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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 316 338
Rank change year-on-year +96 +22 -46
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 144 130 155
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 0.79% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.78% 1.99% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 111 104 113
10th Percentile £63,236 - £50,465
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £69,308 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +15.43% -1.80% -16.97%
75th Percentile £126,250 £115,313 £83,750
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £97,308
UK median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -5.88%

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 5,184 6,522 8,262
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.57% 39.53% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,309 3,608 6,516
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,250 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 11 January 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 10 (6.94%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.17%) Apache
3 5 (3.47%) Apache Pulsar
3 5 (3.47%) Confluence
4 4 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.39%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (68.06%) AWS
2 80 (55.56%) Azure
3 60 (41.67%) GCP
4 29 (20.14%) SaaS
5 20 (13.89%) Serverless
6 18 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (11.81%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (9.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (8.33%) dbt
11 11 (7.64%) GitHub
12 8 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (5.56%) Power Platform
12 8 (5.56%) Pulumi
13 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (3.47%) Entra ID
14 5 (3.47%) Power Automate
14 5 (3.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.08%) BGP
2 3 (2.08%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.08%) VLAN
2 3 (2.08%) VPN
3 2 (1.39%) AMQP
3 2 (1.39%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.03%) NoSQL
2 13 (9.03%) Redis
3 12 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.17%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.78%) Big Data
8 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.08%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.08%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (2.08%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.08%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.69%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.69%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Git
2 6 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.47%) JIRA
3 5 (3.47%) JMeter
4 4 (2.78%) Postman
4 4 (2.78%) Selenium
5 3 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.69%) GitLab
6 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.61%) Finance
3 19 (13.19%) Telecoms
4 17 (11.81%) Banking
5 15 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (9.72%) Financial Institution
7 13 (9.03%) Law
7 13 (9.03%) Retail
8 9 (6.25%) Back Office
9 5 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.47%) Legal
9 5 (3.47%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.78%) Polish Language
11 3 (2.08%) Front Office
11 3 (2.08%) Marketing
12 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.39%) Electronics
12 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.39%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (34.72%) Senior
2 32 (22.22%) Lead
3 31 (21.53%) Software Engineer
4 25 (17.36%) Developer
5 15 (10.42%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (9.03%) Lead Developer
7 12 (8.33%) C# Developer
8 11 (7.64%) Architect
8 11 (7.64%) Lead C# Developer
9 10 (6.94%) Principal Software Engineer
10 9 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Site Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Java Developer
12 7 (4.86%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (30.56%) Kafka
2 35 (24.31%) React
3 33 (22.92%) .NET
4 25 (17.36%) RESTful
5 24 (16.67%) Node.js
6 21 (14.58%) REST
7 15 (10.42%) gRPC
8 14 (9.72%) Spring
8 14 (9.72%) Spring Boot
9 12 (8.33%) Django
9 12 (8.33%) OAuth
10 11 (7.64%) OAuth2
10 11 (7.64%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (6.25%) WebSockets
12 8 (5.56%) GraphQL
12 8 (5.56%) Next.js
13 5 (3.47%) .NET Core
13 5 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (3.47%) Nuxt
13 5 (3.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (36.11%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.94%) AI Agents
3 10 (6.94%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.86%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.17%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.08%) Derivative
9 3 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.08%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.08%) N-Tier
10 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.39%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.42%) Linux
2 11 (7.64%) Unix
3 9 (6.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (50.69%) Microservices
2 60 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 55 (38.19%) Mentoring
4 53 (36.81%) CI/CD
4 53 (36.81%) DevOps
5 51 (35.42%) Agile
6 39 (27.08%) AI
7 38 (26.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 36 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 36 (25.00%) Observability
9 35 (24.31%) Event-Driven
10 29 (20.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (19.44%) Machine Learning
12 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (17.36%) Coaching
14 24 (16.67%) High Availability
15 23 (15.97%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (15.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (15.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.94%) Python
2 41 (28.47%) Java
3 34 (23.61%) C#
4 28 (19.44%) Go
5 18 (12.50%) SQL
6 17 (11.81%) TypeScript
7 14 (9.72%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.56%) C++
9 7 (4.86%) Scala
10 4 (2.78%) Bash
11 2 (1.39%) C
11 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.39%) Ruby
11 2 (1.39%) Rust
12 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (25.00%) Degree
2 31 (21.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.69%) MCP
7 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.56%) QA
2 7 (4.86%) PCI DSS
2 7 (4.86%) SOC 2
3 6 (4.17%) GDPR
3 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.47%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.08%) WCAG
6 2 (1.39%) GRC
System Software
1 38 (26.39%) Docker
2 3 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.39%) Ceph
3 2 (1.39%) Lustre
3 2 (1.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.83%) Terraform
3 10 (6.94%) Ansible
4 5 (3.47%) Argo
4 5 (3.47%) Grafana
5 4 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.39%) Puppet
6 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) Google
2 11 (7.64%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.47%) Ericsson
3 5 (3.47%) Mavenir
3 5 (3.47%) Nokia
4 4 (2.78%) Databricks
4 4 (2.78%) PagerDuty
4 4 (2.78%) SAP
5 3 (2.08%) Dell
5 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.08%) Solace
6 2 (1.39%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle
7 1 (0.69%) Pega
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.69%) Splunk
7 1 (0.69%) WSO2