IBM AIX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AIX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AIX over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 589 671
Rank change year-on-year +43 +82 -140
Contract jobs citing AIX 52 130 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.90% 1.34% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 60 99
10th Percentile £400 £378 £400
25th Percentile £453 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% +13.64%
75th Percentile £594 £628 £588
90th Percentile £600 £688 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +7.75% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £33.78
25th Percentile £51.25 - £52.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £63.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £76.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - £51.25
% change year-on-year - - -14.58%

All Operating Systems
UK

AIX is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,775 9,719 13,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 16.25% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 6,848 9,128
10th Percentile £184 £189 £175
25th Percentile £300 £326 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £615
90th Percentile £700 £717 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 422 633
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.80% +56.25% +17.65%

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 27 April 2024.

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 13 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 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +31 39 £539 +7.75% 5
England +91 38 £538 +2.38% 17
Work from Home +82 14 £550 +10.00% 20
South East +24 13 £538 -15.69%
East Midlands +27 10 £575 - 1
Midlands +21 10 £575 +16.16% 1
North of England +29 6 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales +20 6 £550 -8.33%
London +84 4 £503 +5.79% 8
Yorkshire +21 3 £575 +15.00% 1
North East +18 3 £400 -23.81%
East of England +13 3 £375 +17.19% 1
Scotland +7 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 6 (11.54%) JBoss
2 4 (7.69%) Apache
2 4 (7.69%) IIS
2 4 (7.69%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.92%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) GitHub
3 2 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (40.38%) SAN
2 8 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (5.77%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle Database
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle ODI
2 6 (11.54%) PowerCenter
3 4 (7.69%) DB2
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) JIRA
2 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.69%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.92%) JUnit
3 1 (1.92%) Maven
3 1 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Legal
4 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) DBA
4 8 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
5 6 (11.54%) Administrator
6 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Backup Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 4 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Unix Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Lead
8 2 (3.85%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Oracle Applications DBA
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Project Manager
9 1 (1.92%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Flash
2 9 (17.31%) Middleware
3 2 (3.85%) LDAP
4 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.92%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.92%) Java EE
4 1 (1.92%) JPA
4 1 (1.92%) JSON
4 1 (1.92%) JSP
4 1 (1.92%) JSTL
4 1 (1.92%) OpenJDK
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) Servlets
4 1 (1.92%) Spring
4 1 (1.92%) STL
4 1 (1.92%) Web Services
4 1 (1.92%) XML
4 1 (1.92%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) HP Storage
2 4 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (5.77%) EMC VNX
3 3 (5.77%) Replication
4 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.85%) HACMP
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (80.77%) Linux
2 22 (42.31%) Windows
3 19 (36.54%) Solaris
4 9 (17.31%) Unix
5 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (26.92%) DevOps
3 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (17.31%) E-business
4 9 (17.31%) High Availability
5 8 (15.38%) ITIL
5 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.54%) Migration
6 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
6 6 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (9.62%) Data Protection
7 5 (9.62%) Integration Testing
7 5 (9.62%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (9.62%) Statistics
8 4 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (7.69%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (7.69%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 4 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) Shell Script
3 5 (9.62%) Bash
4 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) Korn
5 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (40.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.92%) CISSP
4 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.92%) PMP
4 1 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.92%) NCSC
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.77%) SRDF
2 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Data Guard
1 9 (17.31%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (11.54%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (11.54%) NetBackup
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (7.69%) Tivoli
4 3 (5.77%) EMC TimeFinder
5 1 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (46.15%) Brocade
2 22 (42.31%) Oracle
3 21 (40.38%) IBM
4 12 (23.08%) Cisco
4 12 (23.08%) EMC
5 8 (15.38%) VMware
6 6 (11.54%) HP
6 6 (11.54%) Informatica
6 6 (11.54%) Symantec
7 4 (7.69%) AppDynamics
7 4 (7.69%) F5
8 3 (5.77%) Dell
8 3 (5.77%) Dell Compellent
8 3 (5.77%) EqualLogic
8 3 (5.77%) Isilon
9 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.85%) Qualys
10 1 (1.92%) Citrix
10 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.92%) Temenos