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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 318 343
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 -54
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 347 433 369
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.87% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 2.34% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 231 284 276
10th Percentile £62,500 £51,775 £46,350
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £152,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -5.88%

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 18,651 18,477 16,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.86% 37.26% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,385 8,842 12,539
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,150 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -2 236 £112,500 +15.38% 323
North of England +9 64 £75,000 +10.29% 115
North West +43 35 £73,801 +6.48% 62
South East +1 34 £68,750 +14.58% 114
Yorkshire -33 28 £75,000 +33.93% 43
East of England +24 12 £82,500 +13.79% 68
Midlands +19 12 £75,000 +8.21% 62
West Midlands +11 6 £75,000 +8.21% 34
East Midlands -2 6 £77,500 - 24
South West +1 5 £82,500 -12.93% 39
North East +6 1 £73,801 +6.48% 11
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 46 (13.26%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.32%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.88%) Apache
5 5 (1.44%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.44%) Confluence
5 5 (1.44%) IIS
6 4 (1.15%) Appian
7 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.58%) Luigi
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.29%) CMS
9 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 204 (58.79%) AWS
2 135 (38.90%) Azure
3 100 (28.82%) GCP
4 56 (16.14%) Serverless
5 42 (12.10%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (11.53%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (8.65%) SaaS
8 22 (6.34%) Amazon S3
9 20 (5.76%) GitHub
10 19 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.90%) Amazon Kinesis
11 17 (4.90%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.17%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (3.17%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.17%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.15%) HTTP
2 4 (1.15%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.86%) BGP
3 3 (0.86%) VLAN
3 3 (0.86%) VPN
4 2 (0.58%) AMQP
4 2 (0.58%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.58%) Multicast
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.87%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (17.29%) NoSQL
3 41 (11.82%) Relational Database
4 38 (10.95%) Hadoop
5 37 (10.66%) Big Data
6 32 (9.22%) MongoDB
7 27 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (7.49%) DynamoDB
9 25 (7.20%) SQL Server
10 23 (6.63%) RDBMS
11 22 (6.34%) Redis
12 17 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (4.32%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (4.32%) MySQL
15 13 (3.75%) Apache Hive
16 12 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (3.17%) DataStage
17 11 (3.17%) Neo4j
17 11 (3.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 42 (12.10%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.24%) Git
3 17 (4.90%) JMeter
3 17 (4.90%) JUnit
4 15 (4.32%) GitLab
5 12 (3.46%) Mockito
6 9 (2.59%) JIRA
7 4 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.15%) Maven
7 4 (1.15%) Postman
7 4 (1.15%) Selenium
7 4 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.86%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.86%) MLflow
8 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.58%) JConsole
9 2 (0.58%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (28.24%) Finance
2 84 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.09%) Banking
5 34 (9.80%) Financial Institution
6 26 (7.49%) Public Sector
7 25 (7.20%) Law
8 22 (6.34%) Telecoms
9 18 (5.19%) Retail
10 17 (4.90%) Front Office
11 13 (3.75%) Marketing
12 12 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.88%) Back Office
14 8 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.73%) Games
15 6 (1.73%) Legal
16 5 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (1.15%) Investment Banking
17 4 (1.15%) Polish Language
18 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (29.39%) Developer
2 99 (28.53%) Senior
3 76 (21.90%) Software Engineer
4 64 (18.44%) Lead
5 52 (14.99%) Java Developer
6 31 (8.93%) Principal Engineer
7 25 (7.20%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (6.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (6.05%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 19 (5.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 19 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (5.19%) Lead Developer
14 17 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (4.90%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 17 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
15 14 (4.03%) C# Developer
15 14 (4.03%) Principal Software Engineer
16 13 (3.75%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (27.09%) Kafka
2 61 (17.58%) REST
3 60 (17.29%) Spring
4 55 (15.85%) Spring Boot
5 52 (14.99%) React
6 50 (14.41%) .NET
7 37 (10.66%) Node.js
8 34 (9.80%) RESTful
9 27 (7.78%) Django
9 27 (7.78%) Web Services
10 23 (6.63%) HTML
11 21 (6.05%) gRPC
12 19 (5.48%) JSON
13 18 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (5.19%) FastAPI
13 18 (5.19%) Hibernate
14 17 (4.90%) AngularJS
15 16 (4.61%) Apache Camel
15 16 (4.61%) OAuth
15 16 (4.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (32.28%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.39%) Algorithms
3 36 (10.37%) Product Ownership
4 28 (8.07%) Data Structures
5 18 (5.19%) Equities
6 17 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.90%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (4.61%) Legacy Code
8 13 (3.75%) e-Learning
8 13 (3.75%) Public Cloud
9 12 (3.46%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (2.88%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.31%) Virtual Team
12 7 (2.02%) Data Centre
12 7 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (1.15%) Hackathon
14 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.26%) Linux
2 12 (3.46%) Unix
3 9 (2.59%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (47.84%) Microservices
2 162 (46.69%) CI/CD
3 133 (38.33%) Software Engineering
4 128 (36.89%) Agile
5 103 (29.68%) DevOps
6 90 (25.94%) Containerisation
7 83 (23.92%) AI
8 79 (22.77%) Mentoring
9 78 (22.48%) Computer Science
10 74 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 73 (21.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 67 (19.31%) Machine Learning
13 65 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (18.73%) Roadmaps
14 61 (17.58%) Event-Driven
15 56 (16.14%) Low Latency
15 56 (16.14%) TDD
16 55 (15.85%) Analytics
17 53 (15.27%) Observability
18 51 (14.70%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 171 (49.28%) Java
2 155 (44.67%) Python
3 72 (20.75%) SQL
4 66 (19.02%) Go
5 60 (17.29%) C#
6 48 (13.83%) JavaScript
7 42 (12.10%) TypeScript
8 31 (8.93%) C++
8 31 (8.93%) Scala
9 19 (5.48%) Rust
10 18 (5.19%) C
11 15 (4.32%) Bash
12 13 (3.75%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.88%) Kotlin
14 8 (2.31%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.44%) R
16 4 (1.15%) Groovy
17 2 (0.58%) COBOL
17 2 (0.58%) Ruby
18 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 72 (20.75%) Degree
2 43 (12.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.78%) Master's Degree
4 24 (6.92%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.76%) PhD
6 10 (2.88%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.44%) MBA
9 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.61%) QA
2 14 (4.03%) GDPR
3 9 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.02%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.02%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.15%) SLA
8 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.86%) WCAG
9 2 (0.58%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 108 (31.12%) Docker
2 14 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (4.03%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.59%) HDFS
4 5 (1.44%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.58%) Ceph
6 2 (0.58%) Lustre
6 2 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 139 (40.06%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.82%) Terraform
3 31 (8.93%) Ansible
4 16 (4.61%) Kibana
5 12 (3.46%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.17%) Grafana
7 5 (1.44%) logstash
8 4 (1.15%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.15%) Rancher
8 4 (1.15%) vRealize
9 3 (0.86%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.58%) Puppet
10 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (5.48%) Google
2 18 (5.19%) Databricks
3 16 (4.61%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.75%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.75%) Oracle
4 13 (3.75%) Splunk
5 11 (3.17%) Informatica
5 11 (3.17%) Talend
6 6 (1.73%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.44%) BT
7 5 (1.44%) Dell
7 5 (1.44%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.44%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.44%) Nokia
7 5 (1.44%) SAP
8 4 (1.15%) Pega
8 4 (1.15%) VMware
8 4 (1.15%) WSO2
9 3 (0.86%) Solace
10 2 (0.58%) Confluent