Distributed Systems Jobs in the South West

Distributed Systems
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 281 248
Rank change year-on-year +105 -33 +15
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 7 11 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.12% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.38% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £93,250 - £32,225
25th Percentile £94,375 £56,250 £36,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £62,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +56.00% +21.95% -37.88%
75th Percentile £99,375 £70,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £99,750 £74,000 £83,250
England median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,116 2,910 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.12% 31.44% 40.11%
Number of salaries quoted 587 2,037 1,367
10th Percentile £28,400 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £68,525 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,718
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the South West

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the South West.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the South West

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Bristol +48 3 £95,000 +52.00% 10
Gloucestershire - 2 - - 9
Devon - 1 - - 4
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ripple
1 1 (14.29%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Economy
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Reference Data
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Blockchain
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Business Agility
2 2 (28.57%) Co-Creation
2 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Concurrent Programming
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM