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 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 141 132
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 +43
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 34 43 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.33% 1.34% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.82% 3.16% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 34 42 36
10th Percentile £72,500 - £68,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £56,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £108,750 £62,500 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +74.00% -29.58% -6.58%
75th Percentile £122,500 £112,188 £104,688
90th Percentile £162,500 £115,000 £121,250
London median annual salary £112,500 £97,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +2.63% +2.70%

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 891 1,361 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 34.72% 42.35% 34.96%
Number of salaries quoted 678 753 916
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.56% +0.65%

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 January 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 January 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 +25 34 £108,750 +74.00% 31
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Luigi
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 13 (38.24%) Azure
3 10 (29.41%) GCP
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.82%) GitHub
4 3 (8.82%) Serverless
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.88%) Apigee
5 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.94%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.94%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (14.71%) BigQuery
3 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
4 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.88%) Redis
6 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (2.94%) ClickHouse
6 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.94%) Flink
6 1 (2.94%) KDB
6 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 10 (29.41%) Front Office
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Financial Institution
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Advertising
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Principal Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Principal Software Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Blockchain Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) Kafka
2 6 (17.65%) Node.js
3 5 (14.71%) Django
4 3 (8.82%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (8.82%) Java Concurrency
4 3 (8.82%) OAuth
5 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.88%) JWT
5 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.88%) React
5 2 (5.88%) web3js
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.94%) Next.js
6 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.94%) PySpark
6 1 (2.94%) Quarkus
6 1 (2.94%) Spring
6 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) Algorithms
2 11 (32.35%) Data Structures
3 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 6 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (14.71%) Equities
5 3 (8.82%) Derivative
6 2 (5.88%) Blockchain
6 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (5.88%) Web3
7 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
7 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Computer Science
2 14 (41.18%) Microservices
3 12 (35.29%) Analytics
3 12 (35.29%) Low Latency
4 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
5 10 (29.41%) DevOps
5 10 (29.41%) Electronic Trading
6 9 (26.47%) Multithreading
7 8 (23.53%) AI
7 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (23.53%) Mathematics
8 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (17.65%) Data Science
9 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
9 6 (17.65%) Quantitative Research
9 6 (17.65%) Systematic Trading
10 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
10 5 (14.71%) Data Analytics
10 5 (14.71%) Memory Management
10 5 (14.71%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) Python
2 14 (41.18%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) Rust
4 2 (5.88%) Scala
4 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) Degree
2 9 (26.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (14.71%) Master's Degree
3 5 (14.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Google
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Confluent
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) Dell