Distributed Systems Jobs 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 205 241
Rank change year-on-year +72 +36 -59
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 46 38 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.36% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.49% 1.70% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 4
10th Percentile £60,750 £57,750 £67,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £86,875
90th Percentile £87,250 - £88,000
South East median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -1.92% -11.86% +5.36%

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 1,318 2,231 2,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.84% 33.18% 41.75%
Number of salaries quoted 565 1,485 1,154
10th Percentile £27,200 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £73,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,320 £56,250
% change year-on-year +16.59% -12.32% +2.27%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

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 May 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 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
Berkshire +46 43 £62,500 -24.24% 11
Oxfordshire +32 3 £87,500 +45.83% 7
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (28.26%) JBoss
1 13 (28.26%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (13.04%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (86.96%) Serverless
3 39 (84.78%) Amazon EKS
4 38 (82.61%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (52.17%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (23.91%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (19.57%) Amazon S3
8 4 (8.70%) AWS KMS
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.35%) Azure
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.17%) GitHub
10 1 (2.17%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (93.48%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (82.61%) Relational Database
3 19 (41.30%) RDBMS
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (93.48%) Jenkins
2 38 (82.61%) JUnit
3 26 (56.52%) Git
4 23 (50.00%) Mockito
5 19 (41.30%) JMeter
6 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
7 4 (8.70%) DbUnit
7 4 (8.70%) jMock
7 4 (8.70%) Maven
8 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.17%) CMake
8 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 36 (78.26%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Advertising
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (86.96%) Developer
1 40 (86.96%) Java Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Lead
4 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Junior
5 1 (2.17%) Junior Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Lead Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (95.65%) REST
2 42 (91.30%) Spring
2 42 (91.30%) Web Services
3 39 (84.78%) Spring Boot
4 33 (71.74%) Apache Camel
5 23 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
5 23 (50.00%) Hibernate
6 19 (41.30%) HTML
6 19 (41.30%) jQuery
6 19 (41.30%) WireMock
7 18 (39.13%) RESTful
7 18 (39.13%) SOAP
8 13 (28.26%) J2EE
9 10 (21.74%) Mustache
10 8 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (15.22%) JSON
11 7 (15.22%) Kafka
12 6 (13.04%) Node.js
12 6 (13.04%) React
12 6 (13.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (97.83%) Microservices
2 44 (95.65%) Agile
3 42 (91.30%) TDD
4 37 (80.43%) Scrum
5 36 (78.26%) BDD
6 31 (67.39%) Kanban
7 27 (58.70%) CI/CD
8 19 (41.30%) Process Management
8 19 (41.30%) Workflow
9 18 (39.13%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (34.78%) DevOps
11 13 (28.26%) Architectural Design
11 13 (28.26%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (28.26%) SDLC
12 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (8.70%) Open Source
14 3 (6.52%) Biometrics
14 3 (6.52%) BPMN
14 3 (6.52%) Containerisation
14 3 (6.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (95.65%) Java
2 26 (56.52%) JavaScript
3 23 (50.00%) Python
4 20 (43.48%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.87%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) C++
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (63.04%) Security Cleared
2 28 (60.87%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.26%) SLA
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 40 (86.96%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 39 (84.78%) Kubernetes
2 19 (41.30%) Kibana
3 14 (30.43%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Terraform
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Dynatrace
1 19 (41.30%) Splunk
2 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.17%) IBM
3 1 (2.17%) Jaspersoft