Distributed Systems Job Trends in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 88 100
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 +41
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.28% 0.72% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 2.09% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £63,616 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,166 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -3.70%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £91,150
90th Percentile - £74,144 £103,960
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £32,500
% change year-on-year +6.48% +113.25% -51.85%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 394 382 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.00% 34.51% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 107 148 357
10th Percentile £25,000 £38,801 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,813 £82,548
90th Percentile £77,600 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.69% -0.95% +3.45%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) dbt
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google