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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 403 186
Rank change year-on-year -36 -217 +56
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 557 765 3,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.79% 2.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 1.84% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 362 402 729
10th Percentile £47,500 £59,053 £52,500
25th Percentile £59,300 £71,563 £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 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +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 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
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 28 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 28 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 -40 480 £82,500 -5.71% 131
UK excluding London +130 319 £65,000 -3.70% 54
London -69 238 £95,000 +2.70% 90
Work from Home -64 167 £82,500 -2.94% 58
South East +65 116 £65,000 -11.86% 10
North of England +96 78 £68,000 -2.86% 17
Scotland -22 51 £50,000 -25.93% 10
Midlands +10 43 £59,650 -6.43% 4
North West +37 41 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire +95 35 £68,000 -20.00% 7
West Midlands +18 35 £54,650 -15.92% 3
East of England -14 16 £120,000 +41.18% 4
South West -32 11 £62,500 +21.95% 6
East Midlands -8 8 £87,500 +45.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £100,000 - 3
Wales +4 3 - -
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 36 (6.46%) OpenStack
2 30 (5.39%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.77%) IIS
4 17 (3.05%) Confluence
5 11 (1.97%) Apache
5 11 (1.97%) JBoss
6 9 (1.62%) Red Hat Fuse
7 8 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.54%) CMS
8 3 (0.54%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.54%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
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
1 256 (45.96%) AWS
2 184 (33.03%) Azure
3 89 (15.98%) Serverless
4 64 (11.49%) GCP
5 60 (10.77%) GitHub
6 53 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (7.90%) Amazon ECS
9 43 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (7.18%) IBM Cloud
11 35 (6.28%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (3.77%) Datadog
14 18 (3.23%) PaaS
15 17 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (3.05%) SaaS
16 16 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (2.69%) Amazon S3
18 13 (2.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.59%) WAN
2 14 (2.51%) Network Security
3 13 (2.33%) HTTP
4 10 (1.80%) DNS
5 9 (1.62%) Firewall
6 2 (0.36%) DSL
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) ICMP
7 1 (0.18%) RTP
7 1 (0.18%) SMTP
7 1 (0.18%) SNMP
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (16.34%) NoSQL
2 80 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (9.87%) Relational Database
4 41 (7.36%) DynamoDB
5 31 (5.57%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.77%) MySQL
8 20 (3.59%) Big Data
9 19 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (2.51%) OLAP
11 13 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (2.33%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.15%) Redis
13 11 (1.97%) Apache Hive
14 10 (1.80%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.80%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.80%) Flink
15 9 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (1.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 99 (17.77%) Git
2 82 (14.72%) Jenkins
3 43 (7.72%) CircleCI
4 29 (5.21%) JIRA
5 19 (3.41%) Subversion
6 16 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (2.69%) JUnit
8 12 (2.15%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.97%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.62%) IntelliJ
11 8 (1.44%) Jaeger
12 6 (1.08%) Crashlytics
12 6 (1.08%) Gatling
12 6 (1.08%) JMeter
13 5 (0.90%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.72%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.72%) GitLab
14 4 (0.72%) Mockito
15 3 (0.54%) TeamCity
16 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 161 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 120 (21.54%) Public Sector
3 109 (19.57%) Finance
4 78 (14.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (10.59%) Law
6 40 (7.18%) Banking
7 34 (6.10%) Marketing
8 30 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (4.67%) Electronics
11 22 (3.95%) Legal
12 17 (3.05%) Front Office
13 16 (2.87%) Financial Institution
13 16 (2.87%) Games
14 14 (2.51%) Investment Banking
14 14 (2.51%) Retail
15 8 (1.44%) Tech for Good
16 7 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.26%) Retail Banking
17 6 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 153 (27.47%) Developer
2 142 (25.49%) Software Engineer
3 113 (20.29%) Senior
4 102 (18.31%) Lead
5 69 (12.39%) Java Developer
6 58 (10.41%) Lead Software Engineer
7 44 (7.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 43 (7.72%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.64%) Architect
10 33 (5.92%) Software Developer
11 30 (5.39%) Senior Developer
12 29 (5.21%) Full Stack Developer
13 28 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (4.13%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 23 (4.13%) Software Manager
14 23 (4.13%) Technical Leader
15 22 (3.95%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 22 (3.95%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 21 (3.77%) C# Developer
16 21 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.90%) .NET
2 80 (14.36%) REST
3 79 (14.18%) Web Services
4 73 (13.11%) AngularJS
5 67 (12.03%) Spring
6 65 (11.67%) Spring Boot
7 64 (11.49%) RESTful
8 60 (10.77%) React
9 57 (10.23%) Node.js
10 43 (7.72%) Kafka
11 41 (7.36%) Apache Camel
12 37 (6.64%) Elastic Stack
13 35 (6.28%) .NET Core
14 33 (5.92%) JSON
15 28 (5.03%) OpenTelemetry
15 28 (5.03%) XML
16 24 (4.31%) HTML
17 20 (3.59%) CSS
18 19 (3.41%) .NET Framework
19 15 (2.69%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.59%) Public Cloud
3 49 (8.80%) Blockchain
4 45 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (5.75%) Algorithms
6 30 (5.39%) Legacy Code
7 28 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (4.31%) Blog
9 21 (3.77%) Management Information System
10 20 (3.59%) Clustering
11 18 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (2.87%) Data Structures
12 16 (2.87%) IoT
13 15 (2.69%) Media Streaming
14 13 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (2.33%) Robotics
15 12 (2.15%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
16 11 (1.97%) Hedge funds
16 11 (1.97%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 139 (24.96%) Linux
2 40 (7.18%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (7.18%) CentOS
2 40 (7.18%) Debian
3 28 (5.03%) Windows
4 18 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.97%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.44%) Android
6 8 (1.44%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.72%) VMS
8 3 (0.54%) Unix
9 2 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (44.34%) Software Engineering
2 224 (40.22%) Agile
3 217 (38.96%) CI/CD
4 209 (37.52%) DevOps
5 170 (30.52%) Microservices
6 96 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
7 83 (14.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 78 (14.00%) Computer Science
9 77 (13.82%) Containerisation
10 72 (12.93%) SDLC
10 72 (12.93%) TDD
11 68 (12.21%) Mentoring
11 68 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (11.85%) Open Source
13 61 (10.95%) Continuous Delivery
14 58 (10.41%) Data Science
14 58 (10.41%) Scrum
15 55 (9.87%) Kanban
16 53 (9.52%) Analytics
16 53 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 202 (36.27%) Java
2 120 (21.54%) SQL
3 119 (21.36%) Python
4 112 (20.11%) C#
5 111 (19.93%) JavaScript
6 87 (15.62%) Go
7 73 (13.11%) C++
8 67 (12.03%) C
9 56 (10.05%) TypeScript
10 51 (9.16%) Rust
11 39 (7.00%) Scala
12 16 (2.87%) Shell Script
13 15 (2.69%) Kotlin
14 14 (2.51%) F#
15 11 (1.97%) Embedded C
15 11 (1.97%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.62%) Haskell
17 8 (1.44%) Clojure
18 7 (1.26%) Perl
19 6 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (16.52%) Degree
2 62 (11.13%) Security Cleared
3 58 (10.41%) Azure Certification
4 55 (9.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (8.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (7.18%) MCSA
6 40 (7.18%) MCSE
7 36 (6.46%) SC Cleared
8 27 (4.85%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.69%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.97%) PhD
11 7 (1.26%) CISSP
11 7 (1.26%) GIAC
12 6 (1.08%) CISM
12 6 (1.08%) SANS
13 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.18%) HNC
14 1 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.15%) PCI DSS
2 9 (1.62%) GDPR
2 9 (1.62%) HIPAA
3 8 (1.44%) NIST
4 7 (1.26%) QA
5 6 (1.08%) COBIT
5 6 (1.08%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.90%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 203 (36.45%) Docker
2 24 (4.31%) Hyper-V
3 20 (3.59%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.26%) HDFS
4 7 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.08%) Ceph
6 3 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 251 (45.06%) Kubernetes
2 118 (21.18%) Terraform
3 73 (13.11%) Ansible
4 27 (4.85%) Grafana
5 25 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.97%) Packer
7 8 (1.44%) Kiali
7 8 (1.44%) Kibana
8 7 (1.26%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (1.08%) Knative
10 5 (0.90%) Puppet
11 3 (0.54%) Salt
12 2 (0.36%) Argo
13 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 55 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.54%) Red Hat
3 41 (7.36%) IBM
4 36 (6.46%) WSO2
5 34 (6.10%) Splunk
6 26 (4.67%) Dynatrace
7 20 (3.59%) VMware
8 17 (3.05%) Google
9 12 (2.15%) Atlassian
9 12 (2.15%) Databricks
10 9 (1.62%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.26%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.08%) Amplitude
12 6 (1.08%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.90%) SAP
14 4 (0.72%) Oracle
15 3 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
16 2 (0.36%) NVIDIA
16 2 (0.36%) Solace
16 2 (0.36%) Thales