Distributed Systems
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 404 189
Rank change year-on-year -26 -215 +56
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 562 780 3,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.79% 2.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 1.85% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 371 409 723
10th Percentile £47,500 £58,955 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £106,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £125,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Distributed Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
England -21 485 £82,500 -5.71% 200
UK excluding London +132 313 £65,000 -7.14% 123
London -59 249 £95,000 +2.70% 160
Work from Home -74 169 £82,500 -2.94% 77
South East +71 117 £65,000 -16.13% 76
North of England +78 71 £68,000 -2.86% 18
Scotland -24 51 £50,000 -25.93% 11
Midlands +4 43 £59,650 -6.43% 5
North West +24 36 £80,000 +14.29% 10
West Midlands +14 35 £54,650 -15.92% 4
Yorkshire +96 33 £68,000 -20.00% 7
East of England -1 16 £120,000 +41.18% 3
South West -22 11 £62,500 +21.95% 6
East Midlands +1 8 £87,500 +45.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £100,000 - 3
Wales +10 3 - - 1
North East -5 2 £75,000 +15.38% 2

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (6.58%) OpenStack
2 31 (5.52%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.56%) IIS
4 19 (3.38%) Confluence
5 12 (2.14%) Apache
6 11 (1.96%) JBoss
7 9 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.60%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.53%) CMS
8 3 (0.53%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.53%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.36%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
1 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 257 (45.73%) AWS
2 184 (32.74%) Azure
3 92 (16.37%) Serverless
4 64 (11.39%) GCP
5 61 (10.85%) GitHub
6 53 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (8.01%) Amazon ECS
8 45 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (7.47%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (7.12%) IBM Cloud
11 30 (5.34%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (3.74%) Datadog
14 18 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (3.20%) PaaS
15 17 (3.02%) Amazon S3
15 17 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (3.02%) SaaS
16 13 (2.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.56%) WAN
2 14 (2.49%) Network Security
3 12 (2.14%) HTTP
4 11 (1.96%) DNS
5 9 (1.60%) Firewall
6 2 (0.36%) DSL
7 1 (0.18%) RTP
7 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (15.66%) NoSQL
2 76 (13.52%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (9.96%) Relational Database
4 36 (6.41%) DynamoDB
5 31 (5.52%) SQL Server
6 24 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (4.09%) MySQL
8 21 (3.74%) Big Data
9 14 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (2.49%) Hadoop
9 14 (2.49%) OLAP
10 13 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (2.14%) Apache Hive
12 11 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.96%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.96%) Flink
13 10 (1.78%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.60%) Redis
15 8 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 101 (17.97%) Git
2 86 (15.30%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.47%) CircleCI
4 31 (5.52%) JIRA
5 21 (3.74%) Subversion
6 18 (3.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (2.67%) JUnit
8 14 (2.49%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.96%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.60%) IntelliJ
11 8 (1.42%) Jaeger
12 6 (1.07%) Crashlytics
12 6 (1.07%) JMeter
13 5 (0.89%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.71%) GitLab
14 4 (0.71%) Mockito
15 3 (0.53%) Gatling
15 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
16 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 155 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 119 (21.17%) Public Sector
3 113 (20.11%) Finance
4 78 (13.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (10.32%) Law
6 44 (7.83%) Banking
7 34 (6.05%) Marketing
8 28 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (4.09%) Electronics
10 21 (3.74%) Legal
11 18 (3.20%) Front Office
12 16 (2.85%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.85%) Games
13 15 (2.67%) Investment Banking
14 14 (2.49%) Retail
15 8 (1.42%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.42%) Tech for Good
16 7 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 154 (27.40%) Developer
2 142 (25.27%) Software Engineer
3 114 (20.28%) Senior
4 100 (17.79%) Lead
5 70 (12.46%) Java Developer
6 56 (9.96%) Lead Software Engineer
7 50 (8.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 45 (8.01%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (6.76%) Architect
10 33 (5.87%) Software Developer
11 30 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 29 (5.16%) Full Stack Developer
13 27 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 23 (4.09%) Full Stack Java Developer
15 23 (4.09%) Software Manager
16 21 (3.74%) C# Developer
16 21 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
16 21 (3.74%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (14.59%) .NET
2 76 (13.52%) REST
2 76 (13.52%) Web Services
3 73 (12.99%) AngularJS
4 67 (11.92%) Spring
5 65 (11.57%) Spring Boot
6 63 (11.21%) RESTful
7 61 (10.85%) React
8 60 (10.68%) Node.js
9 45 (8.01%) Kafka
10 42 (7.47%) Apache Camel
11 38 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
12 34 (6.05%) .NET Core
12 34 (6.05%) JSON
13 29 (5.16%) XML
14 28 (4.98%) OpenTelemetry
15 24 (4.27%) HTML
16 20 (3.56%) CSS
17 19 (3.38%) .NET Framework
18 15 (2.67%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.37%) Cloud Native
2 58 (10.32%) Public Cloud
3 49 (8.72%) Blockchain
4 46 (8.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (6.05%) Legacy Code
6 32 (5.69%) Algorithms
7 30 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (3.74%) Management Information System
9 20 (3.56%) Clustering
10 19 (3.38%) Blog
11 16 (2.85%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.85%) IoT
11 16 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (2.31%) Robotics
14 12 (2.14%) Hedge funds
14 12 (2.14%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
15 11 (1.96%) RISC-V
16 10 (1.78%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 143 (25.44%) Linux
2 40 (7.12%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (7.12%) CentOS
2 40 (7.12%) Debian
3 27 (4.80%) Windows
4 18 (3.20%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.96%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.42%) Android
6 8 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.71%) VMS
8 3 (0.53%) Unix
9 2 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (44.84%) Software Engineering
2 221 (39.32%) Agile
3 220 (39.15%) CI/CD
4 207 (36.83%) DevOps
5 173 (30.78%) Microservices
6 99 (17.62%) Full Stack Development
7 83 (14.77%) Artificial Intelligence
8 77 (13.70%) Containerisation
9 75 (13.35%) Computer Science
10 73 (12.99%) SDLC
10 73 (12.99%) TDD
11 67 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (11.21%) Mentoring
13 62 (11.03%) Continuous Delivery
14 61 (10.85%) Open Source
15 59 (10.50%) Scrum
16 58 (10.32%) Data Science
17 56 (9.96%) Kanban
18 54 (9.61%) Event-Driven
19 53 (9.43%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 206 (36.65%) Java
2 123 (21.89%) Python
3 122 (21.71%) SQL
4 114 (20.28%) C#
4 114 (20.28%) JavaScript
5 91 (16.19%) Go
6 75 (13.35%) C++
7 69 (12.28%) C
8 58 (10.32%) TypeScript
9 55 (9.79%) Rust
10 35 (6.23%) Scala
11 17 (3.02%) Shell Script
12 16 (2.85%) F#
13 15 (2.67%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.96%) Embedded C
14 11 (1.96%) Haskell
14 11 (1.96%) PowerShell
15 10 (1.78%) Clojure
16 7 (1.25%) Perl
17 6 (1.07%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 89 (15.84%) Degree
2 63 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 58 (10.32%) Azure Certification
4 52 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (8.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (7.12%) MCSA
6 40 (7.12%) MCSE
7 37 (6.58%) SC Cleared
8 27 (4.80%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.67%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.96%) PhD
11 7 (1.25%) CISSP
11 7 (1.25%) GIAC
12 6 (1.07%) CISM
12 6 (1.07%) SANS
13 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.18%) HNC
14 1 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.14%) PCI DSS
2 9 (1.60%) GDPR
2 9 (1.60%) HIPAA
3 8 (1.42%) NIST
4 6 (1.07%) COBIT
4 6 (1.07%) QA
4 6 (1.07%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.36%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 206 (36.65%) Docker
2 25 (4.45%) Hyper-V
3 20 (3.56%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.42%) HDFS
5 7 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.07%) Ceph
7 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 259 (46.09%) Kubernetes
2 120 (21.35%) Terraform
3 76 (13.52%) Ansible
4 29 (5.16%) Grafana
5 27 (4.80%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.31%) Packer
7 10 (1.78%) Kibana
8 9 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.42%) Kiali
10 7 (1.25%) Puppet
11 6 (1.07%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (1.07%) Knative
12 5 (0.89%) Salt
13 2 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 54 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.47%) Red Hat
3 41 (7.30%) IBM
4 37 (6.58%) WSO2
5 34 (6.05%) Splunk
6 28 (4.98%) Dynatrace
7 20 (3.56%) VMware
8 17 (3.02%) Google
9 14 (2.49%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.31%) Databricks
11 9 (1.60%) AppDynamics
12 8 (1.42%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.07%) Amplitude
13 6 (1.07%) TIBCO
14 5 (0.89%) SAP
15 4 (0.71%) Oracle
16 3 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
17 2 (0.36%) NVIDIA
17 2 (0.36%) Solace
17 2 (0.36%) Thales