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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 228 203
Rank change year-on-year +83 -25 -74
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 19 49 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.71% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 1.61% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 10
10th Percentile £61,250 - £55,875
25th Percentile £63,250 £31,250 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £60,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £94,500 £69,925 £72,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

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 834 3,048 1,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.10% 44.42% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 368 868 736
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,450 £33,730
25th Percentile £47,110 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -9.19% +5.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £87,419
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 14 June 2025.

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 14 June 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
Glasgow +123 10 £64,500 +98.46% 7
Edinburgh +23 9 £67,500 +12.50% 29
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 7 (36.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (26.32%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
3 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) GitHub
3 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Azure AI
5 2 (10.53%) ChatGPT
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Big Data
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (26.32%) Apache Hudi
2 5 (26.32%) Apache Iceberg
2 5 (26.32%) Parquet
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JUnit
General
1 7 (36.84%) Banking
1 7 (36.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Law
4 3 (15.79%) Games
5 2 (10.53%) Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Software Engineer
2 12 (63.16%) Senior
3 10 (52.63%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Lead
4 6 (31.58%) Lead Software Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) .NET Software Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) AWS Software Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) Python Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) Python Software Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Blockchain Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Kafka
2 8 (42.11%) React
3 5 (26.32%) .NET
3 5 (26.32%) .NET Core
3 5 (26.32%) AngularJS
3 5 (26.32%) Blazor
3 5 (26.32%) RESTful
4 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
5 3 (15.79%) Spring
6 2 (10.53%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Reference Data
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Blockchain
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Software Engineering
2 14 (73.68%) Agile
3 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) Microservices
4 8 (42.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (42.11%) TDD
5 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 5 (26.32%) Application Security
6 5 (26.32%) Community of Practice
6 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (26.32%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (26.32%) Operational Stability
6 5 (26.32%) Parallel Processing
6 5 (26.32%) SDLC
6 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
7 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
8 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 3 (15.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) C#
3 7 (36.84%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 1 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) Rust
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Databricks