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

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 76 67
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +65
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.43% 0.77% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 2.56% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £59,000 £61,250 £69,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +22.45%
75th Percentile £81,875 £78,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £100,500 £80,500
East of England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year +10.34% -7.94% +14.96%

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 234 352 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 33.91% 30.11% 52.56%
Number of salaries quoted 154 175 148
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,900 £28,700
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,000 £78,750 £78,750
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -12.84% +0.93% +2.86%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +2 2 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Peterborough - 1 £77,500 - 1
Distributed Systems
East of England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
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%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Jest
3 1 (33.33%) Material-UI
3 1 (33.33%) Micronaut
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform