Distributed Systems Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Distributed Systems
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 67 76 69
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +78
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.30% 0.69% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 2.40% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £57,000 £61,250 £69,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £69,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.69% +18.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,813 £77,188
90th Percentile £83,000 £103,250 £77,375
East of England median annual salary £90,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +24.14% -3.33% +4.53%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 238 334 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 35.26% 28.84% 53.58%
Number of salaries quoted 157 188 150
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,375
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £78,750 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Cambridgeshire

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in Cambridgeshire

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Cambridge +7 2 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Distributed Systems
East of England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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