Distributed Systems Jobs in Central London

Distributed Systems
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 158 183
Rank change year-on-year +43 +25 +7
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 45 30 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.78% 0.79% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.37% 2.34% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 38 28 60
10th Percentile - £68,500 £67,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £76,250 £75,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £85,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £110,938 £101,250 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,750 £107,625 £130,000
London median annual salary £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% +2.70% +2.78%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,030 1,283 2,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 40.68% 33.96% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 693 983 1,793
10th Percentile £40,117 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,000 £56,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Central London.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +43 41 £62,500 -26.47% 15
City of Westminster +9 21 £62,500 -
Distributed Systems
London

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (48.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) AWS
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (6.67%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (2.22%) GCP
3 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (46.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.67%) Redis
1 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.44%) Big Data
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Flink
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) JUnit
2 2 (4.44%) Maven
2 2 (4.44%) Mockito
2 2 (4.44%) Postman
2 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
2 2 (4.44%) SoapUI
2 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.44%) Subversion
2 2 (4.44%) Xcode
2 2 (4.44%) XCTest
3 1 (2.22%) Gradle
General
1 29 (64.44%) Finance
2 27 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (46.67%) Advertising
3 21 (46.67%) Games
3 21 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (46.67%) Retail
4 6 (13.33%) Front Office
5 3 (6.67%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Software Engineer
2 24 (53.33%) Senior
3 21 (46.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Release Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.22%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.22%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.22%) C++ Developer
7 1 (2.22%) C++ Software Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Principal Software Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (57.78%) Kafka
2 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.44%) Bootstrap
2 2 (4.44%) CSS
2 2 (4.44%) CSS3
2 2 (4.44%) Hibernate
2 2 (4.44%) HTML
2 2 (4.44%) HTML5
2 2 (4.44%) J2EE
2 2 (4.44%) JPA
2 2 (4.44%) Material-UI
2 2 (4.44%) REST
2 2 (4.44%) SOAP
2 2 (4.44%) Spring
2 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.44%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Spring MVC
2 2 (4.44%) Swagger
2 2 (4.44%) Web Services
3 1 (2.22%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
3 7 (15.56%) Data Structures
3 7 (15.56%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 2 (4.44%) Equities
6 1 (2.22%) Derivative
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.22%) Life Science
6 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Software Engineering
2 30 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 29 (64.44%) Agile
4 23 (51.11%) Machine Learning
5 21 (46.67%) Performance Metrics
5 21 (46.67%) Programmatic Advertising
6 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.00%) Microservices
8 7 (15.56%) Analytics
8 7 (15.56%) Observability
8 7 (15.56%) SDLC
9 6 (13.33%) Design Patterns
9 6 (13.33%) Integration Testing
9 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (13.33%) Regression Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
11 4 (8.89%) Concurrent Programming
11 4 (8.89%) Low Latency
11 4 (8.89%) Multithreading
11 4 (8.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (64.44%) Python
2 21 (46.67%) Scala
3 11 (24.44%) Java
4 9 (20.00%) SQL
5 6 (13.33%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) C++
7 2 (4.44%) Groovy
7 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (17.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (48.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (46.67%) Apple
2 21 (46.67%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Splunk