AIX Contract Job Trends

IBM AIX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 477 532
Rank change year-on-year -86 +55 -16
Contract jobs citing AIX 71 42 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.48% 1.01% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 32
10th Percentile £304 £397 £400
25th Percentile £365 £415 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -11.83% +2.62%
75th Percentile £494 £589 £590
90th Percentile £677 £694 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -9.47% -11.63% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.95 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile £24.05 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 - -

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 4,782 4,144 5,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.52% 13.99% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,050 2,701 3,844
10th Percentile £189 £200 £188
25th Percentile £315 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 420
10th Percentile £14.70 £15.28 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £15.85
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.24% -49.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.14 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.69 £18.87 £25.25
% change year-on-year +46.74% -25.27% -40.59%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AIX job vacancy trend in the UK

AIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIX over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AIX in the UK

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

AIX
Top 12 Contract Job 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 16 June 2026. 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 -75 66 £449 -0.22% 13
UK excluding London -71 58 £430 -9.47% 10
North of England -45 32 £462 +19.23% 3
North West -14 27 £469 - 2
Work from Home -35 16 £459 +2.00% 5
South West - 16 £371 - 1
Midlands -57 7 £413 -13.16% 2
West Midlands -57 7 £413 -13.16% 1
London -86 7 £618 +48.80% 3
Yorkshire -53 5 £405 +1.25%
East of England - 3 £212 -
North East -33 1 - - 1

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (14.08%) CICS
2 5 (7.04%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.41%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.41%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.41%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) AWS
2 5 (7.04%) GCP
3 4 (5.63%) Azure
3 4 (5.63%) OCI
4 2 (2.82%) GitHub
4 2 (2.82%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.41%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.35%) SNMP
2 10 (14.08%) Firewall
3 8 (11.27%) SAN
4 5 (7.04%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (5.63%) NAS
6 3 (4.23%) DNS
6 3 (4.23%) FTP
7 2 (2.82%) LAN
7 2 (2.82%) RS-232
7 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.82%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) DataStage
1 10 (14.08%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.86%) Db2
2 7 (9.86%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.63%) Oracle Exadata
3 4 (5.63%) RDBMS
3 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.82%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) GitLab
2 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.23%) JIRA
3 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.82%) Git
4 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.41%) Introscope
General
1 24 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 11 (15.49%) Banking
4 10 (14.08%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (4.23%) Military
10 1 (1.41%) Advertising
10 1 (1.41%) International Banking
10 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Consultant
2 14 (19.72%) Management Consultant
3 10 (14.08%) Designer
3 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Designer
4 7 (9.86%) Administrator
5 6 (8.45%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.04%) Analyst
6 5 (7.04%) Senior
6 5 (7.04%) Unix Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Backup Administrator
7 4 (5.63%) DBA
7 4 (5.63%) IBM Storage Administrator
7 4 (5.63%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (5.63%) SAN Administrator
7 4 (5.63%) SAN Storage Administrator
7 4 (5.63%) Storage Administrator
7 4 (5.63%) Storage and Backup Administrator
8 3 (4.23%) Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.35%) REST
2 11 (15.49%) Middleware
3 4 (5.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (2.82%) HTML
4 2 (2.82%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.39%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.08%) BYOD
2 10 (14.08%) Mainframe
2 10 (14.08%) VSAM
3 6 (8.45%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (7.04%) Replication
5 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Clustering
6 3 (4.23%) PMI
6 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.41%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (81.69%) Linux
2 33 (46.48%) Windows
3 29 (40.85%) Unix
4 21 (29.58%) Solaris
5 11 (15.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (12.68%) Windows Server
7 6 (8.45%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (7.04%) HPUX
8 5 (7.04%) SUSE
9 3 (4.23%) Windows 10
9 3 (4.23%) Windows 7
9 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.35%) Migration
2 14 (19.72%) Dashboard Development
3 12 (16.90%) Storage Management
4 11 (15.49%) ITIL
4 11 (15.49%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (15.49%) Roadmaps
4 11 (15.49%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (14.08%) Business Case
5 10 (14.08%) Design Patterns
5 10 (14.08%) Process Improvement
5 10 (14.08%) Security Hardening
6 8 (11.27%) Agile
6 8 (11.27%) Change Management
6 8 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (11.27%) Project Delivery
7 7 (9.86%) CI/CD
7 7 (9.86%) Data Centre Operations
7 7 (9.86%) RBAC
8 6 (8.45%) Asset Management
8 6 (8.45%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) PowerShell
2 26 (36.62%) Python
3 24 (33.80%) SQL
4 16 (22.54%) Search Processing Language
5 10 (14.08%) Bash
5 10 (14.08%) COBOL
6 4 (5.63%) Java
7 3 (4.23%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.23%) Perl
8 2 (2.82%) ABAP
8 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.41%) Jython
9 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (40.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.04%) CISSP
5 5 (7.04%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (7.04%) RHCE
6 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.82%) CAPM
7 2 (2.82%) CBAP
7 2 (2.82%) HNC
7 2 (2.82%) HND
7 2 (2.82%) MCSE
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.82%) PMP
8 1 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) GRC
2 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.82%) NIST
2 2 (2.82%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (12.68%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (9.86%) Firmware
2 7 (9.86%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (8.45%) Hyper-V
3 6 (8.45%) KVM
4 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.23%) NFS
5 3 (4.23%) PowerHA
5 3 (4.23%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (1.41%) Docker
6 1 (1.41%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 19 (26.76%) Nagios
1 19 (26.76%) Tivoli
2 18 (25.35%) ZABBIX
3 17 (23.94%) Netcool
4 15 (21.13%) OpenView
4 15 (21.13%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 7 (9.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (8.45%) Data Guard
6 6 (8.45%) IBM BigFix
6 6 (8.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (8.45%) vCenter Server
7 5 (7.04%) Ansible
8 4 (5.63%) Terraform
9 3 (4.23%) PowerBroker
9 3 (4.23%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.41%) CA Wily
10 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
10 1 (1.41%) Puppet
10 1 (1.41%) SCCM
10 1 (1.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 41 (57.75%) IBM
2 21 (29.58%) Oracle
3 20 (28.17%) HP
4 19 (26.76%) SolarWinds
5 18 (25.35%) BMC
5 18 (25.35%) Splunk
6 16 (22.54%) VMware
7 9 (12.68%) Red Hat
8 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
9 5 (7.04%) Brocade
9 5 (7.04%) Cisco
10 3 (4.23%) Citrix
10 3 (4.23%) Veritas
11 2 (2.82%) Ariba
11 2 (2.82%) SAP
12 1 (1.41%) Dell
12 1 (1.41%) EMC