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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 287 253
Rank change year-on-year +34 -34 +64
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 37 40 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.35% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 1.06% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 18
10th Percentile £63,750 - £49,125
25th Percentile £69,375 £43,911 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £53,741 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.86% -23.23% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £70,000 £74,688
90th Percentile - £91,250 £76,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -5.88%

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 3,564 3,769 2,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.84% 32.55% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,792 1,691 2,004
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,469 £41,741 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -0.09% -0.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 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
Thames Valley +6 33 £80,000 +77.85% 10
Berkshire +6 31 £85,000 +36.00% 8
Kent - 3 - -
Oxfordshire +13 1 £60,000 +33.39% 4
Surrey - 1 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £75,000 -
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 5 (13.51%) JBoss
1 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (5.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (86.49%) AWS
2 27 (72.97%) Amazon ECS
2 27 (72.97%) Amazon EKS
2 27 (72.97%) Serverless
3 22 (59.46%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (8.11%) SaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.41%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure
6 2 (5.41%) Route 53
7 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (78.38%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (72.97%) Relational Database
3 20 (54.05%) RDBMS
4 3 (8.11%) MySQL
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (81.08%) Jenkins
2 27 (72.97%) JUnit
3 22 (59.46%) Mockito
4 20 (54.05%) JMeter
5 14 (37.84%) Git
6 3 (8.11%) Maven
6 3 (8.11%) PHPUnit
7 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (5.41%) DbUnit
7 2 (5.41%) jMock
7 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.70%) MSBuild
General
1 27 (72.97%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (86.49%) Developer
2 28 (75.68%) Java Developer
3 18 (48.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (40.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 13 (35.14%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior
7 3 (8.11%) Lead
7 3 (8.11%) SaaS Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Integration Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Lead Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.70%) IT Security Officer
9 1 (2.70%) Lead Developer
9 1 (2.70%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (2.70%) Security Officer
9 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (86.49%) REST
2 29 (78.38%) Spring
2 29 (78.38%) Spring Boot
2 29 (78.38%) Web Services
3 25 (67.57%) Apache Camel
4 23 (62.16%) HTML
4 23 (62.16%) jQuery
5 22 (59.46%) ActiveMQ
5 22 (59.46%) Hibernate
6 20 (54.05%) WireMock
7 17 (45.95%) JSON
7 17 (45.95%) XML
8 10 (27.03%) RESTful
9 7 (18.92%) SOAP
10 6 (16.22%) React
11 5 (13.51%) J2EE
12 3 (8.11%) CSS
12 3 (8.11%) LAMP
12 3 (8.11%) Laravel
12 3 (8.11%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (86.49%) TDD
2 31 (83.78%) Microservices
3 30 (81.08%) Agile
4 27 (72.97%) BDD
5 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
6 20 (54.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (54.05%) Process Management
6 20 (54.05%) Workflow
7 14 (37.84%) SDLC
8 13 (35.14%) Scrum
9 10 (27.03%) Kanban
10 8 (21.62%) DevOps
11 3 (8.11%) B2B
11 3 (8.11%) Biometrics
11 3 (8.11%) Data Privacy
11 3 (8.11%) Data Protection
11 3 (8.11%) Mobile First
11 3 (8.11%) OOP
11 3 (8.11%) Refactoring
11 3 (8.11%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (78.38%) Java
2 27 (72.97%) JavaScript
3 21 (56.76%) Python
4 20 (54.05%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.11%) PHP
6 2 (5.41%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) SQL
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (62.16%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) CEH
4 1 (2.70%) CISM
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
4 1 (2.70%) GIAC
4 1 (2.70%) OSCP
4 1 (2.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) SLA
2 3 (8.11%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (91.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (78.38%) Kubernetes
2 20 (54.05%) Kibana
3 5 (13.51%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (54.05%) Dynatrace
1 20 (54.05%) Splunk
2 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.41%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft