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 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merton 1.94% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.28% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £102,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 - -
75th Percentile £107,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £87,500 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -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 61 13 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 59.22% 24.07% 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 25 10 23
10th Percentile - £42,840 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -5.74% +13.49%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £68,500 £82,700
South London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +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
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Merton region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Wimbledon - 1 £105,000 -
Distributed Systems
South London

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Akka
2 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) RxJava
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes