Distributed Systems Job Trends in Merton

Distributed Systems
South London > Merton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Merton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merton 1.14% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -21.88% -

All Generic Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 50 13 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 56.82% 30.23% 48.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 19
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,840 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 - £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +26.32%
75th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £67,625
90th Percentile £64,250 £67,500 £70,700
South London median annual salary £42,500 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.02% -9.17% +14.29%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Merton

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Merton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 1 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes