Distributed Systems
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 413 191
Rank change year-on-year -25 -222 +51
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 560 753 3,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.78% 2.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.81% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 366 395 724
10th Percentile £47,500 £59,210 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,888 £71,875 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £125,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year -3.70% -5.26% +14.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Distributed Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,507 41,619 80,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.38% 42.84% 48.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,113 22,631 34,154
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
England -44 483 £82,500 -5.71% 127
UK excluding London +132 320 £65,000 -3.70% 53
London -77 239 £93,750 +1.35% 87
Work from Home -66 167 £82,500 -4.35% 56
South East +57 115 £65,000 -11.86% 10
North of England +81 80 £68,000 -2.86% 17
Scotland -26 51 £50,000 -25.93% 10
Midlands 0 43 £59,650 -6.43% 3
North West +30 41 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire +96 37 £68,000 -20.00% 7
West Midlands +8 35 £54,650 -15.92% 3
East of England -11 16 £120,000 +41.18% 4
South West -24 11 £62,500 +21.95% 6
East Midlands -18 8 £87,500 +45.83%
Northern Ireland - 4 £100,000 - 3
Wales +7 3 - -
North East -1 2 £75,000 +15.38% 2

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (6.07%) OpenStack
2 30 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.75%) IIS
4 17 (3.04%) Confluence
5 11 (1.96%) Apache
5 11 (1.96%) JBoss
6 9 (1.61%) Red Hat Fuse
7 8 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.54%) CMS
8 3 (0.54%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.54%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.36%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
1 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 255 (45.54%) AWS
2 184 (32.86%) Azure
3 87 (15.54%) Serverless
4 65 (11.61%) GCP
5 62 (11.07%) GitHub
6 54 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
8 44 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (7.14%) IBM Cloud
12 35 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
13 22 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (3.75%) Datadog
15 18 (3.21%) PaaS
16 17 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (3.04%) SaaS
17 16 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (2.68%) Amazon S3
19 13 (2.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.57%) WAN
2 14 (2.50%) Network Security
3 13 (2.32%) HTTP
4 10 (1.79%) DNS
5 9 (1.61%) Firewall
6 2 (0.36%) DSL
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) ICMP
7 1 (0.18%) RTP
7 1 (0.18%) SMTP
7 1 (0.18%) SNMP
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (15.89%) NoSQL
2 79 (14.11%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (9.64%) Relational Database
4 41 (7.32%) DynamoDB
5 31 (5.54%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.75%) MySQL
8 20 (3.57%) Big Data
9 19 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (2.50%) OLAP
11 13 (2.32%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (2.32%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.14%) Redis
13 11 (1.96%) Apache Hive
14 10 (1.79%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.79%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.79%) Flink
15 9 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (1.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 97 (17.32%) Git
2 81 (14.46%) Jenkins
3 45 (8.04%) CircleCI
4 29 (5.18%) JIRA
5 19 (3.39%) Subversion
6 16 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (2.68%) JUnit
8 12 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.96%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.61%) IntelliJ
11 8 (1.43%) Jaeger
12 6 (1.07%) Crashlytics
12 6 (1.07%) Gatling
12 6 (1.07%) JMeter
13 5 (0.89%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.71%) GitLab
14 4 (0.71%) Mockito
15 3 (0.54%) TeamCity
16 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 163 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 121 (21.61%) Public Sector
3 109 (19.46%) Finance
4 78 (13.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (10.54%) Law
6 40 (7.14%) Banking
7 34 (6.07%) Marketing
8 31 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (4.64%) Electronics
11 22 (3.93%) Legal
12 17 (3.04%) Front Office
13 16 (2.86%) Financial Institution
13 16 (2.86%) Games
14 14 (2.50%) Investment Banking
14 14 (2.50%) Retail
15 8 (1.43%) Tech for Good
16 7 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.25%) Retail Banking
17 6 (1.07%) Billing
Job Titles
1 153 (27.32%) Developer
2 144 (25.71%) Software Engineer
3 115 (20.54%) Senior
4 103 (18.39%) Lead
5 67 (11.96%) Java Developer
6 59 (10.54%) Lead Software Engineer
7 47 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 44 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.61%) Architect
10 34 (6.07%) Software Developer
11 30 (5.36%) Full Stack Developer
11 30 (5.36%) Senior Developer
12 29 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (4.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 24 (4.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 23 (4.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 23 (4.11%) Software Manager
14 23 (4.11%) Technical Leader
15 22 (3.93%) C# Developer
16 21 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (15.00%) .NET
2 78 (13.93%) REST
3 77 (13.75%) Web Services
4 72 (12.86%) AngularJS
5 65 (11.61%) RESTful
5 65 (11.61%) Spring
6 63 (11.25%) Spring Boot
7 61 (10.89%) React
8 55 (9.82%) Node.js
9 43 (7.68%) Kafka
10 39 (6.96%) Apache Camel
11 36 (6.43%) .NET Core
12 35 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (5.54%) JSON
14 28 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
15 26 (4.64%) XML
16 24 (4.29%) HTML
17 20 (3.57%) CSS
18 19 (3.39%) .NET Framework
19 15 (2.68%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.89%) Public Cloud
3 49 (8.75%) Blockchain
4 45 (8.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (5.71%) Algorithms
5 32 (5.71%) Legacy Code
6 28 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (4.29%) Blog
8 21 (3.75%) Management Information System
9 20 (3.57%) Clustering
10 18 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (2.86%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.86%) IoT
12 15 (2.68%) Media Streaming
13 13 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (2.32%) Robotics
14 12 (2.14%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
15 11 (1.96%) RISC-V
16 10 (1.79%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 142 (25.36%) Linux
2 40 (7.14%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (7.14%) CentOS
2 40 (7.14%) Debian
3 29 (5.18%) Windows
4 18 (3.21%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.96%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.43%) Android
6 8 (1.43%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.71%) VMS
8 3 (0.54%) Unix
9 2 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (44.82%) Software Engineering
2 224 (40.00%) Agile
3 219 (39.11%) CI/CD
4 210 (37.50%) DevOps
5 170 (30.36%) Microservices
6 98 (17.50%) Full Stack Development
7 84 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 80 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 78 (13.93%) Computer Science
10 73 (13.04%) SDLC
11 70 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 70 (12.50%) TDD
12 69 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (11.96%) Open Source
14 61 (10.89%) Continuous Delivery
15 59 (10.54%) Data Science
16 56 (10.00%) Scrum
17 53 (9.46%) Analytics
17 53 (9.46%) Continuous Integration
17 53 (9.46%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 200 (35.71%) Java
2 119 (21.25%) SQL
3 118 (21.07%) Python
4 113 (20.18%) C#
5 110 (19.64%) JavaScript
6 89 (15.89%) Go
7 74 (13.21%) C++
8 69 (12.32%) C
9 57 (10.18%) TypeScript
10 53 (9.46%) Rust
11 39 (6.96%) Scala
12 15 (2.68%) Kotlin
12 15 (2.68%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.50%) F#
14 12 (2.14%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.96%) Embedded C
16 9 (1.61%) Haskell
17 8 (1.43%) Clojure
18 7 (1.25%) Perl
19 6 (1.07%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (16.43%) Degree
2 61 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 59 (10.54%) Azure Certification
4 55 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (7.14%) MCSA
6 40 (7.14%) MCSE
7 35 (6.25%) SC Cleared
8 27 (4.82%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.68%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.96%) PhD
11 7 (1.25%) CISSP
11 7 (1.25%) GIAC
12 6 (1.07%) CISM
12 6 (1.07%) SANS
13 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.18%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.18%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.14%) PCI DSS
2 10 (1.79%) GDPR
2 10 (1.79%) HIPAA
3 8 (1.43%) NIST
4 7 (1.25%) QA
5 6 (1.07%) COBIT
5 6 (1.07%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 9000
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 204 (36.43%) Docker
2 22 (3.93%) Hyper-V
3 20 (3.57%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.25%) HDFS
6 6 (1.07%) Ceph
7 3 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 254 (45.36%) Kubernetes
2 118 (21.07%) Terraform
3 71 (12.68%) Ansible
4 27 (4.82%) Grafana
5 25 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.96%) Packer
7 8 (1.43%) Kiali
7 8 (1.43%) Kibana
8 7 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.07%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (1.07%) Knative
10 5 (0.89%) Puppet
11 3 (0.54%) Salt
12 2 (0.36%) Argo
13 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 55 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.50%) Red Hat
3 41 (7.32%) IBM
4 34 (6.07%) Splunk
4 34 (6.07%) WSO2
5 26 (4.64%) Dynatrace
6 20 (3.57%) VMware
7 17 (3.04%) Google
8 12 (2.14%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.14%) Databricks
9 9 (1.61%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.25%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.07%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.07%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.89%) SAP
13 4 (0.71%) Oracle
14 3 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
15 2 (0.36%) NVIDIA
15 2 (0.36%) Solace
15 2 (0.36%) Thales