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 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 346 377
Rank change year-on-year +105 +31 +16
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 717 341 503
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.80% 0.78% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.12% 1.87% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 437 196 295
10th Percentile £54,500 £63,065 £48,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £71,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £136,250 £145,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -8.57%

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 22,987 18,192 25,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.88% 33.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,162 9,180 16,506
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,777
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,511 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +3.60% -14.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% +3.64% -14.06%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +64 430 £95,000 -13.64% 410
North of England +21 120 £75,000 -3.85% 64
North West +50 83 £82,500 -2.94% 37
South East +2 83 £63,500 -15.33% 67
Midlands -25 30 £80,000 +6.67% 18
South West -40 30 £85,000 -12.82% 20
West Midlands -11 20 £85,000 +17.24% 14
Yorkshire -41 19 £75,000 -3.23% 9
North East -37 18 £60,000 -34.92% 18
East of England -1 17 £76,250 - 13
East Midlands -31 10 £76,000 -1.94% 4
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 (2.37%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.98%) Apache
3 5 (0.70%) Apache Pig
3 5 (0.70%) Camunda
3 5 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.56%) Confluence
4 4 (0.56%) JBoss
5 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.42%) IIS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.28%) nginx
6 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) Solana
7 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 396 (55.23%) AWS
2 226 (31.52%) Azure
3 157 (21.90%) GCP
4 77 (10.74%) Serverless
5 49 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (6.69%) SaaS
7 43 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (5.44%) GitHub
9 37 (5.16%) Amazon S3
9 37 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (2.79%) Datadog
13 20 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (2.23%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (2.09%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 81 (11.30%) Broadband
2 15 (2.09%) HTTP
3 9 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.84%) Internet
5 5 (0.70%) DNS
5 5 (0.70%) Firewall
6 4 (0.56%) MQTT
7 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 2 (0.28%) AMQP
8 2 (0.28%) VoIP
9 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.14%) FTP
9 1 (0.14%) LTE
9 1 (0.14%) Network Security
9 1 (0.14%) SCTP
9 1 (0.14%) SMS
9 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.14%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) VPN
9 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (10.32%) NoSQL
3 57 (7.95%) MongoDB
4 31 (4.32%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (3.63%) MySQL
6 26 (3.63%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.21%) DynamoDB
8 22 (3.07%) Redis
9 20 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.53%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.53%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.39%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.26%) Big Data
12 9 (1.26%) Metadata
13 6 (0.84%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.70%) Flink
14 5 (0.70%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (0.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 68 (9.48%) Git
2 56 (7.81%) GitLab
3 47 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 37 (5.16%) Cucumber
5 23 (3.21%) JUnit
6 19 (2.65%) JMeter
7 16 (2.23%) JIRA
8 12 (1.67%) LoadRunner
9 11 (1.53%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.53%) Gatling
10 10 (1.39%) Mockito
11 8 (1.12%) Spock
12 6 (0.84%) Selenium
13 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.56%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.42%) MLflow
15 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
15 3 (0.42%) WinDbg
16 2 (0.28%) Jaeger
General
1 161 (22.45%) Finance
2 131 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 47 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (5.72%) Banking
6 29 (4.04%) Games
7 27 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 27 (3.77%) Retail
8 26 (3.63%) Financial Institution
8 26 (3.63%) Law
9 17 (2.37%) Front Office
10 15 (2.09%) Back Office
11 13 (1.81%) Advertising
12 9 (1.26%) Polish Language
13 8 (1.12%) Marketing
14 7 (0.98%) Electronics
14 7 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (24.83%) Senior
2 162 (22.59%) Developer
3 138 (19.25%) Software Engineer
4 85 (11.85%) Lead
5 75 (10.46%) Principal Engineer
6 68 (9.48%) Java Engineer
7 58 (8.09%) Architect
8 53 (7.39%) Senior Developer
9 40 (5.58%) Backend Developer
9 40 (5.58%) Python Developer
9 40 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (5.16%) Python Engineer
11 31 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 30 (4.18%) Scala Engineer
13 28 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.63%) Java Developer
15 24 (3.35%) Principal Java Engineer
16 19 (2.65%) Data Engineer
16 19 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (2.65%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (15.90%) .NET
2 110 (15.34%) Kafka
3 103 (14.37%) Spring
4 92 (12.83%) React
5 90 (12.55%) REST
6 87 (12.13%) Spring Boot
7 72 (10.04%) RESTful
8 53 (7.39%) Node.js
9 47 (6.56%) gRPC
10 36 (5.02%) RabbitMQ
11 33 (4.60%) AngularJS
12 23 (3.21%) OAuth
13 22 (3.07%) JSON
13 22 (3.07%) OAuth2
14 21 (2.93%) ASP.NET
15 20 (2.79%) LangChain
16 19 (2.65%) Django
16 19 (2.65%) FastAPI
17 17 (2.37%) Web Services
18 16 (2.23%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 233 (32.50%) Cloud Native
2 71 (9.90%) Video\Live Streaming
3 48 (6.69%) Algorithms
4 45 (6.28%) Over-the-Top Content
5 43 (6.00%) Data Structures
6 34 (4.74%) AI Agents
6 34 (4.74%) Public Cloud
7 28 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (3.91%) Low-Code
8 27 (3.77%) e-Learning
9 23 (3.21%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (2.37%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.23%) Equities
12 15 (2.09%) Life Science
13 13 (1.81%) Client/Server
13 13 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.34%) Linux
2 14 (1.95%) Windows
3 7 (0.98%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Debian
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (59.55%) CI/CD
2 362 (50.49%) Software Engineering
3 325 (45.33%) Microservices
4 250 (34.87%) AI
5 210 (29.29%) Observability
6 208 (29.01%) Agile
7 203 (28.31%) DevOps
7 203 (28.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 178 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (23.99%) Event-Driven
10 170 (23.71%) Containerisation
11 163 (22.73%) Test Automation
12 161 (22.45%) Mentoring
13 160 (22.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 149 (20.78%) Machine Learning
15 114 (15.90%) Clean Code
15 114 (15.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 110 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
17 89 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
18 88 (12.27%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 341 (47.56%) Python
2 211 (29.43%) Java
3 139 (19.39%) SQL
4 118 (16.46%) Go
5 110 (15.34%) C#
6 97 (13.53%) TypeScript
7 92 (12.83%) JavaScript
8 55 (7.67%) C++
9 51 (7.11%) Scala
10 30 (4.18%) Rust
11 20 (2.79%) Bash
12 14 (1.95%) C
13 11 (1.53%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.39%) PHP
15 8 (1.12%) Bicep
15 8 (1.12%) Groovy
16 7 (0.98%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.70%) Perl
18 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (11.30%) Degree
2 48 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 47 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.18%) SC Cleared
6 27 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.67%) PhD
8 9 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) HND
10 1 (0.14%) ISEB
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.09%) QA
2 9 (1.26%) GDPR
3 8 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.84%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 189 (26.36%) Docker
2 14 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.53%) KVM
5 6 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 173 (24.13%) Kubernetes
2 120 (16.74%) Terraform
3 31 (4.32%) Ansible
4 23 (3.21%) Grafana
5 17 (2.37%) Kibana
6 15 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.84%) Argo
8 4 (0.56%) Packer
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.42%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) Graylog
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.14%) Podman
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.28%) Typelevel
3 32 (4.46%) Google
4 23 (3.21%) AppDynamics
4 23 (3.21%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.51%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.51%) Oracle
6 17 (2.37%) Splunk
7 14 (1.95%) VMware
8 11 (1.53%) IBM
9 8 (1.12%) Databricks
9 8 (1.12%) Solace
10 7 (0.98%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.56%) Facebook
11 4 (0.56%) Instagram
11 4 (0.56%) TikTok
12 3 (0.42%) Adobe
13 2 (0.28%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.28%) TIBCO
13 2 (0.28%) WSO2