Distributed Systems Jobs

Distributed Systems
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 419 376
Rank change year-on-year +59 -43 -165
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 379 570 927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.59% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.65% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 235 376 430
10th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £57,375
25th Percentile £64,509 £60,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,188
90th Percentile £140,000 £145,000 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -3.45%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,614 34,572 46,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.69% 35.61% 43.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9,751 22,843 24,379
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,000 £35,395
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 April 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
England +60 349 £90,000 +9.09% 874
London +72 243 £93,750 -1.32% 667
UK excluding London +76 157 £72,500 +11.54% 283
Work from Home +119 136 £77,500 -6.06% 338
North of England +105 70 £77,500 +13.97% 79
South East +53 61 £63,750 -1.92% 77
Yorkshire +99 35 £77,500 +31.36% 18
North West +21 28 £80,000 - 51
Scotland +83 9 £64,500 +29.00% 30
South West +116 8 £100,000 +66.67% 23
North East +53 7 £69,384 -7.49% 11
Midlands +28 6 £72,500 +25.43% 29
West Midlands +5 6 £72,500 +32.66% 16
East of England +45 2 - - 31
Wales +51 1 £67,626 - 4
Northern Ireland +34 1 - - 15

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (7.12%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.43%) JBoss
3 12 (3.17%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (2.11%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.11%) SAS
5 5 (1.32%) Confluence
6 3 (0.79%) CMS
6 3 (0.79%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.26%) Magnolia
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (6.33%) Ripple
1 24 (6.33%) Ripple XRP
2 3 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (32.98%) AWS
2 84 (22.16%) Azure
3 71 (18.73%) GCP
4 53 (13.98%) Serverless
5 47 (12.40%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (7.65%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (6.07%) SaaS
9 21 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (5.54%) GitHub
10 17 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.96%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.64%) Sentry
16 9 (2.37%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.12%) HTTP
2 11 (2.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Multicast
3 1 (0.26%) NAS
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (18.21%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (11.87%) Relational Database
3 32 (8.44%) NoSQL
4 23 (6.07%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.80%) RDBMS
6 20 (5.28%) Big Data
7 16 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.43%) Redis
9 12 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.64%) MySQL
11 6 (1.58%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.32%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.06%) Metadata
14 3 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.79%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 2 (0.53%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 68 (17.94%) Jenkins
2 56 (14.78%) Git
3 45 (11.87%) JUnit
4 27 (7.12%) Mockito
5 20 (5.28%) JMeter
6 17 (4.49%) JIRA
7 12 (3.17%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.90%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.64%) Gradle
9 10 (2.64%) Maven
10 6 (1.58%) DbUnit
10 6 (1.58%) GitLab
10 6 (1.58%) jMock
10 6 (1.58%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.06%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.06%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.79%) Postman
13 2 (0.53%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.53%) XCTest
General
1 136 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 129 (34.04%) Finance
3 54 (14.25%) Banking
4 51 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 49 (12.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (9.76%) Law
7 31 (8.18%) Games
8 29 (7.65%) Advertising
9 27 (7.12%) Retail
10 26 (6.86%) Financial Institution
11 24 (6.33%) Digital Economy
12 19 (5.01%) Front Office
13 13 (3.43%) Marketing
13 13 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (2.37%) Legal
14 9 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
15 7 (1.85%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (1.06%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 150 (39.58%) Software Engineer
2 113 (29.82%) Senior
3 86 (22.69%) Developer
4 64 (16.89%) Lead
4 64 (16.89%) Senior Software Engineer
5 59 (15.57%) Java Developer
6 47 (12.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (11.61%) Lead Software Engineer
8 42 (11.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 41 (10.82%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 34 (8.97%) Principal Engineer
11 24 (6.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 20 (5.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 19 (5.01%) Architect
13 19 (5.01%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (3.96%) Java Engineer
14 15 (3.96%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 13 (3.43%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (19.53%) Kafka
2 68 (17.94%) REST
3 57 (15.04%) Spring
4 56 (14.78%) Spring Boot
5 46 (12.14%) RESTful
6 45 (11.87%) Web Services
7 36 (9.50%) React
8 32 (8.44%) Apache Camel
9 30 (7.92%) .NET
10 29 (7.65%) Hibernate
11 27 (7.12%) AngularJS
11 27 (7.12%) HTML
12 25 (6.60%) ActiveMQ
13 23 (6.07%) jQuery
14 21 (5.54%) SOAP
15 19 (5.01%) WireMock
16 18 (4.75%) Node.js
17 15 (3.96%) gRPC
18 14 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
18 14 (3.69%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 51 (13.46%) Algorithms
3 42 (11.08%) Public Cloud
4 41 (10.82%) Legacy Code
5 31 (8.18%) Product Ownership
6 27 (7.12%) Blockchain
6 27 (7.12%) Data Structures
7 17 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (3.43%) Hedge funds
9 12 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (3.17%) Reference Data
9 12 (3.17%) Replication
10 10 (2.64%) Equities
11 8 (2.11%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.85%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.85%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.85%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.32%) Sports Betting
15 4 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 83 (21.90%) Linux
2 12 (3.17%) Unix
3 4 (1.06%) Windows
4 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.53%) Android
5 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (49.87%) Software Engineering
2 164 (43.27%) Agile
3 161 (42.48%) CI/CD
4 146 (38.52%) Microservices
5 94 (24.80%) DevOps
6 83 (21.90%) TDD
7 66 (17.41%) SDLC
8 65 (17.15%) Containerisation
9 57 (15.04%) Computer Science
9 57 (15.04%) Mentoring
10 55 (14.51%) Test Automation
11 54 (14.25%) Roadmaps
12 52 (13.72%) BDD
13 51 (13.46%) Scrum
14 49 (12.93%) Open Source
14 49 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 47 (12.40%) Machine Learning
15 47 (12.40%) Observability
16 38 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 142 (37.47%) Java
2 134 (35.36%) Python
3 79 (20.84%) C++
4 70 (18.47%) SQL
5 62 (16.36%) Rust
6 60 (15.83%) Go
7 57 (15.04%) C#
7 57 (15.04%) JavaScript
8 49 (12.93%) C
9 34 (8.97%) Scala
10 25 (6.60%) Shell Script
10 25 (6.60%) TypeScript
11 15 (3.96%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.37%) Clojure
12 9 (2.37%) Elixir
13 7 (1.85%) R
14 6 (1.58%) Groovy
14 6 (1.58%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.58%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 65 (17.15%) Degree
2 47 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 43 (11.35%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.79%) PhD
7 3 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.54%) GDPR
2 14 (3.69%) QA
3 12 (3.17%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.17%) SLA
3 12 (3.17%) SOC 2
4 11 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.11%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.85%) Basel II
6 7 (1.85%) Basel III
6 7 (1.85%) Dodd-Frank
6 7 (1.85%) IFRS
6 7 (1.85%) IFRS 9
6 7 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.79%) NIST
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 116 (30.61%) Docker
2 12 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.79%) vSphere
4 2 (0.53%) Postfix
5 1 (0.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 190 (50.13%) Kubernetes
2 65 (17.15%) Terraform
3 20 (5.28%) Ansible
4 19 (5.01%) Kibana
5 11 (2.90%) Grafana
6 9 (2.37%) Argo
6 9 (2.37%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (1.58%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.06%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.06%) Packer
9 1 (0.26%) Kiali
Vendors
1 50 (13.19%) Google
2 30 (7.92%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.60%) Splunk
4 23 (6.07%) Apple
5 20 (5.28%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.37%) Oracle
7 7 (1.85%) IBM
8 5 (1.32%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.32%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.06%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.06%) SAP
10 3 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.79%) NetApp
10 3 (0.79%) Sparx
11 2 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.53%) ESRI
11 2 (0.53%) Intel
11 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.26%) Databricks
12 1 (0.26%) New Relic