Distributed Systems Jobs in London

Distributed Systems
England > London

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 276 206
Rank change year-on-year +63 -70 -54
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 191 250 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.48% 1.06% 1.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.37% 2.61% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 118 172 313
10th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £73,125 £77,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,313 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,750 £150,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,676 9,587 15,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.03% 40.57% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,166 6,777 10,558
10th Percentile £41,500 £37,500 £44,192
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,532 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Central London +40 38 £62,500 -26.47% 19
South London +4 35 - -
West London +37 2 £65,000 - 4
East London - 1 - - 3
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 20 (10.47%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.81%) JBoss
2 13 (6.81%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (3.66%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.05%) CMS
4 2 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.52%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.66%) Ripple
1 7 (3.66%) Ripple XRP
2 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 60 (31.41%) AWS
2 34 (17.80%) Serverless
3 33 (17.28%) Amazon ECS
4 31 (16.23%) Amazon EKS
5 29 (15.18%) Azure
6 23 (12.04%) GCP
7 12 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.14%) SaaS
12 4 (2.09%) Sentry
13 3 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (1.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.57%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.57%) dbt
13 3 (1.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.95%) HTTP
2 4 (2.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) Multicast
3 1 (0.52%) NAS
3 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.51%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (16.23%) Relational Database
3 11 (5.76%) RDBMS
4 8 (4.19%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.66%) Redis
6 6 (3.14%) MySQL
6 6 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.57%) Big Data
8 3 (1.57%) Metadata
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.52%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.52%) DB2
10 1 (0.52%) Flink
Development Applications
1 45 (23.56%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.32%) Git
3 29 (15.18%) JUnit
4 14 (7.33%) Mockito
5 12 (6.28%) JMeter
6 9 (4.71%) Gradle
7 6 (3.14%) JIRA
8 4 (2.09%) Maven
9 3 (1.57%) GitLab
9 3 (1.57%) Postman
9 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.05%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.05%) Subversion
10 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.05%) Xcode
10 2 (1.05%) XCTest
11 1 (0.52%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
General
1 71 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.55%) Finance
3 28 (14.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (14.66%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.57%) Advertising
5 23 (12.04%) Games
6 20 (10.47%) Banking
6 20 (10.47%) Retail
7 10 (5.24%) Front Office
8 9 (4.71%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.71%) Law
9 8 (4.19%) Marketing
10 7 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (3.66%) Digital Economy
10 7 (3.66%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.62%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.09%) Legal
12 4 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (37.70%) Software Engineer
2 57 (29.84%) Senior
3 53 (27.75%) Developer
4 42 (21.99%) Java Developer
5 38 (19.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (19.37%) Senior Software Engineer
7 35 (18.32%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 35 (18.32%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 26 (13.61%) Lead
9 22 (11.52%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (10.47%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 16 (8.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 14 (7.33%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.19%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 8 (4.19%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 7 (3.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 7 (3.66%) Release Manager
16 6 (3.14%) Architect
16 6 (3.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.94%) Kafka
2 38 (19.90%) REST
3 35 (18.32%) Spring Boot
4 34 (17.80%) Spring
5 33 (17.28%) Web Services
6 24 (12.57%) Apache Camel
7 22 (11.52%) RESTful
8 16 (8.38%) SOAP
9 15 (7.85%) J2EE
10 14 (7.33%) Hibernate
10 14 (7.33%) HTML
10 14 (7.33%) jQuery
11 13 (6.81%) React
12 12 (6.28%) ActiveMQ
13 11 (5.76%) WireMock
14 9 (4.71%) Node.js
15 8 (4.19%) ARM Templates
15 8 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
16 7 (3.66%) AngularJS
17 6 (3.14%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 53 (27.75%) Cloud Native
2 35 (18.32%) Legacy Code
3 30 (15.71%) Algorithms
4 18 (9.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (7.85%) Data Structures
6 10 (5.24%) Blockchain
7 9 (4.71%) Equities
7 9 (4.71%) Hedge funds
8 8 (4.19%) Fixed Income
9 7 (3.66%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.57%) Sports Betting
11 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.05%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 59 (30.89%) Linux
2 5 (2.62%) Unix
3 4 (2.09%) Windows
4 3 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (49.74%) Software Engineering
2 84 (43.98%) Agile
3 67 (35.08%) Microservices
4 66 (34.55%) CI/CD
5 53 (27.75%) TDD
6 45 (23.56%) DevOps
7 36 (18.85%) Computer Science
8 35 (18.32%) BDD
9 32 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (16.23%) Scrum
11 30 (15.71%) Machine Learning
12 24 (12.57%) Kanban
13 22 (11.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (11.52%) SDLC
14 21 (10.99%) Roadmaps
15 19 (9.95%) Containerisation
15 19 (9.95%) Performance Metrics
15 19 (9.95%) Programmatic Advertising
16 18 (9.42%) Observability
17 16 (8.38%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.03%) Java
2 63 (32.98%) Python
3 50 (26.18%) C++
4 43 (22.51%) Rust
5 42 (21.99%) Go
6 38 (19.90%) C
7 30 (15.71%) SQL
8 24 (12.57%) JavaScript
9 21 (10.99%) Scala
10 13 (6.81%) Shell Script
11 10 (5.24%) PowerShell
12 9 (4.71%) C#
13 8 (4.19%) TypeScript
14 4 (2.09%) Bash
15 3 (1.57%) Kotlin
16 2 (1.05%) Groovy
16 2 (1.05%) PHP
16 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.52%) JCL
17 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (21.47%) Degree
2 26 (13.61%) SC Cleared
2 26 (13.61%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.62%) PhD
6 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) SLA
2 10 (5.24%) GDPR
2 10 (5.24%) QA
3 8 (4.19%) HIPAA
3 8 (4.19%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.57%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (32.46%) Docker
2 8 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.57%) vSphere
4 1 (0.52%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.52%) Postfix
4 1 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 101 (52.88%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.52%) Terraform
3 16 (8.38%) Ansible
4 11 (5.76%) Kibana
5 4 (2.09%) Argo
5 4 (2.09%) Grafana
6 3 (1.57%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (15.18%) Google
2 22 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 19 (9.95%) Apple
4 15 (7.85%) Splunk
5 13 (6.81%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.57%) NetApp
6 3 (1.57%) SAP
7 2 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.05%) ESRI
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.52%) Databricks
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Intel
8 1 (0.52%) Reuters
8 1 (0.52%) Sparx
8 1 (0.52%) Syncsort