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 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 223 291
Rank change year-on-year -10 +68 +33
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 70 53 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.46% 0.66% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.55% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 41 8 34
10th Percentile £48,250 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 -
England median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +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 3,624 3,419 5,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.04% 42.81% 33.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,508 1,602 3,824
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,991 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +18 48 £63,000 -16.00% 11
Berkshire +10 34 £75,000 -11.76% 6
Surrey -7 13 £66,250 +32.50%
Buckinghamshire +3 10 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Oxfordshire -7 4 - - 2
East Sussex - 3 £85,000 - 1
West Sussex -19 2 £67,500 -10.00% 1
Hampshire - 2 £76,250 - 8
Kent -29 1 £60,000 -
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 3 (4.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.43%) JBoss
2 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.43%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 54 (77.14%) AWS
2 40 (57.14%) Azure
3 20 (28.57%) GCP
4 17 (24.29%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (24.29%) Serverless
5 12 (17.14%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 7 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (7.14%) GitHub
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.29%) Datadog
9 3 (4.29%) SaaS
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Broadband
1 3 (4.29%) DHCP
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
1 3 (4.29%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.43%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.43%) HTTP
3 1 (1.43%) MQTT
3 1 (1.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.71%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.57%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.29%) MySQL
6 2 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.86%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.86%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.86%) Redis
7 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.43%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 19 (27.14%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.86%) Git
3 8 (11.43%) JUnit
4 7 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 7 (10.00%) GitLab
4 7 (10.00%) JMeter
5 5 (7.14%) JIRA
5 5 (7.14%) Mockito
5 5 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.71%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.86%) Advertising
6 2 (2.86%) Finance
6 2 (2.86%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Games
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Developer
2 18 (25.71%) Software Engineer
3 12 (17.14%) Java Developer
4 9 (12.86%) Senior
5 8 (11.43%) Architect
5 8 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) Java Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Backend Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Integration Architect
7 5 (7.14%) Lead
7 5 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (35.71%) REST
2 17 (24.29%) Spring
3 16 (22.86%) JSON
3 16 (22.86%) Spring Boot
4 15 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (17.14%) Kafka
5 12 (17.14%) Web Services
6 11 (15.71%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (14.29%) React
7 10 (14.29%) XML
8 9 (12.86%) RESTful
9 6 (8.57%) .NET
9 6 (8.57%) Apache Camel
9 6 (8.57%) Hibernate
9 6 (8.57%) SOAP
10 5 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (7.14%) HTML
10 5 (7.14%) jQuery
10 5 (7.14%) Middleware
10 5 (7.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.71%) Life Science
3 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.29%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.29%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.86%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.86%) NHS
5 2 (2.86%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 27 (38.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Debian
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 41 (58.57%) Microservices
3 37 (52.86%) Agile
4 35 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 32 (45.71%) Test Automation
6 27 (38.57%) DevOps
6 27 (38.57%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (35.71%) Computer Science
7 25 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (25.71%) Code Quality
9 17 (24.29%) TDD
10 16 (22.86%) Containerisation
11 15 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (20.00%) AI
12 14 (20.00%) System Testing
13 12 (17.14%) BDD
13 12 (17.14%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (17.14%) Scrum
14 10 (14.29%) SDLC
15 9 (12.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 40 (57.14%) Python
2 29 (41.43%) Java
3 17 (24.29%) C++
4 14 (20.00%) C
4 14 (20.00%) Rust
4 14 (20.00%) SQL
5 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.00%) Bash
6 7 (10.00%) Go
7 6 (8.57%) C#
7 6 (8.57%) Shell Script
8 5 (7.14%) Groovy
8 5 (7.14%) Perl
9 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL
10 3 (4.29%) PHP
10 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
10 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (37.14%) Degree
2 23 (32.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
4 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.71%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (45.71%) Docker
2 17 (24.29%) Hyper-V
2 17 (24.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (20.00%) KVM
4 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (52.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (25.71%) Ansible
3 17 (24.29%) Terraform
4 11 (15.71%) Kibana
5 7 (10.00%) Grafana
6 5 (7.14%) Prometheus
7 4 (5.71%) Packer
8 2 (2.86%) Argo
9 1 (1.43%) Graylog
9 1 (1.43%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) VMware
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.43%) AppDynamics
3 8 (11.43%) Dynatrace
3 8 (11.43%) IBM
4 7 (10.00%) Splunk
5 6 (8.57%) Oracle
6 2 (2.86%) Databricks
6 2 (2.86%) Google
6 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.86%) Typelevel
7 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.43%) Red Hat