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 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 223 263
Rank change year-on-year -8 +40 +42
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 41 61 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.73% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 2.17% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 39
10th Percentile £56,750 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,188 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £80,313 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £82,625 -
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +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 3,230 2,811 4,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.59% 33.77% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,712 1,208 2,807
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,677 £42,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,010 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,450 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 28 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Berkshire -30 22 £68,750 +10.00% 1
Surrey -4 7 £145,000 +190.00% 1
Buckinghamshire - 6 £67,500 - 3
Hampshire - 3 £90,000 - 8
West Sussex - 2 £70,000 - 1
East Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 1
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 6 (14.63%) OpenStack
2 5 (12.20%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 32 (78.05%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (36.59%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 15 (36.59%) Serverless
3 11 (26.83%) GCP
4 9 (21.95%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon S3
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (12.20%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.44%) Datadog
8 1 (2.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Broadband
1 1 (2.44%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (39.02%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (36.59%) Relational Database
3 9 (21.95%) RDBMS
4 6 (14.63%) Big Data
4 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
5 5 (12.20%) Data Mining
5 5 (12.20%) Hadoop
5 5 (12.20%) Tableau
6 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.44%) Couchbase
8 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.44%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.44%) Redis
8 1 (2.44%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Jenkins
2 10 (24.39%) JMeter
2 10 (24.39%) JUnit
3 9 (21.95%) Mockito
4 6 (14.63%) Git
5 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
General
1 12 (29.27%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Marketing
3 5 (12.20%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.44%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Developer
2 15 (36.59%) Java Developer
3 14 (34.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (34.15%) Senior
4 12 (29.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (24.39%) Software Engineer
6 9 (21.95%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 6 (14.63%) Senior Manager
8 5 (12.20%) Data Science Manager
9 4 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (7.32%) Python Engineer
10 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
11 2 (4.88%) Architect
11 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems Engineer
11 2 (4.88%) Python Software Engineer
11 2 (4.88%) Senior Java Developer
11 2 (4.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
12 1 (2.44%) Java Engineer
12 1 (2.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) Spring
1 16 (39.02%) Spring Boot
2 15 (36.59%) REST
3 14 (34.15%) Web Services
4 10 (24.39%) React
5 9 (21.95%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (21.95%) Apache Camel
5 9 (21.95%) Hibernate
5 9 (21.95%) HTML
5 9 (21.95%) jQuery
5 9 (21.95%) JSON
5 9 (21.95%) WireMock
5 9 (21.95%) XML
6 8 (19.51%) Kafka
7 6 (14.63%) .NET
7 6 (14.63%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (14.63%) Mustache
7 6 (14.63%) Node.js
8 5 (12.20%) Play Framework
9 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Client/Server
2 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
3 5 (12.20%) Algorithms
3 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.32%) N-Tier
5 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.44%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (65.85%) Agile
2 26 (63.41%) Microservices
3 23 (56.10%) CI/CD
4 18 (43.90%) TDD
5 16 (39.02%) Computer Science
5 16 (39.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (36.59%) SDLC
6 15 (36.59%) Software Engineering
7 13 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (24.39%) BDD
8 10 (24.39%) Scrum
9 9 (21.95%) AI
9 9 (21.95%) DevOps
9 9 (21.95%) Machine Learning
9 9 (21.95%) Process Management
9 9 (21.95%) Workflow
10 8 (19.51%) Code Quality
10 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
11 7 (17.07%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) Python
2 24 (58.54%) Java
3 16 (39.02%) JavaScript
4 11 (26.83%) SQL
5 9 (21.95%) C
5 9 (21.95%) Shell Script
6 8 (19.51%) C++
7 7 (17.07%) Rust
8 6 (14.63%) C#
8 6 (14.63%) Scala
9 5 (12.20%) R
10 2 (4.88%) Bash
11 1 (2.44%) Go
11 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
11 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (39.02%) Degree
2 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
3 9 (21.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (12.20%) Master's Degree
4 5 (12.20%) MBA
5 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) QA
2 5 (12.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (48.78%) Docker
2 7 (17.07%) Hyper-V
2 7 (17.07%) KVM
2 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.44%) Ceph
3 1 (2.44%) Lustre
3 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (46.34%) Kubernetes
2 10 (24.39%) Kibana
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Dynatrace
1 10 (24.39%) Splunk
2 7 (17.07%) VMware
3 5 (12.20%) BT
3 5 (12.20%) Databricks
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.44%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Typelevel