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 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 172 121
Rank change year-on-year +28 -51 +90
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 13 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.32% 0.23% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 0.60% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 8
10th Percentile £75,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £66,250 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -4.92% -6.15%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,875 £83,250
England median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +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 1,307 1,330 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.68% 37.84% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 608 523 642
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,507 £28,812
25th Percentile £34,497 £41,250 £38,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 12 January 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 12 January 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
Hertfordshire - 8 £90,000 - 21
Cambridgeshire +15 5 £80,000 +10.34% 22
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 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
1 2 (15.38%) Redis
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Principal Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) C# Software Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Development Manager
5 2 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Development Manager
5 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (15.38%) Principal Cloud Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Development Manager
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Manager
5 2 (15.38%) Software Development Manager
5 2 (15.38%) Software Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) React
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) Hugging Face
3 2 (15.38%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) Nuxt
3 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) Vue
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) Material-UI
4 1 (7.69%) Micronaut
4 1 (7.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Microservices
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) Event-Driven
3 9 (69.23%) Architectural Patterns
4 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
4 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
5 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (38.46%) High Availability
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
6 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (30.77%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 3 (23.08%) Agile
7 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
7 3 (23.08%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
1 2 (15.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Istio
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) OpenAI