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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 369 175
Rank change year-on-year -72 -194 +73
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 168 300 1,769
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.78% 2.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 2.00% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 135 224 401
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £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 £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% +9.68%

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 12,181 15,034 35,467
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.06% 39.03% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,249 11,128 17,302
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,544 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,533 £48,750 £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 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 3 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 20 (11.90%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.76%) Confluence
3 7 (4.17%) JBoss
4 6 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (2.38%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.79%) Ethereum
6 3 (1.79%) Hyperledger
7 2 (1.19%) Apache
7 2 (1.19%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.19%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.60%) Hedera
8 1 (0.60%) nginx
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Endur
1 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.43%) AWS
2 55 (32.74%) Serverless
3 41 (24.40%) Azure
4 30 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (13.69%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (10.12%) Amazon Kinesis
7 17 (10.12%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (8.93%) GCP
9 13 (7.74%) GitHub
10 9 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.36%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.36%) SaaS
11 8 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.76%) PaaS
12 7 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.57%) Azure Service Fabric
13 6 (3.57%) IaaS
13 6 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.14%) Network Security
2 4 (2.38%) DNS
3 2 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.64%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 19 (11.31%) DynamoDB
4 12 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.36%) BigQuery
6 7 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.57%) Big Data
8 5 (2.98%) MySQL
9 4 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.38%) Redis
10 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.79%) Event Store
11 2 (1.19%) Apache Pinot
11 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.19%) Flink
11 2 (1.19%) Presto
Development Applications
1 43 (25.60%) Jenkins
2 39 (23.21%) Git
3 9 (5.36%) JIRA
4 8 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.17%) JUnit
6 6 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.57%) Subversion
7 3 (1.79%) GitLab
7 3 (1.79%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.60%) Hardhat
8 1 (0.60%) JMeter
8 1 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
General
1 38 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.10%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.52%) Legal
5 14 (8.33%) Retail
6 11 (6.55%) Finance
7 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.76%) Banking
7 8 (4.76%) Games
7 8 (4.76%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.98%) Law
9 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.19%) Advertising
10 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.19%) Electronics
10 2 (1.19%) Marketing
10 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.60%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 48 (28.57%) Developer
2 37 (22.02%) Senior
2 37 (22.02%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 28 (16.67%) Lead
4 21 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (8.93%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 14 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Architect
9 11 (6.55%) Lead Developer
10 10 (5.95%) C Software Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) Senior C Software Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.95%) Technical Leader
11 9 (5.36%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (19.64%) Spring
2 31 (18.45%) AngularJS
3 30 (17.86%) Web Services
4 29 (17.26%) Node.js
4 29 (17.26%) Spring Boot
5 26 (15.48%) REST
6 20 (11.90%) Apache Camel
6 20 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (11.31%) RESTful
8 17 (10.12%) React
9 16 (9.52%) JSON
10 14 (8.33%) Kafka
10 14 (8.33%) XML
11 12 (7.14%) SOAP
12 6 (3.57%) J2EE
13 5 (2.98%) .NET
13 5 (2.98%) Hibernate
14 4 (2.38%) CSS
14 4 (2.38%) Ember.js
14 4 (2.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (6.55%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.55%) RISC-V
3 9 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.36%) Blog
4 8 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
4 8 (4.76%) Taxonomies
5 7 (4.17%) Blockchain
5 7 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.98%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.98%) IoT
8 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.79%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.79%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.83%) Linux
2 4 (2.38%) Windows
3 2 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.19%) VMS
3 2 (1.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 69 (41.07%) Agile
3 68 (40.48%) Microservices
4 58 (34.52%) DevOps
5 29 (17.26%) CI/CD
5 29 (17.26%) Computer Science
6 28 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 26 (15.48%) TDD
8 25 (14.88%) Full Stack Development
8 25 (14.88%) Kanban
8 25 (14.88%) Scrum
9 24 (14.29%) BDD
10 22 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (11.90%) Event-Driven
12 19 (11.31%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (10.71%) Unit Testing
14 17 (10.12%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 76 (45.24%) Java
2 52 (30.95%) Python
3 48 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 27 (16.07%) Go
4 27 (16.07%) SQL
5 26 (15.48%) C
6 24 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 19 (11.31%) C++
8 12 (7.14%) C#
9 11 (6.55%) Embedded C
9 11 (6.55%) Rust
10 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.98%) Ruby
11 5 (2.98%) Scala
12 4 (2.38%) Solidity
13 3 (1.79%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.19%) Bash
14 2 (1.19%) Bicep
15 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 32 (19.05%) Degree
2 24 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 23 (13.69%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.17%) CISSP
6 7 (4.17%) GIAC
7 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.57%) CISM
7 6 (3.57%) SANS
8 4 (2.38%) PhD
9 2 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.60%) HNC
10 1 (0.60%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) NIST
1 7 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.57%) COBIT
2 6 (3.57%) Web Application Security Consortium
3 3 (1.79%) GDPR
3 3 (1.79%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.19%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 61 (36.31%) Docker
2 14 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (42.26%) Kubernetes
2 30 (17.86%) Ansible
3 27 (16.07%) Terraform
4 6 (3.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (3.57%) Packer
5 5 (2.98%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.79%) Puppet
7 2 (1.19%) Argo
7 2 (1.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.60%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.60%) Salt
8 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (11.90%) WSO2
2 11 (6.55%) Google
3 8 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 8 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.79%) Oracle
4 3 (1.79%) SAP
5 2 (1.19%) Apple
5 2 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.19%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.19%) Solace
5 2 (1.19%) Thales
5 2 (1.19%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.60%) Databricks
6 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.60%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.60%) NetIQ
6 1 (0.60%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.60%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.60%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.60%) Salesforce