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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 222 232
Rank change year-on-year +38 +10 +30
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 9 35 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.45% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% 1.37% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7 34 7
10th Percentile £66,702 - -
25th Percentile £68,750 £31,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £54,650 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.66% -15.92% +10.64%
75th Percentile £76,250 £62,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £76,750 £182,500 £97,000
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 1,305 2,559 2,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.75% 32.93% 46.12%
Number of salaries quoted 650 1,694 974
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £33,150
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,438 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,375
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 28 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 +31 7 £72,500 +23.83% 9
Solihull +15 2 £75,000 +7.14%
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 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS KMS
3 2 (22.22%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) dbt
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (22.22%) Big Data
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (22.22%) DbUnit
2 2 (22.22%) jMock
2 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Mockito
2 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Automotive
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) SOAP
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
3 2 (22.22%) Bootstrap
3 2 (22.22%) gRPC
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) PowerMock
3 2 (22.22%) React
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Batch
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) IoT
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Reference Data
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) TDD
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 3 (33.33%) BDD
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) API Development
6 2 (22.22%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (22.22%) High Availability
6 2 (22.22%) Kanban
6 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
6 2 (22.22%) SOA
6 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
1 2 (22.22%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google