Distributed Systems Jobs with Work from Home Options

Distributed Systems
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 359 193
Rank change year-on-year -65 -166 +54
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 172 339 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.82% 2.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 2.12% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 138 234 371
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,515 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,375 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £130,000 £101,938 £100,750
90th Percentile £182,500 £116,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% +13.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,055 16,013 32,008
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.60% 38.51% 46.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,252 11,630 16,857
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Distributed Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems.

Distributed Systems salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Distributed Systems salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 23 (13.37%) OpenStack
2 9 (5.23%) Confluence
2 9 (5.23%) JBoss
3 8 (4.65%) Red Hat Fuse
4 5 (2.91%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.74%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.74%) Hyperledger
6 2 (1.16%) Apache
6 2 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.16%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.58%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Endur
1 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (48.26%) AWS
2 61 (35.47%) Serverless
3 37 (21.51%) Azure
4 33 (19.19%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (15.70%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (15.12%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (9.88%) Amazon Kinesis
9 14 (8.14%) GitHub
10 13 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (7.56%) GCP
11 12 (6.98%) Amazon S3
12 10 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (5.81%) SaaS
13 9 (5.23%) Route 53
13 9 (5.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (4.65%) Entra ID
14 8 (4.65%) PaaS
15 6 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (3.49%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.98%) Network Security
2 6 (3.49%) DNS
3 2 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.51%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (12.79%) NoSQL
3 19 (11.05%) DynamoDB
4 15 (8.72%) Relational Database
5 13 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.65%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.49%) Big Data
9 5 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.33%) MySQL
10 4 (2.33%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.33%) Redis
11 3 (1.74%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.74%) Event Store
11 3 (1.74%) Flink
12 2 (1.16%) Apache Pinot
12 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.16%) Presto
Development Applications
1 48 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 42 (24.42%) Git
3 11 (6.40%) JUnit
4 10 (5.81%) JIRA
5 9 (5.23%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (5.23%) Subversion
6 3 (1.74%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.58%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.58%) GitLab
8 1 (0.58%) JMeter
8 1 (0.58%) jMock
8 1 (0.58%) Mockito
8 1 (0.58%) Postman
8 1 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.58%) TestNG
General
1 36 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.79%) Public Sector
3 19 (11.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.30%) Legal
5 14 (8.14%) Retail
6 11 (6.40%) Finance
7 9 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.65%) Banking
8 8 (4.65%) Tech for Good
9 7 (4.07%) Games
10 5 (2.91%) Law
11 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.16%) Advertising
12 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.16%) Electronics
12 2 (1.16%) Marketing
12 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.58%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 52 (30.23%) Developer
2 39 (22.67%) Senior
3 36 (20.93%) Software Engineer
4 31 (18.02%) Java Developer
4 31 (18.02%) Lead
5 21 (12.21%) Senior Software Engineer
6 16 (9.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 14 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (8.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.56%) Lead Developer
9 11 (6.40%) Architect
9 11 (6.40%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.81%) C Software Engineer
10 10 (5.81%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (5.81%) Senior C Software Engineer
10 10 (5.81%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (5.81%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (5.81%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.81%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.93%) Spring
2 35 (20.35%) Web Services
3 34 (19.77%) AngularJS
4 32 (18.60%) Node.js
5 31 (18.02%) Spring Boot
6 30 (17.44%) REST
7 23 (13.37%) Apache Camel
7 23 (13.37%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (12.79%) RESTful
9 17 (9.88%) JSON
9 17 (9.88%) React
10 16 (9.30%) Kafka
10 16 (9.30%) XML
11 15 (8.72%) SOAP
12 8 (4.65%) J2EE
13 6 (3.49%) .NET
14 5 (2.91%) Hibernate
15 4 (2.33%) CSS
15 4 (2.33%) HTML
15 4 (2.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.40%) Embedded Systems
1 11 (6.40%) Management Information System
1 11 (6.40%) RISC-V
2 9 (5.23%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.23%) Blog
2 9 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.65%) Freedom of Information
3 8 (4.65%) Taxonomies
4 7 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.07%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.49%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.91%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.91%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.91%) IoT
7 4 (2.33%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.77%) Linux
2 3 (1.74%) Windows
3 2 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (1.16%) VMS
3 2 (1.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (41.28%) Microservices
2 69 (40.12%) Software Engineering
3 68 (39.53%) Agile
4 56 (32.56%) DevOps
5 31 (18.02%) CI/CD
6 28 (16.28%) Computer Science
6 28 (16.28%) Mentoring
7 27 (15.70%) TDD
8 26 (15.12%) BDD
8 26 (15.12%) Full Stack Development
8 26 (15.12%) Kanban
8 26 (15.12%) Scrum
9 21 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (11.63%) Event-Driven
11 19 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (11.05%) Roadmaps
11 19 (11.05%) Unit Testing
12 18 (10.47%) Design Patterns
12 18 (10.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 83 (48.26%) Java
2 56 (32.56%) Python
3 49 (28.49%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.53%) C
4 25 (14.53%) Go
4 25 (14.53%) SQL
5 24 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 20 (11.63%) C++
7 13 (7.56%) C#
8 11 (6.40%) Embedded C
9 10 (5.81%) Rust
10 7 (4.07%) Scala
11 5 (2.91%) Ruby
12 3 (1.74%) Bash
12 3 (1.74%) Solidity
13 2 (1.16%) Bicep
13 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (18.02%) Degree
2 25 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 24 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.65%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.07%) CISSP
6 7 (4.07%) GIAC
7 6 (3.49%) CISM
7 6 (3.49%) SANS
8 4 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.74%) PhD
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.58%) HNC
11 1 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) COBIT
1 6 (3.49%) NIST
1 6 (3.49%) Web Application Security Consortium
2 5 (2.91%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 65 (37.79%) Docker
2 15 (8.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 76 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 36 (20.93%) Ansible
3 27 (15.70%) Terraform
4 9 (5.23%) Packer
5 8 (4.65%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 6 (3.49%) Puppet
7 4 (2.33%) Salt
8 2 (1.16%) Argo
9 1 (0.58%) Consul
9 1 (0.58%) Grafana
9 1 (0.58%) Kibana
9 1 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (13.37%) WSO2
2 11 (6.40%) Google
3 9 (5.23%) Atlassian
3 9 (5.23%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.74%) SAP
5 2 (1.16%) Apple
5 2 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.16%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle
5 2 (1.16%) Solace
5 2 (1.16%) Thales
5 2 (1.16%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.58%) Databricks
6 1 (0.58%) Dell
6 1 (0.58%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.58%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.58%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.58%) Splunk