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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 343 394
Rank change year-on-year 0 +51 -133
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 328 510 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.75% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 2.33% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 186 306 287
10th Percentile £65,625 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,313 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £114,375 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £146,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -4.48%

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 17,989 21,863 22,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.87% 31.99% 41.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9,071 11,824 16,291
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,742 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +50 231 £110,000 +12.82% 135
North of England -71 55 £79,250 +26.80% 43
South East +37 45 £75,000 +20.00% 65
North West -36 26 £87,500 +40.00% 24
Yorkshire -38 26 £76,750 +37.05% 16
Midlands +52 19 £75,000 +7.68% 25
West Midlands +47 10 £75,000 +8.21% 15
East Midlands +34 9 £77,500 -24.39% 9
South West +62 4 £97,500 +2.90% 14
East of England -13 4 £90,000 +24.14% 16
North East +15 3 £115,000 +65.93% 4
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (11.59%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.44%) JBoss
4 7 (2.13%) Confluence
4 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (1.22%) Apache
5 4 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.61%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 189 (57.62%) AWS
2 93 (28.35%) Azure
3 68 (20.73%) GCP
4 54 (16.46%) Serverless
5 47 (14.33%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (10.98%) SaaS
8 31 (9.45%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (5.49%) GitHub
11 14 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.66%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
16 7 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.13%) HTTP
2 2 (0.61%) AMQP
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) MQTT
3 1 (0.30%) NAS
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) SAN
3 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (17.68%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (16.16%) Relational Database
3 42 (12.80%) NoSQL
4 33 (10.06%) Big Data
5 31 (9.45%) RDBMS
6 22 (6.71%) MongoDB
7 16 (4.88%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.88%) Hadoop
8 15 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (4.27%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.66%) MySQL
11 10 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.83%) DataStage
14 6 (1.83%) Neo4j
14 6 (1.83%) Pentaho
14 6 (1.83%) Redis
15 5 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 57 (17.38%) Jenkins
2 49 (14.94%) Git
3 45 (13.72%) JUnit
4 32 (9.76%) Mockito
5 28 (8.54%) JMeter
6 16 (4.88%) JIRA
7 10 (3.05%) GitLab
8 9 (2.74%) Maven
9 7 (2.13%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.13%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.83%) Postman
11 5 (1.52%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.52%) jMock
11 5 (1.52%) MLflow
12 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.22%) PHPUnit
12 4 (1.22%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.91%) Selenium
13 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 132 (40.24%) Finance
2 82 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 75 (22.87%) Banking
4 63 (19.21%) Law
5 59 (17.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (14.94%) Public Sector
7 30 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (7.32%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.57%) Front Office
9 15 (4.57%) Marketing
10 14 (4.27%) Investment Banking
11 12 (3.66%) Retail
12 11 (3.35%) Legal
13 8 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.13%) Games
15 6 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.22%) Publishing
17 3 (0.91%) Advertising
18 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 122 (37.20%) Software Engineer
2 93 (28.35%) Lead
3 90 (27.44%) Developer
4 76 (23.17%) Senior
5 66 (20.12%) Lead Software Engineer
6 52 (15.85%) Java Developer
7 33 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (8.54%) Principal Engineer
10 26 (7.93%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 24 (7.32%) Java Engineer
12 22 (6.71%) Java Software Engineer
13 21 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (6.10%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 20 (6.10%) Python Engineer
15 19 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (5.79%) C# Software Engineer
15 19 (5.79%) Data Engineer
16 17 (5.18%) Python Software Engineer
17 16 (4.88%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (24.70%) Spring
2 75 (22.87%) Kafka
3 69 (21.04%) Spring Boot
4 61 (18.60%) REST
5 58 (17.68%) RESTful
6 50 (15.24%) Web Services
7 42 (12.80%) Hibernate
7 42 (12.80%) HTML
8 41 (12.50%) .NET
9 38 (11.59%) React
10 32 (9.76%) Apache Camel
11 31 (9.45%) ActiveMQ
12 29 (8.84%) jQuery
13 25 (7.62%) WireMock
14 23 (7.01%) JSON
15 21 (6.40%) XML
16 20 (6.10%) AngularJS
17 18 (5.49%) .NET Core
18 17 (5.18%) CSS
19 15 (4.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 112 (34.15%) Cloud Native
2 46 (14.02%) Algorithms
3 44 (13.41%) Product Ownership
4 28 (8.54%) Data Structures
4 28 (8.54%) Public Cloud
5 21 (6.40%) Management Information System
6 20 (6.10%) Legacy Code
7 19 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (5.18%) Virtual Team
9 15 (4.57%) Derivative
10 14 (4.27%) Equities
11 9 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (2.74%) Fixed Income
11 9 (2.74%) Mobile Banking
12 8 (2.44%) Equity Derivative
12 8 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.44%) Onboarding
13 7 (2.13%) e-Learning
13 7 (2.13%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.76%) Linux
2 4 (1.22%) Unix
3 3 (0.91%) Windows
4 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (54.27%) Software Engineering
2 150 (45.73%) CI/CD
2 150 (45.73%) Microservices
3 148 (45.12%) Agile
4 87 (26.52%) DevOps
5 75 (22.87%) Mentoring
6 72 (21.95%) Containerisation
7 66 (20.12%) SDLC
8 65 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (19.82%) TDD
9 62 (18.90%) Roadmaps
10 56 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
11 55 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 50 (15.24%) Computer Science
12 50 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (14.02%) Machine Learning
14 43 (13.11%) BDD
14 43 (13.11%) Fintech
15 39 (11.89%) Data Pipeline
16 37 (11.28%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 162 (49.39%) Java
2 137 (41.77%) Python
3 82 (25.00%) SQL
4 67 (20.43%) JavaScript
5 53 (16.16%) C#
6 41 (12.50%) Go
7 35 (10.67%) C++
8 29 (8.84%) Scala
9 28 (8.54%) Shell Script
10 25 (7.62%) TypeScript
11 24 (7.32%) Rust
12 20 (6.10%) C
13 19 (5.79%) Kotlin
14 13 (3.96%) PowerShell
15 9 (2.74%) Bash
16 7 (2.13%) PHP
17 6 (1.83%) Groovy
18 2 (0.61%) COBOL
19 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (12.50%) Degree
2 32 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 23 (7.01%) PhD
5 20 (6.10%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) CEH
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) OSCP
10 1 (0.30%) SANS
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.49%) GDPR
2 13 (3.96%) QA
3 8 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
4 7 (2.13%) SLA
4 7 (2.13%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.91%) WCAG
6 2 (0.61%) NIST
6 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 108 (32.93%) Docker
2 6 (1.83%) HDFS
3 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.22%) Postfix
4 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.61%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 149 (45.43%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.06%) Terraform
3 25 (7.62%) Kibana
4 18 (5.49%) Ansible
5 9 (2.74%) Grafana
6 8 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.52%) Kubeflow
8 4 (1.22%) Rancher
8 4 (1.22%) vRealize
9 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) Puppet
10 1 (0.30%) Argo
10 1 (0.30%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (9.15%) Dynatrace
1 30 (9.15%) Splunk
2 21 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.05%) Oracle
4 7 (2.13%) Databricks
4 7 (2.13%) Google
5 6 (1.83%) Informatica
5 6 (1.83%) Talend
6 4 (1.22%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.22%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.22%) Foundry
6 4 (1.22%) IBM
6 4 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (1.22%) Palantir
6 4 (1.22%) VMware
7 3 (0.91%) SAP
7 3 (0.91%) Solace
8 2 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.61%) NetApp
8 2 (0.61%) Salesforce