Distributed Systems Job Trends in Cambridge

Distributed Systems
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 58 56
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +56
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.58% 0.97% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 3.00% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £57,000 - £69,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £69,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.69% +22.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,938 £77,188
90th Percentile £83,000 £108,750 £77,375
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -3.45% -1.69% +18.00%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 125 200 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 36.23% 32.41% 50.67%
Number of salaries quoted 79 117 112
10th Percentile £30,015 £36,200 £28,100
25th Percentile £38,500 £51,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £66,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £80,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Cambridge

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Cambridge over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in Cambridge

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Java Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform