93%) .NET
3 4 (7.14%) HTML
4 3 (5.36%) IBM Integration Bus
4 3 (5.36%) Kafka
4 3 (5.36%) SOAP
4 3 (5.36%) Web Services
4 3 (5.36%) XML
5 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (3.57%) Ajax
5 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.57%) CSS
5 2 (3.57%) EDI
5 2 (3.57%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.57%) J2EE
5 2 (3.57%) JMS
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Clustering
1 4 (7.14%) Replication
2 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (85.71%) Linux
2 39 (69.64%) Unix
3 23 (41.07%) Windows
4 17 (30.36%) Solaris
5 12 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (16.07%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (14.29%) HPUX
8 5 (8.93%) CentOS
8 5 (8.93%) Ubuntu
9 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.43%) Configuration Management
2 11 (19.64%) High Availability
3 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (17.86%) ITIL
3 10 (17.86%) Migration
4 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 7 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
7 6 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (10.71%) Service Management
8 5 (8.93%) Agile
9 4 (7.14%) Coaching
9 4 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (7.14%) Database Tuning
9 4 (7.14%) Incident Management
9 4 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (7.14%) Storage Management
9 4 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) SQL
2 9 (16.07%) Perl
2 9 (16.07%) Python
3 8 (14.29%) Bash
4 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 6 (10.71%) Java
6 5 (8.93%) Korn
6 5 (8.93%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.57%) C
8 2 (3.57%) VB
9 1 (1.79%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.79%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.79%) C#
9 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.79%) VB6
9 1 (1.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (33.93%) SC Cleared
1 19 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) CISM
3 2 (3.57%) CISSP
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) CCDE
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) NIST
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
2 4 (7.14%) SLA
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) NCSC
3 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.57%) SEPA
4 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.07%) Docker
3 7 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.93%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (5.36%) KVM
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (30.36%) Ansible
2 15 (26.79%) Progress Chef
2 15 (26.79%) Puppet
3 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
4 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (12.50%) SCCM
5 6 (10.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 5 (8.93%) Data Guard
7 4 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (7.14%) Oracle Flashback
7 4 (7.14%) Tivoli
7 4 (7.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (3.57%) CA Wily
8 2 (3.57%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (1.79%) Nagios
9 1 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) Oracle
2 22 (39.29%) VMware
3 17 (30.36%) IBM
4 14 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
6 6 (10.71%) HP
7 4 (7.14%) Dell
7 4 (7.14%) Dynatrace
7 4 (7.14%) Google
7 4 (7.14%) Sage
8 3 (5.36%) Adobe
8 3 (5.36%) CyberArk
8 3 (5.36%) Siebel
8 3 (5.36%) Splunk
9 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
9 2 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (3.57%) Perforce
10 1 (1.79%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (1.79%) Perfecto Mobile