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 have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 368 279 248
Rank change year-on-year -89 -31 +81
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 417 1,591 1,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 1.30% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 3.01% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 313 582 759
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,200 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £96,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Distributed Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,511 52,884 56,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.05% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,245 29,698 33,809
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -71 360 £82,500 -2.94% 227
London -57 240 £95,000 - 168
UK excluding London +42 163 £65,000 -7.14% 96
Work from Home -54 160 £75,000 -11.76% 114
South East +46 46 £72,500 +3.57% 53
North of England +115 33 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Midlands +103 23 £32,500 -55.31% 16
South West +44 20 £70,000 -4.76% 7
Scotland 0 20 £32,500 -49.02% 4
East of England +110 18 £80,000 - 4
West Midlands +106 17 £32,500 -40.91% 11
Yorkshire +81 15 £67,529 +8.05% 2
North West +112 14 £65,000 -16.13% 8
Northern Ireland +42 7 £92,500 +8.82% 1
East Midlands +45 6 - - 4
Wales +13 5 £65,000 +30.00% 2
North East +44 4 £65,000 -10.34%

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 24 (5.76%) Apache Spark
1 24 (5.76%) IIS
2 16 (3.84%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.64%) Apache
3 11 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.40%) JBoss
5 9 (2.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (1.68%) Confluence
7 4 (0.96%) CMS
7 4 (0.96%) MQSeries
7 4 (0.96%) nginx
8 2 (0.48%) Hedera
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Ripple
3 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 215 (51.56%) AWS
2 138 (33.09%) Azure
3 73 (17.51%) Serverless
4 68 (16.31%) Cloud Computing
5 59 (14.15%) GCP
6 47 (11.27%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (11.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (6.24%) Amazon S3
11 24 (5.76%) dbt
12 21 (5.04%) SaaS
13 16 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (3.84%) Pulumi
14 14 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (3.12%) PaaS
16 12 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (2.64%) GitHub
18 8 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.00%) TCP/IP
2 23 (5.52%) WAN
3 7 (1.68%) Internet
4 5 (1.20%) DNS
5 4 (0.96%) HTTP
6 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.72%) Multicast
7 2 (0.48%) DHCP
7 2 (0.48%) Network Security
7 2 (0.48%) Unicast
8 1 (0.24%) 5G
8 1 (0.24%) DSL
8 1 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (13.43%) NoSQL
3 43 (10.31%) Redis
4 38 (9.11%) Relational Database
5 33 (7.91%) Big Data
6 30 (7.19%) MongoDB
7 28 (6.71%) Hadoop
7 28 (6.71%) SQL Server
8 27 (6.47%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (4.32%) Data Lake
12 17 (4.08%) Apache Hive
13 16 (3.84%) MySQL
14 12 (2.88%) InfluxDB
15 11 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (1.92%) Impala
16 8 (1.92%) Presto
17 7 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (1.68%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 88 (21.10%) Jenkins
2 52 (12.47%) Git
3 27 (6.47%) SonarQube
4 21 (5.04%) GitLab
5 17 (4.08%) JIRA
6 15 (3.60%) JUnit
7 10 (2.40%) Maven
8 9 (2.16%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.16%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.92%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.44%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.20%) GCC
11 5 (1.20%) IntelliJ
11 5 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.20%) Subversion
12 4 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.96%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.96%) jMock
12 4 (0.96%) Mockito
12 4 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 122 (29.26%) Finance
2 59 (14.15%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.07%) Banking
4 41 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.32%) Law
8 13 (3.12%) Front Office
9 12 (2.88%) Marketing
10 10 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.68%) Games
11 7 (1.68%) Retail
12 6 (1.44%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.72%) Advertising
15 3 (0.72%) Legal
16 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 107 (25.66%) Developer
2 96 (23.02%) Senior
3 65 (15.59%) Software Engineer
4 53 (12.71%) Lead
5 45 (10.79%) Architect
6 38 (9.11%) Java Developer
7 33 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 29 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (6.71%) Senior Developer
10 27 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (6.24%) Data Engineer
11 26 (6.24%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (5.28%) Python Developer
13 22 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (4.32%) Python Engineer
14 18 (4.32%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.84%) Lead Developer
16 15 (3.60%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 15 (3.60%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.35%) Node.js
2 59 (14.15%) .NET
3 55 (13.19%) REST
4 49 (11.75%) Kafka
5 48 (11.51%) Web Services
6 43 (10.31%) React
7 42 (10.07%) Elastic Stack
8 33 (7.91%) Django
8 33 (7.91%) RESTful
9 30 (7.19%) AngularJS
9 30 (7.19%) Spring
10 23 (5.52%) Spring Boot
11 22 (5.28%) JSON
12 20 (4.80%) OAuth
12 20 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (4.80%) Vue
13 19 (4.56%) OAuth2
14 17 (4.08%) Apache Camel
15 15 (3.60%) SOAP
16 14 (3.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 41 (9.83%) Public Cloud
3 27 (6.47%) Algorithms
4 23 (5.52%) Clustering
5 22 (5.28%) Legacy Code
6 19 (4.56%) Hedge funds
7 16 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (3.12%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.12%) Derivative
9 13 (3.12%) Fixed Income
10 11 (2.64%) Equities
10 11 (2.64%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.68%) Blockchain
12 7 (1.68%) CMDB
12 7 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.68%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 102 (24.46%) Linux
2 26 (6.24%) Unix
3 23 (5.52%) Windows
4 7 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (36.69%) Software Engineering
2 152 (36.45%) Microservices
3 149 (35.73%) CI/CD
4 136 (32.61%) DevOps
5 132 (31.65%) Agile
6 77 (18.47%) Continuous Integration
7 64 (15.35%) Continuous Delivery
7 64 (15.35%) TDD
8 55 (13.19%) Analytics
8 55 (13.19%) Computer Science
9 54 (12.95%) Scrum
10 52 (12.47%) Containerisation
10 52 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (12.23%) Low Latency
11 51 (12.23%) Prototyping
12 46 (11.03%) Open Source
13 43 (10.31%) High Availability
14 42 (10.07%) Full Stack Development
15 40 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
16 39 (9.35%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 164 (39.33%) Java
2 155 (37.17%) Python
3 103 (24.70%) SQL
4 69 (16.55%) C#
5 67 (16.07%) JavaScript
6 60 (14.39%) Go
7 49 (11.75%) C++
8 34 (8.15%) Bash
9 32 (7.67%) Rust
10 25 (6.00%) Scala
10 25 (6.00%) TypeScript
11 23 (5.52%) C
12 22 (5.28%) Shell Script
13 19 (4.56%) PowerShell
14 16 (3.84%) F#
15 14 (3.36%) Haskell
16 12 (2.88%) Groovy
17 11 (2.64%) Clojure
18 10 (2.40%) Ruby
19 9 (2.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.83%) Degree
3 51 (12.23%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.56%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.92%) PhD
7 4 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.15%) QA
2 5 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.72%) ISO 9000
4 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 106 (25.42%) Docker
2 23 (5.52%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.96%) Ceph
6 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.48%) HDFS
6 2 (0.48%) Postfix
7 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (43.41%) Kubernetes
2 83 (19.90%) Terraform
3 65 (15.59%) Ansible
4 23 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.04%) Grafana
6 11 (2.64%) Packer
7 8 (1.92%) Puppet
8 4 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.72%) Kibana
9 3 (0.72%) Salt
10 2 (0.48%) Argo
10 2 (0.48%) Istio
10 2 (0.48%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.24%) Consul
11 1 (0.24%) Nagios
11 1 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.24%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 44 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.59%) Google
3 30 (7.19%) VMware
4 16 (3.84%) WSO2
5 13 (3.12%) Oracle
6 12 (2.88%) Atlassian
7 10 (2.40%) Sun
8 9 (2.16%) AppDynamics
8 9 (2.16%) TIBCO
9 8 (1.92%) Databricks
9 8 (1.92%) IBM
10 7 (1.68%) Splunk
11 6 (1.44%) Confluent
12 5 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.96%) Solace
14 3 (0.72%) SAP
15 2 (0.48%) Cloudera
15 2 (0.48%) Dynatrace
15 2 (0.48%) Foundry
16 1 (0.24%) StreamSets