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 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 331 409
Rank change year-on-year +40 +78 -41
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 505 340 475
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 0.90% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 2.25% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 287 211 323
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 £110,625 £115,000 £119,375
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £149,500
UK median annual salary £91,250 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +1.39% +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 22,809 15,118 29,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.67% 39.96% 35.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11,916 8,313 20,740
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 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,474
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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +55 323 £100,000 +6.67% 178
North of England -38 88 £78,750 +1.61% 38
South East -34 66 £72,500 +13.73% 81
North West +6 61 £88,750 +10.94% 26
Yorkshire -73 24 £75,000 -3.23% 1
Midlands -28 14 £73,500 +1.38% 7
South West -45 13 £83,750 -16.25% 11
East Midlands -33 12 £86,000 +10.97% 2
East of England -14 11 £82,500 - 8
North East -45 3 £60,000 -13.52% 11
West Midlands -23 2 £68,750 -5.17% 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 17 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.38%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.39%) IIS
5 6 (1.19%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.79%) Appian
7 3 (0.59%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) Confluence
7 3 (0.59%) JBoss
7 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Solana
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 305 (60.40%) AWS
2 169 (33.47%) Azure
3 164 (32.48%) GCP
4 59 (11.68%) Serverless
5 43 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (7.92%) SaaS
7 33 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (5.15%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.75%) GitHub
10 22 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (3.56%) Datadog
13 16 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (1.39%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 52 (10.30%) Broadband
2 12 (2.38%) HTTP
3 9 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.79%) BGP
4 4 (0.79%) VLAN
4 4 (0.79%) VPN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) Firewall
6 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.20%) RTP
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) SS7
7 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.30%) NoSQL
2 38 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (6.34%) Relational Database
4 27 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 21 (4.16%) DynamoDB
7 19 (3.76%) BigQuery
8 17 (3.37%) Hadoop
8 17 (3.37%) Redis
9 16 (3.17%) MySQL
10 15 (2.97%) Big Data
11 11 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.98%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.19%) Tableau
14 5 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.99%) Data Mining
14 5 (0.99%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.99%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 53 (10.50%) Git
2 49 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.36%) GitLab
4 15 (2.97%) Cucumber
4 15 (2.97%) JIRA
4 15 (2.97%) JMeter
5 10 (1.98%) Gatling
5 10 (1.98%) JUnit
6 9 (1.78%) LoadRunner
6 9 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.19%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.99%) Maven
9 4 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.79%) Mockito
10 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.59%) WinDbg
11 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.40%) Selenium
11 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 129 (25.54%) Finance
2 91 (18.02%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.92%) Banking
4 38 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.53%) Law
7 25 (4.95%) Financial Institution
7 25 (4.95%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.75%) Telecoms
9 23 (4.55%) Retail
10 20 (3.96%) Back Office
11 12 (2.38%) Front Office
12 10 (1.98%) Marketing
13 9 (1.78%) Advertising
13 9 (1.78%) Games
13 9 (1.78%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.39%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.99%) Electronics
16 5 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 131 (25.94%) Senior
2 115 (22.77%) Software Engineer
3 107 (21.19%) Developer
4 53 (10.50%) Lead
5 43 (8.51%) Architect
6 39 (7.72%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (6.93%) Java Engineer
8 30 (5.94%) Java Developer
8 30 (5.94%) Scala Engineer
8 30 (5.94%) Senior Developer
9 27 (5.35%) Backend Developer
9 27 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (4.36%) Data Engineer
11 18 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (3.56%) Python Engineer
11 18 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.17%) Lead Developer
13 15 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (2.97%) Scala Developer
13 15 (2.97%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.25%) Kafka
2 74 (14.65%) REST
3 64 (12.67%) .NET
4 62 (12.28%) gRPC
5 58 (11.49%) Spring
6 55 (10.89%) React
7 51 (10.10%) Spring Boot
8 45 (8.91%) Node.js
9 43 (8.51%) RESTful
10 28 (5.54%) Django
11 25 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (4.75%) Web Services
13 22 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (4.16%) OAuth
15 20 (3.96%) JSON
16 18 (3.56%) AngularJS
16 18 (3.56%) OAuth2
17 14 (2.77%) HTML
18 13 (2.57%) FastAPI
19 12 (2.38%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 127 (25.15%) Cloud Native
2 51 (10.10%) Algorithms
3 47 (9.31%) Over-the-Top Content
3 47 (9.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 46 (9.11%) Data Structures
5 25 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.56%) Equities
7 17 (3.37%) Client/Server
8 16 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.77%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.57%) AI Agents
10 13 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.18%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.98%) Blog
12 10 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.58%) Sports Betting
14 7 (1.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.90%) Linux
2 13 (2.57%) Windows
3 9 (1.78%) Android
4 2 (0.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (51.29%) CI/CD
2 243 (48.12%) Microservices
3 236 (46.73%) Software Engineering
4 150 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (29.50%) Containerisation
6 145 (28.71%) Agile
7 127 (25.15%) DevOps
8 111 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 110 (21.78%) AI
10 106 (20.99%) Machine Learning
11 101 (20.00%) Computer Science
12 94 (18.61%) Observability
13 89 (17.62%) Event-Driven
14 87 (17.23%) Clean Code
15 77 (15.25%) Mentoring
16 75 (14.85%) Roadmaps
17 74 (14.65%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (14.26%) Data Science
19 67 (13.27%) Coaching
19 67 (13.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 228 (45.15%) Python
2 164 (32.48%) Java
3 112 (22.18%) Go
4 74 (14.65%) SQL
5 73 (14.46%) C#
6 58 (11.49%) Scala
7 56 (11.09%) C++
8 52 (10.30%) JavaScript
9 48 (9.50%) TypeScript
10 38 (7.52%) Rust
11 17 (3.37%) C
12 11 (2.18%) Bash
13 9 (1.78%) Groovy
14 8 (1.58%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.99%) R
15 5 (0.99%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.79%) Bicep
16 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 93 (18.42%) Degree
2 68 (13.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 21 (4.16%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.57%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.38%) PhD
8 5 (0.99%) MBA
9 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) ISEB
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.52%) QA
2 12 (2.38%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.58%) GDPR
5 5 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.79%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 169 (33.47%) Docker
2 14 (2.77%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.57%) KVM
4 7 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 142 (28.12%) Kubernetes
2 70 (13.86%) Terraform
3 33 (6.53%) Ansible
4 14 (2.77%) Grafana
5 12 (2.38%) Kibana
6 10 (1.98%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.79%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
8 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.40%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.91%) Typelevel
2 27 (5.35%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.36%) Google
4 14 (2.77%) Oracle
4 14 (2.77%) VMware
5 13 (2.57%) AppDynamics
5 13 (2.57%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.78%) Databricks
7 8 (1.58%) IBM
8 6 (1.19%) Solace
8 6 (1.19%) Splunk
9 5 (0.99%) BT
9 5 (0.99%) Ericsson
9 5 (0.99%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.99%) Informatica
9 5 (0.99%) Mavenir
9 5 (0.99%) Nokia
9 5 (0.99%) Talend
10 4 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.40%) Confluent