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 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 59 116
Rank change year-on-year -37 +57 -4
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 5 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.26% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.07% 0.46% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,630 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,626 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,622 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% -5.71%

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 469 218 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.78% 41.44% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 244 120 346
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,069 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,103 £41,250 £32,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,810 £59,857 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +33.02% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £83,875 £80,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 11 June 2026.

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 11 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
West Wales - 3 £75,000 - 2
South Wales -30 2 £55,000 -18.67% 5
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 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google