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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 363 416
Rank change year-on-year +93 +53 -37
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 566 293 483
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.77% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.52% 1.78% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 324 186 321
10th Percentile £56,625 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £69,688 £67,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,125 £140,677 £147,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +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 22,425 16,424 29,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.04% 43.26% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13,027 7,749 20,875
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +80 344 £97,500 -7.14% 258
North of England +6 100 £80,000 +1.91% 56
South East +17 81 £67,500 +3.85% 60
North West +24 68 £95,000 +19.87% 38
Yorkshire -46 22 £75,000 -3.23% 5
Midlands -24 19 £87,500 +16.67% 13
South West -48 15 £94,000 -3.59% 29
East of England -17 10 £77,500 - 10
West Midlands -34 10 £87,500 +20.69% 9
North East -34 10 £60,000 -34.92% 13
East Midlands -29 9 £86,000 +10.26% 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 15 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.30%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.41%) IIS
4 5 (0.88%) Apache
5 4 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.71%) Confluence
5 4 (0.71%) JBoss
6 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.18%) Solana
8 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 334 (59.01%) AWS
2 180 (31.80%) Azure
3 155 (27.39%) GCP
4 65 (11.48%) Serverless
5 44 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (7.24%) SaaS
7 33 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (5.12%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (4.24%) GitHub
10 21 (3.71%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (3.18%) Datadog
13 15 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 71 (12.54%) Broadband
2 12 (2.12%) HTTP
3 9 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.88%) DNS
4 5 (0.88%) Firewall
5 3 (0.53%) BGP
5 3 (0.53%) DHCP
5 3 (0.53%) VLAN
5 3 (0.53%) VPN
6 2 (0.35%) VoIP
7 1 (0.18%) 4G
7 1 (0.18%) 5G
7 1 (0.18%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
7 1 (0.18%) RTP
7 1 (0.18%) SMS
7 1 (0.18%) SS7
7 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (9.01%) NoSQL
3 43 (7.60%) MongoDB
4 32 (5.65%) Relational Database
5 27 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (3.71%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.36%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.83%) BigQuery
9 15 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.65%) Big Data
9 15 (2.65%) MySQL
10 14 (2.47%) Redis
11 13 (2.30%) Hadoop
12 10 (1.77%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.06%) Tableau
15 5 (0.88%) Data Mining
16 4 (0.71%) DataStage
16 4 (0.71%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 57 (10.07%) Git
2 51 (9.01%) Jenkins
3 36 (6.36%) GitLab
4 24 (4.24%) Cucumber
5 17 (3.00%) JMeter
6 16 (2.83%) JIRA
7 14 (2.47%) JUnit
8 10 (1.77%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.77%) Gatling
9 9 (1.59%) LoadRunner
10 7 (1.24%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.88%) Mockito
12 4 (0.71%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.53%) Maven
13 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.53%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.35%) Selenium
14 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 142 (25.09%) Finance
2 95 (16.78%) Social Skills
3 44 (7.77%) Banking
4 43 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.01%) Law
7 28 (4.95%) Financial Institution
8 26 (4.59%) Public Sector
9 25 (4.42%) Retail
10 23 (4.06%) Games
11 21 (3.71%) Back Office
12 12 (2.12%) Front Office
13 11 (1.94%) Polish Language
14 9 (1.59%) Advertising
14 9 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.24%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.88%) Marketing
17 5 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (23.85%) Senior
2 133 (23.50%) Developer
3 114 (20.14%) Software Engineer
4 55 (9.72%) Principal Engineer
5 54 (9.54%) Architect
5 54 (9.54%) Lead
6 45 (7.95%) Java Engineer
7 43 (7.60%) Senior Developer
8 34 (6.01%) Java Developer
9 32 (5.65%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.30%) Scala Engineer
11 25 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.06%) Python Engineer
13 20 (3.53%) Python Developer
14 18 (3.18%) Data Engineer
14 18 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 16 (2.83%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 16 (2.83%) Principal Java Engineer
16 16 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (15.72%) Kafka
2 76 (13.43%) .NET
2 76 (13.43%) Spring
3 73 (12.90%) REST
4 67 (11.84%) Spring Boot
5 52 (9.19%) gRPC
5 52 (9.19%) RESTful
6 51 (9.01%) React
7 40 (7.07%) Node.js
8 26 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
9 25 (4.42%) Web Services
10 23 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (3.71%) JSON
12 20 (3.53%) Django
13 19 (3.36%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.83%) OAuth
15 15 (2.65%) ASP.NET
15 15 (2.65%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.30%) XML
17 12 (2.12%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 152 (26.86%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.13%) Video\Live Streaming
3 49 (8.66%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.30%) Over-the-Top Content
5 43 (7.60%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.24%) Public Cloud
7 21 (3.71%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.53%) AI Agents
9 17 (3.00%) Client/Server
9 17 (3.00%) e-Learning
9 17 (3.00%) Equities
9 17 (3.00%) Low-Code
10 16 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (2.12%) Life Science
13 11 (1.94%) Blog
14 8 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 54 (9.54%) Linux
2 16 (2.83%) Windows
3 3 (0.53%) Android
3 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Debian
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (54.59%) CI/CD
2 261 (46.11%) Software Engineering
3 258 (45.58%) Microservices
4 167 (29.51%) Agile
5 150 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (26.15%) AI
7 142 (25.09%) Containerisation
8 139 (24.56%) DevOps
9 135 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 130 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 129 (22.79%) Observability
12 120 (21.20%) Machine Learning
13 116 (20.49%) Event-Driven
14 106 (18.73%) Test Automation
15 96 (16.96%) Mentoring
16 94 (16.61%) Computer Science
17 91 (16.08%) Clean Code
18 73 (12.90%) Data Science
19 71 (12.54%) Full-Stack Development
20 70 (12.37%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 267 (47.17%) Python
2 178 (31.45%) Java
3 108 (19.08%) Go
4 88 (15.55%) SQL
5 86 (15.19%) C#
6 73 (12.90%) JavaScript
7 58 (10.25%) Scala
8 57 (10.07%) TypeScript
9 54 (9.54%) C++
10 37 (6.54%) Rust
11 15 (2.65%) Bash
11 15 (2.65%) C
12 9 (1.59%) Groovy
12 9 (1.59%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.41%) Bicep
14 6 (1.06%) PHP
14 6 (1.06%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.88%) Perl
15 5 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 85 (15.02%) Degree
2 58 (10.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (6.01%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 23 (4.06%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 19 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.94%) PhD
9 5 (0.88%) MBA
10 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.13%) QA
2 13 (2.30%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.88%) GDPR
4 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) PSD2
6 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 167 (29.51%) Docker
2 17 (3.00%) Hyper-V
2 17 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.47%) KVM
4 10 (1.77%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 148 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 90 (15.90%) Terraform
3 29 (5.12%) Ansible
4 17 (3.00%) Grafana
5 15 (2.65%) Kibana
6 11 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.71%) Packer
8 3 (0.53%) Argo
8 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.53%) SCCM
9 2 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (7.95%) Microsoft
1 45 (7.95%) Typelevel
2 20 (3.53%) Google
2 20 (3.53%) Oracle
3 17 (3.00%) VMware
4 15 (2.65%) AppDynamics
5 14 (2.47%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.94%) Splunk
7 9 (1.59%) Databricks
8 8 (1.41%) IBM
9 7 (1.24%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.24%) Solace
10 5 (0.88%) BT
10 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.71%) Informatica
11 4 (0.71%) Talend
12 3 (0.53%) Adobe
13 2 (0.35%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.35%) WSO2