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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 397 203
Rank change year-on-year -30 -194 +52
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 574 844 3,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.81% 2.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 1.90% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 376 429 684
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £68,750
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 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £125,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%

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 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -28 488 £82,500 -5.71% 146
UK excluding London +134 316 £65,000 -7.14% 63
London -60 259 £95,000 +2.70% 97
Work from Home -48 172 £82,500 -2.94% 75
South East +68 119 £65,000 -11.86% 13
North of England +77 57 £68,000 -2.86% 16
Scotland -24 57 £50,000 -25.93% 13
Midlands +28 46 £58,550 -6.32% 4
West Midlands +24 38 £54,650 -12.56% 3
North West +23 29 £80,000 +14.29% 7
Yorkshire +88 26 £68,000 -20.00% 8
East of England +8 18 £120,000 +50.00% 11
South West -29 12 £62,500 +21.95% 3
East Midlands +2 8 £87,500 +45.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 £95,000 - 2
Wales +7 2 - - 1
North East -3 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 38 (6.62%) OpenStack
2 32 (5.57%) Apache Spark
3 26 (4.53%) IIS
4 14 (2.44%) Apache
4 14 (2.44%) Confluence
5 11 (1.92%) JBoss
6 10 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.74%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (0.70%) CMS
8 3 (0.52%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.52%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Endur
1 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 258 (44.95%) AWS
2 191 (33.28%) Azure
3 95 (16.55%) Serverless
4 63 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (9.93%) GCP
6 49 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
6 49 (8.54%) GitHub
7 47 (8.19%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (8.01%) Amazon ECS
9 40 (6.97%) IBM Cloud
10 34 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (4.70%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
13 23 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (3.66%) Datadog
15 20 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (3.31%) Amazon S3
17 18 (3.14%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (3.14%) SaaS
18 17 (2.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.53%) WAN
2 14 (2.44%) Network Security
3 10 (1.74%) HTTP
4 9 (1.57%) DNS
4 9 (1.57%) Firewall
5 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (15.33%) NoSQL
2 70 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (10.45%) Relational Database
4 39 (6.79%) SQL Server
5 29 (5.05%) DynamoDB
6 27 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (4.36%) Big Data
8 23 (4.01%) MySQL
9 19 (3.31%) Hadoop
10 16 (2.79%) OLAP
11 15 (2.61%) Apache Hive
12 13 (2.26%) Flink
13 12 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (2.09%) Data Lake
13 12 (2.09%) InfluxDB
14 9 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (1.57%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.39%) CockroachDB
15 8 (1.39%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 100 (17.42%) Git
2 99 (17.25%) Jenkins
3 34 (5.92%) CircleCI
4 27 (4.70%) JIRA
5 21 (3.66%) Subversion
6 18 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 17 (2.96%) JUnit
8 15 (2.61%) SonarQube
9 14 (2.44%) GitLab
10 11 (1.92%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.92%) Visual Studio
11 9 (1.57%) IntelliJ
12 8 (1.39%) Jaeger
13 6 (1.05%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.87%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.87%) JMeter
14 5 (0.87%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.87%) Mockito
15 3 (0.52%) TeamCity
16 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 143 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 117 (20.38%) Finance
3 112 (19.51%) Public Sector
4 79 (13.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (10.45%) Law
6 47 (8.19%) Banking
7 35 (6.10%) Marketing
8 28 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.66%) Electronics
11 20 (3.48%) Legal
12 17 (2.96%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.96%) Front Office
13 15 (2.61%) Games
14 14 (2.44%) Investment Banking
14 14 (2.44%) Retail
15 8 (1.39%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.39%) Tech for Good
16 7 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (25.96%) Developer
2 134 (23.34%) Software Engineer
3 113 (19.69%) Senior
4 96 (16.72%) Lead
5 68 (11.85%) Java Developer
6 52 (9.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 47 (8.19%) Lead Software Engineer
8 45 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 39 (6.79%) Architect
10 35 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (5.40%) Senior Developer
12 29 (5.05%) Software Developer
13 28 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
14 27 (4.70%) Systems Engineer
15 24 (4.18%) Software Manager
16 22 (3.83%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 22 (3.83%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 22 (3.83%) Full Stack Java Developer
17 20 (3.48%) Data Engineer
17 20 (3.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.94%) .NET
2 71 (12.37%) Node.js
2 71 (12.37%) REST
2 71 (12.37%) Web Services
3 70 (12.20%) AngularJS
4 68 (11.85%) Spring
5 66 (11.50%) React
6 64 (11.15%) Spring Boot
7 61 (10.63%) RESTful
8 52 (9.06%) Elastic Stack
9 50 (8.71%) Kafka
10 43 (7.49%) Apache Camel
11 34 (5.92%) JSON
12 30 (5.23%) XML
13 29 (5.05%) .NET Core
14 28 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
15 23 (4.01%) HTML
16 20 (3.48%) .NET Framework
17 19 (3.31%) CSS
18 16 (2.79%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 95 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 68 (11.85%) Public Cloud
3 49 (8.54%) Blockchain
4 46 (8.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (6.62%) Legacy Code
6 31 (5.40%) Algorithms
7 30 (5.23%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (4.53%) Clustering
9 21 (3.66%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.79%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.79%) IoT
11 15 (2.61%) Hedge funds
12 13 (2.26%) Robotics
13 12 (2.09%) Blog
13 12 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (2.09%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
14 11 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.92%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 156 (27.18%) Linux
2 40 (6.97%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (6.97%) CentOS
2 40 (6.97%) Debian
2 40 (6.97%) Windows
3 19 (3.31%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.92%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.39%) Android
5 8 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.70%) VMS
7 3 (0.52%) Unix
8 2 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (45.47%) Software Engineering
2 222 (38.68%) Agile
3 221 (38.50%) CI/CD
4 204 (35.54%) DevOps
5 184 (32.06%) Microservices
6 104 (18.12%) Full Stack Development
7 82 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 81 (14.11%) Containerisation
9 79 (13.76%) TDD
10 74 (12.89%) SDLC
11 73 (12.72%) Computer Science
12 71 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
12 71 (12.37%) Scrum
13 69 (12.02%) Kanban
14 66 (11.50%) Continuous Delivery
15 64 (11.15%) Analytics
16 60 (10.45%) Data Science
17 55 (9.58%) Machine Learning
18 54 (9.41%) Mentoring
19 53 (9.23%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 217 (37.80%) Java
2 128 (22.30%) SQL
3 123 (21.43%) Python
4 120 (20.91%) JavaScript
5 113 (19.69%) C#
6 86 (14.98%) Go
7 71 (12.37%) C++
8 64 (11.15%) C
9 62 (10.80%) TypeScript
10 52 (9.06%) Rust
11 34 (5.92%) Scala
12 21 (3.66%) F#
13 19 (3.31%) PowerShell
14 18 (3.14%) Bash
14 18 (3.14%) Shell Script
15 15 (2.61%) Haskell
16 14 (2.44%) Clojure
16 14 (2.44%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.92%) Embedded C
18 8 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (14.81%) Degree
2 68 (11.85%) Security Cleared
3 56 (9.76%) Azure Certification
4 50 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (8.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (6.97%) MCSA
6 40 (6.97%) MCSE
7 37 (6.45%) SC Cleared
8 25 (4.36%) Master's Degree
9 14 (2.44%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.57%) PhD
11 7 (1.22%) CISSP
11 7 (1.22%) GIAC
12 6 (1.05%) CISM
12 6 (1.05%) SANS
13 5 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.17%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.74%) PCI DSS
2 8 (1.39%) GDPR
2 8 (1.39%) HIPAA
3 7 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.05%) COBIT
4 6 (1.05%) NIST
4 6 (1.05%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.70%) QA
7 3 (0.52%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 209 (36.41%) Docker
2 26 (4.53%) VMware NSX
3 25 (4.36%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.39%) HDFS
5 2 (0.35%) Ceph
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 264 (45.99%) Kubernetes
2 121 (21.08%) Terraform
3 86 (14.98%) Ansible
4 39 (6.79%) Grafana
5 38 (6.62%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.44%) Packer
7 9 (1.57%) Kibana
7 9 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.39%) Kiali
9 7 (1.22%) Puppet
10 6 (1.05%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.87%) Salt
12 2 (0.35%) Argo
12 2 (0.35%) Knative
13 1 (0.17%) Consul
13 1 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 60 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.32%) IBM
3 41 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 38 (6.62%) WSO2
5 33 (5.75%) Splunk
6 28 (4.88%) Dynatrace
7 26 (4.53%) VMware
8 17 (2.96%) Google
9 13 (2.26%) Databricks
10 12 (2.09%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.74%) AppDynamics
12 8 (1.39%) Cloudera
13 7 (1.22%) TIBCO
14 6 (1.05%) Amplitude
14 6 (1.05%) SAP
15 3 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
15 3 (0.52%) Oracle
15 3 (0.52%) Solace
16 2 (0.35%) Apple
16 2 (0.35%) Thales