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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 171 151
Rank change year-on-year -6 -20 -15
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 24 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.30% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 0.31% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 21 4 8
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +24.14% -3.33%
75th Percentile - £100,000 £82,813
90th Percentile - - £103,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%

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 2,032 1,295 1,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 25.59% 38.01% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 542 717
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,550 £78,975 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend 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 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 2026. 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 -12 19 £80,000 +14.29% 42
Hertfordshire -22 3 £73,750 -26.25% 10
Suffolk - 1 - -
Essex - 1 - - 3
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Poetry
General
1 3 (12.50%) Electronics
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (79.17%) Software Engineer
2 14 (58.33%) Principal Engineer
2 14 (58.33%) Principal Software Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Robotics Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Lead
7 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Scala Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Anaconda
1 1 (4.17%) Django
1 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
1 1 (4.17%) Flask
1 1 (4.17%) gRPC
1 1 (4.17%) Micronaut
1 1 (4.17%) Node.js
1 1 (4.17%) NumPy
1 1 (4.17%) pytest
1 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) RESTful
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
1 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
1 1 (4.17%) WebRTC
1 1 (4.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) IoT
2 3 (12.50%) Robotics
3 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.17%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Software Engineering
2 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.83%) Microservices
4 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (12.50%) AI
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Vision
5 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.50%) Motion Planning
5 3 (12.50%) Robotic Control
6 2 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.33%) Data Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.33%) Observability
6 2 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Haskell
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) OCaml
4 1 (4.17%) Rust
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Google
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle
1 1 (4.17%) Typelevel