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 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 374 175
Rank change year-on-year -62 -199 +65
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 169 279 1,789
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.74% 2.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.36% 1.92% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 133 214 406
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £130,000 £105,000 £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 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 12,386 14,549 35,885
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.84% 38.82% 47.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,322 10,904 17,354
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,364 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,977 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,531 £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 12 June 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 19 (11.24%) OpenStack
2 7 (4.14%) JBoss
3 6 (3.55%) Red Hat Fuse
4 5 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.37%) Confluence
6 3 (1.78%) Apache
6 3 (1.78%) Ethereum
6 3 (1.78%) Hyperledger
7 2 (1.18%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.18%) MQSeries
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.59%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.59%) Hedera
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 75 (44.38%) AWS
2 50 (29.59%) Serverless
3 43 (25.44%) Azure
4 26 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (13.61%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (13.02%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (10.06%) Amazon Kinesis
7 17 (10.06%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (8.88%) GCP
9 10 (5.92%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.33%) GitHub
10 9 (5.33%) SaaS
11 8 (4.73%) PaaS
12 6 (3.55%) Azure Service Fabric
12 6 (3.55%) IaaS
13 5 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.96%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.37%) Discord
15 3 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.88%) Network Security
2 3 (1.78%) DNS
3 2 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.93%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.24%) DynamoDB
2 19 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.10%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (5.33%) BigQuery
6 7 (4.14%) Big Data
7 6 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.96%) MySQL
9 4 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.37%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.37%) Redis
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.78%) Event Store
11 2 (1.18%) Apache Pinot
11 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.18%) Flink
11 2 (1.18%) Presto
Development Applications
1 39 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 38 (22.49%) Git
3 7 (4.14%) JUnit
4 5 (2.96%) JIRA
5 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.78%) GitLab
6 3 (1.78%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.18%) Subversion
8 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.59%) Hardhat
8 1 (0.59%) JMeter
8 1 (0.59%) MLflow
8 1 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
General
1 39 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.61%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (8.88%) Legal
5 14 (8.28%) Retail
6 11 (6.51%) Finance
7 8 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.73%) Banking
7 8 (4.73%) Games
7 8 (4.73%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.96%) Law
9 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.18%) Advertising
10 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.18%) Electronics
10 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.59%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 47 (27.81%) Developer
2 41 (24.26%) Software Engineer
3 39 (23.08%) Senior
4 28 (16.57%) Lead
5 27 (15.98%) Java Developer
6 22 (13.02%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (8.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 13 (7.69%) C Software Engineer
8 13 (7.69%) C/C++ Software Engineer
8 13 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
9 12 (7.10%) Architect
10 11 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Lead Developer
10 11 (6.51%) Senior C Software Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Software Developer
11 10 (5.92%) Technical Leader
12 9 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.33%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.33%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.93%) Spring
2 30 (17.75%) AngularJS
2 30 (17.75%) Web Services
3 28 (16.57%) Node.js
3 28 (16.57%) Spring Boot
4 25 (14.79%) REST
5 19 (11.24%) Apache Camel
5 19 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (11.24%) RESTful
6 17 (10.06%) React
7 15 (8.88%) JSON
8 14 (8.28%) Kafka
9 13 (7.69%) XML
10 12 (7.10%) SOAP
11 7 (4.14%) DPDK
12 6 (3.55%) J2EE
13 5 (2.96%) .NET
13 5 (2.96%) ARM Templates
13 5 (2.96%) Hibernate
14 4 (2.37%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (6.51%) RISC-V
3 10 (5.92%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.92%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.33%) Blog
5 7 (4.14%) Blockchain
5 7 (4.14%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.14%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.14%) Freedom of Information
5 7 (4.14%) Taxonomies
6 5 (2.96%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.96%) IoT
7 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.78%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.08%) Linux
2 5 (2.96%) Windows
3 3 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.18%) VMS
4 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (43.79%) Software Engineering
2 70 (41.42%) Agile
3 68 (40.24%) Microservices
4 56 (33.14%) DevOps
5 30 (17.75%) Computer Science
6 28 (16.57%) Mentoring
7 27 (15.98%) CI/CD
8 26 (15.38%) TDD
9 25 (14.79%) Full Stack Development
9 25 (14.79%) Kanban
9 25 (14.79%) Scrum
10 24 (14.20%) BDD
11 23 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (11.83%) Event-Driven
13 19 (11.24%) Roadmaps
14 18 (10.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 18 (10.65%) Unit Testing
15 17 (10.06%) Analytics
15 17 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (10.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.01%) Java
2 48 (28.40%) Python
3 47 (27.81%) JavaScript
4 30 (17.75%) C
5 29 (17.16%) SQL
6 27 (15.98%) Go
7 24 (14.20%) TypeScript
8 23 (13.61%) C++
9 12 (7.10%) C#
10 11 (6.51%) Embedded C
10 11 (6.51%) Rust
11 7 (4.14%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.96%) Ruby
12 5 (2.96%) Scala
13 4 (2.37%) Solidity
14 3 (1.78%) Kotlin
15 2 (1.18%) Bash
15 2 (1.18%) Bicep
16 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 34 (20.12%) Degree
2 23 (13.61%) Security Cleared
3 22 (13.02%) SC Cleared
4 21 (12.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.73%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.14%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.14%) CISSP
6 7 (4.14%) GIAC
7 6 (3.55%) CISM
7 6 (3.55%) SANS
8 5 (2.96%) PhD
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.59%) HNC
10 1 (0.59%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) NIST
1 7 (4.14%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.55%) COBIT
2 6 (3.55%) Web Application Security Consortium
3 4 (2.37%) GDPR
3 4 (2.37%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.78%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (33.73%) Docker
2 13 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (39.64%) Kubernetes
2 28 (16.57%) Ansible
3 23 (13.61%) Terraform
4 6 (3.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (2.37%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.18%) Argo
6 2 (1.18%) Grafana
6 2 (1.18%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 2 (1.18%) Packer
6 2 (1.18%) Puppet
6 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.59%) Kibana
7 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (11.24%) WSO2
2 11 (6.51%) Google
3 8 (4.73%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.37%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.37%) Oracle
5 3 (1.78%) SAP
6 2 (1.18%) Apple
6 2 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.18%) Databricks
6 2 (1.18%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.18%) NetIQ
6 2 (1.18%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.18%) Solace
6 2 (1.18%) Thales
6 2 (1.18%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.59%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.59%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.59%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.59%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.59%) Salesforce