AIX Job Trends in the North West

IBM AIX
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring AIX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 - 244
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AIX 10 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.079% - 0.013%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.64% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,544 - £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% +0.88% -30.91%

All Operating Systems
North West

AIX falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 611 1,178 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.85% 23.11% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 456 320 448
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,425
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -17.53%
75th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,900
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AIX relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

AIX job vacancy trend in the North West

AIX
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AIX.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AIX

AIX
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lancashire - 8 - - 1
Manchester - 2 £45,544 - 1
AIX
England

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Cohesity
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) AIX Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) AI
1 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (20.00%) Change Management
1 2 (20.00%) Coaching
1 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) Power Management
1 2 (20.00%) Project Management
1 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (20.00%) Service Design
1 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) Korn
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) IBM AIX Certification
2 2 (20.00%) RHCE
2 2 (20.00%) RHCSA
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Podman
1 2 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Veritas
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) YouTube