Hybrid/Remote Distributed Systems Job Trends

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 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 307 424
Rank change year-on-year +116 +117 -75
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 256 120 170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.32% 0.80% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.70% 1.78% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 117 99 137
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,690 £63,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -6.06% -4.35%
75th Percentile £97,500 £125,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £140,677 £182,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% -5.71%

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 6,912 6,746 12,001
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.60% 45.04% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,246 3,420 9,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Systems and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Distributed Systems salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.17%) Apache
2 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.78%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.39%) JBoss
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 162 (63.28%) AWS
2 83 (32.42%) GCP
3 53 (20.70%) Azure
4 35 (13.67%) SaaS
5 25 (9.77%) Serverless
6 22 (8.59%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (5.08%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.08%) GitHub
8 12 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.34%) Datadog
13 5 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 73 (28.52%) Broadband
2 6 (2.34%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.56%) Firewall
4 3 (1.17%) BGP
4 3 (1.17%) VLAN
4 3 (1.17%) VPN
5 2 (0.78%) DNS
5 2 (0.78%) SSL
6 1 (0.39%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.39%) FTP
6 1 (0.39%) HTTP
6 1 (0.39%) RS-232
6 1 (0.39%) RS-485
6 1 (0.39%) RTP
6 1 (0.39%) RTSP
6 1 (0.39%) SCTP
6 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.39%) SS7
6 1 (0.39%) VoIP
6 1 (0.39%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.03%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.73%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.73%) MySQL
6 6 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.95%) Metadata
8 4 (1.56%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.17%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.17%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.17%) Redis
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.78%) Big Data
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.39%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (6.64%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.08%) Git
3 5 (1.95%) GitLab
4 3 (1.17%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.78%) JIRA
5 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.39%) JUnit
6 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (19.92%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.97%) Finance
3 27 (10.55%) Banking
4 25 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (9.77%) Law
5 24 (9.38%) Retail
6 23 (8.98%) Games
7 22 (8.59%) Financial Institution
8 21 (8.20%) Back Office
9 11 (4.30%) Polish Language
10 10 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.34%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.17%) Advertising
14 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.39%) Front Office
15 1 (0.39%) Legal
15 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 70 (27.34%) Developer
2 60 (23.44%) Senior
3 50 (19.53%) Software Engineer
4 31 (12.11%) Lead
5 30 (11.72%) Scala Engineer
6 23 (8.98%) Senior Developer
7 20 (7.81%) Backend Developer
8 18 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (5.86%) Scala Developer
9 15 (5.86%) Scala Software Engineer
10 14 (5.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (5.47%) Senior Backend Developer
11 13 (5.08%) Architect
11 13 (5.08%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.30%) Lead Developer
14 9 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (18.75%) gRPC
2 33 (12.89%) RESTful
3 29 (11.33%) .NET
4 27 (10.55%) React
4 27 (10.55%) REST
5 22 (8.59%) Kafka
6 15 (5.86%) Node.js
7 12 (4.69%) Spring
7 12 (4.69%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.91%) LangChain
9 9 (3.52%) Django
9 9 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (3.13%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (2.73%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.34%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (1.95%) JSON
13 5 (1.95%) Next.js
13 5 (1.95%) React Native
13 5 (1.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 66 (25.78%) Cloud Native
2 64 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 47 (18.36%) Over-the-Top Content
4 21 (8.20%) Data Structures
5 20 (7.81%) Algorithms
6 17 (6.64%) Low-Code
7 14 (5.47%) AI Agents
8 13 (5.08%) Equities
9 11 (4.30%) Blog
10 8 (3.13%) Life Science
10 8 (3.13%) Sports Betting
11 7 (2.73%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.34%) Data Centre
12 6 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.17%) Replication
14 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.81%) Linux
2 2 (0.78%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (57.03%) Software Engineering
2 139 (54.30%) CI/CD
3 111 (43.36%) Microservices
4 90 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 76 (29.69%) Clean Code
6 76 (29.69%) Machine Learning
7 72 (28.13%) Observability
8 63 (24.61%) Event-Driven
9 60 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 56 (21.88%) AI
10 56 (21.88%) Coaching
11 54 (21.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 51 (19.92%) DevOps
13 50 (19.53%) Data Science
14 48 (18.75%) Agile
15 47 (18.36%) Continuous Delivery
16 45 (17.58%) Mentoring
16 45 (17.58%) Personalization
17 43 (16.80%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 157 (61.33%) Python
2 86 (33.59%) Go
3 67 (26.17%) Java
4 48 (18.75%) Scala
5 37 (14.45%) C#
6 24 (9.38%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.81%) TypeScript
8 19 (7.42%) SQL
9 15 (5.86%) C++
10 8 (3.13%) Rust
11 4 (1.56%) Bash
11 4 (1.56%) Ruby
12 3 (1.17%) PHP
13 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.78%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.39%) C
14 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (9.38%) Degree
2 11 (4.30%) Master's Degree
3 9 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.52%) PhD
4 8 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.39%) HND
7 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.69%) QA
2 9 (3.52%) PCI DSS
2 9 (3.52%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
System Software
1 80 (31.25%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 38 (14.84%) Terraform
3 7 (2.73%) Ansible
4 4 (1.56%) Grafana
4 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.17%) Argo
6 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.78%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) Graylog
7 1 (0.39%) Kibana
7 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (17.58%) Typelevel
2 12 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.13%) Google
4 5 (1.95%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.17%) Oracle
7 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.39%) Databricks
8 1 (0.39%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.39%) Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) IBM
8 1 (0.39%) Mavenir
8 1 (0.39%) Nokia
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.39%) Solace