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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 519 550
Rank change year-on-year +46 +31 +112
Contract jobs citing AIX 46 53 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.14% 0.92% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 62
10th Percentile £388 £400 £378
25th Percentile £415 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +3.45%
75th Percentile £587 £599 £650
90th Percentile £681 £610 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -11.83% +2.62% +10.53%

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 4,031 5,780 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 13.47% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,657 3,893 6,314
10th Percentile £200 £185 £189
25th Percentile £313 £300 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £683 £700 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £465
% change year-on-year - -3.12% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 405 392
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £13.34
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £17.97
Median hourly rate £22.25 £22.50 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -48.78% +99.68%
75th Percentile £50.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £22.51 £39.05
% change year-on-year -15.59% -42.36% +95.25%

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 31 May 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 14 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 31 May 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 +41 29 £450 -16.28% 25
UK excluding London +41 27 £475 -11.83% 22
Work from Home +47 19 £450 -18.18% 13
London +57 12 £415 -17.38% 8
Scotland +14 10 £575 - 5
Midlands +10 8 £463 -17.04% 9
North of England +19 7 £388 -3.13% 7
West Midlands - 6 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +15 4 £400 -30.43% 4
East Midlands 0 2 £326 -41.61% 7
North West - 2 - -
East of England +23 1 £525 +40.00%
North East -1 1 £375 -6.25% 3
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 (8.70%) CMS
2 3 (6.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (6.52%) Documentum
2 3 (6.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
3 1 (2.17%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (6.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Sage X3
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) OCI
3 9 (19.57%) AWS
4 6 (13.04%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Azure API Management
6 3 (6.52%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) PaaS
8 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) SAN
2 6 (13.04%) HTTP
3 4 (8.70%) Firewall
4 3 (6.52%) NAS
4 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.17%) Internet
5 1 (2.17%) LAN
5 1 (2.17%) SMS
5 1 (2.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) Oracle Database
2 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.17%) DB2
6 1 (2.17%) MySQL
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) Ant
2 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.70%) Postman
3 3 (6.52%) SoapUI
3 3 (6.52%) Toad
4 2 (4.35%) Introscope
4 2 (4.35%) JUnit
4 2 (4.35%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 15 (32.61%) Finance
2 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.70%) General Ledger
5 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) Developer
1 7 (15.22%) Unix Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Administrator
3 5 (10.87%) Database Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Unix Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) Integration Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.52%) Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Documentum Specialist
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Database Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Unix Support
5 3 (6.52%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Middleware
2 6 (13.04%) .NET
2 6 (13.04%) HTML
3 5 (10.87%) SOAP
3 5 (10.87%) XML
4 4 (8.70%) IBM Integration Bus
4 4 (8.70%) Kafka
5 3 (6.52%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.52%) .NET Framework
5 3 (6.52%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (6.52%) Ajax
5 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.52%) CSS
5 3 (6.52%) EDI
5 3 (6.52%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.52%) JMS
5 3 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (6.52%) Web Services
6 2 (4.35%) J2EE
7 1 (2.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Replication
2 4 (8.70%) Clustering
3 3 (6.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (91.30%) Linux
2 28 (60.87%) Unix
3 19 (41.30%) Windows
4 17 (36.96%) Solaris
5 14 (30.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (19.57%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (10.87%) HPUX
8 3 (6.52%) CentOS
8 3 (6.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
8 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) High Availability
2 10 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (21.74%) ITIL
2 10 (21.74%) Migration
3 9 (19.57%) Agile
3 9 (19.57%) Problem Management
3 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (15.22%) Re-Platforming
5 6 (13.04%) Configuration Management
5 6 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (10.87%) Service Management
7 4 (8.70%) API Management
7 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.70%) Computer Science
7 4 (8.70%) Database Tuning
7 4 (8.70%) DevOps
7 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
7 4 (8.70%) Storage Management
7 4 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
1 13 (28.26%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) Perl
3 8 (17.39%) Java
4 7 (15.22%) PL/SQL
4 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
5 6 (13.04%) Bash
6 5 (10.87%) Korn
7 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 3 (6.52%) C
9 2 (4.35%) VB
10 1 (2.17%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.17%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (2.17%) C#
10 1 (2.17%) C++
10 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.17%) VB6
10 1 (2.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) CISM
3 2 (4.35%) CISSP
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) CCDE
4 1 (2.17%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) GDPR
1 4 (8.70%) SLA
2 3 (6.52%) NCSC
2 3 (6.52%) SEPA
3 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (8.70%) Docker
4 3 (6.52%) KVM
4 3 (6.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Ansible
1 9 (19.57%) Puppet
2 6 (13.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (13.04%) Progress Chef
3 5 (10.87%) Data Guard
4 4 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle Flashback
4 4 (8.70%) Tivoli
4 4 (8.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (4.35%) CA Wily
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (2.17%) Nagios
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (60.87%) Oracle
2 19 (41.30%) IBM
2 19 (41.30%) VMware
3 16 (34.78%) Red Hat
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 5 (10.87%) Dynatrace
6 4 (8.70%) Dell
6 4 (8.70%) Google
6 4 (8.70%) Sage
6 4 (8.70%) Splunk
7 3 (6.52%) Adobe
7 3 (6.52%) CyberArk
7 3 (6.52%) HP
7 3 (6.52%) MuleSoft
7 3 (6.52%) Perforce
7 3 (6.52%) Siebel
8 2 (4.35%) AppDynamics
8 2 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (2.17%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (2.17%) Perfecto Mobile