Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Wales

Distributed Systems
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.22% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £507 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -18.88% - -3.85%

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 contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 143 126 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 30.95% 33.78% 28.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 88
10th Percentile £163 £147 £157
25th Percentile £202 £210 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £309 £400 £311
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +28.51% -26.76%
75th Percentile £438 £550 £523
90th Percentile £646 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 6
10th Percentile - £19.07 £44.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.44 £51.75
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.39 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.17% -39.46% +234.38%
75th Percentile £58.13 £42.19 £56.19
90th Percentile £85.50 £45.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.56% - +56.18%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Wales

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
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 Distributed Systems within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 January 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 - 1 £475 - 1
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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform