Distributed Systems Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Distributed Systems
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 52 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +63
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.59% 0.42% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 1.40% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -20.79% +2.94%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £110,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% - -3.03%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 83 143 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 24.34% 29.79% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 30 52 90
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.46% +9.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £92,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £100,000 £81,375
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
County Antrim +14 2 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Grails
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google