Distributed Systems Job Trends 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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 113 163
Rank change year-on-year +21 +50 -26
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 53 26 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.60% 1.31% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.70% 3.02% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 43 19 23
10th Percentile £61,000 £59,250 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £112,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +80.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £116,250 £118,750 £131,250
90th Percentile £130,500 £141,000 £180,000
London median annual salary £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% -2.26%

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 930 860 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 28.00% 43.32% 39.16%
Number of salaries quoted 628 670 795
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,977
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £119,125 £132,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -3.13% +6.67%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Central London

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Central London over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

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 15 September 2026. 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 +19 50 £98,750 -12.22% 48
City of Westminster +23 5 - - 26
Lambeth - 1 - -
West End of London - 1 £100,000 - 9
Distributed Systems
London

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (54.72%) AWS
2 22 (41.51%) Azure
3 19 (35.85%) GCP
4 1 (1.89%) Azure AI
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (1.89%) Datadog
4 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Broadband
2 1 (1.89%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) LTE
2 1 (1.89%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.55%) BigQuery
2 4 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.77%) Couchbase
4 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.77%) Scylla
5 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
2 3 (5.66%) JUnit
2 3 (5.66%) Maven
2 3 (5.66%) Mockito
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (15.09%) Finance
1 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.66%) Back Office
2 3 (5.66%) Games
2 3 (5.66%) Prime Brokerage
3 2 (3.77%) Banking
3 2 (3.77%) iGaming
4 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Developer
1 12 (22.64%) Python Engineer
2 11 (20.75%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) Software Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Lead
5 6 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Backend Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Python Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Java Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Architect
8 3 (5.66%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Product Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Scala Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.53%) Spring
1 13 (24.53%) Spring Boot
2 10 (18.87%) Terraform
3 9 (16.98%) .NET
3 9 (16.98%) REST
4 8 (15.09%) Kafka
5 6 (11.32%) React
5 6 (11.32%) RESTful
6 5 (9.43%) Django
6 5 (9.43%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (9.43%) LangChain
7 4 (7.55%) FastAPI
8 3 (5.66%) FIXML
8 3 (5.66%) FpML
9 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
9 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (3.77%) LangGraph
9 2 (3.77%) Node.js
9 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (39.62%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.55%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (7.55%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.77%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (3.77%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.89%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) AI
2 27 (50.94%) Microservices
2 27 (50.94%) Software Engineering
3 25 (47.17%) CI/CD
4 15 (28.30%) Mentoring
5 14 (26.42%) DevOps
6 12 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (22.64%) Observability
7 11 (20.75%) Agile
7 11 (20.75%) Machine Learning
8 10 (18.87%) LLM
9 9 (16.98%) Containerisation
9 9 (16.98%) Event-Driven
9 9 (16.98%) Fintech
9 9 (16.98%) Generative AI
9 9 (16.98%) Test Automation
10 8 (15.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Python
2 19 (35.85%) Java
3 8 (15.09%) C#
3 8 (15.09%) Go
3 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
4 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.43%) SQL
6 2 (3.77%) Scala
7 1 (1.89%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Google
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.77%) Typelevel