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 1 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 10 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.76% 1.68% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 4.93% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile £59,000 - £69,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £84,375 £78,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £84,750 £97,750 £80,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £78,750 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -3.33% +20.00%

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 140 203 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 35.53% 34.00% 45.48%
Number of salaries quoted 84 99 105
10th Percentile £30,956 £45,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £52,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,500 £80,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year - +5.77% -5.45%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend 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 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in Cambridge

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Material-UI
2 1 (33.33%) Micronaut
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform