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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 330 412
Rank change year-on-year +50 +82 -40
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 514 332 480
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.88% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 2.18% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 287 206 326
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,313 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £110,625 £115,000 £120,938
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,338 £148,750
UK median annual salary £92,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% +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 22,843 15,216 29,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.57% 40.23% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,971 8,297 20,869
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,950
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 1 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 1 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 +41 328 £100,000 +6.67% 169
North of England -41 89 £80,000 +3.23% 39
South East -16 67 £70,000 +9.80% 43
North West +7 61 £95,000 +18.75% 30
Yorkshire -68 25 £75,000 -3.23% 1
South West -47 14 £83,750 -16.25% 15
Midlands -32 13 £72,000 -2.37% 7
East Midlands -35 12 £86,000 +12.79% 2
East of England -13 11 £80,000 - 8
North East -40 3 £60,000 -13.52% 8
West Midlands -33 1 £62,500 -13.79% 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 15 (2.92%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.33%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.36%) IIS
5 5 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.78%) Appian
7 3 (0.58%) Apache
7 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.58%) JBoss
7 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) Solana
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 310 (60.31%) AWS
2 164 (31.91%) Azure
3 160 (31.13%) GCP
4 58 (11.28%) Serverless
5 43 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (7.78%) SaaS
7 32 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (5.25%) GitHub
9 26 (5.06%) Amazon S3
9 26 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.70%) Datadog
13 18 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 7 (1.36%) Apigee
18 7 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (11.87%) Broadband
2 12 (2.33%) HTTP
3 9 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.78%) BGP
4 4 (0.78%) DNS
4 4 (0.78%) Firewall
4 4 (0.78%) VLAN
4 4 (0.78%) VPN
5 2 (0.39%) DHCP
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 53 (10.31%) NoSQL
2 43 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.03%) Relational Database
4 28 (5.45%) MongoDB
5 27 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (4.28%) DynamoDB
6 22 (4.28%) SQL Server
7 18 (3.50%) BigQuery
8 17 (3.31%) Redis
9 16 (3.11%) MySQL
10 15 (2.92%) Hadoop
11 13 (2.53%) Big Data
12 11 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.75%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.17%) Tableau
16 5 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.97%) Data Mining
16 5 (0.97%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.97%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 53 (10.31%) Git
2 49 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.86%) GitLab
4 16 (3.11%) Cucumber
5 15 (2.92%) JIRA
6 14 (2.72%) JMeter
7 10 (1.95%) Gatling
8 9 (1.75%) JUnit
8 9 (1.75%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.97%) Maven
11 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.58%) Mockito
12 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.58%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.39%) Selenium
13 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 129 (25.10%) Finance
2 96 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (7.78%) Banking
4 34 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.42%) Law
6 25 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.67%) Financial Institution
8 23 (4.47%) Retail
9 21 (4.09%) Telecoms
10 20 (3.89%) Back Office
11 14 (2.72%) Games
12 12 (2.33%) Front Office
13 10 (1.95%) Marketing
14 9 (1.75%) Advertising
14 9 (1.75%) Polish Language
15 7 (1.36%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.36%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.97%) Electronics
16 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 128 (24.90%) Senior
2 113 (21.98%) Software Engineer
3 109 (21.21%) Developer
4 56 (10.89%) Lead
5 46 (8.95%) Architect
6 40 (7.78%) Principal Engineer
7 34 (6.61%) Java Engineer
8 31 (6.03%) Senior Developer
9 30 (5.84%) Scala Engineer
10 29 (5.64%) Java Developer
11 28 (5.45%) Backend Developer
12 27 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (3.89%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.70%) Python Engineer
14 19 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (3.31%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.92%) Scala Developer
16 15 (2.92%) Scala Software Engineer
17 14 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (14.79%) Kafka
2 71 (13.81%) REST
3 64 (12.45%) .NET
4 60 (11.67%) gRPC
5 58 (11.28%) Spring
6 54 (10.51%) React
7 51 (9.92%) Spring Boot
8 48 (9.34%) RESTful
9 45 (8.75%) Node.js
10 27 (5.25%) Django
11 25 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (4.47%) Web Services
13 22 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (3.50%) AngularJS
14 18 (3.50%) JSON
14 18 (3.50%) OAuth
15 15 (2.92%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.53%) FastAPI
16 13 (2.53%) HTML
17 12 (2.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 137 (26.65%) Cloud Native
2 53 (10.31%) Video\Live Streaming
3 50 (9.73%) Algorithms
4 47 (9.14%) Over-the-Top Content
5 46 (8.95%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.67%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.50%) Equities
8 17 (3.31%) Client/Server
9 16 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.92%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.72%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (2.14%) e-Learning
13 10 (1.95%) Blog
14 9 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (1.56%) Sports Betting
15 8 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (9.53%) Linux
2 13 (2.53%) Windows
3 8 (1.56%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (52.33%) CI/CD
2 241 (46.89%) Microservices
3 238 (46.30%) Software Engineering
4 149 (28.99%) Containerisation
4 149 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (27.63%) Agile
6 125 (24.32%) DevOps
7 114 (22.18%) AI
7 114 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 109 (21.21%) Machine Learning
9 104 (20.23%) Observability
10 98 (19.07%) Computer Science
11 96 (18.68%) Event-Driven
12 89 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 87 (16.93%) Clean Code
14 77 (14.98%) Mentoring
14 77 (14.98%) Test Automation
15 74 (14.40%) Roadmaps
16 71 (13.81%) Data Science
17 67 (13.04%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 236 (45.91%) Python
2 165 (32.10%) Java
3 114 (22.18%) Go
4 77 (14.98%) C#
5 75 (14.59%) SQL
6 57 (11.09%) Scala
7 56 (10.89%) C++
8 52 (10.12%) JavaScript
9 51 (9.92%) TypeScript
10 38 (7.39%) Rust
11 17 (3.31%) C
12 12 (2.33%) Bash
13 9 (1.75%) Groovy
13 9 (1.75%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.97%) R
15 4 (0.78%) Bicep
15 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.78%) Ruby
15 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (17.51%) Degree
2 65 (12.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.47%) Master's Degree
5 22 (4.28%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.33%) PhD
9 5 (0.97%) MBA
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) ISEB
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.37%) QA
2 13 (2.53%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.95%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.36%) GDPR
5 5 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 170 (33.07%) Docker
2 15 (2.92%) Hyper-V
2 15 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.53%) KVM
4 7 (1.36%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 143 (27.82%) Kubernetes
2 74 (14.40%) Terraform
3 32 (6.23%) Ansible
4 14 (2.72%) Grafana
5 11 (2.14%) Kibana
6 10 (1.95%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.78%) Packer
8 2 (0.39%) Argo
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.39%) SCCM
9 1 (0.19%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.75%) Typelevel
2 28 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.28%) Google
4 15 (2.92%) VMware
5 14 (2.72%) Oracle
6 13 (2.53%) AppDynamics
7 12 (2.33%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.75%) Databricks
9 8 (1.56%) IBM
10 6 (1.17%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.17%) Solace
11 5 (0.97%) BT
11 5 (0.97%) Informatica
11 5 (0.97%) Splunk
11 5 (0.97%) Talend
12 4 (0.78%) Ericsson
12 4 (0.78%) Mavenir
12 4 (0.78%) Nokia
12 4 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.39%) Confluent