Distributed Systems Jobs in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 156 171
Rank change year-on-year +49 +15 +28
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 32 21 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.68% 0.63% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.08% 1.84% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 57
10th Percentile - £64,125 £65,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £76,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £85,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -12.82% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £101,250 £122,500
90th Percentile £117,000 £108,625 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £85,000 £98,750
% change year-on-year -26.47% -13.92% +3.95%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 785 1,141 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.10% 34.13% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 585 875 1,555
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £43,162
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,143 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £117,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +3.33%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the City of London.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 17 (53.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) GCP
2 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Flink
1 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.13%) Redis
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) Gradle
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 20 (62.50%) Finance
2 16 (50.00%) Advertising
2 16 (50.00%) Games
2 16 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (50.00%) Retail
2 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Senior
1 18 (56.25%) Software Engineer
2 16 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Release Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (59.38%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Algorithms
1 11 (34.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (28.13%) Data Structures
2 9 (28.13%) Fixed Income
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Equities
5 1 (3.13%) Derivative
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.13%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Software Engineering
2 18 (56.25%) Computer Science
2 18 (56.25%) Machine Learning
3 17 (53.13%) Agile
4 16 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
4 16 (50.00%) Programmatic Advertising
5 9 (28.13%) Observability
6 8 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 8 (25.00%) Integration Testing
6 8 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (25.00%) Regression Testing
7 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.25%) Algorithmic Trading
8 2 (6.25%) Analytics
8 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (6.25%) DevOps
8 2 (6.25%) Electronic Trading
8 2 (6.25%) Low Latency
8 2 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 16 (50.00%) Scala
3 4 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Apple
1 16 (50.00%) Google
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft