Distributed Systems Jobs

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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 425 189
Rank change year-on-year -18 -236 +47
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 561 682 3,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.73% 2.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 1.69% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 361 383 732
10th Percentile £48,250 £58,820 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,250 £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 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +16.00%

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 36,178 40,343 82,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.98% 43.19% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23,248 22,200 34,398
10th Percentile £28,011 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,475 £46,350 £45,546
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 £85,000 £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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -43 482 £82,500 -5.71% 113
UK excluding London +141 320 £65,000 -3.70% 42
London -70 237 £95,000 +2.70% 80
Work from Home -56 170 £82,500 -4.35% 80
South East +70 117 £67,500 -3.57% 6
North of England +69 83 £68,000 -2.86% 13
Scotland -32 50 £55,000 -18.52% 8
North West +32 43 £80,000 +14.29% 8
Midlands +5 41 £60,000 -5.88% 3
Yorkshire +82 38 £68,000 -20.00% 5
West Midlands -5 33 £56,225 -13.50% 2
East of England -25 16 £120,000 +41.18% 5
South West -42 9 £61,250 +19.51% 6
East Midlands -14 8 £87,500 +45.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £100,000 - 1
Wales +5 3 - -
North East -15 2 £75,000 +15.38% 1

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 33 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 29 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.03%) IIS
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 11 (1.96%) JBoss
6 10 (1.78%) Apache
7 9 (1.60%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.53%) CMS
9 3 (0.53%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.53%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.36%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Hedera
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 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%) Ripple
1 1 (0.18%) Ripple XRP
1 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (44.21%) AWS
2 175 (31.19%) Azure
3 85 (15.15%) Serverless
4 60 (10.70%) GCP
5 59 (10.52%) GitHub
6 54 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
7 44 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (7.49%) Amazon ECS
9 41 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (7.13%) Azure AI
10 40 (7.13%) IBM Cloud
11 37 (6.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (3.74%) Datadog
13 19 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (3.21%) PaaS
15 17 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (2.85%) SaaS
17 15 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (2.32%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.03%) Network Security
2 16 (2.85%) WAN
3 13 (2.32%) HTTP
4 9 (1.60%) DNS
4 9 (1.60%) Firewall
5 2 (0.36%) DSL
6 1 (0.18%) DHCP
6 1 (0.18%) ICMP
6 1 (0.18%) Internet
6 1 (0.18%) RTP
6 1 (0.18%) SMTP
6 1 (0.18%) SNMP
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (15.15%) NoSQL
2 83 (14.80%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (9.63%) Relational Database
4 46 (8.20%) DynamoDB
5 27 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 24 (4.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 22 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (3.92%) MySQL
8 19 (3.39%) Big Data
9 14 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (2.50%) OLAP
10 13 (2.32%) Redis
11 12 (2.14%) Hadoop
12 10 (1.78%) Apache Hive
12 10 (1.78%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.60%) Flink
13 9 (1.60%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 96 (17.11%) Git
2 78 (13.90%) Jenkins
3 44 (7.84%) CircleCI
4 27 (4.81%) JIRA
5 18 (3.21%) Subversion
6 16 (2.85%) JUnit
7 14 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (2.14%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.78%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.60%) IntelliJ
11 8 (1.43%) Jaeger
12 7 (1.25%) Gatling
12 7 (1.25%) JMeter
13 6 (1.07%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.89%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.89%) Mockito
15 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.71%) GitLab
16 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
17 2 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 164 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.75%) Public Sector
3 110 (19.61%) Finance
4 80 (14.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (11.23%) Law
6 38 (6.77%) Banking
7 34 (6.06%) Marketing
8 30 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (4.99%) Electronics
10 25 (4.46%) Legal
11 20 (3.57%) Financial Institution
12 17 (3.03%) Front Office
13 16 (2.85%) Games
14 14 (2.50%) Retail
15 13 (2.32%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.43%) Tech for Good
17 7 (1.25%) Billing
18 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.07%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 154 (27.45%) Software Engineer
2 150 (26.74%) Developer
3 119 (21.21%) Senior
4 103 (18.36%) Lead
5 63 (11.23%) Java Developer
6 60 (10.70%) Lead Software Engineer
7 49 (8.73%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (6.60%) Architect
10 32 (5.70%) Software Developer
11 30 (5.35%) Full Stack Developer
12 29 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 29 (5.17%) Senior Developer
13 24 (4.28%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 24 (4.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 24 (4.28%) Technical Leader
14 23 (4.10%) Software Manager
15 22 (3.92%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 21 (3.74%) C# Developer
17 19 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.97%) .NET
2 80 (14.26%) REST
3 79 (14.08%) Web Services
4 71 (12.66%) AngularJS
5 65 (11.59%) Spring
6 64 (11.41%) RESTful
7 63 (11.23%) Spring Boot
8 60 (10.70%) React
9 55 (9.80%) Node.js
10 42 (7.49%) Kafka
11 39 (6.95%) Apache Camel
12 35 (6.24%) .NET Core
13 34 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
14 30 (5.35%) JSON
15 28 (4.99%) OpenTelemetry
16 25 (4.46%) HTML
16 25 (4.46%) XML
17 20 (3.57%) .NET Framework
17 20 (3.57%) CSS
18 17 (3.03%) http4s
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.98%) Public Cloud
3 51 (9.09%) Blockchain
4 45 (8.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (5.88%) Algorithms
6 32 (5.70%) Legacy Code
7 27 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (4.63%) Blog
9 21 (3.74%) Management Information System
10 19 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (3.03%) IoT
11 17 (3.03%) Media Streaming
12 16 (2.85%) Clustering
12 16 (2.85%) Data Structures
13 14 (2.50%) Robotics
14 12 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
14 12 (2.14%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.96%) RISC-V
16 9 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 146 (26.02%) Linux
2 40 (7.13%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (7.13%) CentOS
2 40 (7.13%) Debian
3 30 (5.35%) Windows
4 19 (3.39%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.14%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.43%) Android
6 8 (1.43%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.71%) VMS
8 3 (0.53%) 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
1 261 (46.52%) Software Engineering
2 228 (40.64%) Agile
3 210 (37.43%) CI/CD
4 209 (37.25%) DevOps
5 173 (30.84%) Microservices
6 98 (17.47%) Full Stack Development
7 87 (15.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 84 (14.97%) Computer Science
9 82 (14.62%) Containerisation
10 74 (13.19%) SDLC
11 70 (12.48%) Mentoring
12 67 (11.94%) Open Source
13 65 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (11.59%) TDD
14 60 (10.70%) Data Science
15 57 (10.16%) Scrum
16 56 (9.98%) Continuous Delivery
17 54 (9.63%) Kanban
17 54 (9.63%) Machine Learning
18 53 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.22%) Java
2 117 (20.86%) Python
3 113 (20.14%) SQL
4 112 (19.96%) C#
4 112 (19.96%) JavaScript
5 92 (16.40%) Go
6 78 (13.90%) C++
7 74 (13.19%) C
8 57 (10.16%) TypeScript
9 53 (9.45%) Rust
10 43 (7.66%) Scala
11 16 (2.85%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.67%) Kotlin
13 14 (2.50%) F#
14 12 (2.14%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.96%) Embedded C
16 9 (1.60%) Haskell
17 8 (1.43%) Clojure
18 7 (1.25%) Perl
19 6 (1.07%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 96 (17.11%) Degree
2 58 (10.34%) Azure Certification
3 57 (10.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (10.16%) Security Cleared
4 47 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (7.13%) MCSA
5 40 (7.13%) MCSE
6 35 (6.24%) SC Cleared
7 27 (4.81%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.50%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.14%) PhD
10 7 (1.25%) CISSP
10 7 (1.25%) GIAC
11 6 (1.07%) CISM
11 6 (1.07%) SANS
12 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.18%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.18%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.14%) PCI DSS
2 10 (1.78%) GDPR
2 10 (1.78%) 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 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 9000
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 198 (35.29%) Docker
2 21 (3.74%) Hyper-V
3 16 (2.85%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.07%) Ceph
5 6 (1.07%) HDFS
6 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.18%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 251 (44.74%) Kubernetes
2 112 (19.96%) Terraform
3 69 (12.30%) Ansible
4 27 (4.81%) Grafana
5 25 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.60%) Kibana
6 9 (1.60%) Packer
7 8 (1.43%) Kiali
8 6 (1.07%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (1.07%) Knative
8 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.71%) Puppet
10 2 (0.36%) Argo
10 2 (0.36%) Salt
11 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.18%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.49%) Red Hat
3 41 (7.31%) IBM
4 35 (6.24%) Splunk
5 33 (5.88%) WSO2
6 27 (4.81%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.85%) VMware
8 14 (2.50%) Google
9 11 (1.96%) Databricks
10 10 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.60%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.07%) Amplitude
12 6 (1.07%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.07%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.89%) Oracle
13 5 (0.89%) SAP
14 3 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
15 2 (0.36%) Apple
15 2 (0.36%) NVIDIA
15 2 (0.36%) Thales