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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 226 270
Rank change year-on-year +10 +44 +74
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 80 50 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.55% 0.65% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 1.61% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 41 5 41
10th Percentile £51,250 - £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -16.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,500 -
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 3,499 3,107 5,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.09% 40.61% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,241 1,429 3,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,400 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 28 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 28 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 +24 54 £66,250 -11.67% 21
Berkshire +12 38 £78,750 -7.35% 9
Surrey -5 15 £62,500 +25.00% 4
Buckinghamshire - 12 £61,750 - 2
Oxfordshire -7 4 - - 10
West Sussex -19 3 £67,500 -10.00% 1
East Sussex - 3 £85,000 -
Hampshire - 3 £72,500 - 10
Kent -30 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 8 (10.00%) OpenStack
2 5 (6.25%) IIS
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.25%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 63 (78.75%) AWS
2 39 (48.75%) Azure
3 22 (27.50%) Amazon EKS
3 22 (27.50%) Serverless
4 20 (25.00%) GCP
5 17 (21.25%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (15.00%) Amazon S3
7 10 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.25%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.75%) Datadog
10 3 (3.75%) GitHub
10 3 (3.75%) SaaS
11 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) DHCP
1 3 (3.75%) DNS
1 3 (3.75%) Firewall
2 2 (2.50%) Broadband
2 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.25%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) MQTT
3 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 15 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.25%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.25%) Big Data
5 5 (6.25%) Data Mining
5 5 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 5 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 5 (6.25%) Tableau
6 2 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.50%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.25%) MySQL
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.25%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.25%) Vitess
7 1 (1.25%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (23.75%) Git
3 9 (11.25%) JUnit
4 7 (8.75%) Cucumber
4 7 (8.75%) GitLab
4 7 (8.75%) JMeter
5 5 (6.25%) JIRA
5 5 (6.25%) Mockito
5 5 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
General
1 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Marketing
4 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.75%) Finance
6 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.50%) Advertising
7 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (33.75%) Developer
2 19 (23.75%) Software Engineer
3 17 (21.25%) Java Developer
4 16 (20.00%) Senior
5 9 (11.25%) Architect
6 8 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Java Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Python Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Manager
9 5 (6.25%) Backend Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Data Science Manager
9 5 (6.25%) Integration Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Lead
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (35.00%) REST
2 20 (25.00%) Spring
3 19 (23.75%) Spring Boot
4 16 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (20.00%) JSON
4 16 (20.00%) React
4 16 (20.00%) Web Services
5 15 (18.75%) Kafka
6 13 (16.25%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (12.50%) RESTful
7 10 (12.50%) XML
8 8 (10.00%) .NET
8 8 (10.00%) Mustache
8 8 (10.00%) Node.js
9 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
9 6 (7.50%) Apache Camel
9 6 (7.50%) Hibernate
9 6 (7.50%) SOAP
10 5 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (6.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Client/Server
1 14 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Life Science
3 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.50%) NHS
5 2 (2.50%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.50%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (33.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Debian
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 47 (58.75%) Agile
2 47 (58.75%) Microservices
3 37 (46.25%) Software Engineering
4 33 (41.25%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 32 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 30 (37.50%) DevOps
7 26 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (27.50%) TDD
9 19 (23.75%) Scrum
10 18 (22.50%) Code Quality
10 18 (22.50%) Containerisation
11 17 (21.25%) AI
12 15 (18.75%) SDLC
13 14 (17.50%) System Testing
14 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (15.00%) BDD
15 12 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (15.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (53.75%) Python
2 38 (47.50%) Java
3 19 (23.75%) SQL
4 16 (20.00%) C++
5 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
6 14 (17.50%) C
6 14 (17.50%) Rust
7 8 (10.00%) C#
8 7 (8.75%) Scala
9 6 (7.50%) Bash
9 6 (7.50%) Go
9 6 (7.50%) Shell Script
10 5 (6.25%) Groovy
10 5 (6.25%) Perl
10 5 (6.25%) R
11 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (3.75%) PHP
12 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
12 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (41.25%) Degree
2 24 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (16.25%) Security Cleared
4 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
6 5 (6.25%) MBA
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (33.75%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.75%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (46.25%) Docker
2 17 (21.25%) Hyper-V
2 17 (21.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (17.50%) KVM
4 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (51.25%) Kubernetes
2 18 (22.50%) Ansible
3 17 (21.25%) Terraform
4 11 (13.75%) Kibana
5 6 (7.50%) Grafana
6 4 (5.00%) Packer
6 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.25%) Argo
7 1 (1.25%) Graylog
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) VMware
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 8 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 8 (10.00%) IBM
4 7 (8.75%) Databricks
4 7 (8.75%) Splunk
5 6 (7.50%) Oracle
6 5 (6.25%) BT
7 2 (2.50%) Typelevel
8 1 (1.25%) Atlassian