Distributed Systems Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Distributed Systems
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in remote or hybrid work. 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 269 423 364
Rank change year-on-year +154 -59 -158
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 132 174 345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 0.51% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 1.45% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 104 139 236
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £60,725
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £102,826
90th Percentile £140,677 £182,500 £115,625
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,843 12,025 16,498
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.07% 35.54% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,833 9,250 11,895
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Systems trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Systems.

Distributed Systems salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Distributed Systems salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.06%) SAS
3 2 (1.52%) CMS
3 2 (1.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.82%) GCP
2 41 (31.06%) AWS
3 39 (29.55%) Azure
4 17 (12.88%) SaaS
5 11 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (6.82%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (6.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 9 (6.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 9 (6.82%) AWS CodeBuild
7 9 (6.82%) dbt
7 9 (6.82%) Pulumi
7 9 (6.82%) Sentry
8 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.79%) Serverless
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.03%) GitHub
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.91%) HTTP
2 9 (6.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.36%) NoSQL
1 15 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.33%) Redis
3 10 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.03%) Big Data
5 4 (3.03%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.03%) MySQL
6 2 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.52%) CouchDB
6 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.76%) DB2
7 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.76%) Flink
7 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (11.36%) Git
2 8 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.30%) JIRA
4 6 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (3.79%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.03%) Maven
7 3 (2.27%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.27%) GitLab
7 3 (2.27%) Gradle
7 3 (2.27%) Postman
8 2 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.52%) JUnit
8 2 (1.52%) Mockito
8 2 (1.52%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.52%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.52%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.52%) Subversion
8 2 (1.52%) Xcode
8 2 (1.52%) XCTest
General
1 58 (43.94%) Finance
1 58 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 41 (31.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (21.21%) Banking
4 25 (18.94%) Retail
5 24 (18.18%) Advertising
5 24 (18.18%) Games
6 8 (6.06%) Law
7 3 (2.27%) Front Office
8 2 (1.52%) Automotive
8 2 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.52%) Marketing
8 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (59.09%) Software Engineer
2 57 (43.18%) Senior
3 39 (29.55%) Senior Software Engineer
4 29 (21.97%) Lead
5 18 (13.64%) Lead Software Engineer
6 16 (12.12%) Java Engineer
6 16 (12.12%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Developer
7 13 (9.85%) Senior Java Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 10 (7.58%) Site Engineer
8 10 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (6.82%) Architect
10 7 (5.30%) Enterprise Management Architect
10 7 (5.30%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.30%) Lead Architect
10 7 (5.30%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (29.55%) Kafka
2 20 (15.15%) React
3 15 (11.36%) REST
4 12 (9.09%) .NET
4 12 (9.09%) RESTful
5 11 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 10 (7.58%) Django
6 10 (7.58%) Spring Boot
7 9 (6.82%) Node.js
8 8 (6.06%) Spring
9 7 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (4.55%) Express.js
11 5 (3.79%) CSS
11 5 (3.79%) HTML
12 4 (3.03%) JSON
12 4 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (3.03%) Swagger
13 3 (2.27%) .NET Core
13 3 (2.27%) GraphQL
13 3 (2.27%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 19 (14.39%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.30%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.30%) Credit Risk
5 7 (5.30%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.30%) Market Risk
6 5 (3.79%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.52%) IoT
9 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.52%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.76%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.39%) Linux
2 11 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (68.18%) Software Engineering
2 65 (49.24%) Agile
3 55 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 38 (28.79%) Microservices
5 37 (28.03%) DevOps
6 32 (24.24%) Computer Science
7 28 (21.21%) Machine Learning
7 28 (21.21%) Test Automation
8 24 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 21 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (15.91%) Performance Metrics
9 21 (15.91%) Programmatic Advertising
10 20 (15.15%) Roadmaps
10 20 (15.15%) SDLC
11 19 (14.39%) Fintech
12 18 (13.64%) Containerisation
13 17 (12.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (12.88%) TDD
14 15 (11.36%) Low Latency
14 15 (11.36%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 70 (53.03%) Python
2 47 (35.61%) Java
3 35 (26.52%) SQL
4 29 (21.97%) Scala
5 23 (17.42%) JavaScript
6 20 (15.15%) C#
7 13 (9.85%) Go
8 11 (8.33%) TypeScript
9 10 (7.58%) Rust
10 7 (5.30%) C++
10 7 (5.30%) R
11 6 (4.55%) Clojure
11 6 (4.55%) Elixir
11 6 (4.55%) PL/SQL
12 5 (3.79%) C
12 5 (3.79%) Groovy
12 5 (3.79%) Kotlin
12 5 (3.79%) Shell Script
13 3 (2.27%) Perl
13 3 (2.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (26.52%) Degree
2 13 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.27%) PhD
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) GDPR
2 8 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 7 (5.30%) Basel II
3 7 (5.30%) Basel III
3 7 (5.30%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (5.30%) IFRS
3 7 (5.30%) IFRS 9
4 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.27%) NIST
4 3 (2.27%) QA
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 33 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 40 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.64%) Terraform
3 9 (6.82%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (3.79%) Grafana
5 4 (3.03%) Ansible
6 3 (2.27%) Packer
6 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.76%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (28.03%) Google
2 23 (17.42%) Microsoft
3 21 (15.91%) Apple
4 8 (6.06%) Oracle
5 4 (3.03%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.03%) IBM
5 4 (3.03%) Splunk
6 3 (2.27%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.52%) ESRI
8 1 (0.76%) Intel
8 1 (0.76%) New Relic
8 1 (0.76%) Syncsort