Distributed Systems Jobs 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 97 143
Rank change year-on-year +15 +46 -44
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 8 12 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.88% 0.81% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 2.61% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 0
10th Percentile £63,350 - -
25th Percentile £63,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,750 -
90th Percentile - £70,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £66,500 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +33.00% -25.93% +8.00%

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 319 459 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 34.94% 30.83% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 149 338 427
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +2.48% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,000 £90,580 £101,564
Scotland median annual salary £51,645 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.10% -4.35% +4.55%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Games
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Reference Data
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Coaching
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana