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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 166 116
Rank change year-on-year +26 -50 +104
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 8 15 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.25% 0.36% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 1.10% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,750 £71,000
25th Percentile £75,313 £66,250 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £96,250 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £86,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £84,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +13.10% +1.82% -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 972 1,367 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 30.42% 32.42% 42.02%
Number of salaries quoted 625 556 567
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,519 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,987 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.36% -4.00% -0.79%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +2 4 £78,750 +8.62% 20
Hertfordshire - 4 £100,000 - 7
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 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Development Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Development Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Development Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) React
2 4 (50.00%) Kafka
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) Hugging Face
4 2 (25.00%) Node.js
4 2 (25.00%) Nuxt
4 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (25.00%) Vue
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 1 (12.50%) Jest
5 1 (12.50%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) Material-UI
5 1 (12.50%) Micronaut
5 1 (12.50%) Playwright
5 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (12.50%) IoT
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Microservices
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven
3 5 (62.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
6 2 (25.00%) API Integration
6 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
6 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (25.00%) Data Science
6 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Istio
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAI