Distributed Systems Job Trends in Croydon

Distributed Systems
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 18 31 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 16.07% 20.13% 11.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 27.69% 29.52% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £60,500 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -19.35% -13.89%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -19.35% -7.46%

All Generic Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 65 105 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 58.04% 68.18% 38.75%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 43
10th Percentile - - £48,530
25th Percentile £34,250 £32,000 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £61,644 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% -8.68% +22.73%
75th Percentile £47,500 £65,272 £81,250
90th Percentile £61,625 £68,750 £83,750
South London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +14.29%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Croydon

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 18 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) Serverless
2 15 (83.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (94.44%) Relational Database
3 15 (83.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (83.33%) JMeter
2 15 (83.33%) JUnit
2 15 (83.33%) Mockito
3 3 (16.67%) Git
General
1 15 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
1 18 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 16 (88.89%) Full-Stack Developer
2 16 (88.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 14 (77.78%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) REST
1 18 (100.00%) Spring
1 18 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 18 (100.00%) Web Services
2 16 (88.89%) JSON
2 16 (88.89%) XML
3 15 (83.33%) ActiveMQ
3 15 (83.33%) Apache Camel
3 15 (83.33%) Hibernate
3 15 (83.33%) HTML
3 15 (83.33%) jQuery
3 15 (83.33%) WireMock
4 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (16.67%) Mustache
4 3 (16.67%) Node.js
4 3 (16.67%) React
5 2 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
1 18 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 18 (100.00%) Microservices
1 18 (100.00%) TDD
2 16 (88.89%) BDD
2 16 (88.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (83.33%) Process Management
3 15 (83.33%) SDLC
3 15 (83.33%) Workflow
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (5.56%) Biometrics
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
1 18 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (83.33%) Python
2 15 (83.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (83.33%) Kibana
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Dynatrace
1 15 (83.33%) Splunk