Distributed Systems Job Trends in Berkshire

Distributed Systems
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 83 101
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 +64
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 18 43 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.90% 2.49% 1.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.07% 8.14% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £60,500 £79,750
25th Percentile - £61,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -24.24% -5.71%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £85,625
90th Percentile - - £89,000
South East median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +14.58% -15.79% +1.79%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 586 528 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.39% 30.59% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 278 220 418
10th Percentile £27,500 £36,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,700 £46,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £112,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +3.64% -1.79%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +10 18 - - 12
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 18 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) Serverless
2 12 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 18 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 12 (66.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (72.22%) JUnit
3 12 (66.67%) JMeter
3 12 (66.67%) Mockito
4 6 (33.33%) Git
General
1 13 (72.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
1 18 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 15 (83.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (83.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 12 (66.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) REST
1 18 (100.00%) Spring
1 18 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 17 (94.44%) Web Services
3 12 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
3 12 (66.67%) Apache Camel
3 12 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 12 (66.67%) HTML
3 12 (66.67%) jQuery
3 12 (66.67%) JSON
3 12 (66.67%) WireMock
3 12 (66.67%) XML
4 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (33.33%) Kafka
4 6 (33.33%) Mustache
4 6 (33.33%) Node.js
4 6 (33.33%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
1 18 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 18 (100.00%) Microservices
1 18 (100.00%) SDLC
1 18 (100.00%) TDD
2 16 (88.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (66.67%) BDD
3 12 (66.67%) Process Management
3 12 (66.67%) Workflow
4 6 (33.33%) Scrum
5 1 (5.56%) Biometrics
5 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (5.56%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (5.56%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
1 18 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (66.67%) Python
2 12 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (66.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 12 (66.67%) Splunk