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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 241 295
Rank change year-on-year 0 +54 +18
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 76 53 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.62% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 1.48% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 46 8 31
10th Percentile £48,250 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +7.69% -11.86%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £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 3,828 3,583 5,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.34% 41.60% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,656 1,693 3,607
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,375 £34,988 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,300 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% +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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +23 48 £62,500 -16.67% 31
Berkshire +10 31 £75,000 -11.76% 10
Surrey -12 15 £66,250 +32.50% 13
Buckinghamshire -3 11 £60,000 -20.00% 11
Oxfordshire -8 6 £50,000 -20.00% 10
East Sussex - 5 £85,000 - 6
Hampshire - 4 £72,500 - 22
West Sussex -16 2 £67,500 -10.00% 9
Kent -29 1 £60,000 - 9
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 2 (2.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.32%) JBoss
2 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.63%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 56 (73.68%) AWS
2 46 (60.53%) Azure
3 20 (26.32%) GCP
4 16 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (21.05%) Serverless
5 11 (14.47%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (10.53%) GitHub
8 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.58%) Datadog
11 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.95%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.95%) SaaS
13 2 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (2.63%) ChatGPT
13 2 (2.63%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) Broadband
1 3 (3.95%) DHCP
1 3 (3.95%) DNS
1 3 (3.95%) Firewall
1 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.63%) HTTP
2 2 (2.63%) MQTT
3 1 (1.32%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.89%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.58%) MySQL
4 5 (6.58%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.63%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.63%) Pinecone
5 2 (2.63%) Redis
6 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.32%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 18 (23.68%) Git
1 18 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.53%) JUnit
3 7 (9.21%) Cucumber
3 7 (9.21%) GitLab
3 7 (9.21%) JMeter
4 6 (7.89%) JIRA
5 5 (6.58%) Mockito
5 5 (6.58%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.26%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
2 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.26%) Retail
5 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.63%) Advertising
6 2 (2.63%) Finance
6 2 (2.63%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.32%) Automotive
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 27 (35.53%) Developer
2 17 (22.37%) Software Engineer
3 11 (14.47%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Backend Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Senior
5 8 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Java Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Lead
7 6 (7.89%) Site Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Integration Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (35.53%) REST
2 18 (23.68%) JSON
2 18 (23.68%) Spring
3 17 (22.37%) RabbitMQ
3 17 (22.37%) Spring Boot
4 13 (17.11%) Kafka
5 11 (14.47%) React
5 11 (14.47%) RESTful
5 11 (14.47%) Web Services
5 11 (14.47%) XML
6 10 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (10.53%) .NET
7 8 (10.53%) Hibernate
8 6 (7.89%) Apache Camel
8 6 (7.89%) JPA
8 6 (7.89%) SOAP
9 5 (6.58%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.58%) OAuth
9 5 (6.58%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.47%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.26%) Life Science
3 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.95%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.95%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.95%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.95%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.63%) NHS
5 2 (2.63%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 26 (34.21%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Debian
3 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (69.74%) CI/CD
2 45 (59.21%) Microservices
3 42 (55.26%) Agile
4 37 (48.68%) Software Engineering
5 33 (43.42%) Test Automation
6 32 (42.11%) DevOps
7 31 (40.79%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (30.26%) Computer Science
8 23 (30.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (27.63%) AI
10 20 (26.32%) Containerisation
11 18 (23.68%) Code Quality
11 18 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (23.68%) TDD
12 14 (18.42%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (15.79%) BDD
14 11 (14.47%) Machine Learning
14 11 (14.47%) Scrum
14 11 (14.47%) System Testing
15 10 (13.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 44 (57.89%) Python
2 30 (39.47%) Java
3 17 (22.37%) C++
4 15 (19.74%) SQL
5 13 (17.11%) C
6 12 (15.79%) Rust
7 9 (11.84%) C#
8 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
9 7 (9.21%) Bash
9 7 (9.21%) Go
10 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
11 5 (6.58%) Groovy
11 5 (6.58%) Perl
11 5 (6.58%) TypeScript
12 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
13 3 (3.95%) PHP
13 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
14 2 (2.63%) Scala
15 1 (1.32%) Ada
Qualifications
1 24 (31.58%) Degree
2 20 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (27.63%) QA
2 3 (3.95%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (48.68%) Docker
2 15 (19.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (18.42%) Hyper-V
4 12 (15.79%) KVM
5 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (53.95%) Kubernetes
2 20 (26.32%) Ansible
2 20 (26.32%) Terraform
3 11 (14.47%) Kibana
4 7 (9.21%) Grafana
5 5 (6.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.26%) Packer
7 2 (2.63%) Argo
8 1 (1.32%) Graylog
8 1 (1.32%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
1 15 (19.74%) VMware
2 10 (13.16%) Dynatrace
3 9 (11.84%) IBM
4 8 (10.53%) AppDynamics
5 7 (9.21%) Splunk
6 6 (7.89%) Oracle
7 4 (5.26%) Google
7 4 (5.26%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.63%) Databricks
8 2 (2.63%) Typelevel
9 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.32%) Red Hat