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 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 169 207
Rank change year-on-year -7 +38 -18
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 11 1 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.18% 0.033% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% 0.081% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 10
10th Percentile £58,625 - £32,500
25th Percentile £62,188 - £110,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 - £120,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.18%
75th Percentile £86,250 - £130,000
90th Percentile £90,000 - -
England median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%

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 1,550 1,235 2,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 24.78% 40.58% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 955 456 1,564
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £25,131
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,525 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 - 6 £80,000 - 4
Cambridgeshire - 3 £72,500 - 14
Essex -16 1 - - 1
Suffolk - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Poetry
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Retail
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Scala Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) gRPC
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Anaconda
2 1 (9.09%) Micronaut
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) NumPy
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) WebRTC
2 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) IoT
3 2 (18.18%) Over-the-Top Content
3 2 (18.18%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Software Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Microservices
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
5 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
6 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 2 (18.18%) Coaching
7 2 (18.18%) Data Science
7 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (18.18%) Observability
7 2 (18.18%) Personalization
7 2 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
7 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Scala
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Haskell
3 1 (9.09%) OCaml
3 1 (9.09%) Rust
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Typelevel
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle