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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 347 389
Rank change year-on-year +93 +42 +13
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 702 344 509
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.79% 0.79% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 1.90% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 429 197 300
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,178 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £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 £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £125,250 £140,677 £145,000
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 22,730 18,112 26,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.55% 41.85% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,024 9,099 17,481
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £58,446 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.65% +4.55% -15.14%

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 23 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 23 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 +70 423 £95,000 -13.64% 439
North of England +21 120 £75,000 -4.46% 67
North West +50 84 £82,500 - 41
South East +8 79 £64,250 -14.33% 73
Midlands -21 28 £85,000 +15.25% 21
South West -35 28 £85,000 -12.82% 22
Yorkshire -38 19 £75,000 -3.23% 9
West Midlands -23 18 £85,000 +17.24% 13
East of England +9 17 £76,250 - 12
North East -42 17 £60,000 -34.92% 17
East Midlands -25 10 £76,000 -0.33% 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 15 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.71%) Apache
2 5 (0.71%) Apache Pig
2 5 (0.71%) Camunda
2 5 (0.71%) Confluence
2 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.57%) JBoss
4 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.43%) IIS
4 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.14%) Solana
6 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 384 (54.70%) AWS
2 215 (30.63%) Azure
3 150 (21.37%) GCP
4 77 (10.97%) Serverless
5 49 (6.98%) SaaS
6 48 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (5.27%) Amazon S3
8 37 (5.27%) GitHub
9 36 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (2.71%) Datadog
14 18 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.28%) Amazon EventBridge
15 16 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (1.99%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 81 (11.54%) Broadband
2 14 (1.99%) HTTP
3 10 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.85%) Internet
5 5 (0.71%) DNS
5 5 (0.71%) Firewall
6 4 (0.57%) MQTT
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 2 (0.28%) AMQP
8 2 (0.28%) BGP
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
8 2 (0.28%) VoIP
8 2 (0.28%) VPN
9 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.14%) RTP
9 1 (0.14%) SCTP
9 1 (0.14%) SS7
9 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.14%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (10.54%) NoSQL
3 55 (7.83%) MongoDB
4 29 (4.13%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (3.70%) MySQL
7 23 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 23 (3.28%) SQL Server
8 21 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.71%) Redis
10 12 (1.71%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.42%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.42%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.28%) Metadata
13 8 (1.14%) Big Data
14 6 (0.85%) Apache Hive
15 5 (0.71%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.43%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 67 (9.54%) Git
2 57 (8.12%) GitLab
3 45 (6.41%) Jenkins
4 38 (5.41%) Cucumber
5 23 (3.28%) JUnit
6 18 (2.56%) JMeter
7 17 (2.42%) JIRA
8 11 (1.57%) Claude Code
8 11 (1.57%) LoadRunner
9 10 (1.42%) Gatling
9 10 (1.42%) Mockito
10 8 (1.14%) Spock
11 5 (0.71%) Selenium
11 5 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.57%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.43%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 161 (22.93%) Finance
2 126 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 46 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.98%) Banking
5 40 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (4.27%) Games
7 29 (4.13%) Retail
8 28 (3.99%) Financial Institution
9 26 (3.70%) Law
9 26 (3.70%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.56%) Back Office
11 16 (2.28%) Front Office
12 12 (1.71%) Advertising
13 10 (1.42%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.00%) Electronics
14 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.85%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 167 (23.79%) Senior
2 161 (22.93%) Developer
3 132 (18.80%) Software Engineer
4 81 (11.54%) Lead
5 77 (10.97%) Principal Engineer
6 67 (9.54%) Java Engineer
7 59 (8.40%) Architect
8 52 (7.41%) Senior Developer
9 40 (5.70%) Python Developer
10 39 (5.56%) Backend Developer
11 37 (5.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (4.84%) Python Engineer
13 30 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 30 (4.27%) Scala Engineer
14 26 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.70%) Java Developer
15 25 (3.56%) Principal Java Engineer
16 19 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
17 18 (2.56%) Senior Backend Developer
17 18 (2.56%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (15.10%) .NET
2 104 (14.81%) Kafka
3 99 (14.10%) Spring
4 87 (12.39%) React
4 87 (12.39%) REST
5 85 (12.11%) Spring Boot
6 70 (9.97%) RESTful
7 50 (7.12%) Node.js
8 47 (6.70%) gRPC
9 34 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
10 33 (4.70%) AngularJS
11 23 (3.28%) OAuth
12 22 (3.13%) JSON
12 22 (3.13%) OAuth2
13 20 (2.85%) ASP.NET
13 20 (2.85%) Django
14 19 (2.71%) FastAPI
15 18 (2.56%) LangChain
16 17 (2.42%) Web Services
17 16 (2.28%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 226 (32.19%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.11%) Video\Live Streaming
3 49 (6.98%) Algorithms
4 45 (6.41%) Over-the-Top Content
5 44 (6.27%) Data Structures
6 35 (4.99%) Public Cloud
7 34 (4.84%) AI Agents
8 28 (3.99%) e-Learning
8 28 (3.99%) Low-Code
9 26 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.99%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.42%) Product Ownership
12 16 (2.28%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (2.14%) Equities
13 15 (2.14%) Life Science
14 13 (1.85%) Client/Server
14 13 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.40%) Linux
2 15 (2.14%) Windows
3 5 (0.71%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Debian
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (58.40%) CI/CD
2 347 (49.43%) Software Engineering
3 313 (44.59%) Microservices
4 245 (34.90%) AI
5 204 (29.06%) Observability
6 200 (28.49%) Agile
7 195 (27.78%) DevOps
8 194 (27.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 178 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
10 167 (23.79%) Containerisation
10 167 (23.79%) Event-Driven
11 157 (22.36%) Test Automation
12 156 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 155 (22.08%) Mentoring
14 147 (20.94%) Machine Learning
15 110 (15.67%) Clean Code
15 110 (15.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 106 (15.10%) Full-Stack Development
17 88 (12.54%) Coaching
18 85 (12.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 333 (47.44%) Python
2 202 (28.77%) Java
3 140 (19.94%) SQL
4 116 (16.52%) Go
5 106 (15.10%) C#
6 93 (13.25%) TypeScript
7 88 (12.54%) JavaScript
8 55 (7.83%) C++
9 50 (7.12%) Scala
10 31 (4.42%) Rust
11 19 (2.71%) Bash
12 14 (1.99%) C
13 10 (1.42%) PHP
13 10 (1.42%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.14%) Bicep
14 8 (1.14%) Groovy
15 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.71%) Perl
17 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 82 (11.68%) Degree
2 48 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (5.98%) Security Cleared
4 35 (4.99%) AWS Certification
5 28 (3.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (3.70%) SC Cleared
7 13 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.85%) PhD
8 9 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) HND
10 1 (0.14%) ISEB
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.12%) QA
2 9 (1.28%) GDPR
3 8 (1.14%) SOC 2
4 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 183 (26.07%) Docker
2 14 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.57%) KVM
5 6 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 166 (23.65%) Kubernetes
2 115 (16.38%) Terraform
3 29 (4.13%) Ansible
4 22 (3.13%) Grafana
5 16 (2.28%) Kibana
6 15 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.85%) Argo
8 4 (0.57%) Packer
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.43%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) Graylog
10 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.14%) Podman
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.41%) Typelevel
3 28 (3.99%) Google
4 22 (3.13%) AppDynamics
4 22 (3.13%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.56%) Oracle
6 17 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.42%) Splunk
7 14 (1.99%) VMware
8 11 (1.57%) IBM
9 8 (1.14%) Solace
10 7 (1.00%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.85%) Databricks
12 3 (0.43%) Adobe
12 3 (0.43%) Facebook
12 3 (0.43%) Instagram
12 3 (0.43%) TikTok
13 2 (0.28%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.28%) Pega
13 2 (0.28%) Salesforce