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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 307 368
Rank change year-on-year +22 +61 -95
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 389 510 352
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.84% 0.85% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 2.53% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 241 314 257
10th Percentile £66,250 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £84,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +2.42% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -5.88%

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 17,115 20,154 17,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.10% 33.48% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,706 9,659 13,248
10th Percentile £27,750 £34,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,770 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -4.00% -

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 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
London +30 286 £112,500 +15.38% 378
North of England -28 61 £75,000 +20.00% 65
South East +27 34 £75,000 +20.00% 54
North West +9 34 £75,750 +21.20% 53
Yorkshire -35 26 £75,000 +33.93% 7
Midlands +66 19 £75,000 +8.21% 9
East Midlands +32 10 £73,750 -28.05% 1
West Midlands +40 9 £75,000 +8.21% 8
East of England +17 9 £82,500 +13.79% 20
South West +15 4 £87,500 -7.89% 12
North East +6 1 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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 51 (13.11%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.06%) Apache
3 8 (2.06%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.54%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.77%) JBoss
6 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.51%) Appian
7 2 (0.51%) Luigi
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 230 (59.13%) AWS
2 133 (34.19%) Azure
3 104 (26.74%) GCP
4 57 (14.65%) Serverless
5 48 (12.34%) Amazon EKS
6 43 (11.05%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (9.25%) SaaS
8 24 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (5.66%) GitHub
10 18 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (3.34%) Amazon S3
14 13 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
16 11 (2.83%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (2.83%) OpenShift
17 8 (2.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.83%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.03%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.77%) BGP
3 3 (0.77%) VLAN
3 3 (0.77%) VPN
4 2 (0.51%) AMQP
4 2 (0.51%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.51%) Multicast
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) MQTT
5 1 (0.26%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (16.20%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (14.40%) NoSQL
3 52 (13.37%) Relational Database
4 44 (11.31%) Big Data
5 27 (6.94%) RDBMS
6 26 (6.68%) Hadoop
7 25 (6.43%) MongoDB
8 21 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (5.14%) Redis
10 19 (4.88%) DynamoDB
10 19 (4.88%) SQL Server
11 18 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (3.34%) Apache Hive
13 12 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (2.83%) MySQL
15 8 (2.06%) Apache Iceberg
16 7 (1.80%) Neo4j
16 7 (1.80%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 44 (11.31%) Jenkins
2 38 (9.77%) Git
3 26 (6.68%) JUnit
4 25 (6.43%) JMeter
5 22 (5.66%) Mockito
6 13 (3.34%) GitLab
7 9 (2.31%) JIRA
8 6 (1.54%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.29%) MLflow
9 5 (1.29%) Postman
10 4 (1.03%) Selenium
10 4 (1.03%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.77%) Maven
11 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.51%) JConsole
12 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.51%) VisualVM
13 1 (0.26%) DbUnit
General
1 150 (38.56%) Finance
2 97 (24.94%) Social Skills
3 84 (21.59%) Banking
4 71 (18.25%) Law
5 65 (16.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (10.54%) Public Sector
7 40 (10.28%) Financial Institution
8 33 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (5.66%) Front Office
10 19 (4.88%) Marketing
11 18 (4.63%) Retail
12 17 (4.37%) Telecoms
13 13 (3.34%) Investment Banking
13 13 (3.34%) Legal
14 9 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (2.06%) Back Office
16 6 (1.54%) Games
16 6 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (1.03%) Polish Language
17 4 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 127 (32.65%) Software Engineer
2 110 (28.28%) Senior
3 102 (26.22%) Developer
3 102 (26.22%) Lead
4 55 (14.14%) Java Developer
4 55 (14.14%) Lead Software Engineer
5 37 (9.51%) Senior Software Engineer
6 35 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (8.48%) Principal Engineer
8 31 (7.97%) Java Engineer
9 30 (7.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 26 (6.68%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (6.68%) Data Engineer
11 24 (6.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 23 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (5.66%) Java Software Engineer
14 21 (5.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 20 (5.14%) Senior Developer
16 18 (4.63%) Python Engineer
17 16 (4.11%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (24.68%) Kafka
2 78 (20.05%) Spring
3 64 (16.45%) Spring Boot
4 60 (15.42%) REST
5 55 (14.14%) .NET
6 54 (13.88%) RESTful
7 48 (12.34%) React
8 41 (10.54%) Web Services
9 34 (8.74%) Hibernate
10 29 (7.46%) HTML
10 29 (7.46%) Node.js
11 27 (6.94%) Apache Camel
12 25 (6.43%) JSON
13 22 (5.66%) ActiveMQ
14 21 (5.40%) XML
15 20 (5.14%) Django
15 20 (5.14%) jQuery
15 20 (5.14%) WireMock
16 17 (4.37%) .NET Core
17 16 (4.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 143 (36.76%) Cloud Native
2 47 (12.08%) Algorithms
3 38 (9.77%) Product Ownership
4 32 (8.23%) Data Structures
5 31 (7.97%) Public Cloud
6 24 (6.17%) Legacy Code
7 23 (5.91%) Management Information System
8 22 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (4.88%) Virtual Team
10 16 (4.11%) Derivative
10 16 (4.11%) Equities
11 13 (3.34%) e-Learning
12 11 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (2.31%) Mobile Banking
15 8 (2.06%) Equity Derivative
15 8 (2.06%) Onboarding
16 7 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
17 6 (1.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.62%) Linux
2 13 (3.34%) Unix
3 5 (1.29%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (49.36%) Software Engineering
2 186 (47.81%) Microservices
3 179 (46.02%) CI/CD
4 151 (38.82%) Agile
5 105 (26.99%) DevOps
6 93 (23.91%) Containerisation
7 86 (22.11%) Mentoring
8 85 (21.85%) AI
8 85 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (19.02%) Computer Science
10 70 (17.99%) Roadmaps
10 70 (17.99%) SDLC
11 68 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 66 (16.97%) Machine Learning
13 65 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
14 63 (16.20%) TDD
15 55 (14.14%) Event-Driven
16 52 (13.37%) Fintech
17 51 (13.11%) Low Latency
18 50 (12.85%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 204 (52.44%) Java
2 160 (41.13%) Python
3 83 (21.34%) SQL
4 66 (16.97%) Go
5 63 (16.20%) C#
6 49 (12.60%) JavaScript
7 44 (11.31%) C++
8 34 (8.74%) Scala
9 28 (7.20%) Rust
9 28 (7.20%) TypeScript
10 26 (6.68%) C
10 26 (6.68%) Kotlin
11 22 (5.66%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.57%) Bash
13 9 (2.31%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.29%) Groovy
15 4 (1.03%) COBOL
16 2 (0.51%) PHP
17 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.26%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 59 (15.17%) Degree
2 35 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (7.71%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.43%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.40%) PhD
6 12 (3.08%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CEH
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) OSCP
10 1 (0.26%) SANS
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.63%) GDPR
2 12 (3.08%) QA
3 9 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.29%) SLA
7 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.77%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.77%) WCAG
8 2 (0.51%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 124 (31.88%) Docker
2 14 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.31%) HDFS
4 5 (1.29%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.51%) Ceph
6 2 (0.51%) Lustre
6 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.26%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 176 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.83%) Terraform
3 30 (7.71%) Ansible
4 24 (6.17%) Kibana
5 14 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.34%) Grafana
7 5 (1.29%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.29%) logstash
8 4 (1.03%) Rancher
8 4 (1.03%) vRealize
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
9 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.17%) Dynatrace
2 22 (5.66%) Splunk
3 16 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.08%) Databricks
4 12 (3.08%) Google
5 10 (2.57%) Oracle
6 7 (1.80%) Informatica
6 7 (1.80%) Talend
7 5 (1.29%) Dell
7 5 (1.29%) SAP
8 4 (1.03%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.03%) Foundry
8 4 (1.03%) Mavenir
8 4 (1.03%) Nokia
8 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.03%) Palantir
8 4 (1.03%) Pega
8 4 (1.03%) Solace
8 4 (1.03%) VMware
8 4 (1.03%) WSO2