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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 404 200
Rank change year-on-year -36 -204 +45
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 552 795 3,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.80% 2.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 1.88% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 366 409 716
10th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £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 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 £109,865 £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 18 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 18 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 -32 474 £82,500 -5.71% 191
UK excluding London +95 304 £65,000 -7.14% 95
London -68 248 £97,500 +5.41% 143
Work from Home -59 170 £82,500 -5.71% 92
South East +62 116 £65,000 -16.13% 41
North of England +84 63 £68,000 -2.86% 22
Scotland -27 51 £50,000 -25.93% 11
Midlands +3 42 £59,300 -5.12% 5
West Midlands +18 35 £54,650 -12.56% 4
North West +25 32 £80,000 +14.29% 13
Yorkshire +94 29 £68,000 -20.00% 7
East of England -5 16 £120,000 +41.18% 6
South West -34 11 £62,500 +21.95% 7
East Midlands -2 7 £87,500 +45.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £95,000 - 3
Wales +8 3 - -
North East -5 2 £75,000 +15.38% 3

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 37 (6.70%) OpenStack
2 31 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.62%) IIS
4 16 (2.90%) Confluence
5 12 (2.17%) Apache
6 10 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.81%) JBoss
7 9 (1.63%) 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%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
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
1 247 (44.75%) AWS
2 175 (31.70%) Azure
3 91 (16.49%) Serverless
4 59 (10.69%) GCP
5 53 (9.60%) GitHub
6 51 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (8.15%) Amazon ECS
9 44 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (7.25%) IBM Cloud
11 38 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (4.53%) Amazon Kinesis
13 21 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (3.80%) Datadog
14 18 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (3.08%) PaaS
15 17 (3.08%) SaaS
16 16 (2.90%) Amazon S3
17 14 (2.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.62%) WAN
2 14 (2.54%) Network Security
3 12 (2.17%) HTTP
4 9 (1.63%) DNS
4 9 (1.63%) Firewall
5 2 (0.36%) DSL
6 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 71 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (10.33%) Relational Database
4 32 (5.80%) DynamoDB
4 32 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (4.35%) MySQL
6 22 (3.99%) Big Data
7 16 (2.90%) OLAP
8 15 (2.72%) Hadoop
9 13 (2.36%) Apache Hive
10 12 (2.17%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (1.99%) Flink
12 10 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.45%) CockroachDB
13 8 (1.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 100 (18.12%) Git
2 84 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 38 (6.88%) CircleCI
4 28 (5.07%) JIRA
5 21 (3.80%) Subversion
6 18 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (2.54%) JUnit
8 11 (1.99%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.99%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.63%) IntelliJ
10 8 (1.45%) Jaeger
11 6 (1.09%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.91%) JMeter
12 5 (0.91%) 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
1 146 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 114 (20.65%) Finance
2 114 (20.65%) Public Sector
3 78 (14.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (10.87%) Law
5 44 (7.97%) Banking
6 34 (6.16%) Marketing
7 28 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.80%) Electronics
10 20 (3.62%) Legal
11 18 (3.26%) Front Office
12 17 (3.08%) Financial Institution
13 16 (2.90%) Games
14 15 (2.72%) Investment Banking
15 14 (2.54%) Retail
16 8 (1.45%) Retail Banking
16 8 (1.45%) Tech for Good
17 7 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 152 (27.54%) Developer
2 134 (24.28%) Software Engineer
3 111 (20.11%) Senior
4 97 (17.57%) Lead
5 68 (12.32%) Java Developer
6 51 (9.24%) Lead Software Engineer
7 48 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 43 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.70%) Architect
10 31 (5.62%) Senior Developer
10 31 (5.62%) Software Developer
11 28 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
12 24 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (4.35%) Software Manager
13 22 (3.99%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 22 (3.99%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 22 (3.99%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 21 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
15 20 (3.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 19 (3.44%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (14.67%) .NET
2 73 (13.22%) Web Services
3 72 (13.04%) REST
4 71 (12.86%) AngularJS
5 67 (12.14%) Spring
6 64 (11.59%) Spring Boot
7 62 (11.23%) Node.js
7 62 (11.23%) RESTful
8 61 (11.05%) React
9 47 (8.51%) Kafka
10 42 (7.61%) Apache Camel
11 38 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
12 35 (6.34%) JSON
13 31 (5.62%) .NET Core
14 30 (5.43%) XML
15 28 (5.07%) OpenTelemetry
16 23 (4.17%) HTML
17 19 (3.44%) .NET Framework
17 19 (3.44%) CSS
18 16 (2.90%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 90 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.78%) Public Cloud
3 49 (8.88%) Blockchain
4 46 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (6.16%) Legacy Code
6 32 (5.80%) Algorithms
7 30 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (3.80%) Management Information System
9 20 (3.62%) Clustering
10 16 (2.90%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.90%) IoT
11 15 (2.72%) Blog
12 14 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (2.36%) Hedge funds
13 13 (2.36%) Robotics
14 12 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (2.17%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
15 11 (1.99%) RISC-V
16 10 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 142 (25.72%) Linux
2 40 (7.25%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (7.25%) CentOS
2 40 (7.25%) Debian
3 28 (5.07%) Windows
4 19 (3.44%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.99%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.45%) Android
6 8 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.72%) VMS
8 3 (0.54%) Unix
9 2 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (44.75%) Software Engineering
2 213 (38.59%) Agile
3 208 (37.68%) CI/CD
4 194 (35.14%) DevOps
5 173 (31.34%) Microservices
6 98 (17.75%) Full Stack Development
7 82 (14.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 72 (13.04%) SDLC
8 72 (13.04%) TDD
9 71 (12.86%) Computer Science
9 71 (12.86%) Containerisation
10 67 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (11.23%) Continuous Delivery
12 60 (10.87%) Scrum
13 59 (10.69%) Data Science
14 58 (10.51%) Mentoring
15 57 (10.33%) Kanban
16 55 (9.96%) Open Source
17 53 (9.60%) Machine Learning
18 52 (9.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 205 (37.14%) Java
2 123 (22.28%) SQL
3 117 (21.20%) Python
4 115 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 113 (20.47%) C#
6 85 (15.40%) Go
7 72 (13.04%) C++
8 66 (11.96%) C
9 59 (10.69%) TypeScript
10 52 (9.42%) Rust
11 33 (5.98%) Scala
12 17 (3.08%) Shell Script
13 16 (2.90%) F#
14 15 (2.72%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.99%) Embedded C
15 11 (1.99%) Haskell
16 10 (1.81%) Clojure
17 7 (1.27%) Perl
18 6 (1.09%) Bicep
18 6 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 83 (15.04%) Degree
2 62 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 56 (10.14%) Azure Certification
4 47 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (7.25%) MCSA
6 40 (7.25%) MCSE
7 37 (6.70%) SC Cleared
8 25 (4.53%) Master's Degree
9 14 (2.54%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.81%) PhD
11 7 (1.27%) CISSP
11 7 (1.27%) GIAC
12 6 (1.09%) CISM
12 6 (1.09%) SANS
13 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.18%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.18%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.63%) PCI DSS
2 8 (1.45%) GDPR
2 8 (1.45%) HIPAA
3 6 (1.09%) COBIT
3 6 (1.09%) NIST
3 6 (1.09%) Web Application Security Consortium
4 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.91%) QA
5 2 (0.36%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 198 (35.87%) Docker
2 25 (4.53%) Hyper-V
3 20 (3.62%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.45%) HDFS
5 5 (0.91%) Ceph
5 5 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 250 (45.29%) Kubernetes
2 113 (20.47%) Terraform
3 74 (13.41%) Ansible
4 28 (5.07%) Grafana
5 27 (4.89%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.36%) Packer
7 9 (1.63%) Kibana
7 9 (1.63%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.45%) Kiali
9 7 (1.27%) Puppet
10 6 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.91%) Knative
11 5 (0.91%) Salt
12 2 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 53 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.43%) IBM
2 41 (7.43%) Red Hat
3 37 (6.70%) WSO2
4 33 (5.98%) Splunk
5 28 (5.07%) Dynatrace
6 20 (3.62%) VMware
7 17 (3.08%) Google
8 13 (2.36%) Databricks
9 11 (1.99%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.63%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.45%) Cloudera
12 7 (1.27%) TIBCO
13 6 (1.09%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.91%) 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