Distributed Systems Job Trends in the South East

Distributed Systems
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 204 271
Rank change year-on-year -12 +67 +73
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 67 55 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.46% 0.77% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 2.17% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 33 10 41
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -1.92% -11.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,000 -
England median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,661 2,537 5,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.21% 35.69% 34.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,003 1,355 3,775
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -10.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in the South East

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Thames Valley +7 47 £68,750 +5.77% 17
Berkshire 0 34 £82,500 +32.00% 9
Surrey -14 12 £87,500 +75.00% 3
Buckinghamshire - 11 £65,000 - 3
East Sussex - 4 £85,000 - 1
Oxfordshire -12 2 - - 5
West Sussex -16 1 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Kent -42 1 £60,000 - 1
Hampshire - 1 £65,000 - 6
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (10.45%) OpenStack
2 5 (7.46%) IIS
3 1 (1.49%) JBoss
3 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 55 (82.09%) AWS
2 36 (53.73%) Azure
3 19 (28.36%) Amazon EKS
3 19 (28.36%) Serverless
4 18 (26.87%) GCP
5 14 (20.90%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (16.42%) Amazon S3
7 8 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (8.96%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
11 4 (5.97%) Datadog
12 3 (4.48%) GitHub
12 3 (4.48%) SaaS
13 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
13 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
14 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Broadband
1 2 (2.99%) DHCP
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
1 2 (2.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) Relational Database
2 10 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.46%) Big Data
5 5 (7.46%) Data Mining
5 5 (7.46%) Hadoop
5 5 (7.46%) Tableau
6 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.49%) MySQL
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.49%) Pinecone
8 1 (1.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (28.36%) Jenkins
2 16 (23.88%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) Cucumber
3 5 (7.46%) GitLab
3 5 (7.46%) JIRA
3 5 (7.46%) JUnit
3 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.97%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.48%) JMeter
5 3 (4.48%) Mockito
General
1 13 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Marketing
4 5 (7.46%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.99%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.99%) Law
6 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) Developer
2 17 (25.37%) Software Engineer
3 16 (23.88%) Senior
4 14 (20.90%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.94%) Architect
6 7 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Java Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Manager
8 5 (7.46%) Data Science Manager
8 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.46%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Integration Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Site Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (35.82%) REST
2 15 (22.39%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (22.39%) Spring
3 14 (20.90%) React
3 14 (20.90%) Spring Boot
4 13 (19.40%) Web Services
5 12 (17.91%) JSON
5 12 (17.91%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (16.42%) Kafka
7 8 (11.94%) .NET
7 8 (11.94%) RESTful
8 7 (10.45%) Mustache
8 7 (10.45%) Node.js
8 7 (10.45%) XML
9 6 (8.96%) AngularJS
10 5 (7.46%) Play Framework
10 5 (7.46%) SOAP
11 4 (5.97%) JPA
11 4 (5.97%) OAuth
11 4 (5.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.39%) Cloud Native
2 13 (19.40%) Client/Server
3 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.48%) Life Science
5 3 (4.48%) N-Tier
5 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.99%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.99%) NHS
6 2 (2.99%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.99%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (62.69%) CI/CD
2 40 (59.70%) Microservices
3 36 (53.73%) Agile
4 30 (44.78%) Software Engineering
5 29 (43.28%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (38.81%) Computer Science
6 26 (38.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (38.81%) DevOps
6 26 (38.81%) Test Automation
7 19 (28.36%) TDD
8 17 (25.37%) Scrum
9 16 (23.88%) AI
9 16 (23.88%) Code Quality
9 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
10 13 (19.40%) Machine Learning
10 13 (19.40%) System Testing
11 12 (17.91%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (14.93%) SDLC
13 9 (13.43%) Analytical Thinking
13 9 (13.43%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 36 (53.73%) Python
2 32 (47.76%) Java
3 17 (25.37%) SQL
4 14 (20.90%) C
4 14 (20.90%) C++
5 13 (19.40%) Rust
6 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
7 8 (11.94%) C#
8 7 (10.45%) Scala
9 5 (7.46%) Groovy
9 5 (7.46%) R
10 4 (5.97%) Go
10 4 (5.97%) PL/SQL
10 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
11 3 (4.48%) Perl
12 2 (2.99%) Bash
12 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Degree
2 19 (28.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
4 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.46%) Master's Degree
5 5 (7.46%) MBA
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (38.81%) QA
2 5 (7.46%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.99%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (47.76%) Docker
2 15 (22.39%) Hyper-V
2 15 (22.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (19.40%) KVM
4 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (49.25%) Kubernetes
2 16 (23.88%) Ansible
3 13 (19.40%) Terraform
4 7 (10.45%) Kibana
5 4 (5.97%) Packer
6 3 (4.48%) Grafana
6 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.49%) Argo
7 1 (1.49%) Graylog
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) VMware
2 8 (11.94%) AppDynamics
2 8 (11.94%) IBM
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.45%) Databricks
3 7 (10.45%) Dynatrace
4 5 (7.46%) BT
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle
6 3 (4.48%) Splunk
7 2 (2.99%) Typelevel
8 1 (1.49%) Atlassian