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 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 326 378
Rank change year-on-year +4 +52 -112
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 338 469 355
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.79% 0.75% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 2.30% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 207 297 258
10th Percentile £66,750 £48,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £61,500 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -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 17,320 20,362 19,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 40.73% 32.73% 39.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,220 10,017 14,837
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 +59 246 £110,000 +12.82% 93
North of England -73 49 £77,500 +24.00% 43
South East +29 37 £80,000 +48.86% 47
Yorkshire -32 27 £75,000 +33.93% 6
North West -39 22 £86,250 +38.00% 30
Midlands +35 19 £75,000 +8.21% 2
West Midlands +47 10 £75,000 +8.21% 2
East Midlands +20 9 £77,500 -24.39%
East of England -2 7 £80,000 +10.34% 7
South West +38 2 £85,000 -10.53% 10
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 48 (14.20%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.37%) Apache
3 8 (2.37%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.78%) Confluence
5 5 (1.48%) JBoss
5 5 (1.48%) Red Hat Fuse
6 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.59%) Luigi
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 200 (59.17%) AWS
2 104 (30.77%) Azure
3 76 (22.49%) GCP
4 53 (15.68%) Serverless
5 47 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (10.65%) SaaS
8 26 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.03%) GitHub
10 14 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (2.96%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (2.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.89%) Kerberos
1 3 (0.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.59%) AMQP
2 2 (0.59%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) MQTT
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (15.98%) Relational Database
3 45 (13.31%) NoSQL
4 40 (11.83%) Big Data
5 28 (8.28%) RDBMS
6 22 (6.51%) Hadoop
6 22 (6.51%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (5.33%) DynamoDB
8 14 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.85%) MySQL
10 12 (3.55%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (2.96%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (2.96%) Apache Hive
12 8 (2.37%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (2.37%) Redis
13 7 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (2.07%) Neo4j
13 7 (2.07%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 49 (14.50%) Jenkins
2 46 (13.61%) Git
3 33 (9.76%) JUnit
4 26 (7.69%) Mockito
5 24 (7.10%) JMeter
6 12 (3.55%) GitLab
7 11 (3.25%) JIRA
8 7 (2.07%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.07%) Maven
9 5 (1.48%) MLflow
9 5 (1.48%) Postman
9 5 (1.48%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.18%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.18%) DbUnit
10 4 (1.18%) jMock
10 4 (1.18%) PHPUnit
10 4 (1.18%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.89%) Selenium
11 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 130 (38.46%) Finance
2 79 (23.37%) Social Skills
3 72 (21.30%) Banking
4 63 (18.64%) Law
5 57 (16.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (13.61%) Public Sector
7 29 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (8.58%) Financial Institution
8 19 (5.62%) Front Office
9 14 (4.14%) Marketing
10 13 (3.85%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.25%) Retail
12 10 (2.96%) Legal
13 9 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.18%) Games
16 4 (1.18%) Publishing
17 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
18 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (35.50%) Software Engineer
2 98 (28.99%) Developer
2 98 (28.99%) Lead
3 82 (24.26%) Senior
4 61 (18.05%) Lead Software Engineer
5 54 (15.98%) Java Developer
6 37 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 31 (9.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 31 (9.17%) Principal Engineer
9 26 (7.69%) Java Engineer
10 25 (7.40%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 25 (7.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (6.21%) Data Engineer
12 20 (5.92%) Java Software Engineer
13 19 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (5.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 18 (5.33%) Python Engineer
14 18 (5.33%) Senior Developer
15 16 (4.73%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (23.08%) Spring
2 74 (21.89%) Kafka
3 67 (19.82%) Spring Boot
4 56 (16.57%) REST
5 50 (14.79%) RESTful
6 46 (13.61%) Web Services
7 44 (13.02%) .NET
8 43 (12.72%) React
9 36 (10.65%) Hibernate
10 33 (9.76%) HTML
11 30 (8.88%) Apache Camel
12 26 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
13 25 (7.40%) jQuery
14 22 (6.51%) JSON
15 21 (6.21%) WireMock
16 20 (5.92%) AngularJS
16 20 (5.92%) XML
17 17 (5.03%) Node.js
18 16 (4.73%) .NET Core
19 13 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 124 (36.69%) Cloud Native
2 47 (13.91%) Algorithms
3 41 (12.13%) Product Ownership
4 29 (8.58%) Data Structures
4 29 (8.58%) Public Cloud
5 25 (7.40%) Legacy Code
6 22 (6.51%) Management Information System
7 19 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (5.03%) Virtual Team
9 16 (4.73%) Derivative
10 14 (4.14%) Equities
11 11 (3.25%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (2.96%) e-Learning
13 9 (2.66%) Mobile Banking
14 8 (2.37%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (2.37%) Onboarding
15 7 (2.07%) Fixed Income
15 7 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (1.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.61%) Linux
2 9 (2.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (53.25%) Software Engineering
2 152 (44.97%) Microservices
3 149 (44.08%) CI/CD
4 142 (42.01%) Agile
5 85 (25.15%) DevOps
6 77 (22.78%) Mentoring
7 72 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (20.71%) Containerisation
9 66 (19.53%) AI
10 64 (18.93%) Full-Stack Development
11 63 (18.64%) SDLC
12 62 (18.34%) Roadmaps
13 59 (17.46%) TDD
14 55 (16.27%) Computer Science
15 51 (15.09%) Machine Learning
16 46 (13.61%) Fintech
17 43 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
18 42 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
19 40 (11.83%) BDD
20 37 (10.95%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 181 (53.55%) Java
2 140 (41.42%) Python
3 81 (23.96%) SQL
4 56 (16.57%) C#
4 56 (16.57%) JavaScript
5 47 (13.91%) Go
6 40 (11.83%) C++
7 29 (8.58%) Rust
7 29 (8.58%) Scala
8 25 (7.40%) C
9 23 (6.80%) Kotlin
9 23 (6.80%) Shell Script
10 18 (5.33%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.37%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.07%) Bash
13 6 (1.78%) PHP
14 5 (1.48%) Groovy
15 3 (0.89%) COBOL
16 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.30%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 40 (11.83%) Degree
2 30 (8.88%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.10%) Master's Degree
4 23 (6.80%) PhD
5 16 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.44%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.30%) CEH
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) OSCP
10 1 (0.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.14%) GDPR
2 11 (3.25%) QA
3 7 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.48%) SLA
6 4 (1.18%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.89%) WCAG
8 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) GRC
9 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 109 (32.25%) Docker
2 10 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (2.96%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (2.07%) HDFS
4 4 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 158 (46.75%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.06%) Terraform
3 24 (7.10%) Kibana
4 22 (6.51%) Ansible
5 13 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.25%) Grafana
7 5 (1.48%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.48%) logstash
8 4 (1.18%) Rancher
8 4 (1.18%) vRealize
9 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.59%) Puppet
10 1 (0.30%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (7.40%) Dynatrace
2 22 (6.51%) Splunk
3 15 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.96%) Databricks
5 9 (2.66%) Oracle
6 7 (2.07%) Informatica
6 7 (2.07%) Talend
7 6 (1.78%) Google
8 4 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.18%) Dell
8 4 (1.18%) Foundry
8 4 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.18%) Palantir
8 4 (1.18%) Pega
8 4 (1.18%) Solace
8 4 (1.18%) VMware
8 4 (1.18%) WSO2
9 2 (0.59%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.59%) SAP