AIX Contracts in the West Midlands

IBM AIX
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing AIX 6 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% - 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.28% - 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £425 - £478
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.85%
75th Percentile £488 - £518
90th Percentile £494 - £557
England median daily rate £454 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -15.53% +2.38% +2.94%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 183 245 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.61% 12.58% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 163 275
10th Percentile £147 £182 £170
25th Percentile £190 £250 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £559
90th Percentile £653 £695 £694
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.83 £14.71
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +32.86% +2.64%
75th Percentile £19.01 £23.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £20.00 £48.13 £25.75
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing AIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AIX in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AIX in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for AIX in the West Midlands

AIX
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire - 6 £475 -
AIX
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (83.33%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Unix Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Unix Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Support
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Unix Support
2 2 (33.33%) Unix Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AIX Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) AIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Storage Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Tivoli
1 4 (66.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle