Distributed Systems Job Trends in Wales

Distributed Systems
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 74 93
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +28
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 6 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.68% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.46% 1.69% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £50,832 - -
25th Percentile £62,684 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,379 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% +6.63% +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,467 £74,144 £73,913
90th Percentile £85,645 - £81,315
UK median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% - -3.03%

All Generic Skills
Wales

Distributed Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 244 296 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 27.48% 24.10% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 185 171 275
10th Percentile £27,700 £24,500 £29,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,250 £64,554 £60,900
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,954
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Wales

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Wales over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in Wales

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +10 4 £74,401 +7.35% 8
West Wales - 2 £54,060 - 4
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
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 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) dbt
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
General
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Micro Frontends
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Argo
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) PagerDuty
2 1 (16.67%) Google