Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Distributed Systems
Wales > West Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in West 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 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 2.50% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 - -

All Generic Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 7.50% 16.67% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £195 £109 £191
25th Percentile £239 £115 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £128 £256
Median % change year-on-year +152.94% -50.24% +42.36%
75th Percentile £409 £138 £302
90th Percentile £456 £142 £327
Wales median daily rate £309 £400 £311
% change year-on-year -22.81% +28.51% -26.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £32.39 £53.50
% change year-on-year -35.17% -39.46% +234.38%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in West Wales

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Swansea - 1 £475 - 1
Distributed Systems
Wales

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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