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 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 247 295
Rank change year-on-year -5 +48 -59
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 86 41 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.46% 0.46% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.78% 1.13% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 62 5 11
10th Percentile £48,250 £65,000 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £72,500 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £85,000 - £91,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -

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 4,841 3,616 4,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.62% 40.62% 32.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,314 1,775 1,923
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,988 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -17.43% -5.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.25%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +1 42 £62,500 -21.88% 44
Surrey -5 25 £50,000 - 5
Berkshire -13 23 £82,500 -2.94% 22
Buckinghamshire +9 12 £55,875 -25.50% 4
Kent -13 9 £70,000 - 1
Oxfordshire -25 7 £75,000 +25.00% 19
Hampshire - 5 £75,000 - 14
East Sussex - 3 £85,000 - 1
West Sussex -17 2 £67,500 -10.00% 7
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 (3.49%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.16%) JBoss
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.33%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 64 (74.42%) AWS
2 35 (40.70%) Azure
3 20 (23.26%) Serverless
4 18 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (12.79%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (11.63%) GitHub
8 9 (10.47%) Amazon S3
8 9 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.47%) GCP
9 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.65%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.49%) ChatGPT
11 3 (3.49%) Datadog
11 3 (3.49%) Google Gemini
12 2 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.79%) HTTP
2 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.33%) DHCP
3 2 (2.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.33%) Firewall
3 2 (2.33%) MQTT
4 1 (1.16%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.16%) Broadband
4 1 (1.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (19.77%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.47%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (9.30%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.98%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.81%) MySQL
6 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.33%) Couchbase
7 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.33%) Pinecone
7 2 (2.33%) Redis
8 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (23.26%) Git
1 20 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 17 (19.77%) JMeter
3 9 (10.47%) Gatling
3 9 (10.47%) JUnit
3 9 (10.47%) LoadRunner
4 7 (8.14%) Cucumber
4 7 (8.14%) GitLab
5 6 (6.98%) JIRA
5 6 (6.98%) Mockito
6 5 (5.81%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.65%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.16%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
General
1 23 (26.74%) Public Sector
2 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Retail
6 4 (4.65%) Finance
7 2 (2.33%) Advertising
7 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.16%) Automotive
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 37 (43.02%) Developer
2 14 (16.28%) Lead
3 13 (15.12%) Senior
4 12 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Backend Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Performance Tester
5 10 (11.63%) Tester
6 8 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Architect
7 7 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Java Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Senior Performance Tester
7 7 (8.14%) Senior Tester
8 5 (5.81%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Integration Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.21%) REST
2 26 (30.23%) Terraform
3 20 (23.26%) Spring
3 20 (23.26%) Spring Boot
4 19 (22.09%) JSON
5 18 (20.93%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (19.77%) React
7 15 (17.44%) .NET
8 14 (16.28%) Kafka
9 13 (15.12%) RESTful
9 13 (15.12%) Web Services
10 12 (13.95%) XML
11 11 (12.79%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (11.63%) Hibernate
13 7 (8.14%) AngularJS
13 7 (8.14%) Apache Camel
13 7 (8.14%) JPA
13 7 (8.14%) JWT
13 7 (8.14%) OAuth
13 7 (8.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.47%) IoT
3 8 (9.30%) GNSS
4 5 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.49%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.33%) Life Science
7 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.16%) Acoustics
8 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Debian
3 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (76.74%) CI/CD
2 55 (63.95%) Agile
3 49 (56.98%) Microservices
4 34 (39.53%) DevOps
5 27 (31.40%) Software Engineering
6 24 (27.91%) Test Automation
7 22 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (24.42%) AI
8 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (23.26%) TDD
10 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (17.44%) Containerisation
11 15 (17.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 14 (16.28%) Computer Science
13 13 (15.12%) SDLC
14 12 (13.95%) BDD
15 11 (12.79%) Deployment Automation
15 11 (12.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 10 (11.63%) Event-Driven
16 10 (11.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (38.37%) Java
2 30 (34.88%) Python
3 17 (19.77%) Go
4 16 (18.60%) SQL
5 13 (15.12%) C#
6 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.14%) C++
7 7 (8.14%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.98%) Bash
8 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.81%) Groovy
9 5 (5.81%) Perl
10 4 (4.65%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.49%) C
11 3 (3.49%) PHP
12 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.33%) Rust
13 1 (1.16%) Ada
Qualifications
1 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.44%) Degree
4 11 (12.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.44%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (41.86%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.49%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.33%) KVM
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (56.98%) Kubernetes
2 21 (24.42%) Kibana
3 17 (19.77%) Ansible
4 14 (16.28%) Grafana
5 4 (4.65%) Packer
6 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.16%) Argo
7 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) Dynatrace
2 17 (19.77%) AppDynamics
3 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.47%) IBM
5 8 (9.30%) Splunk
6 6 (6.98%) Oracle
7 5 (5.81%) Google
7 5 (5.81%) OpenAI
8 4 (4.65%) VMware
9 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.16%) Databricks
9 1 (1.16%) Red Hat