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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 343 337
Rank change year-on-year +94 -6 +53
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 758 328 520
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.75% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.95% 1.80% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 445 186 305
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,625 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £121,250 £138,750 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +16.13% -3.13%

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 25,695 18,237 22,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.76% 41.93% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,910 9,263 12,082
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,744 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,020
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +53 452 £95,000 -13.64% 595
North of England +20 132 £75,000 -5.36% 99
North West +46 85 £80,000 -8.57% 55
South East +12 80 £63,500 -15.33% 47
South West -52 32 £95,000 -2.56% 54
North East -33 29 £67,500 -41.30% 15
Midlands -37 27 £80,000 +6.67% 23
East of England -5 25 £80,000 -20.00% 18
West Midlands -17 22 £85,000 +13.33% 17
Yorkshire -53 18 £75,000 -2.28% 29
East Midlands -28 5 £76,000 -1.94% 6
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 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.19%) Apache
3 6 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.79%) Camunda
3 6 (0.79%) Confluence
4 5 (0.66%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.53%) JBoss
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Solana
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 402 (53.03%) AWS
2 235 (31.00%) Azure
3 141 (18.60%) GCP
4 73 (9.63%) Serverless
5 65 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (6.20%) SaaS
7 45 (5.94%) GitHub
8 41 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 37 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (2.51%) Datadog
14 19 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (2.24%) Amazon Bedrock
16 17 (2.24%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.26%) Broadband
2 14 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.58%) HTTP
4 6 (0.79%) DNS
4 6 (0.79%) Internet
5 4 (0.53%) DHCP
5 4 (0.53%) Firewall
5 4 (0.53%) MQTT
6 3 (0.40%) Multicast
6 3 (0.40%) X.509
7 2 (0.26%) AMQP
7 2 (0.26%) LTE
7 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.26%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) Network Security
8 1 (0.13%) SCTP
8 1 (0.13%) SMS
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (12.80%) NoSQL
2 89 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (7.92%) MongoDB
4 36 (4.75%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 24 (3.17%) MySQL
7 23 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (2.90%) Redis
9 19 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.32%) Metadata
11 9 (1.19%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.19%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.19%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.06%) Big Data
12 8 (1.06%) Flink
13 6 (0.79%) Couchbase
13 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.79%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.66%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (10.29%) Git
2 72 (9.50%) GitLab
3 51 (6.73%) Jenkins
4 49 (6.46%) Cucumber
5 29 (3.83%) JUnit
6 19 (2.51%) JIRA
7 16 (2.11%) JMeter
8 13 (1.72%) Mockito
9 12 (1.58%) Spock
10 11 (1.45%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.19%) LoadRunner
12 8 (1.06%) Gatling
12 8 (1.06%) Maven
13 7 (0.92%) Selenium
14 5 (0.66%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.53%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.53%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.53%) MLflow
16 2 (0.26%) HP UFT
General
1 201 (26.52%) Finance
2 171 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 64 (8.44%) Banking
4 52 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.75%) Law
7 32 (4.22%) Financial Institution
8 30 (3.96%) Retail
9 29 (3.83%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.69%) Games
11 20 (2.64%) Front Office
12 17 (2.24%) Back Office
13 13 (1.72%) Marketing
14 10 (1.32%) Advertising
15 9 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.92%) Polish Language
17 6 (0.79%) Electronics
17 6 (0.79%) Legal
18 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 209 (27.57%) Senior
2 176 (23.22%) Developer
3 150 (19.79%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.19%) Lead
5 82 (10.82%) Java Engineer
6 81 (10.69%) Principal Engineer
7 54 (7.12%) Architect
8 53 (6.99%) Senior Developer
9 51 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
10 45 (5.94%) Backend Developer
11 41 (5.41%) Python Engineer
12 40 (5.28%) Python Developer
13 39 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 37 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 31 (4.09%) Java Developer
15 31 (4.09%) Senior Java Engineer
16 26 (3.43%) Principal Java Engineer
17 21 (2.77%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (2.77%) Principal Software Engineer
18 19 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (18.87%) Kafka
2 136 (17.94%) Terraform
3 132 (17.41%) Spring
4 131 (17.28%) .NET
5 113 (14.91%) REST
6 109 (14.38%) Spring Boot
7 99 (13.06%) React
8 94 (12.40%) RESTful
9 60 (7.92%) Node.js
10 47 (6.20%) AngularJS
11 42 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.17%) OAuth
13 23 (3.03%) LangChain
14 22 (2.90%) Next.js
14 22 (2.90%) OAuth2
15 21 (2.77%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.77%) gRPC
15 21 (2.77%) JSON
16 20 (2.64%) FastAPI
17 17 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 273 (36.02%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.07%) AI Agents
2 46 (6.07%) Public Cloud
3 44 (5.80%) Video\Live Streaming
4 38 (5.01%) e-Learning
5 36 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (4.49%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.69%) Data Structures
7 28 (3.69%) Low-Code
7 28 (3.69%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 21 (2.77%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (2.37%) IoT
9 18 (2.37%) Over-the-Top Content
10 17 (2.24%) Equities
11 16 (2.11%) Private Cloud
12 15 (1.98%) Life Science
13 13 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.72%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.18%) Linux
2 12 (1.58%) Unix
2 12 (1.58%) Windows
3 5 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (0.66%) VMS
4 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Android
5 2 (0.26%) Debian
5 2 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (59.89%) CI/CD
2 389 (51.32%) Software Engineering
3 349 (46.04%) Microservices
4 290 (38.26%) AI
5 249 (32.85%) Observability
6 239 (31.53%) Agile
7 229 (30.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 228 (30.08%) Event-Driven
9 212 (27.97%) DevOps
10 198 (26.12%) Mentoring
11 196 (25.86%) Test Automation
12 172 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 154 (20.32%) Containerisation
14 150 (19.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 150 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
15 130 (17.15%) Machine Learning
16 122 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
17 103 (13.59%) Clean Code
18 101 (13.32%) Technical Leadership
19 93 (12.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 324 (42.74%) Python
2 257 (33.91%) Java
3 168 (22.16%) SQL
4 121 (15.96%) TypeScript
5 120 (15.83%) C#
6 109 (14.38%) Go
7 102 (13.46%) JavaScript
8 41 (5.41%) C++
9 26 (3.43%) Scala
10 23 (3.03%) Bash
11 18 (2.37%) Rust
12 11 (1.45%) Groovy
12 11 (1.45%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.32%) C
14 9 (1.19%) Bicep
14 9 (1.19%) PHP
14 9 (1.19%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.66%) Perl
16 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (9.63%) Degree
2 69 (9.10%) Security Cleared
3 44 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 43 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 41 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (5.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.19%) PhD
9 6 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CSPO
12 1 (0.13%) HND
12 1 (0.13%) ISEB
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.58%) QA
2 9 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.92%) GDPR
3 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) PSD2
6 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (22.96%) Docker
2 12 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.66%) KVM
7 3 (0.40%) Firmware
8 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 189 (24.93%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.83%) Ansible
3 26 (3.43%) Grafana
4 18 (2.37%) Kibana
5 16 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.92%) Argo
7 4 (0.53%) Packer
7 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) Bosun
9 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 83 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.33%) Google
3 27 (3.56%) OpenAI
4 26 (3.43%) AppDynamics
5 20 (2.64%) Oracle
5 20 (2.64%) Splunk
6 18 (2.37%) Typelevel
7 15 (1.98%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.45%) IBM
9 8 (1.06%) Databricks
9 8 (1.06%) VMware
10 7 (0.92%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.66%) Solace
12 4 (0.53%) Adobe
12 4 (0.53%) Facebook
12 4 (0.53%) Instagram
12 4 (0.53%) TikTok
13 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.26%) New Relic
14 2 (0.26%) Okta