Distributed Systems Job Trends in County Antrim

Distributed Systems
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 46 44
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +55
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.61% 0.48% 1.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 1.42% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -36.99% +29.41%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - - £113,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £110,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -36.99% +29.41%

All Generic Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 141 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 29.09% 33.73% 34.24%
Number of salaries quoted 33 46 82
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £37,839
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,154 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +17.22% +9.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £101,250 £82,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £56,250 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +13.04% +4.55%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Belfast +17 2 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Distributed Systems
Northern Ireland

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Grails
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google