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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 347 416
Rank change year-on-year +77 +69 -23
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 639 351 529
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.83% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 1.98% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 389 200 321
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £69,688 £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 £103,750 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £125,250 £140,677 £150,000
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 22,090 17,737 30,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.59% 41.93% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14,617 8,795 20,539
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,498
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,475 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -14.10%

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 5 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 5 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 +54 387 £95,000 -13.64% 325
North of England +11 114 £80,000 - 64
North West +39 82 £88,750 +7.58% 39
South East -14 76 £66,250 -5.36% 58
Midlands -18 22 £87,500 +16.67% 18
South West -47 22 £85,000 -12.82% 27
Yorkshire -41 18 £75,000 -4.46% 12
North East -35 14 £63,750 -30.85% 13
West Midlands -14 13 £87,500 +20.69% 9
East of England -6 12 £72,500 - 12
East Midlands -23 9 £72,000 -5.57% 9
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 13 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.78%) Apache
2 5 (0.78%) Confluence
2 5 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.63%) JBoss
4 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.47%) Apache Pig
4 3 (0.47%) IIS
4 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.31%) Camunda
5 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.16%) Solana
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.31%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 367 (57.43%) AWS
2 198 (30.99%) Azure
3 147 (23.00%) GCP
4 75 (11.74%) Serverless
5 50 (7.82%) SaaS
6 43 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (5.48%) Amazon S3
10 33 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (5.16%) GitHub
11 31 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (2.82%) Datadog
16 16 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (2.35%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (2.19%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 82 (12.83%) Broadband
2 13 (2.03%) HTTP
3 11 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.78%) DNS
4 5 (0.78%) Firewall
5 4 (0.63%) Internet
6 3 (0.47%) BGP
6 3 (0.47%) DHCP
6 3 (0.47%) VLAN
6 3 (0.47%) VoIP
6 3 (0.47%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) Diameter Protocol
7 2 (0.31%) MQTT
7 2 (0.31%) RTP
7 2 (0.31%) SS7
8 1 (0.16%) 5G
8 1 (0.16%) DMARC
8 1 (0.16%) RS-232
8 1 (0.16%) RS-485
8 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (8.61%) NoSQL
3 50 (7.82%) MongoDB
4 26 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (3.91%) Relational Database
6 23 (3.60%) MySQL
6 23 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 22 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.66%) Redis
10 13 (2.03%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.56%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.25%) Big Data
13 7 (1.10%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.10%) Metadata
14 5 (0.78%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.63%) Apache Hive
15 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 60 (9.39%) Git
2 45 (7.04%) GitLab
3 44 (6.89%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.16%) Cucumber
5 18 (2.82%) JMeter
6 16 (2.50%) JIRA
6 16 (2.50%) JUnit
7 13 (2.03%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.56%) Gatling
8 10 (1.56%) LoadRunner
9 7 (1.10%) Mockito
10 5 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.63%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.63%) Spock
12 3 (0.47%) Selenium
12 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.47%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
General
1 152 (23.79%) Finance
2 109 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 41 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.10%) Banking
5 36 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.01%) Games
7 28 (4.38%) Retail
8 27 (4.23%) Financial Institution
8 27 (4.23%) Law
9 24 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.97%) Back Office
11 12 (1.88%) Front Office
12 11 (1.72%) Polish Language
13 9 (1.41%) Advertising
14 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.78%) Electronics
16 5 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 151 (23.63%) Senior
2 145 (22.69%) Developer
3 122 (19.09%) Software Engineer
4 70 (10.95%) Principal Engineer
5 68 (10.64%) Lead
6 57 (8.92%) Java Engineer
7 54 (8.45%) Architect
8 46 (7.20%) Senior Developer
9 34 (5.32%) Backend Developer
9 34 (5.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 30 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 30 (4.69%) Python Developer
10 30 (4.69%) Python Engineer
10 30 (4.69%) Scala Engineer
11 24 (3.76%) Java Developer
12 21 (3.29%) Principal Java Engineer
13 18 (2.82%) Lead Developer
13 18 (2.82%) Test Engineer
14 17 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (15.18%) .NET
2 86 (13.46%) Kafka
3 79 (12.36%) Spring
4 76 (11.89%) React
4 76 (11.89%) REST
5 70 (10.95%) Spring Boot
6 61 (9.55%) RESTful
7 47 (7.36%) gRPC
8 42 (6.57%) Node.js
9 29 (4.54%) RabbitMQ
10 24 (3.76%) AngularJS
11 21 (3.29%) JSON
12 19 (2.97%) ASP.NET
12 19 (2.97%) OAuth
13 18 (2.82%) Django
13 18 (2.82%) OAuth2
14 17 (2.66%) LangChain
14 17 (2.66%) Web Services
15 15 (2.35%) ASP.NET Core
15 15 (2.35%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 204 (31.92%) Cloud Native
2 72 (11.27%) Video\Live Streaming
3 47 (7.36%) Algorithms
4 46 (7.20%) Over-the-Top Content
5 44 (6.89%) Data Structures
6 30 (4.69%) AI Agents
6 30 (4.69%) Public Cloud
7 27 (4.23%) Low-Code
8 24 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (3.60%) e-Learning
10 19 (2.97%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.66%) Client/Server
12 16 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (2.35%) Life Science
14 14 (2.19%) Equities
14 14 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (2.03%) Onboarding
16 10 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 9 (1.41%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.70%) Linux
2 16 (2.50%) Windows
3 3 (0.47%) Unix
3 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.16%) Debian
4 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (56.18%) CI/CD
2 321 (50.23%) Software Engineering
3 285 (44.60%) Microservices
4 204 (31.92%) AI
5 182 (28.48%) Agile
6 175 (27.39%) Observability
7 173 (27.07%) DevOps
7 173 (27.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 171 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
9 154 (24.10%) Containerisation
10 150 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 145 (22.69%) Test Automation
12 143 (22.38%) Event-Driven
13 135 (21.13%) Machine Learning
14 133 (20.81%) Mentoring
15 105 (16.43%) Clean Code
16 93 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 90 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
18 88 (13.77%) Computer Science
19 84 (13.15%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 308 (48.20%) Python
2 180 (28.17%) Java
3 117 (18.31%) SQL
4 113 (17.68%) Go
5 101 (15.81%) C#
6 80 (12.52%) TypeScript
7 76 (11.89%) JavaScript
8 56 (8.76%) C++
9 50 (7.82%) Scala
10 37 (5.79%) Rust
11 17 (2.66%) Bash
11 17 (2.66%) C
12 10 (1.56%) PHP
13 9 (1.41%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.25%) Bicep
15 7 (1.10%) Groovy
16 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.78%) Perl
18 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
19 3 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (12.99%) Degree
2 50 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (6.26%) Security Cleared
4 29 (4.54%) SC Cleared
5 28 (4.38%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (2.66%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.03%) PhD
9 5 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.16%) HND
11 1 (0.16%) ISEB
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.76%) QA
2 11 (1.72%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.41%) GDPR
4 7 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.16%) NIST
8 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 166 (25.98%) Docker
2 17 (2.66%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.19%) KVM
4 10 (1.56%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 152 (23.79%) Kubernetes
2 108 (16.90%) Terraform
3 29 (4.54%) Ansible
4 20 (3.13%) Grafana
5 15 (2.35%) Kibana
6 14 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.94%) Argo
8 4 (0.63%) Packer
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.47%) SCCM
10 1 (0.16%) Graylog
10 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 58 (9.08%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.04%) Typelevel
3 20 (3.13%) Google
4 17 (2.66%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.66%) Oracle
4 17 (2.66%) VMware
5 16 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 16 (2.50%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.03%) Splunk
7 9 (1.41%) IBM
8 7 (1.10%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.10%) Solace
9 6 (0.94%) Databricks
10 3 (0.47%) Adobe
11 2 (0.31%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.31%) Pega
11 2 (0.31%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.31%) WSO2
12 1 (0.16%) ServiceNow