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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 84 88
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +37
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.12% 0.20% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.80% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £59,150
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,471 £59,694
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +6.63% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - - £78,025
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

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 243 373 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 29.38% 24.43% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 177 185 295
10th Percentile £26,733 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,170 £31,250 £33,121
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £47,307 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% +5.13% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,973
90th Percentile £76,540 £69,500 £70,954
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems 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
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 18 September 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 +14 1 £65,000 -6.22% 4
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform