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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 258 280
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 -35
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 79 38 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.42% 0.42% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 1.05% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 59 4 11
10th Percentile £48,250 £63,750 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £69,375 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +28.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £70,625 £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 4,897 3,625 4,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.80% 40.37% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,355 1,786 1,831
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -2.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.76%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -3 34 £60,000 -25.00% 57
Surrey -4 26 £51,250 - 9
Berkshire -10 14 £71,250 -16.18% 25
Buckinghamshire +5 12 £55,875 -25.50% 5
Kent -10 9 £70,000 - 5
Oxfordshire -18 8 £75,000 +25.00% 28
Hampshire - 5 £75,000 - 26
East Sussex - 3 £85,000 - 3
West Sussex - 2 £67,500 - 8
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 (3.80%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.27%) JBoss
2 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.53%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 57 (72.15%) AWS
2 31 (39.24%) Azure
3 11 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (13.92%) Serverless
4 10 (12.66%) GitHub
5 9 (11.39%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (11.39%) GCP
6 6 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (5.06%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.80%) ChatGPT
9 3 (3.80%) Datadog
9 3 (3.80%) Google Gemini
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.92%) HTTP
2 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.53%) DHCP
3 2 (2.53%) DNS
3 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) MQTT
4 1 (1.27%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.27%) Broadband
4 1 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.32%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (17.72%) Relational Database
3 9 (11.39%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.59%) RDBMS
6 5 (6.33%) MySQL
6 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.53%) Couchbase
7 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.53%) Pinecone
7 2 (2.53%) Redis
8 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (21.52%) JMeter
2 11 (13.92%) Git
2 11 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.39%) Gatling
3 9 (11.39%) JUnit
3 9 (11.39%) LoadRunner
4 6 (7.59%) Mockito
5 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.53%) GitLab
6 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.27%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.27%) JIRA
6 1 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 20 (25.32%) Public Sector
2 11 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.13%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Retail
5 4 (5.06%) Finance
6 2 (2.53%) Advertising
6 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.27%) Automotive
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 31 (39.24%) Developer
2 16 (20.25%) Lead
3 12 (15.19%) Senior
4 11 (13.92%) Performance Tester
4 11 (13.92%) Tester
5 8 (10.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Architect
6 7 (8.86%) Backend Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Performance Tester
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Tester
7 6 (7.59%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.33%) .NET Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Integration Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Site Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.38%) REST
2 17 (21.52%) Terraform
3 16 (20.25%) .NET
3 16 (20.25%) Spring
3 16 (20.25%) Spring Boot
4 14 (17.72%) JSON
4 14 (17.72%) Kafka
4 14 (17.72%) React
5 12 (15.19%) XML
6 11 (13.92%) RESTful
7 10 (12.66%) Hibernate
7 10 (12.66%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (11.39%) Web Services
9 8 (10.13%) JWT
9 8 (10.13%) OAuth
9 8 (10.13%) OAuth2
10 7 (8.86%) Apache Camel
11 6 (7.59%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (7.59%) jQuery
11 6 (7.59%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.39%) IoT
3 8 (10.13%) GNSS
4 5 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.80%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.53%) Life Science
7 2 (2.53%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.53%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.27%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Debian
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (77.22%) CI/CD
2 47 (59.49%) Agile
3 41 (51.90%) Microservices
4 27 (34.18%) Software Engineering
5 25 (31.65%) DevOps
6 22 (27.85%) AI
7 21 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (24.05%) Test Automation
9 17 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (20.25%) TDD
10 16 (20.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 15 (18.99%) Computer Science
11 15 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (16.46%) SDLC
13 12 (15.19%) Containerisation
14 11 (13.92%) Event-Driven
14 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (13.92%) Performance Testing
15 10 (12.66%) Roadmaps
15 10 (12.66%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.65%) Java
1 25 (31.65%) Python
2 18 (22.78%) Go
3 13 (16.46%) C#
4 12 (15.19%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.19%) SQL
5 7 (8.86%) C++
6 6 (7.59%) Bash
6 6 (7.59%) Shell Script
6 6 (7.59%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.80%) C
7 3 (3.80%) PHP
8 2 (2.53%) Perl
8 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.53%) Rust
9 1 (1.27%) Ada
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Degree
2 12 (15.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (15.19%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.53%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (39.24%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.53%) KVM
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (50.63%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.52%) Kibana
3 14 (17.72%) Grafana
4 8 (10.13%) Ansible
5 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.27%) Argo
6 1 (1.27%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Dynatrace
2 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.39%) AppDynamics
4 8 (10.13%) Splunk
5 5 (6.33%) Google
5 5 (6.33%) OpenAI
6 4 (5.06%) VMware
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle
8 1 (1.27%) Databricks
8 1 (1.27%) IBM
8 1 (1.27%) Red Hat