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 25 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 319 406
Rank change year-on-year +33 +87 -48
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 507 342 486
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.91% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 2.29% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 289 214 332
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,313
90th Percentile £132,500 £136,750 £149,750
UK median annual salary £91,250 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +1.39% +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 22,689 14,951 29,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.84% 39.73% 35.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,831 8,337 20,788
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +49 326 £100,000 +5.26% 133
North of England -31 87 £78,750 +1.61% 45
South East -29 66 £72,500 +13.73% 48
North West -3 60 £88,750 +10.94% 25
Yorkshire -70 24 £75,000 -3.23% 7
Midlands -36 14 £73,500 +1.38% 11
South West -50 13 £83,750 -16.25% 16
East Midlands -47 12 £86,000 +10.97% 6
East of England -22 11 £82,500 - 14
North East -47 3 £60,000 -13.52% 13
West Midlands -29 2 £68,750 -5.17% 5
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 17 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.37%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.38%) IIS
5 6 (1.18%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.79%) Appian
7 3 (0.59%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) Confluence
7 3 (0.59%) JBoss
7 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Solana
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 303 (59.76%) AWS
2 169 (33.33%) Azure
3 164 (32.35%) GCP
4 58 (11.44%) Serverless
5 42 (8.28%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (7.89%) SaaS
7 32 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (5.13%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.73%) GitHub
10 22 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.55%) Datadog
12 16 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.38%) Apigee
16 7 (1.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 52 (10.26%) Broadband
2 12 (2.37%) HTTP
3 10 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.79%) BGP
4 4 (0.79%) VLAN
4 4 (0.79%) VPN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) Firewall
6 2 (0.39%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.20%) RTP
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) SS7
7 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.45%) NoSQL
2 37 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.11%) Relational Database
4 27 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (4.93%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.54%) MongoDB
7 22 (4.34%) DynamoDB
8 19 (3.75%) BigQuery
9 18 (3.55%) Hadoop
9 18 (3.55%) Redis
10 16 (3.16%) Big Data
10 16 (3.16%) MySQL
11 11 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.78%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.18%) Tableau
14 5 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.99%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.99%) Pentaho
14 5 (0.99%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 53 (10.45%) Git
2 48 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.34%) GitLab
4 15 (2.96%) Cucumber
4 15 (2.96%) JIRA
5 14 (2.76%) JMeter
6 10 (1.97%) Gatling
7 9 (1.78%) JUnit
7 9 (1.78%) LoadRunner
7 9 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.18%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.99%) Maven
10 4 (0.79%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.59%) Mockito
11 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.59%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.39%) Selenium
12 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 130 (25.64%) Finance
2 92 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.89%) Banking
4 38 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.51%) Law
7 25 (4.93%) Financial Institution
8 24 (4.73%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.73%) Telecoms
9 23 (4.54%) Retail
10 20 (3.94%) Back Office
11 13 (2.56%) Front Office
12 10 (1.97%) Marketing
13 9 (1.78%) Advertising
13 9 (1.78%) Games
13 9 (1.78%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 132 (26.04%) Senior
2 117 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 109 (21.50%) Developer
4 53 (10.45%) Lead
5 41 (8.09%) Architect
6 39 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
7 34 (6.71%) Java Engineer
8 33 (6.51%) Java Developer
9 30 (5.92%) Scala Engineer
9 30 (5.92%) Senior Developer
10 28 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (5.13%) Backend Developer
12 23 (4.54%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.55%) Python Engineer
14 17 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.16%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (2.96%) Scala Developer
16 15 (2.96%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.58%) Kafka
2 72 (14.20%) REST
3 64 (12.62%) .NET
4 62 (12.23%) gRPC
5 58 (11.44%) Spring
6 55 (10.85%) React
7 50 (9.86%) Spring Boot
8 44 (8.68%) Node.js
9 42 (8.28%) RESTful
10 28 (5.52%) Django
11 24 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (4.54%) Web Services
13 22 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (3.94%) OAuth
15 18 (3.55%) AngularJS
15 18 (3.55%) JSON
16 17 (3.35%) OAuth2
17 13 (2.56%) FastAPI
17 13 (2.56%) HTML
18 12 (2.37%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 126 (24.85%) Cloud Native
2 50 (9.86%) Algorithms
3 47 (9.27%) Over-the-Top Content
3 47 (9.27%) Video\Live Streaming
4 46 (9.07%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.55%) Equities
7 17 (3.35%) Client/Server
7 17 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.76%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.56%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.17%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.97%) Blog
12 10 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
13 9 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.58%) Sports Betting
14 8 (1.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (10.26%) Linux
2 14 (2.76%) Windows
3 9 (1.78%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (50.69%) CI/CD
2 242 (47.73%) Microservices
3 235 (46.35%) Software Engineering
4 151 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
5 148 (29.19%) Containerisation
6 146 (28.80%) Agile
7 127 (25.05%) DevOps
8 111 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (21.50%) AI
10 107 (21.10%) Machine Learning
11 101 (19.92%) Computer Science
12 93 (18.34%) Observability
13 88 (17.36%) Event-Driven
14 87 (17.16%) Clean Code
15 78 (15.38%) Mentoring
16 74 (14.60%) Roadmaps
17 73 (14.40%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (14.20%) Data Science
19 67 (13.21%) Coaching
20 66 (13.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 226 (44.58%) Python
2 166 (32.74%) Java
3 112 (22.09%) Go
4 75 (14.79%) SQL
5 73 (14.40%) C#
6 59 (11.64%) Scala
7 56 (11.05%) C++
8 51 (10.06%) JavaScript
9 48 (9.47%) TypeScript
10 38 (7.50%) Rust
11 18 (3.55%) C
12 12 (2.37%) Bash
13 9 (1.78%) Groovy
13 9 (1.78%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.18%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.99%) R
16 4 (0.79%) Bicep
16 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.79%) Ruby
16 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (18.34%) Degree
2 68 (13.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.73%) Master's Degree
5 21 (4.14%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.37%) PhD
8 5 (0.99%) MBA
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ISEB
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.50%) QA
2 12 (2.37%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.58%) GDPR
5 5 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.79%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 167 (32.94%) Docker
2 14 (2.76%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.56%) KVM
4 7 (1.38%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 141 (27.81%) Kubernetes
2 70 (13.81%) Terraform
3 34 (6.71%) Ansible
4 14 (2.76%) Grafana
5 11 (2.17%) Kibana
6 10 (1.97%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.79%) Packer
8 2 (0.39%) Argo
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.39%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.88%) Typelevel
2 27 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.34%) Google
4 14 (2.76%) Oracle
4 14 (2.76%) VMware
5 13 (2.56%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.37%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.78%) Databricks
8 8 (1.58%) IBM
9 6 (1.18%) Solace
10 5 (0.99%) BT
10 5 (0.99%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.99%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.99%) Informatica
10 5 (0.99%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.99%) Nokia
10 5 (0.99%) Splunk
10 5 (0.99%) Talend
11 4 (0.79%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.39%) SAP