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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 292 211
Rank change year-on-year +78 -81 -56
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 192 241 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.53% 1.01% 1.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.46% 2.51% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 115 163 307
10th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,625 £113,750
90th Percentile £139,500 £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 5,552 9,615 15,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.37% 40.42% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,975 6,776 10,409
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £44,192
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,391
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £123,750
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 28 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 28 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 +53 36 £62,500 -26.47% 22
South London -5 32 - -
West London +26 1 £65,000 - 4
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 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.77%) JBoss
2 13 (6.77%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (3.65%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.04%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 70 (36.46%) AWS
2 35 (18.23%) Serverless
3 34 (17.71%) Amazon ECS
4 33 (17.19%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (15.63%) Azure
6 27 (14.06%) GCP
7 13 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.13%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.08%) SaaS
13 3 (1.56%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (1.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.56%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.56%) Pulumi
13 3 (1.56%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.33%) HTTP
2 4 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) Multicast
3 1 (0.52%) NAS
3 1 (0.52%) SAN
3 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.35%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (18.23%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 9 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.65%) Big Data
5 7 (3.65%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.13%) Redis
7 5 (2.60%) MySQL
7 5 (2.60%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.56%) Metadata
10 2 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.04%) Flink
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 45 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.23%) Git
3 30 (15.63%) JUnit
4 15 (7.81%) Mockito
5 13 (6.77%) JMeter
6 9 (4.69%) Gradle
7 7 (3.65%) JIRA
8 4 (2.08%) Maven
9 3 (1.56%) GitLab
9 3 (1.56%) Postman
9 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.04%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.04%) Subversion
10 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.04%) Xcode
10 2 (1.04%) XCTest
11 1 (0.52%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
General
1 67 (34.90%) Finance
2 65 (33.85%) Social Skills
3 37 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (16.67%) Banking
5 30 (15.63%) Public Sector
6 20 (10.42%) Advertising
6 20 (10.42%) Games
7 17 (8.85%) Retail
8 16 (8.33%) Law
9 12 (6.25%) Front Office
10 9 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (4.69%) Marketing
11 8 (4.17%) Investment Banking
12 7 (3.65%) Telecoms
13 6 (3.13%) Legal
14 5 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (1.56%) Electronics
16 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 60 (31.25%) Senior
3 52 (27.08%) Developer
4 43 (22.40%) Java Developer
5 40 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (20.31%) Senior Software Engineer
7 36 (18.75%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 35 (18.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 33 (17.19%) Lead
10 29 (15.10%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (10.94%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 16 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 8 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 8 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.17%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Release Manager
14 7 (3.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.35%) Spring
2 39 (20.31%) Kafka
2 39 (20.31%) REST
2 39 (20.31%) Spring Boot
3 36 (18.75%) Web Services
4 26 (13.54%) RESTful
5 25 (13.02%) Apache Camel
6 16 (8.33%) Hibernate
6 16 (8.33%) SOAP
7 15 (7.81%) HTML
7 15 (7.81%) J2EE
8 14 (7.29%) jQuery
8 14 (7.29%) React
9 13 (6.77%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (6.25%) WireMock
11 8 (4.17%) ARM Templates
11 8 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.17%) Node.js
12 6 (3.13%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.13%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 62 (32.29%) Cloud Native
2 35 (18.23%) Legacy Code
3 26 (13.54%) Algorithms
4 19 (9.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 17 (8.85%) Data Structures
6 9 (4.69%) Equities
6 9 (4.69%) Fixed Income
6 9 (4.69%) Public Cloud
7 8 (4.17%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.60%) Derivative
8 5 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.60%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.56%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.56%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 59 (30.73%) Linux
2 5 (2.60%) Unix
3 4 (2.08%) Windows
4 3 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (53.13%) Software Engineering
2 85 (44.27%) Agile
3 74 (38.54%) CI/CD
3 74 (38.54%) Microservices
4 54 (28.13%) TDD
5 47 (24.48%) DevOps
6 36 (18.75%) BDD
7 33 (17.19%) Computer Science
7 33 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (16.15%) Scrum
8 31 (16.15%) SDLC
9 30 (15.63%) Machine Learning
10 25 (13.02%) Kanban
11 22 (11.46%) Containerisation
12 19 (9.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (8.85%) Fintech
13 17 (8.85%) Workflow
14 16 (8.33%) Design Patterns
14 16 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
14 16 (8.33%) Programmatic Advertising
Programming Languages
1 77 (40.10%) Java
2 64 (33.33%) Python
3 43 (22.40%) C++
4 42 (21.88%) Go
5 41 (21.35%) Rust
6 37 (19.27%) C
7 32 (16.67%) SQL
8 24 (12.50%) JavaScript
9 20 (10.42%) Scala
10 14 (7.29%) Shell Script
11 10 (5.21%) PowerShell
12 9 (4.69%) C#
13 8 (4.17%) TypeScript
14 7 (3.65%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.56%) Bash
15 3 (1.56%) Groovy
16 2 (1.04%) PHP
17 1 (0.52%) Haskell
17 1 (0.52%) JCL
17 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (19.27%) Degree
2 27 (14.06%) SC Cleared
2 27 (14.06%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.13%) PhD
6 3 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.77%) SLA
2 11 (5.73%) QA
3 10 (5.21%) GDPR
4 8 (4.17%) HIPAA
4 8 (4.17%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (34.38%) Docker
2 8 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.56%) vSphere
4 1 (0.52%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.52%) Postfix
4 1 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 106 (55.21%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.50%) Terraform
3 16 (8.33%) Ansible
4 12 (6.25%) Kibana
5 4 (2.08%) Argo
5 4 (2.08%) Grafana
6 3 (1.56%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.04%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (13.54%) Google
2 20 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.33%) Apple
3 16 (8.33%) Splunk
4 14 (7.29%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.56%) NetApp
5 3 (1.56%) SAP
6 2 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.04%) ESRI
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle
7 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.52%) Databricks
7 1 (0.52%) Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) IBM
7 1 (0.52%) Palantir
7 1 (0.52%) Reuters
7 1 (0.52%) Solace
7 1 (0.52%) Syncsort