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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 67 83
Rank change year-on-year -53 +16 +10
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 25 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.77% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.34% 1.21% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 22 3 1
10th Percentile £37,500 £64,500 -
25th Percentile £62,000 £67,500 £64,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.21% +6.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £74,144
90th Percentile £75,967 £89,500 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -

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 1,067 248 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 32.70% 28.51% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 385 182 173
10th Percentile £28,682 £27,050 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +3.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,375 £64,108
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,661 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -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 9 October 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Wales - 22 £70,000 - 1
South Wales -43 3 £71,991 -4.01% 15
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 25 (100.00%) AWS
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
1 25 (100.00%) GCP
2 21 (84.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) NoSQL
2 15 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 15 (60.00%) MySQL
2 15 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Git
General
1 19 (76.00%) Public Sector
2 16 (64.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (60.00%) Banking
4 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Developer
2 15 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Senior
4 5 (20.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Principal Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Principal Software Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (96.00%) Terraform
2 18 (72.00%) Hibernate
2 18 (72.00%) JPA
2 18 (72.00%) Kafka
2 18 (72.00%) RabbitMQ
2 18 (72.00%) RESTful
2 18 (72.00%) Spring
2 18 (72.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (72.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 15 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (60.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) CI/CD
1 24 (96.00%) DevOps
1 24 (96.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (88.00%) Agile
2 22 (88.00%) Microservices
2 22 (88.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (84.00%) Mentoring
3 21 (84.00%) Observability
3 21 (84.00%) Software Engineering
3 21 (84.00%) Technical Leadership
4 19 (76.00%) Decision-Making
4 19 (76.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 19 (76.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (76.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 18 (72.00%) API Design
5 18 (72.00%) Containerisation
5 18 (72.00%) Event-Driven
5 18 (72.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 18 (72.00%) Scrum
6 16 (64.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (84.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) Bicep
3 3 (12.00%) C#
3 3 (12.00%) Go
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (84.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (84.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (60.00%) Grafana
2 15 (60.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Splunk
2 7 (28.00%) Google