Distributed Systems Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 158 163
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +59
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 32 38 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.90% 0.88% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 2.82% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £61,250 - £71,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £43,911 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £44,982 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.62% -43.77% +3.23%
75th Percentile £88,750 £74,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £86,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £44,982 £70,000
% change year-on-year +66.73% -35.74% -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,296 1,349 1,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.37% 31.37% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 674 545 788
10th Percentile £27,150 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,732 £40,697
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,000 £71,438
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Berkshire 0 28 £85,000 +36.00% 5
Buckinghamshire - 3 £65,000 - 5
Oxfordshire +23 1 £60,000 +33.39% 2
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (12.50%) JBoss
1 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (81.25%) AWS
2 25 (78.13%) Amazon ECS
2 25 (78.13%) Amazon EKS
2 25 (78.13%) Serverless
3 20 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.50%) Azure
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (81.25%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (78.13%) Relational Database
3 19 (59.38%) RDBMS
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (84.38%) Jenkins
2 24 (75.00%) JUnit
3 20 (62.50%) Mockito
4 19 (59.38%) JMeter
5 9 (28.13%) Git
6 2 (6.25%) Maven
7 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.13%) DbUnit
7 1 (3.13%) jMock
7 1 (3.13%) MSBuild
7 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (84.38%) Developer
2 26 (81.25%) Java Developer
3 17 (53.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (53.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (46.88%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Integration Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (81.25%) REST
1 26 (81.25%) Spring
1 26 (81.25%) Spring Boot
1 26 (81.25%) Web Services
2 23 (71.88%) Apache Camel
3 20 (62.50%) ActiveMQ
3 20 (62.50%) Hibernate
4 19 (59.38%) HTML
4 19 (59.38%) jQuery
4 19 (59.38%) WireMock
5 18 (56.25%) JSON
5 18 (56.25%) XML
6 5 (15.63%) React
6 5 (15.63%) RESTful
6 5 (15.63%) SOAP
7 4 (12.50%) .NET
7 4 (12.50%) J2EE
8 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.25%) Mustache
8 2 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) N-Tier
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) Microservices
2 28 (87.50%) Agile
2 28 (87.50%) TDD
3 24 (75.00%) BDD
4 23 (71.88%) CI/CD
5 19 (59.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (59.38%) Process Management
5 19 (59.38%) Workflow
6 15 (46.88%) SDLC
7 10 (31.25%) Scrum
8 8 (25.00%) DevOps
9 6 (18.75%) Kanban
10 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 2 (6.25%) Biometrics
12 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
12 2 (6.25%) MVC
12 2 (6.25%) OOP
12 2 (6.25%) Project Management
12 2 (6.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) Java
2 23 (71.88%) JavaScript
3 20 (62.50%) Python
4 19 (59.38%) Shell Script
5 4 (12.50%) C#
6 3 (9.38%) SQL
7 2 (6.25%) C
8 1 (3.13%) Bash
8 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) SLA
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
2 3 (9.38%) HIPAA
3 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (84.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (59.38%) Kibana
3 4 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Dynatrace
1 19 (59.38%) Splunk
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.13%) Jaspersoft