Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 471 605
Rank change year-on-year +51 +134 -244
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 158 320 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.43% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 1.31% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 82 194 69
10th Percentile £63,250 £31,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £48,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -3.70% -5.26%
75th Percentile £93,458 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £130,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,443 24,459 24,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.14% 32.80% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,886 15,283 10,904
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +38 66 £78,500 +15.44% 445
South East +25 52 £70,000 +7.69% 581
North West 0 32 £79,250 -0.94% 213
Yorkshire +51 28 £77,500 +13.97% 172
Scotland +83 16 £67,000 +34.00% 120
Midlands +56 13 £75,000 +25.73% 345
West Midlands +32 9 £72,500 +32.66% 188
South West +100 6 £97,500 +56.00% 210
North East +51 6 £92,192 +22.92% 60
East Midlands +42 4 £78,000 -10.86% 135
Northern Ireland +41 2 - - 26
East of England +33 2 - - 272
Wales +45 1 £67,626 - 46
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (9.49%) JBoss
2 14 (8.86%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (4.43%) OpenStack
4 6 (3.80%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.53%) SAS
6 3 (1.90%) Apache
7 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 90 (56.96%) AWS
2 55 (34.81%) Azure
3 41 (25.95%) Amazon ECS
4 38 (24.05%) GCP
5 36 (22.78%) Amazon EKS
6 35 (22.15%) Serverless
7 25 (15.82%) SaaS
8 20 (12.66%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (9.49%) Amazon S3
10 14 (8.86%) GitHub
11 13 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (3.80%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 6 (3.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 6 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (3.80%) AWS CodeBuild
15 6 (3.80%) dbt
15 6 (3.80%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.80%) HTTP
1 6 (3.80%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (31.01%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (20.89%) Relational Database
3 17 (10.76%) NoSQL
4 15 (9.49%) MongoDB
5 13 (8.23%) Big Data
5 13 (8.23%) RDBMS
6 12 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.80%) Redis
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (3.16%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.53%) MySQL
9 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.90%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 48 (30.38%) Jenkins
2 42 (26.58%) JUnit
3 40 (25.32%) Git
4 18 (11.39%) Mockito
5 13 (8.23%) JMeter
6 8 (5.06%) Maven
7 7 (4.43%) CircleCI
8 6 (3.80%) JIRA
8 6 (3.80%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (3.80%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.16%) DbUnit
9 5 (3.16%) jMock
10 4 (2.53%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.90%) PHPUnit
12 2 (1.27%) GitLab
12 2 (1.27%) Gradle
13 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.63%) CMake
13 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (25.32%) Public Sector
2 38 (24.05%) Finance
3 32 (20.25%) Banking
3 32 (20.25%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.70%) Law
5 9 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.90%) Games
8 3 (1.90%) Retail
9 2 (1.27%) Automotive
9 2 (1.27%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Military
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (35.44%) Software Engineer
2 53 (33.54%) Developer
3 43 (27.22%) Java Developer
4 40 (25.32%) Lead
5 35 (22.15%) Senior
6 28 (17.72%) Lead Software Engineer
7 18 (11.39%) C# Software Engineer
8 14 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (6.33%) Architect
10 10 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (5.70%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (4.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (4.43%) Lead Architect
13 7 (4.43%) Site Engineer
13 7 (4.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 6 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (3.80%) C# Developer
14 6 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (34.18%) Spring Boot
2 53 (33.54%) REST
3 52 (32.91%) Spring
4 40 (25.32%) Kafka
5 39 (24.68%) RESTful
5 39 (24.68%) Web Services
6 32 (20.25%) React
7 27 (17.09%) Apache Camel
8 25 (15.82%) .NET
9 21 (13.29%) Hibernate
9 21 (13.29%) HTML
10 20 (12.66%) AngularJS
10 20 (12.66%) SOAP
11 19 (12.03%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (10.76%) jQuery
13 14 (8.86%) gRPC
13 14 (8.86%) J2EE
13 14 (8.86%) Node.js
14 13 (8.23%) WireMock
15 12 (7.59%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.62%) Product Ownership
2 22 (13.92%) Public Cloud
3 13 (8.23%) Data Structures
4 12 (7.59%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.33%) Reference Data
5 10 (6.33%) Replication
6 6 (3.80%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.53%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.53%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.90%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.90%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.27%) IoT
10 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.27%) Wiki
11 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.23%) Linux
2 7 (4.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (56.96%) Agile
2 88 (55.70%) Microservices
3 81 (51.27%) CI/CD
4 71 (44.94%) Software Engineering
5 62 (39.24%) TDD
6 59 (37.34%) DevOps
7 42 (26.58%) Containerisation
7 42 (26.58%) Scrum
8 37 (23.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (22.15%) BDD
10 28 (17.72%) Roadmaps
10 28 (17.72%) SDLC
11 27 (17.09%) Kanban
11 27 (17.09%) Mentoring
12 24 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (13.92%) Test Automation
14 19 (12.03%) Unit Testing
15 17 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 16 (10.13%) Open Source
17 15 (9.49%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.00%) Java
2 49 (31.01%) Python
3 48 (30.38%) JavaScript
4 46 (29.11%) C#
5 38 (24.05%) SQL
6 15 (9.49%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.86%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.33%) Go
9 6 (3.80%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.80%) Rust
10 5 (3.16%) C++
11 4 (2.53%) Clojure
11 4 (2.53%) Elixir
11 4 (2.53%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.53%) R
11 4 (2.53%) Scala
12 3 (1.90%) PHP
13 2 (1.27%) Bicep
13 2 (1.27%) Groovy
14 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.43%) Degree
4 4 (2.53%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.86%) SLA
2 11 (6.96%) GDPR
3 7 (4.43%) HIPAA
4 6 (3.80%) SOC 2
5 5 (3.16%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.53%) Basel II
6 4 (2.53%) Basel III
6 4 (2.53%) Dodd-Frank
6 4 (2.53%) IFRS
6 4 (2.53%) IFRS 9
6 4 (2.53%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 83 (52.53%) Docker
2 4 (2.53%) Postfix
2 4 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (58.86%) Kubernetes
2 35 (22.15%) Terraform
3 16 (10.13%) Ansible
4 13 (8.23%) Kibana
5 8 (5.06%) Grafana
6 6 (3.80%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (3.80%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (8.86%) Splunk
2 13 (8.23%) Dynatrace
3 12 (7.59%) Google
4 7 (4.43%) Oracle
5 5 (3.16%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.53%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.53%) IBM
6 4 (2.53%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.90%) Databricks
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.63%) New Relic
8 1 (0.63%) Red Hat