Distributed Systems Job Trends in the East of England

Distributed Systems
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 157 138
Rank change year-on-year -13 -19 +102
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 4 12 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.12% 0.27% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.94% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £61,000 £61,250 £69,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -3.33% +4.53%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile - £103,250 £85,500
England median annual salary £93,750 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +17.19% -3.03% -2.94%

All Generic Skills
East of England

Distributed Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,268 1,281 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 37.47% 29.09% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 535 712 626
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,025 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the East of England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the East of England

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +9 2 £70,000 -3.45% 6
Hertfordshire - 2 £100,000 -
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) Nuxt
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
3 1 (25.00%) Micronaut
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI