Distributed Systems Jobs in Scotland

Distributed Systems
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 199 125
Rank change year-on-year -11 -74 +21
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 42 11 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 0.29% 2.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 0.79% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 51
10th Percentile £42,625 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £67,313 £71,250 £85,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +6.06% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,487 1,393 2,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.65% 36.72% 46.54%
Number of salaries quoted 702 729 1,249
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,562 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,200 £42,874 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Scotland.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow -58 27 £50,000 -16.67%
Edinburgh +42 12 £60,000 - 4
Midlothian - 3 - - 3
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) AWS
2 20 (47.62%) Datadog
3 5 (11.90%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) SaaS
4 4 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) Network Security
2 2 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.14%) Big Data
3 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 28 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 28 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (50.00%) Finance
3 20 (47.62%) Law
3 20 (47.62%) Marketing
4 7 (16.67%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 20 (47.62%) Lead
2 20 (47.62%) Lead Software Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Senior
4 9 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (19.05%) C Software Engineer
5 8 (19.05%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 8 (19.05%) C++ Software Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) Senior C Software Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (14.29%) Developer
8 5 (11.90%) Backend Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
10 1 (2.38%) Java Developer
10 1 (2.38%) Senior Developer
10 1 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (47.62%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (11.90%) REST
3 3 (7.14%) DPDK
3 3 (7.14%) MLlib
3 3 (7.14%) MXNet
3 3 (7.14%) NumPy
3 3 (7.14%) PyTorch
3 3 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 3 (7.14%) SciPy
3 3 (7.14%) Spring
3 3 (7.14%) TensorFlow
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
4 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Clustering
3 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 29 (69.05%) Agile
3 23 (54.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
3 23 (54.76%) Machine Learning
4 21 (50.00%) Architectural Design
5 20 (47.62%) Community of Practice
5 20 (47.62%) Continuous Delivery
5 20 (47.62%) Information Architecture
5 20 (47.62%) Observability
5 20 (47.62%) Operational Stability
5 20 (47.62%) SDLC
5 20 (47.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (47.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
7 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.90%) Microservices
9 4 (9.52%) DevOps
9 4 (9.52%) SQL Optimisation
10 3 (7.14%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Java
2 12 (28.57%) C++
3 9 (21.43%) Python
4 8 (19.05%) C
5 7 (16.67%) Go
5 7 (16.67%) SQL
6 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.52%) C#
7 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
2 8 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) PhD
4 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Grafana
1 20 (47.62%) Prometheus
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Dynatrace
1 20 (47.62%) Splunk
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) VMware
3 1 (2.38%) Google