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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 423 401
Rank change year-on-year +58 -22 -197
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 368 570 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.58% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.63% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 227 373 429
10th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £57,250
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 £107,500
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 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
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 30 April 2025.

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 30 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 +72 337 £90,000 +9.09% 451
London +71 232 £92,500 -2.63% 330
UK excluding London +59 154 £72,500 +11.54% 148
Work from Home +142 133 £77,500 -6.06% 192
North of England +99 70 £77,500 +13.97% 58
South East +51 57 £63,750 -1.92% 19
Yorkshire +80 34 £77,500 +13.97% 12
North West +33 29 £80,000 - 40
Scotland +80 9 £64,500 +29.00% 19
South West +111 8 £100,000 +60.00% 8
North East +57 7 £69,384 -7.49% 7
Midlands +22 7 £72,500 +23.83% 16
West Midlands +19 6 £72,500 +32.66% 10
East of England +42 2 - - 15
East Midlands +42 1 £77,500 -11.43% 6
Wales +39 1 £67,626 - 4
Northern Ireland +30 1 - - 10

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 26 (7.07%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.53%) JBoss
3 12 (3.26%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (2.17%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.17%) SAS
5 4 (1.09%) Confluence
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (6.52%) Ripple
1 24 (6.52%) Ripple XRP
2 3 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 123 (33.42%) AWS
2 82 (22.28%) Azure
3 69 (18.75%) GCP
4 50 (13.59%) Serverless
5 46 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (11.68%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (7.34%) SaaS
8 20 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (4.89%) GitHub
10 14 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.72%) Sentry
14 9 (2.45%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (2.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.07%) HTTP
2 11 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Multicast
3 1 (0.27%) NAS
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (17.93%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (11.68%) Relational Database
3 30 (8.15%) NoSQL
4 22 (5.98%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.71%) RDBMS
6 16 (4.35%) Big Data
7 15 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.53%) Redis
9 12 (3.26%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.72%) MySQL
11 5 (1.36%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.09%) Metadata
13 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.54%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 65 (17.66%) Jenkins
2 54 (14.67%) Git
3 43 (11.68%) JUnit
4 25 (6.79%) Mockito
5 19 (5.16%) JMeter
6 16 (4.35%) JIRA
7 11 (2.99%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.72%) Gradle
9 9 (2.45%) CircleCI
9 9 (2.45%) Maven
10 6 (1.63%) GitLab
10 6 (1.63%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.36%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.36%) jMock
12 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.82%) Postman
14 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.54%) XCTest
General
1 132 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 124 (33.70%) Finance
3 54 (14.67%) Banking
4 47 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 47 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 34 (9.24%) Law
6 30 (8.15%) Games
7 28 (7.61%) Advertising
8 26 (7.07%) Financial Institution
8 26 (7.07%) Retail
9 24 (6.52%) Digital Economy
10 16 (4.35%) Front Office
11 13 (3.53%) Marketing
12 11 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (2.17%) Legal
15 7 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
15 7 (1.90%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (1.09%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 142 (38.59%) Software Engineer
2 105 (28.53%) Senior
3 83 (22.55%) Developer
4 63 (17.12%) Lead
5 59 (16.03%) Senior Software Engineer
6 58 (15.76%) Java Developer
7 44 (11.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (11.96%) Lead Software Engineer
8 39 (10.60%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 38 (10.33%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 34 (9.24%) Principal Engineer
11 23 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 19 (5.16%) Architect
13 18 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 16 (4.35%) Java Engineer
14 16 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (3.53%) Senior Java Engineer
16 13 (3.53%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (19.84%) Kafka
2 65 (17.66%) REST
3 56 (15.22%) Spring
3 56 (15.22%) Spring Boot
4 44 (11.96%) RESTful
5 43 (11.68%) Web Services
6 36 (9.78%) React
7 31 (8.42%) Apache Camel
8 27 (7.34%) .NET
8 27 (7.34%) Hibernate
8 27 (7.34%) HTML
9 25 (6.79%) AngularJS
10 23 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
11 22 (5.98%) jQuery
12 20 (5.43%) SOAP
13 18 (4.89%) Node.js
13 18 (4.89%) WireMock
14 15 (4.08%) gRPC
15 14 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (3.80%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 73 (19.84%) Cloud Native
2 53 (14.40%) Algorithms
3 38 (10.33%) Legacy Code
4 37 (10.05%) Public Cloud
5 32 (8.70%) Product Ownership
6 29 (7.88%) Data Structures
7 27 (7.34%) Blockchain
8 18 (4.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (3.53%) Hedge funds
10 12 (3.26%) Reference Data
10 12 (3.26%) Replication
11 9 (2.45%) Equities
11 9 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.17%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.90%) Credit Risk
13 7 (1.90%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.90%) Market Risk
14 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.36%) Sports Betting
16 4 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 79 (21.47%) Linux
2 12 (3.26%) Unix
3 4 (1.09%) Windows
4 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (48.64%) Software Engineering
2 159 (43.21%) Agile
3 153 (41.58%) CI/CD
4 138 (37.50%) Microservices
5 92 (25.00%) DevOps
6 83 (22.55%) TDD
7 62 (16.85%) Containerisation
8 58 (15.76%) SDLC
9 57 (15.49%) Roadmaps
10 56 (15.22%) Mentoring
11 55 (14.95%) Test Automation
12 52 (14.13%) Computer Science
13 50 (13.59%) Scrum
14 49 (13.32%) BDD
15 48 (13.04%) Observability
15 48 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (12.77%) Open Source
17 45 (12.23%) Full-Stack Development
18 43 (11.68%) Machine Learning
19 36 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 138 (37.50%) Java
2 124 (33.70%) Python
3 76 (20.65%) C++
4 67 (18.21%) SQL
5 58 (15.76%) JavaScript
6 57 (15.49%) Go
7 55 (14.95%) C#
7 55 (14.95%) Rust
8 46 (12.50%) C
9 30 (8.15%) Scala
10 24 (6.52%) Shell Script
10 24 (6.52%) TypeScript
11 15 (4.08%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.90%) R
13 6 (1.63%) Clojure
13 6 (1.63%) Elixir
13 6 (1.63%) Groovy
13 6 (1.63%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 60 (16.30%) Degree
2 46 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 42 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.09%) PhD
7 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.71%) GDPR
2 15 (4.08%) QA
3 12 (3.26%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.26%) SLA
3 12 (3.26%) SOC 2
4 8 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.90%) Basel II
5 7 (1.90%) Basel III
5 7 (1.90%) Dodd-Frank
5 7 (1.90%) IFRS
5 7 (1.90%) IFRS 9
5 7 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.82%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 111 (30.16%) Docker
2 12 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.82%) vSphere
4 2 (0.54%) Postfix
5 1 (0.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 179 (48.64%) Kubernetes
2 63 (17.12%) Terraform
3 20 (5.43%) Ansible
4 18 (4.89%) Kibana
5 11 (2.99%) Grafana
6 9 (2.45%) Argo
6 9 (2.45%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (1.63%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.09%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.09%) Packer
9 1 (0.27%) Kiali
Vendors
1 48 (13.04%) Google
2 29 (7.88%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.52%) Splunk
4 22 (5.98%) Apple
5 19 (5.16%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.45%) Oracle
7 7 (1.90%) IBM
8 5 (1.36%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.09%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.09%) SAP
10 3 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.82%) NetApp
10 3 (0.82%) Sparx
11 2 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.54%) ESRI
11 2 (0.54%) Intel
12 1 (0.27%) New Relic
12 1 (0.27%) Reuters
12 1 (0.27%) Syncsort