Distributed Systems Job Trends in England

Distributed Systems
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 332 403
Rank change year-on-year +54 +71 -81
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 439 345 441
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.87% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 2.24% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 266 225 332
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £139,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,229 15,395 26,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.45% 39.03% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,360 7,978 19,580
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,286
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,572 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.95% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -15.38%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 10 March 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
London +38 293 £102,500 +5.13% 144
North of England -22 71 £75,000 +8.09% 56
South East -25 47 £72,500 +16.00% 95
North West +10 44 £75,000 +3.45% 25
Yorkshire -51 25 £75,000 - 22
Midlands -8 14 £74,401 +7.35% 36
East of England +10 12 £81,250 +12.07% 43
South West -21 12 £83,750 - 43
East Midlands -17 11 £100,000 - 16
West Midlands -2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 18
North East -26 2 £60,651 -12.54% 9
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 29 (6.61%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.96%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.59%) Apache
5 5 (1.14%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.14%) IIS
6 4 (0.91%) Appian
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 265 (60.36%) AWS
2 151 (34.40%) Azure
3 150 (34.17%) GCP
4 43 (9.79%) Amazon ECS
4 43 (9.79%) Serverless
5 42 (9.57%) SaaS
6 32 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (5.01%) Amazon S3
8 20 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (3.87%) GitHub
10 13 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.51%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.28%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (2.05%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.61%) Broadband
2 17 (3.87%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.28%) HTTP
4 6 (1.37%) BGP
4 6 (1.37%) VLAN
4 6 (1.37%) VPN
5 5 (1.14%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.46%) Multicast
7 1 (0.23%) 4G
7 1 (0.23%) 5G
7 1 (0.23%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.23%) DNS
7 1 (0.23%) Firewall
7 1 (0.23%) RTP
7 1 (0.23%) SS7
7 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.39%) NoSQL
2 49 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (7.29%) Elasticsearch
4 29 (6.61%) Relational Database
5 28 (6.38%) Redis
6 27 (6.15%) MongoDB
7 25 (5.69%) Hadoop
8 24 (5.47%) Big Data
9 22 (5.01%) SQL Server
10 19 (4.33%) DynamoDB
11 16 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (2.96%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.96%) MySQL
14 12 (2.73%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.28%) Apache Hive
16 7 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (1.37%) Couchbase
17 6 (1.37%) Neo4j
17 6 (1.37%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 35 (7.97%) Git
2 33 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.64%) JMeter
4 14 (3.19%) GitLab
5 11 (2.51%) JUnit
6 9 (2.05%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.82%) Gatling
8 7 (1.59%) LoadRunner
9 6 (1.37%) Mockito
10 5 (1.14%) JIRA
10 5 (1.14%) Maven
11 4 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.91%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.68%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.46%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.46%) JConsole
13 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.46%) VisualVM
13 2 (0.46%) WinDbg
General
1 116 (26.42%) Finance
2 89 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 45 (10.25%) Banking
4 36 (8.20%) Law
5 35 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (7.52%) Financial Institution
7 32 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (6.38%) Public Sector
9 24 (5.47%) Telecoms
10 23 (5.24%) Retail
11 21 (4.78%) Back Office
12 13 (2.96%) Front Office
13 11 (2.51%) Marketing
14 9 (2.05%) Games
14 9 (2.05%) Investment Banking
14 9 (2.05%) Polish Language
15 5 (1.14%) Advertising
15 5 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.91%) Legal
17 3 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (27.33%) Senior
2 111 (25.28%) Software Engineer
3 90 (20.50%) Developer
4 60 (13.67%) Lead
5 38 (8.66%) Principal Engineer
6 37 (8.43%) Java Developer
7 29 (6.61%) Architect
7 29 (6.61%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (5.47%) Java Engineer
9 23 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (4.78%) Data Engineer
10 21 (4.78%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.10%) Scala Engineer
13 17 (3.87%) Backend Developer
14 16 (3.64%) Lead Developer
15 15 (3.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 14 (3.19%) C# Developer
16 14 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (18.22%) Kafka
2 61 (13.90%) Spring
3 58 (13.21%) REST
4 55 (12.53%) Spring Boot
5 50 (11.39%) .NET
6 46 (10.48%) gRPC
7 44 (10.02%) React
8 35 (7.97%) RESTful
9 32 (7.29%) Node.js
10 31 (7.06%) Django
11 21 (4.78%) Web Services
12 18 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (3.64%) FastAPI
13 16 (3.64%) OAuth
14 14 (3.19%) HTML
14 14 (3.19%) OAuth2
15 13 (2.96%) AngularJS
15 13 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (2.73%) Hibernate
16 12 (2.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 117 (26.65%) Cloud Native
2 44 (10.02%) Algorithms
3 41 (9.34%) Data Structures
4 30 (6.83%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (6.61%) Over-the-Top Content
5 29 (6.61%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.19%) Equities
9 13 (2.96%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.73%) e-Learning
10 12 (2.73%) Legacy Code
11 11 (2.51%) Client/Server
11 11 (2.51%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.51%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.05%) Blog
12 9 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (2.05%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (14.12%) Linux
2 11 (2.51%) Unix
3 9 (2.05%) Android
4 6 (1.37%) Windows
5 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (46.70%) CI/CD
2 202 (46.01%) Microservices
3 197 (44.87%) Software Engineering
4 134 (30.52%) Agile
5 112 (25.51%) Containerisation
5 112 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (24.60%) DevOps
7 95 (21.64%) Computer Science
8 91 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (20.05%) Machine Learning
10 87 (19.82%) AI
11 77 (17.54%) Event-Driven
12 72 (16.40%) Mentoring
13 70 (15.95%) Observability
14 68 (15.49%) Roadmaps
15 65 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
16 62 (14.12%) Clean Code
17 53 (12.07%) Analytics
17 53 (12.07%) Data Science
18 52 (11.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 181 (41.23%) Python
2 174 (39.64%) Java
3 100 (22.78%) Go
4 67 (15.26%) C#
5 60 (13.67%) SQL
6 58 (13.21%) C++
7 46 (10.48%) Scala
8 42 (9.57%) JavaScript
9 41 (9.34%) Rust
10 35 (7.97%) TypeScript
11 25 (5.69%) C
12 10 (2.28%) Bash
13 9 (2.05%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.37%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.14%) R
16 4 (0.91%) Groovy
16 4 (0.91%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.68%) Ruby
18 2 (0.46%) COBOL
19 1 (0.23%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 85 (19.36%) Degree
2 62 (14.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (5.47%) Master's Degree
4 23 (5.24%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.96%) PhD
7 12 (2.73%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.14%) MBA
10 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.24%) QA
2 12 (2.73%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.73%) SOC 2
3 9 (2.05%) GDPR
4 5 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 141 (32.12%) Docker
2 12 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (2.73%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (2.28%) Hyper-V
3 10 (2.28%) KVM
3 10 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.37%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.91%) HDFS
6 2 (0.46%) Ceph
6 2 (0.46%) Lustre
6 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 139 (31.66%) Kubernetes
2 51 (11.62%) Terraform
3 27 (6.15%) Ansible
4 15 (3.42%) Grafana
5 14 (3.19%) Kibana
6 12 (2.73%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.14%) logstash
8 4 (0.91%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.46%) Argo
10 1 (0.23%) Graylog
10 1 (0.23%) Istio
10 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (6.15%) Typelevel
2 24 (5.47%) Google
3 14 (3.19%) Databricks
3 14 (3.19%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.28%) VMware
5 9 (2.05%) Splunk
6 7 (1.59%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.59%) Oracle
7 6 (1.37%) Dell
7 6 (1.37%) Informatica
7 6 (1.37%) Talend
8 5 (1.14%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.14%) BT
8 5 (1.14%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.14%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.14%) Nokia
8 5 (1.14%) Solace
9 4 (0.91%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.91%) Pega
9 4 (0.91%) WSO2