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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 358 414
Rank change year-on-year +83 +56 -41
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 537 306 479
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.78% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 1.86% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 298 197 329
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £107,188 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,677 £148,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +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 21,574 16,424 29,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.81% 42.01% 35.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12,299 8,385 20,862
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £75,133
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +74 338 £100,000 +8.11% 179
North of England -6 94 £80,000 +2.56% 48
South East +4 72 £70,000 +9.80% 52
North West +30 64 £95,000 +18.75% 33
Yorkshire -60 24 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Midlands -27 13 £87,500 +18.64% 10
South West -38 13 £85,000 -15.00% 19
East of England -5 11 £80,000 - 8
East Midlands -23 10 £86,000 +12.79% 2
North East -37 6 £60,000 -13.52% 11
West Midlands -29 3 £87,500 +20.69% 8
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 15 (2.79%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.23%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.30%) IIS
5 4 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.74%) Appian
6 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.56%) JBoss
6 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.19%) Solana
8 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 324 (60.34%) AWS
2 170 (31.66%) Azure
3 158 (29.42%) GCP
4 57 (10.61%) Serverless
5 41 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (6.70%) SaaS
7 31 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (5.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (4.47%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.47%) GitHub
10 21 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.54%) Datadog
13 16 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
16 8 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.22%) Broadband
2 12 (2.23%) HTTP
3 8 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.93%) DNS
4 5 (0.93%) Firewall
5 3 (0.56%) BGP
5 3 (0.56%) DHCP
5 3 (0.56%) VLAN
5 3 (0.56%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.19%) LTE
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.19%) RTP
6 1 (0.19%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) SS7
6 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (9.12%) NoSQL
3 39 (7.26%) MongoDB
4 32 (5.96%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (3.72%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.54%) BigQuery
7 19 (3.54%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.79%) Hadoop
8 15 (2.79%) MySQL
8 15 (2.79%) Redis
9 13 (2.42%) Big Data
10 11 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.86%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.12%) Tableau
13 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.93%) ClickHouse
13 5 (0.93%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 54 (10.06%) Git
2 50 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.15%) GitLab
4 19 (3.54%) Cucumber
5 16 (2.98%) JIRA
6 14 (2.61%) JMeter
7 12 (2.23%) JUnit
8 10 (1.86%) Gatling
9 9 (1.68%) LoadRunner
9 9 (1.68%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.49%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.93%) Maven
12 4 (0.74%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.74%) Mockito
13 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.56%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.37%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.37%) Spock
General
1 133 (24.77%) Finance
2 91 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 41 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.45%) Banking
5 32 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.77%) Law
7 24 (4.47%) Games
7 24 (4.47%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.28%) Financial Institution
9 21 (3.91%) Retail
10 18 (3.35%) Back Office
11 16 (2.98%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.23%) Front Office
13 8 (1.49%) Marketing
13 8 (1.49%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.30%) Advertising
14 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (25.14%) Senior
2 122 (22.72%) Developer
3 108 (20.11%) Software Engineer
4 52 (9.68%) Lead
5 50 (9.31%) Architect
6 46 (8.57%) Principal Engineer
7 40 (7.45%) Senior Developer
8 38 (7.08%) Java Engineer
9 32 (5.96%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.59%) Java Developer
10 30 (5.59%) Scala Engineer
11 22 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (3.72%) Data Engineer
12 20 (3.72%) Python Engineer
13 19 (3.54%) Python Developer
14 17 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 16 (2.98%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.79%) Scala Software Engineer
16 15 (2.79%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.71%) Kafka
2 73 (13.59%) REST
3 66 (12.29%) .NET
4 64 (11.92%) Spring
5 58 (10.80%) gRPC
6 56 (10.43%) RESTful
6 56 (10.43%) Spring Boot
7 53 (9.87%) React
8 40 (7.45%) Node.js
9 28 (5.21%) Django
10 24 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (4.10%) Web Services
12 20 (3.72%) JSON
13 19 (3.54%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.98%) OAuth
15 15 (2.79%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.42%) FastAPI
16 13 (2.42%) HTML
17 12 (2.23%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 145 (27.00%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.73%) Video\Live Streaming
3 53 (9.87%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.75%) Data Structures
4 47 (8.75%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.54%) Public Cloud
7 18 (3.35%) AI Agents
7 18 (3.35%) Equities
8 17 (3.17%) Low-Code
9 16 (2.98%) Client/Server
10 15 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (2.61%) e-Learning
12 12 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (1.86%) Blog
14 9 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.49%) Life Science
15 8 (1.49%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.50%) Linux
2 15 (2.79%) Windows
3 7 (1.30%) Android
4 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (53.82%) CI/CD
2 252 (46.93%) Software Engineering
3 246 (45.81%) Microservices
4 150 (27.93%) Agile
5 149 (27.75%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (27.37%) Containerisation
7 138 (25.70%) AI
8 133 (24.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 132 (24.58%) DevOps
10 122 (22.72%) Machine Learning
11 115 (21.42%) Observability
12 107 (19.93%) Infrastructure as Code
13 99 (18.44%) Computer Science
14 98 (18.25%) Event-Driven
15 95 (17.69%) Test Automation
16 89 (16.57%) Clean Code
17 81 (15.08%) Mentoring
18 73 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 73 (13.59%) Roadmaps
19 72 (13.41%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 262 (48.79%) Python
2 169 (31.47%) Java
3 118 (21.97%) Go
4 78 (14.53%) SQL
5 77 (14.34%) C#
6 62 (11.55%) JavaScript
7 57 (10.61%) C++
8 56 (10.43%) Scala
9 55 (10.24%) TypeScript
10 36 (6.70%) Rust
11 15 (2.79%) Bash
12 14 (2.61%) C
13 11 (2.05%) Groovy
14 10 (1.86%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.93%) Bicep
15 5 (0.93%) Perl
15 5 (0.93%) R
15 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.74%) PHP
16 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (16.95%) Degree
2 64 (11.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (5.21%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.23%) PhD
9 5 (0.93%) MBA
10 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) ISEB
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.38%) QA
2 13 (2.42%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.68%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.12%) GDPR
5 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 171 (31.84%) Docker
2 16 (2.98%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.42%) KVM
4 9 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (27.37%) Kubernetes
2 79 (14.71%) Terraform
3 33 (6.15%) Ansible
4 14 (2.61%) Grafana
5 12 (2.23%) Kibana
6 10 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.74%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.74%) Packer
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.56%) SCCM
9 2 (0.37%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.38%) Typelevel
2 35 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.91%) Google
4 16 (2.98%) Oracle
4 16 (2.98%) VMware
5 15 (2.79%) AppDynamics
6 13 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.68%) Databricks
8 8 (1.49%) IBM
8 8 (1.49%) Splunk
9 6 (1.12%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.12%) Solace
10 5 (0.93%) BT
10 5 (0.93%) Informatica
10 5 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.93%) Talend
11 3 (0.56%) Ericsson
11 3 (0.56%) Mavenir
11 3 (0.56%) Nokia
12 2 (0.37%) Pega