Distributed Systems Jobs with Work from Home Options

Distributed Systems
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 361 188
Rank change year-on-year -67 -173 +65
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 170 332 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.82% 2.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 2.13% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 137 230 391
10th Percentile £52,500 £61,145 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,250 £72,500 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% +13.33%
75th Percentile £130,000 £101,938 £100,000
90th Percentile £182,500 £116,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% +13.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,082 15,585 32,936
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.71% 38.53% 46.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,267 11,385 16,924
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £108,080 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Distributed Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 (12.94%) OpenStack
2 9 (5.29%) Confluence
3 8 (4.71%) JBoss
4 7 (4.12%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (2.35%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.76%) Ethereum
6 3 (1.76%) Hyperledger
7 2 (1.18%) Apache
7 2 (1.18%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.18%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.59%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.59%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.59%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Endur
1 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (47.06%) AWS
2 60 (35.29%) Serverless
3 37 (21.76%) Azure
4 33 (19.41%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (15.29%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 17 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (8.24%) GitHub
9 13 (7.65%) GCP
10 12 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (7.06%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.29%) Route 53
12 9 (5.29%) SaaS
12 9 (5.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (4.71%) Entra ID
13 8 (4.71%) PaaS
14 6 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.06%) Network Security
2 6 (3.53%) DNS
3 2 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (12.94%) NoSQL
3 19 (11.18%) DynamoDB
4 14 (8.24%) Relational Database
5 12 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (5.29%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.53%) Big Data
9 5 (2.94%) MySQL
10 4 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (2.35%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.35%) Redis
11 3 (1.76%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.76%) Event Store
12 2 (1.18%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.18%) Apache Pinot
12 2 (1.18%) Flink
12 2 (1.18%) Presto
Development Applications
1 46 (27.06%) Jenkins
2 41 (24.12%) Git
3 10 (5.88%) JIRA
4 9 (5.29%) Bitbucket
4 9 (5.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (5.29%) Subversion
5 8 (4.71%) JUnit
6 3 (1.76%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.59%) GitLab
7 1 (0.59%) JMeter
7 1 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
General
1 36 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.41%) Legal
5 14 (8.24%) Retail
6 12 (7.06%) Finance
7 9 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.71%) Banking
8 8 (4.71%) Games
8 8 (4.71%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.94%) Law
10 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.18%) Advertising
11 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.18%) Electronics
11 2 (1.18%) Marketing
11 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (30.00%) Developer
2 38 (22.35%) Senior
3 36 (21.18%) Software Engineer
4 30 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 30 (17.65%) Lead
5 21 (12.35%) Senior Software Engineer
6 16 (9.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 14 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (8.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.06%) Lead Developer
9 10 (5.88%) Architect
9 10 (5.88%) C Software Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Senior C Software Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 10 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.59%) Spring
2 33 (19.41%) AngularJS
3 32 (18.82%) Web Services
4 31 (18.24%) Spring Boot
5 30 (17.65%) Node.js
6 28 (16.47%) REST
7 22 (12.94%) Apache Camel
7 22 (12.94%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (11.76%) RESTful
9 17 (10.00%) JSON
10 16 (9.41%) React
10 16 (9.41%) XML
11 14 (8.24%) Kafka
12 13 (7.65%) SOAP
13 7 (4.12%) J2EE
14 6 (3.53%) .NET
15 5 (2.94%) Hibernate
16 4 (2.35%) CSS
16 4 (2.35%) HTML
16 4 (2.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.47%) Embedded Systems
1 11 (6.47%) Management Information System
1 11 (6.47%) RISC-V
2 9 (5.29%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.29%) Blog
2 9 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.71%) Freedom of Information
3 8 (4.71%) Taxonomies
4 7 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.12%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.53%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.94%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.94%) IoT
7 4 (2.35%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.76%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.76%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (1.76%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (1.18%) VMS
3 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (40.59%) Microservices
1 69 (40.59%) Software Engineering
2 67 (39.41%) Agile
3 55 (32.35%) DevOps
4 29 (17.06%) CI/CD
4 29 (17.06%) Computer Science
4 29 (17.06%) Mentoring
5 27 (15.88%) TDD
6 26 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
6 26 (15.29%) Kanban
6 26 (15.29%) Scrum
7 25 (14.71%) BDD
8 21 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (11.76%) Event-Driven
10 18 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (10.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 18 (10.59%) Roadmaps
10 18 (10.59%) Unit Testing
11 17 (10.00%) Design Patterns
11 17 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 81 (47.65%) Java
2 54 (31.76%) Python
3 49 (28.82%) JavaScript
4 27 (15.88%) SQL
5 25 (14.71%) C
5 25 (14.71%) Go
6 24 (14.12%) TypeScript
7 19 (11.18%) C++
8 13 (7.65%) C#
9 11 (6.47%) Embedded C
9 11 (6.47%) Rust
10 6 (3.53%) Scala
11 5 (2.94%) Ruby
12 3 (1.76%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.76%) Solidity
13 2 (1.18%) Bash
13 2 (1.18%) Bicep
13 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.59%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (18.24%) Degree
2 25 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 24 (14.12%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.71%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.12%) CISSP
6 7 (4.12%) GIAC
7 6 (3.53%) CISM
7 6 (3.53%) SANS
8 4 (2.35%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.76%) PhD
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.59%) HNC
11 1 (0.59%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.53%) COBIT
1 6 (3.53%) NIST
1 6 (3.53%) Web Application Security Consortium
2 5 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (37.06%) Docker
2 15 (8.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 73 (42.94%) Kubernetes
2 34 (20.00%) Ansible
3 27 (15.88%) Terraform
4 9 (5.29%) Packer
5 8 (4.71%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 6 (3.53%) Puppet
7 4 (2.35%) Salt
8 2 (1.18%) Argo
8 2 (1.18%) Grafana
9 1 (0.59%) Kibana
9 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (12.94%) WSO2
2 11 (6.47%) Google
3 9 (5.29%) Atlassian
3 9 (5.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.76%) SAP
5 2 (1.18%) Apple
5 2 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.18%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle
5 2 (1.18%) Solace
5 2 (1.18%) Thales
5 2 (1.18%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.59%) Databricks
6 1 (0.59%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.59%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.59%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.59%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.59%) Splunk