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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 444 204
Rank change year-on-year +53 -240 +13
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 568 543 3,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.67% 2.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 1.64% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 327 369 791
10th Percentile £48,250 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £104,806
90th Percentile £145,000 £130,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,750 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% -3.57% +12.00%

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 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Top 17 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 26 July 2024. 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 +34 498 £82,500 -5.71% 41
UK excluding London +140 325 £65,750 -2.59% 29
London -21 229 £97,500 +5.41% 20
North of England +110 141 £68,000 +0.70% 6
Work from Home -38 140 £82,500 -2.94% 21
South East +54 93 £65,000 -11.86% 4
North West +62 79 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire +92 60 £62,000 -27.06% 3
Scotland -11 42 £60,000 - 4
Midlands -21 22 £70,000 +12.00% 9
West Midlands -6 19 £60,000 -4.00% 9
East of England -13 13 £72,500 -14.71% 1
South West -9 11 £89,750 +56.09% 3
Wales +30 3 - -
East Midlands -25 3 £165,000 +175.00%
North East -11 2 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £105,000 - 2

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 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.11%) Confluence
2 12 (2.11%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.23%) JBoss
4 6 (1.06%) Apache
5 5 (0.88%) IIS
5 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Fuse
6 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.53%) CMS
6 3 (0.53%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.53%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.53%) nginx
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.35%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.35%) Solana
8 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Hedera
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) Endur
2 1 (0.18%) Ripple
2 1 (0.18%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 240 (42.25%) AWS
2 177 (31.16%) Azure
3 89 (15.67%) GCP
4 69 (12.15%) GitHub
5 64 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
6 59 (10.39%) Amazon Kinesis
7 58 (10.21%) Serverless
8 57 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (6.87%) Azure AI
9 39 (6.87%) IBM Cloud
10 31 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (3.70%) Datadog
14 16 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (2.64%) PaaS
16 14 (2.46%) SaaS
17 13 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.99%) HTTP
2 14 (2.46%) Network Security
3 7 (1.23%) Firewall
4 5 (0.88%) DNS
4 5 (0.88%) SNMP
4 5 (0.88%) WAN
5 4 (0.70%) Modbus
5 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.70%) VPN
6 3 (0.53%) BGP
6 3 (0.53%) VLAN
7 2 (0.35%) 5G
7 2 (0.35%) DSL
8 1 (0.18%) DHCP
8 1 (0.18%) ICMP
8 1 (0.18%) Internet
8 1 (0.18%) RTP
8 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.18%) SMTP
8 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (16.37%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (14.08%) DynamoDB
2 80 (14.08%) NoSQL
3 59 (10.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 42 (7.39%) Relational Database
5 35 (6.16%) Redis
6 20 (3.52%) Big Data
7 17 (2.99%) MySQL
8 15 (2.64%) SQL Server
9 14 (2.46%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (2.11%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.94%) OLAP
12 8 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.23%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.06%) ClickHouse
14 6 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 67 (11.80%) Git
2 61 (10.74%) CircleCI
3 47 (8.27%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.05%) Gatling
5 19 (3.35%) JIRA
6 15 (2.64%) JUnit
7 12 (2.11%) Subversion
7 12 (2.11%) Visual Studio
8 10 (1.76%) GitLab
9 9 (1.58%) JMeter
10 8 (1.41%) Mockito
11 7 (1.23%) IntelliJ
12 6 (1.06%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.88%) Jaeger
13 5 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.70%) Gradle
15 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
16 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 167 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 126 (22.18%) Public Sector
3 105 (18.49%) Finance
4 84 (14.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 73 (12.85%) Law
6 46 (8.10%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (6.16%) Marketing
8 32 (5.63%) Banking
9 29 (5.11%) Electronics
9 29 (5.11%) Legal
10 26 (4.58%) Financial Institution
11 22 (3.87%) Retail
12 16 (2.82%) Games
13 14 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
14 13 (2.29%) Billing
14 13 (2.29%) Front Office
15 12 (2.11%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.06%) Advertising
17 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 214 (37.68%) Software Engineer
2 152 (26.76%) Senior
3 148 (26.06%) Lead
4 118 (20.77%) Developer
5 101 (17.78%) Lead Software Engineer
6 81 (14.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 59 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (7.04%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 40 (7.04%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 36 (6.34%) Software Developer
10 35 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (5.99%) Java Developer
12 28 (4.93%) Architect
12 28 (4.93%) Technical Leader
13 25 (4.40%) C# Developer
14 24 (4.23%) C# Software Engineer
15 23 (4.05%) Full Stack Developer
16 22 (3.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 20 (3.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
17 20 (3.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (14.44%) Web Services
2 81 (14.26%) .NET
3 78 (13.73%) REST
4 75 (13.20%) RESTful
5 60 (10.56%) AngularJS
5 60 (10.56%) React
6 43 (7.57%) GraphQL
6 43 (7.57%) http4s
6 43 (7.57%) Scalaz
7 42 (7.39%) Spring
7 42 (7.39%) Spring Boot
8 41 (7.22%) Kafka
9 38 (6.69%) .NET Core
10 29 (5.11%) HTML
11 25 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
12 23 (4.05%) CSS
13 22 (3.87%) Node.js
14 19 (3.35%) Apache Camel
15 15 (2.64%) .NET Framework
16 14 (2.46%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 114 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.92%) Public Cloud
3 57 (10.04%) Blockchain
4 56 (9.86%) Media Streaming
5 54 (9.51%) Blog
6 46 (8.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 43 (7.57%) Algorithms
8 40 (7.04%) Legacy Code
9 36 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (3.87%) Data Structures
11 18 (3.17%) Data Centre
11 18 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
12 14 (2.46%) Robotics
13 13 (2.29%) IoT
14 12 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
15 11 (1.94%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.76%) Management Information System
17 9 (1.58%) Product Ownership
18 7 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 159 (27.99%) Linux
2 43 (7.57%) CentOS
3 39 (6.87%) Alpine Linux
3 39 (6.87%) Debian
4 32 (5.63%) Windows
5 17 (2.99%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.23%) Android
8 7 (1.23%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.53%) Unix
10 2 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (52.29%) Software Engineering
2 243 (42.78%) DevOps
3 239 (42.08%) Agile
4 229 (40.32%) CI/CD
5 164 (28.87%) Microservices
6 100 (17.61%) Containerisation
7 95 (16.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 93 (16.37%) Computer Science
9 88 (15.49%) Open Source
10 87 (15.32%) Mentoring
11 86 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 82 (14.44%) Full Stack Development
13 75 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 73 (12.85%) Continuous Integration
14 73 (12.85%) SDLC
15 67 (11.80%) Machine Learning
16 66 (11.62%) Unit Testing
17 62 (10.92%) Deployment Automation
18 59 (10.39%) Analytics
19 56 (9.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 165 (29.05%) Java
2 120 (21.13%) Go
2 120 (21.13%) Python
3 112 (19.72%) C++
4 108 (19.01%) C#
5 89 (15.67%) Scala
6 84 (14.79%) JavaScript
7 83 (14.61%) SQL
8 81 (14.26%) C
9 72 (12.68%) Rust
10 54 (9.51%) TypeScript
11 28 (4.93%) Kotlin
12 22 (3.87%) PowerShell
13 13 (2.29%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.94%) Bash
15 6 (1.06%) Haskell
15 6 (1.06%) Swift
16 5 (0.88%) Perl
17 4 (0.70%) PHP
17 4 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 101 (17.78%) Degree
2 55 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (8.45%) Azure Certification
4 42 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 39 (6.87%) MCSA
5 39 (6.87%) MCSE
6 30 (5.28%) Security Cleared
7 29 (5.11%) Master's Degree
8 20 (3.52%) SC Cleared
9 11 (1.94%) PhD
10 7 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.88%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.53%) CISSP
13 3 (0.53%) GIAC
14 2 (0.35%) CISM
14 2 (0.35%) SANS
15 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.52%) PCI DSS
2 17 (2.99%) QA
3 14 (2.46%) GDPR
3 14 (2.46%) HIPAA
4 9 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.23%) NIST
5 7 (1.23%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.35%) COBIT
8 2 (0.35%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.35%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 180 (31.69%) Docker
2 23 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (1.06%) Ceph
3 6 (1.06%) Varnish
4 5 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.53%) Firmware
6 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.35%) HDFS
8 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 254 (44.72%) Kubernetes
2 127 (22.36%) Terraform
3 46 (8.10%) Ansible
4 40 (7.04%) Grafana
5 28 (4.93%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.94%) Kibana
7 6 (1.06%) Knative
7 6 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.88%) Kiali
8 5 (0.88%) Packer
8 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.70%) Cacti
9 4 (0.70%) Nagios
10 3 (0.53%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 3 (0.53%) Puppet
11 2 (0.35%) Argo
11 2 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 51 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.57%) Google
3 41 (7.22%) Red Hat
4 39 (6.87%) IBM
5 34 (5.99%) Splunk
6 28 (4.93%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.29%) Databricks
8 11 (1.94%) WSO2
9 8 (1.41%) Oracle
10 6 (1.06%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.06%) Apple
10 6 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.88%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.70%) SAP
12 4 (0.70%) VMware
13 3 (0.53%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.53%) NetIQ
13 3 (0.53%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.53%) Solace
14 2 (0.35%) CrowdStrike