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 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 331 403
Rank change year-on-year +45 +72 -81
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 452 341 445
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.87% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 2.23% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 267 223 329
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £139,500 £148,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +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 20,421 15,302 26,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.39% 39.01% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10,503 7,971 19,598
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,295
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,206 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +11.28% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +56 303 £100,000 +2.56% 180
North of England -20 74 £75,000 +8.09% 45
South East -26 48 £72,500 +16.00% 53
North West +13 47 £75,000 +3.45% 24
Yorkshire -50 25 £75,000 - 13
Midlands -10 14 £74,401 +7.35% 16
South West -16 12 £83,750 - 15
East of England +6 11 £82,500 +13.79% 18
East Midlands -25 11 £100,000 - 7
West Midlands +2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 9
North East -22 2 £60,651 -12.54% 8
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 28 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.10%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.33%) Apache
5 5 (1.11%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.11%) IIS
6 4 (0.88%) Appian
7 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Confluence
8 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.22%) Solana
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 272 (60.18%) AWS
2 156 (34.51%) GCP
3 153 (33.85%) Azure
4 43 (9.51%) Serverless
5 42 (9.29%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (9.07%) SaaS
7 31 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (4.87%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (3.98%) GitHub
11 13 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.43%) Amazon ECR
13 11 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.99%) Datadog
15 9 (1.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.96%) Broadband
2 17 (3.76%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.21%) HTTP
4 6 (1.33%) BGP
4 6 (1.33%) VLAN
4 6 (1.33%) VPN
5 5 (1.11%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.44%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.44%) Multicast
7 1 (0.22%) 4G
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.22%) DNS
7 1 (0.22%) Firewall
7 1 (0.22%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.22%) RTP
7 1 (0.22%) SS7
7 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.06%) NoSQL
2 49 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (6.64%) Relational Database
5 27 (5.97%) Redis
6 26 (5.75%) MongoDB
7 24 (5.31%) Hadoop
8 23 (5.09%) Big Data
9 22 (4.87%) SQL Server
10 19 (4.20%) DynamoDB
11 15 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (2.88%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.88%) MySQL
13 12 (2.65%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.99%) Apache Hive
15 7 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (1.33%) Couchbase
16 6 (1.33%) Neo4j
16 6 (1.33%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 38 (8.41%) Git
2 34 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.54%) JMeter
4 14 (3.10%) GitLab
5 11 (2.43%) JUnit
6 9 (1.99%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.77%) Gatling
8 7 (1.55%) LoadRunner
9 6 (1.33%) Mockito
10 5 (1.11%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.11%) JIRA
10 5 (1.11%) Maven
11 4 (0.88%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.66%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.44%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.44%) Selenium
13 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.44%) WinDbg
14 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 118 (26.11%) Finance
2 92 (20.35%) Social Skills
3 45 (9.96%) Banking
4 37 (8.19%) Law
5 36 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (7.08%) Financial Institution
7 28 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 24 (5.31%) Retail
8 24 (5.31%) Telecoms
9 22 (4.87%) Back Office
10 13 (2.88%) Front Office
11 11 (2.43%) Marketing
12 10 (2.21%) Games
12 10 (2.21%) Polish Language
13 8 (1.77%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.11%) Advertising
14 5 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.88%) Legal
16 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (26.77%) Senior
2 113 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 95 (21.02%) Developer
4 60 (13.27%) Lead
5 38 (8.41%) Java Developer
6 37 (8.19%) Principal Engineer
7 30 (6.64%) Architect
7 30 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (5.09%) Java Engineer
9 22 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (4.87%) Data Engineer
9 22 (4.87%) Scala Engineer
9 22 (4.87%) Senior Developer
10 21 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (4.20%) Backend Developer
12 18 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (3.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 16 (3.54%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.10%) C# Developer
14 14 (3.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (16.59%) Kafka
2 60 (13.27%) REST
3 59 (13.05%) Spring
4 53 (11.73%) Spring Boot
5 52 (11.50%) gRPC
6 50 (11.06%) .NET
7 43 (9.51%) React
8 35 (7.74%) Node.js
8 35 (7.74%) RESTful
9 31 (6.86%) Django
10 22 (4.87%) Web Services
11 19 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (3.54%) FastAPI
12 16 (3.54%) OAuth
13 14 (3.10%) AngularJS
13 14 (3.10%) HTML
13 14 (3.10%) OAuth2
14 12 (2.65%) Hibernate
14 12 (2.65%) JSON
14 12 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 117 (25.88%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.73%) Algorithms
3 41 (9.07%) Data Structures
4 36 (7.96%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (6.42%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.10%) Equities
7 14 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.88%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.65%) Client/Server
9 12 (2.65%) Legacy Code
10 11 (2.43%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.43%) e-Learning
10 11 (2.43%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.99%) Blog
11 9 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.99%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 64 (14.16%) Linux
2 11 (2.43%) Unix
3 9 (1.99%) Android
4 6 (1.33%) Windows
5 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (47.12%) CI/CD
2 210 (46.46%) Microservices
3 206 (45.58%) Software Engineering
4 136 (30.09%) Agile
5 122 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (26.11%) Containerisation
7 109 (24.12%) DevOps
8 96 (21.24%) Computer Science
9 95 (21.02%) Machine Learning
10 92 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (19.69%) AI
12 77 (17.04%) Event-Driven
13 73 (16.15%) Observability
14 70 (15.49%) Clean Code
14 70 (15.49%) Mentoring
14 70 (15.49%) Roadmaps
15 63 (13.94%) Full-Stack Development
16 60 (13.27%) Data Science
17 59 (13.05%) Coaching
18 54 (11.95%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 190 (42.04%) Python
2 172 (38.05%) Java
3 107 (23.67%) Go
4 69 (15.27%) C#
5 61 (13.50%) C++
6 60 (13.27%) SQL
7 52 (11.50%) Scala
8 45 (9.96%) Rust
9 40 (8.85%) JavaScript
10 33 (7.30%) TypeScript
11 26 (5.75%) C
12 10 (2.21%) Bash
13 9 (1.99%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.33%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.11%) R
16 4 (0.88%) Groovy
16 4 (0.88%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.66%) Ruby
18 2 (0.44%) COBOL
19 1 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (19.25%) Degree
2 63 (13.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.53%) Master's Degree
4 23 (5.09%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.10%) PhD
5 14 (3.10%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.11%) MBA
9 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.22%) ISEB
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.31%) QA
2 12 (2.65%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.65%) SOC 2
3 8 (1.77%) GDPR
4 5 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.88%) SLA
6 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 147 (32.52%) Docker
2 12 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
3 11 (2.43%) Hyper-V
3 11 (2.43%) KVM
3 11 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.66%) HDFS
6 2 (0.44%) Ceph
6 2 (0.44%) Lustre
6 2 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 137 (30.31%) Kubernetes
2 50 (11.06%) Terraform
3 28 (6.19%) Ansible
4 15 (3.32%) Grafana
5 14 (3.10%) Kibana
6 11 (2.43%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.88%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.88%) logstash
8 2 (0.44%) Argo
9 1 (0.22%) Graylog
9 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (7.52%) Typelevel
2 23 (5.09%) Google
3 14 (3.10%) Dynatrace
4 13 (2.88%) Databricks
5 11 (2.43%) VMware
6 9 (1.99%) Splunk
7 7 (1.55%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.55%) Oracle
8 6 (1.33%) Dell
8 6 (1.33%) Informatica
8 6 (1.33%) Talend
9 5 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.11%) BT
9 5 (1.11%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.11%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.11%) Nokia
9 5 (1.11%) Pega
9 5 (1.11%) WSO2
10 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.88%) Solace