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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 107 112
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing AIX 5 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.16% 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.02% 1.01% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £441 £485
25th Percentile - £447 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -19.57% +16.16%
75th Percentile £475 £469 £588
90th Percentile £490 - -
England median daily rate £415 £415 £550
% change year-on-year +0.04% -24.55% +7.84%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 248 297 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.20% 15.60% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 193 228
10th Percentile £160 £188 £170
25th Percentile £250 £300 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £540
90th Percentile £616 £688 £688
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 14
10th Percentile £17.03 £13.74 £14.31
25th Percentile £19.89 £16.63 £17.56
Median hourly rate £24.66 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.79% -5.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £24.83 £22.66 £28.56
90th Percentile £24.93 £28.88 £28.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £41.41
% change year-on-year -26.15% -21.52% +73.20%

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

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AIX

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AIX

AIX
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Shropshire -14 5 £450 -2.70% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SSH
2 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Management Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) HP Storage
1 1 (20.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) RBAC
2 3 (60.00%) Key Management
3 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CAPM
1 1 (20.00%) CBAP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) BeyondTrust
1 3 (60.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Brocade
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Veritas