Distributed Systems Jobs in the West Midlands

Distributed Systems
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 212 241
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 +9
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 6 38 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 1.54% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4 37 7
10th Percentile £65,166 - £50,000
25th Percentile £67,470 £31,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £54,650 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.66% -12.56% -
75th Percentile £76,563 £62,500 £77,213
90th Percentile £77,125 £182,500 £95,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,335 2,468 3,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.89% 34.09% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 696 1,705 981
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,108 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
England 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 West Midlands

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the West Midlands

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the West Midlands

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +26 6 £72,500 +23.83% 6
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
General
1 2 (33.33%) Automotive
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) gRPC
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) Vue
2 1 (16.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Reference Data
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) Business Agility
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google