IBM AIX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AIX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 714 635 815
Rank change year-on-year -79 +180 +20
Permanent jobs citing AIX 23 24 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.054% 0.080%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.41% 0.36% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 62
10th Percentile £45,120 £55,500 -
25th Percentile £48,000 £56,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £81,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £65,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -26.15% +33.33% -20.32%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,629 6,637 13,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.07% 15.00% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,220 4,191 10,734
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AIX job vacancy trend in the UK

AIX
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AIX.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AIX

AIX
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AIX over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AIX in the UK

AIX
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 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
England -60 20 £75,000 +15.38% 4
UK excluding London -50 13 £48,000 -26.15% 3
London -16 10 £75,000 -10.45% 2
North of England -28 7 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £75,000 -
South East -19 3 £48,000 -43.53% 2
North West - 3 - -
Work from Home -3 2 £60,400 -13.71% 3
Wales - 2 £51,750 -
Scotland +4 1 £40,800 -32.00%

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (30.43%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (4.35%) SAP ERP
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) OCI
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) BGP
1 3 (13.04%) CHAP
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
1 3 (13.04%) Internet
1 3 (13.04%) IPsec
1 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
1 3 (13.04%) SSL
1 3 (13.04%) VLAN
1 3 (13.04%) VPN
1 3 (13.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle Database
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (13.04%) Db2
4 1 (4.35%) Adabas
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) JUnit
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 11 (47.83%) Banking
3 10 (43.48%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
6 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) DBA
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle DBA
2 9 (39.13%) Senior
3 7 (30.43%) Senior DBA
3 7 (30.43%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 3 (13.04%) AIX Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Auditor
4 3 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Information Security Auditor
5 2 (8.70%) Security Auditor
5 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) ERP Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Middleware
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) React
2 2 (8.70%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) CSS3
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) HTML5
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
1 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (13.04%) Blockchain
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
1 11 (47.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Unix
3 7 (30.43%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Windows
5 1 (4.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) ITIL
2 10 (43.48%) Incident Response
2 10 (43.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 9 (39.13%) High Availability
4 8 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (34.78%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (30.43%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (30.43%) Change Management
5 7 (30.43%) Configuration Management
5 7 (30.43%) Runbook
6 5 (21.74%) Agile
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
8 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
8 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
8 3 (13.04%) Migration
8 3 (13.04%) Predictive Analytics
8 3 (13.04%) Project Management
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
3 7 (30.43%) Korn
3 7 (30.43%) PL/SQL
3 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
4 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
6 1 (4.35%) Natural
6 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) CGEIT
3 3 (13.04%) CISA
3 3 (13.04%) CISM
3 3 (13.04%) CISSP
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) FFIEC
3 3 (13.04%) SANS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) COBIT
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Clusterware
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Data Guard
2 7 (30.43%) Nagios
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Netcool
5 2 (8.70%) Terraform
6 1 (4.35%) Ansible
6 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Oracle
2 7 (30.43%) IBM
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
3 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
4 3 (13.04%) Citrix
4 3 (13.04%) Snow
4 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
5 2 (8.70%) OneLogin
6 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.35%) Sage
6 1 (4.35%) SAP