Distributed Systems Job Trends 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 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 123 175
Rank change year-on-year -2 +52 -22
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 17 19 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.45% 0.76% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 2.68% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 11
10th Percentile £67,908 - -
25th Percentile £69,993 £63,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £125,625 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £132,500 - £74,144
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -1.56%

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 1,028 709 1,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.07% 28.50% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 548 256 532
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,639 £82,400
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

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 8 September 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
Glasgow -1 9 £112,500 +55.71% 56
Edinburgh +7 7 £71,991 +6.65% 33
West Lothian - 1 - -
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.76%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) MQTT
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.76%) Neo4j
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Pinecone
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Aerospace
1 3 (17.65%) Automotive
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Health Technology
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
1 6 (35.29%) Principal Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Data Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Principal Data Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Messaging Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Research Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Development Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) pgvector
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) gRPC
3 1 (5.88%) NestJS
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) AI Agents
1 3 (17.65%) Robotics
2 2 (11.76%) IoT
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) AI
2 9 (52.94%) Machine Learning
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Observability
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
5 4 (23.53%) Lakehouse
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
6 3 (17.65%) Coaching
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
6 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) C
2 2 (11.76%) C++
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded C
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded C++
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
3 4 (23.53%) PhD
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Meraki
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle