AIX Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM AIX
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 279 331 411
Rank change year-on-year +52 +80 +130
Contract jobs citing AIX 25 14 66
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.091% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.12% 0.88% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 31
10th Percentile £371 £498 £378
25th Percentile £398 £500 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £569
90th Percentile £649 £610 £676
UK median daily rate £481 £545 £513
% change year-on-year -11.70% +6.34% +1.59%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

AIX falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

AIX
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AIX trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AIX
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AIX.

AIX daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AIX
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AIX over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AIX daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AIX.

AIX hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AIX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.00%) CMS
2 3 (12.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Documentum
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Sage X3
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) OCI
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Introscope
1 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) General Ledger
4 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Unix Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Documentum Specialist
3 3 (12.00%) Sage Specialist
3 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Unix Support
3 3 (12.00%) Unix Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Database Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Linux Support
4 2 (8.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) DBA
5 1 (4.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) J2EE
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Clustering
1 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (88.00%) Linux
2 16 (64.00%) Unix
3 10 (40.00%) Windows
4 8 (32.00%) Solaris
5 7 (28.00%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (16.00%) HPUX
7 1 (4.00%) CentOS
7 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Migration
1 7 (28.00%) Re-Platforming
2 6 (24.00%) ITIL
3 5 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Process Management
5 3 (12.00%) Service Management
5 3 (12.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) Database Tuning
6 2 (8.00%) ITSM
7 1 (4.00%) Containerisation
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Bash
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (4.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (4.00%) C
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) Korn
2 1 (4.00%) Perl
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) VB
2 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) CCDE
2 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.00%) Docker
3 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Ansible
1 5 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 5 (20.00%) Puppet
2 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (12.00%) SCCM
3 3 (12.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Data Guard
5 1 (4.00%) CA Wily
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (4.00%) Nagios
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Oracle
2 10 (40.00%) IBM
2 10 (40.00%) VMware
3 6 (24.00%) HP
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (16.00%) Sage
6 3 (12.00%) Adobe
6 3 (12.00%) Siebel
7 2 (8.00%) Splunk
8 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
8 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
8 1 (4.00%) Dell
8 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
8 1 (4.00%) Google
8 1 (4.00%) IBM Sterling