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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 260 226
Rank change year-on-year +20 -34 +73
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 31 58 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.56% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 1.61% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 19
10th Percentile £56,250 - £52,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £43,911 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,125 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £68,750 £82,750
England median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -

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 3,076 3,592 2,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.41% 34.55% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,669 1,598 1,698
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 -7 26 £65,000 +8.33% 63
Berkshire -16 23 - - 48
Hampshire +46 3 £90,000 - 14
Buckinghamshire - 2 £65,000 - 12
Oxfordshire +23 1 £60,000 +33.39% 3
West Sussex - 1 - - 5
East Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 5
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 5 (16.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) AWS
2 23 (74.19%) Amazon ECS
2 23 (74.19%) Amazon EKS
2 23 (74.19%) Serverless
3 18 (58.06%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (16.13%) Azure
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.23%) Datadog
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (77.42%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (74.19%) Relational Database
3 18 (58.06%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.23%) Big Data
6 1 (3.23%) Couchbase
6 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.23%) Pinecone
6 1 (3.23%) Redis
6 1 (3.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (77.42%) Jenkins
2 19 (61.29%) JMeter
2 19 (61.29%) JUnit
3 18 (58.06%) Mockito
4 6 (19.35%) Git
5 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
General
1 19 (61.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (77.42%) Developer
2 23 (74.19%) Java Developer
3 20 (64.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (64.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (48.39%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) ArcSight Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Site Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (77.42%) Spring
1 24 (77.42%) Spring Boot
2 23 (74.19%) REST
3 22 (70.97%) Web Services
4 18 (58.06%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (58.06%) Apache Camel
4 18 (58.06%) Hibernate
4 18 (58.06%) HTML
4 18 (58.06%) jQuery
4 18 (58.06%) JSON
4 18 (58.06%) WireMock
4 18 (58.06%) XML
5 8 (25.81%) React
6 7 (22.58%) Kafka
7 5 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (16.13%) Mustache
7 5 (16.13%) Node.js
8 3 (9.68%) .NET
9 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
10 1 (3.23%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) N-Tier
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) Microservices
2 27 (87.10%) Agile
3 26 (83.87%) CI/CD
4 25 (80.65%) TDD
5 22 (70.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (61.29%) BDD
7 18 (58.06%) Process Management
7 18 (58.06%) SDLC
7 18 (58.06%) Workflow
8 7 (22.58%) DevOps
8 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Scrum
9 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 3 (9.68%) AI
10 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (9.68%) High Availability
10 3 (9.68%) Machine Learning
10 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
11 2 (6.45%) Computer Science
11 2 (6.45%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (80.65%) JavaScript
2 24 (77.42%) Java
3 21 (67.74%) Python
4 18 (58.06%) Shell Script
5 5 (16.13%) SQL
6 3 (9.68%) C#
7 2 (6.45%) Bash
7 2 (6.45%) C
8 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 27 (87.10%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (3.23%) Ceph
2 1 (3.23%) Lustre
2 1 (3.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (87.10%) Kubernetes
2 19 (61.29%) Kibana
3 3 (9.68%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) Grafana
4 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) Dynatrace
1 19 (61.29%) Splunk
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) ArcSight
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle