AIX Contract Job Trends in Wales

IBM AIX
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring AIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing AIX 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.30% - 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.15% - 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £408 - £473
25th Percentile £411 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £506
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.71%
75th Percentile £423 - £530
90th Percentile £424 - £534
UK median daily rate £550 £415 £420
% change year-on-year +32.50% -1.17% -16.00%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 93 37 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.16% 9.64% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 31 43
10th Percentile £200 £156 £133
25th Percentile £342 £205 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £290 £220
Median % change year-on-year +60.34% +31.82% -53.68%
75th Percentile £541 £300 £518
90th Percentile £600 £475 £550
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 10
10th Percentile - £15.83 £21.15
25th Percentile - £17.06 £43.44
Median hourly rate £14.10 £18.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.80% -60.53% +102.86%
75th Percentile - £19.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £20.20 £53.88
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -54.41% +25.46%

AIX
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

AIX job vacancy trend in Wales

AIX
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AIX

AIX
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AIX

AIX
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIX within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Wales - 2 £419 - 1
AIX
UK

AIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) SFIA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OneLogin
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle