Distributed Systems Job Trends in Reading

Distributed Systems
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 35 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 +51
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 19 42 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 3.24% 5.80% 3.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.67% 16.94% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 8
10th Percentile - £60,500 £80,125
25th Percentile - £61,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -24.24% -5.71%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £84,688
90th Percentile - - £88,625
Berkshire median annual salary - £62,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year - -24.24% -5.71%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 150 248 410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 25.60% 34.25% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 103 102 267
10th Percentile £26,000 £40,013 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,125 £37,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.99% -8.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £71,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £122,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -28.00% +19.05% -8.70%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Reading

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (89.47%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (89.47%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (89.47%) Serverless
3 11 (57.89%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (89.47%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (89.47%) Relational Database
2 11 (57.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (89.47%) Jenkins
2 12 (63.16%) JUnit
3 11 (57.89%) JMeter
3 11 (57.89%) Mockito
4 6 (31.58%) Git
General
1 12 (63.16%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
1 17 (89.47%) Java Developer
2 14 (73.68%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (73.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 11 (57.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (89.47%) REST
1 17 (89.47%) Spring
1 17 (89.47%) Spring Boot
2 16 (84.21%) Web Services
3 11 (57.89%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (57.89%) Apache Camel
3 11 (57.89%) Hibernate
3 11 (57.89%) HTML
3 11 (57.89%) jQuery
3 11 (57.89%) JSON
3 11 (57.89%) WireMock
3 11 (57.89%) XML
4 6 (31.58%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (31.58%) Kafka
4 6 (31.58%) Mustache
4 6 (31.58%) Node.js
4 6 (31.58%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Agile
1 17 (89.47%) CI/CD
1 17 (89.47%) Microservices
1 17 (89.47%) SDLC
1 17 (89.47%) TDD
2 15 (78.95%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (57.89%) BDD
3 11 (57.89%) Process Management
3 11 (57.89%) Workflow
4 6 (31.58%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) System Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.26%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (5.26%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Java
1 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
2 13 (68.42%) Python
3 11 (57.89%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.53%) C
4 2 (10.53%) C++
4 2 (10.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) KVM
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (89.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (57.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Dynatrace
1 11 (57.89%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) VMware