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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 403 200
Rank change year-on-year -33 -203 +50
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 559 818 3,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.81% 2.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 1.90% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 377 418 694
10th Percentile £45,000 £58,933 £52,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £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 £108,750 £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 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -33 478 £82,500 -5.71% 142
UK excluding London +110 307 £65,000 -7.14% 58
London -61 254 £95,000 +2.70% 100
Work from Home -73 170 £82,500 -2.94% 76
South East +67 117 £65,000 -11.86% 9
North of England +74 58 £68,000 -2.86% 15
Scotland -19 55 £50,000 -25.93% 14
Midlands -2 45 £58,550 -6.32% 4
West Midlands +7 38 £54,650 -16.21% 3
North West +20 29 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire +96 27 £68,000 -20.00% 5
East of England +8 16 £120,000 +45.45% 7
South West -28 11 £62,500 +21.95% 6
East Midlands -9 7 £87,500 +45.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £95,000 - 2
Wales +8 3 - - 1
North East -5 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 (6.80%) OpenStack
2 32 (5.72%) Apache Spark
3 26 (4.65%) IIS
4 16 (2.86%) Confluence
5 12 (2.15%) Apache
6 11 (1.97%) JBoss
7 10 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.79%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.54%) CMS
8 3 (0.54%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.54%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.54%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
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 (45.62%) AWS
2 179 (32.02%) Azure
3 92 (16.46%) Serverless
4 58 (10.38%) GCP
5 51 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (9.12%) GitHub
6 48 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (8.23%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (7.16%) IBM Cloud
10 36 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (3.94%) Amazon Kinesis
13 21 (3.76%) Datadog
14 18 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (3.22%) SaaS
15 17 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (3.04%) PaaS
16 16 (2.86%) Amazon S3
17 14 (2.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.65%) WAN
2 14 (2.50%) Network Security
3 12 (2.15%) HTTP
4 9 (1.61%) DNS
4 9 (1.61%) Firewall
5 2 (0.36%) DSL
6 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (15.74%) NoSQL
2 69 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (10.38%) Relational Database
4 38 (6.80%) SQL Server
5 29 (5.19%) DynamoDB
6 25 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (4.11%) Big Data
7 23 (4.11%) MySQL
8 17 (3.04%) Hadoop
9 16 (2.86%) OLAP
10 13 (2.33%) Apache Hive
10 13 (2.33%) Flink
11 12 (2.15%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.61%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.43%) CockroachDB
14 8 (1.43%) Parquet
14 8 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 100 (17.89%) Git
2 85 (15.21%) Jenkins
3 36 (6.44%) CircleCI
4 28 (5.01%) JIRA
5 21 (3.76%) Subversion
6 18 (3.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 16 (2.86%) JUnit
8 11 (1.97%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.97%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.61%) IntelliJ
10 8 (1.43%) Jaeger
11 6 (1.07%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.89%) JMeter
12 5 (0.89%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.72%) Mockito
14 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.54%) TeamCity
15 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
15 2 (0.36%) Postman
16 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
General
1 141 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 116 (20.75%) Finance
3 113 (20.21%) Public Sector
4 79 (14.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (10.73%) Law
6 48 (8.59%) Banking
7 34 (6.08%) Marketing
8 28 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (3.58%) Electronics
10 20 (3.58%) Legal
11 18 (3.22%) Front Office
12 17 (3.04%) Financial Institution
13 15 (2.68%) Games
13 15 (2.68%) Investment Banking
14 14 (2.50%) Retail
15 8 (1.43%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.43%) Tech for Good
16 7 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (26.65%) Developer
2 136 (24.33%) Software Engineer
3 112 (20.04%) Senior
4 97 (17.35%) Lead
5 68 (12.16%) Java Developer
6 50 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 49 (8.77%) Lead Software Engineer
8 45 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.62%) Architect
10 31 (5.55%) Senior Developer
11 29 (5.19%) Software Developer
12 28 (5.01%) Full Stack Developer
13 27 (4.83%) Systems Engineer
14 24 (4.29%) Software Manager
15 23 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
16 22 (3.94%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 22 (3.94%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 22 (3.94%) Full Stack Java Developer
17 20 (3.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 19 (3.40%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (14.31%) .NET
2 72 (12.88%) AngularJS
2 72 (12.88%) Web Services
3 70 (12.52%) REST
4 67 (11.99%) Spring
5 65 (11.63%) Node.js
6 64 (11.45%) Spring Boot
7 63 (11.27%) React
8 62 (11.09%) RESTful
9 49 (8.77%) Kafka
10 43 (7.69%) Apache Camel
11 39 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
12 35 (6.26%) JSON
13 30 (5.37%) .NET Core
13 30 (5.37%) XML
14 28 (5.01%) OpenTelemetry
15 24 (4.29%) HTML
16 20 (3.58%) CSS
17 19 (3.40%) .NET Framework
18 16 (2.86%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 58 (10.38%) Public Cloud
3 49 (8.77%) Blockchain
4 46 (8.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (6.44%) Legacy Code
6 31 (5.55%) Algorithms
7 30 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (4.65%) Clustering
9 21 (3.76%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.86%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.86%) IoT
11 14 (2.50%) Hedge funds
12 13 (2.33%) Robotics
13 12 (2.15%) Blog
13 12 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (2.15%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
14 11 (1.97%) RISC-V
15 10 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 143 (25.58%) Linux
2 40 (7.16%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (7.16%) CentOS
2 40 (7.16%) Debian
3 28 (5.01%) Windows
4 19 (3.40%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.97%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.43%) Android
6 8 (1.43%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.72%) VMS
8 3 (0.54%) Unix
9 2 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (44.54%) Software Engineering
2 211 (37.75%) CI/CD
3 210 (37.57%) Agile
4 191 (34.17%) DevOps
5 173 (30.95%) Microservices
6 103 (18.43%) Full Stack Development
7 82 (14.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 78 (13.95%) TDD
9 73 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
10 71 (12.70%) SDLC
11 70 (12.52%) Containerisation
12 69 (12.34%) Computer Science
13 67 (11.99%) Continuous Delivery
14 60 (10.73%) Data Science
14 60 (10.73%) Scrum
15 57 (10.20%) Kanban
16 54 (9.66%) Machine Learning
17 52 (9.30%) BDD
17 52 (9.30%) Event-Driven
17 52 (9.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 212 (37.92%) Java
2 128 (22.90%) SQL
3 118 (21.11%) JavaScript
3 118 (21.11%) Python
4 112 (20.04%) C#
5 86 (15.38%) Go
6 71 (12.70%) C++
7 65 (11.63%) C
8 61 (10.91%) TypeScript
9 54 (9.66%) Rust
10 32 (5.72%) Scala
11 21 (3.76%) F#
12 17 (3.04%) Shell Script
13 15 (2.68%) Haskell
14 14 (2.50%) Clojure
14 14 (2.50%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.97%) Embedded C
16 7 (1.25%) Perl
17 6 (1.07%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.07%) Swift
Qualifications
1 81 (14.49%) Degree
2 68 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 56 (10.02%) Azure Certification
4 46 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (8.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (7.16%) MCSA
5 40 (7.16%) MCSE
6 37 (6.62%) SC Cleared
7 24 (4.29%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.50%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.61%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.18%) HNC
14 1 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.61%) PCI DSS
2 8 (1.43%) GDPR
2 8 (1.43%) HIPAA
3 6 (1.07%) COBIT
3 6 (1.07%) NIST
3 6 (1.07%) Web Application Security Consortium
4 5 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.89%) QA
5 4 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.36%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 198 (35.42%) Docker
2 26 (4.65%) VMware NSX
3 25 (4.47%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.43%) HDFS
5 4 (0.72%) Ceph
5 4 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 251 (44.90%) Kubernetes
2 111 (19.86%) Terraform
3 74 (13.24%) Ansible
4 27 (4.83%) Grafana
5 26 (4.65%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.33%) Packer
7 9 (1.61%) Kibana
7 9 (1.61%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.43%) Kiali
9 7 (1.25%) Puppet
10 6 (1.07%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.89%) Salt
12 4 (0.72%) Knative
13 2 (0.36%) Argo
14 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 59 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.33%) IBM
2 41 (7.33%) Red Hat
3 38 (6.80%) WSO2
4 33 (5.90%) Splunk
5 28 (5.01%) Dynatrace
6 26 (4.65%) VMware
7 17 (3.04%) Google
8 13 (2.33%) Databricks
9 11 (1.97%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.61%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.43%) Cloudera
12 7 (1.25%) TIBCO
13 6 (1.07%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.89%) SAP
15 3 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
15 3 (0.54%) Oracle
15 3 (0.54%) Solace
16 2 (0.36%) NVIDIA
16 2 (0.36%) Thales