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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 287 262
Rank change year-on-year +42 -25 +85
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 45 49 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 1.17% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 20
10th Percentile £65,000 - £42,600
25th Percentile £72,500 £43,911 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile - £91,250 £80,250
England median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +15.63% -3.03% -2.94%

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 3,717 4,189 3,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 41.25% 32.58% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,771 2,094 2,269
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,988 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -7.12% +2.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +3 40 £80,000 +77.85% 24
Berkshire +7 38 £85,000 +36.00% 17
Kent - 3 - - 1
Surrey +29 1 - - 4
Oxfordshire +25 1 £60,000 +33.39% 6
West Sussex +6 1 £75,000 +7.14%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £75,000 - 3
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (17.78%) JBoss
2 7 (15.56%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (4.44%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (86.67%) AWS
2 33 (73.33%) Amazon ECS
2 33 (73.33%) Amazon EKS
2 33 (73.33%) Serverless
3 27 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
6 3 (6.67%) SaaS
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.44%) Azure
7 2 (4.44%) Route 53
8 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Firewall
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (82.22%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (73.33%) Relational Database
3 24 (53.33%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.67%) MySQL
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.22%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 37 (82.22%) Jenkins
2 35 (77.78%) JUnit
3 27 (60.00%) Mockito
4 24 (53.33%) JMeter
5 18 (40.00%) Git
6 4 (8.89%) Maven
7 3 (6.67%) DbUnit
7 3 (6.67%) jMock
7 3 (6.67%) PHPUnit
7 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.22%) IntelliJ
9 1 (2.22%) MSBuild
General
1 34 (75.56%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (88.89%) Developer
2 36 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 18 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (20.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) SaaS Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Integration Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) IT Security Officer
9 1 (2.22%) Lead Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Security Officer
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (86.67%) REST
2 37 (82.22%) Spring
3 36 (80.00%) Spring Boot
3 36 (80.00%) Web Services
4 31 (68.89%) Apache Camel
5 28 (62.22%) Hibernate
6 27 (60.00%) ActiveMQ
6 27 (60.00%) HTML
6 27 (60.00%) jQuery
7 24 (53.33%) WireMock
8 17 (37.78%) JSON
8 17 (37.78%) XML
9 13 (28.89%) RESTful
10 10 (22.22%) SOAP
11 7 (15.56%) J2EE
12 6 (13.33%) React
13 3 (6.67%) Kafka
13 3 (6.67%) Laravel
13 3 (6.67%) Mustache
13 3 (6.67%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (88.89%) TDD
2 39 (86.67%) Microservices
3 37 (82.22%) Agile
4 34 (75.56%) BDD
5 29 (64.44%) CI/CD
6 24 (53.33%) Process Management
6 24 (53.33%) Workflow
7 20 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (44.44%) Scrum
8 17 (37.78%) Kanban
9 11 (24.44%) DevOps
10 10 (22.22%) SDLC
11 7 (15.56%) Architectural Design
11 7 (15.56%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (8.89%) Biometrics
13 3 (6.67%) B2B
13 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
13 3 (6.67%) Decision-Making
13 3 (6.67%) Fintech
13 3 (6.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 37 (82.22%) Java
2 31 (68.89%) JavaScript
3 25 (55.56%) Python
4 24 (53.33%) Shell Script
5 4 (8.89%) SQL
6 3 (6.67%) PHP
7 2 (4.44%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) Bash
8 1 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) CEH
4 1 (2.22%) CISM
4 1 (2.22%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) GIAC
4 1 (2.22%) OSCP
4 1 (2.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SLA
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (88.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 24 (53.33%) Kibana
3 7 (15.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (55.56%) Splunk
2 24 (53.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.44%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat