Distributed Systems Job Trends in Belfast

Distributed Systems
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 +48
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.68% 0.51% 1.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 1.45% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -36.99% +29.41%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - - £113,000
County Antrim median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £110,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -36.99% +29.41%

All Generic Skills
Belfast

Distributed Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 86 138 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 29.25% 34.85% 35.04%
Number of salaries quoted 32 46 78
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,900 £34,688
25th Percentile £36,000 £47,500 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £67,154 £57,395
Median % change year-on-year -16.24% +17.00% +4.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £101,250 £82,500
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £67,154 £57,291
% change year-on-year -18.10% +17.22% +9.12%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Belfast

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Grails
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google