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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 343 338
Rank change year-on-year +99 -5 +49
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 767 327 498
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.76% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.81% 1.81% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 463 196 303
10th Percentile £53,150 £66,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £147,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -

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 27,263 18,107 21,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.33% 41.82% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,641 9,218 10,646
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% -8.33% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +54 459 £95,000 -13.64% 1,183
North of England +6 120 £72,500 -6.45% 132
South East -11 77 £62,500 -21.88% 104
North West +32 76 £77,500 -10.14% 82
South West -35 38 £95,000 - 48
Midlands -27 32 £80,000 +6.67% 48
North East - 31 £67,500 - 16
East of England -9 27 £80,000 - 38
West Midlands -24 25 £82,500 +10.00% 31
Yorkshire -45 13 £75,000 - 34
East Midlands -33 7 £75,000 -3.23% 17
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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.56%) Apache
3 9 (1.17%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.78%) Camunda
5 5 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.65%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.52%) JBoss
7 3 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 406 (52.93%) AWS
2 242 (31.55%) Azure
3 137 (17.86%) GCP
4 73 (9.52%) Serverless
5 71 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (8.21%) GitHub
7 52 (6.78%) SaaS
8 44 (5.74%) Amazon S3
9 40 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (3.00%) Datadog
15 22 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
17 18 (2.35%) Amazon Bedrock
17 18 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.30%) Broadband
2 21 (2.74%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.83%) HTTP
4 8 (1.04%) VPN
5 7 (0.91%) BGP
5 7 (0.91%) Firewall
6 6 (0.78%) Internet
6 6 (0.78%) Network Security
7 4 (0.52%) DNS
7 4 (0.52%) MQTT
8 3 (0.39%) DHCP
8 3 (0.39%) Multicast
8 3 (0.39%) X.509
9 2 (0.26%) AMQP
9 2 (0.26%) LTE
9 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.26%) VLAN
9 2 (0.26%) VoIP
10 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.13%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (14.47%) NoSQL
2 106 (13.82%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (7.95%) MongoDB
4 39 (5.08%) Relational Database
5 37 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.39%) Redis
8 25 (3.26%) DynamoDB
9 23 (3.00%) MySQL
10 21 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.83%) Metadata
12 10 (1.30%) Flink
13 8 (1.04%) Big Data
13 8 (1.04%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.04%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.04%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.91%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.78%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.78%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 83 (10.82%) GitLab
2 64 (8.34%) Git
3 52 (6.78%) Cucumber
4 35 (4.56%) Jenkins
5 29 (3.78%) JUnit
6 19 (2.48%) JMeter
7 15 (1.96%) JIRA
8 14 (1.83%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.69%) Mockito
10 12 (1.56%) Gatling
10 12 (1.56%) LoadRunner
10 12 (1.56%) Spock
11 9 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.04%) Maven
13 6 (0.78%) Selenium
14 4 (0.52%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.52%) MLflow
15 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
16 2 (0.26%) HP UFT
16 2 (0.26%) NUnit
General
1 219 (28.55%) Finance
2 196 (25.55%) Social Skills
3 76 (9.91%) Banking
4 62 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (5.22%) Financial Institution
7 39 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 38 (4.95%) Law
8 38 (4.95%) Retail
9 27 (3.52%) Games
10 21 (2.74%) Back Office
11 20 (2.61%) Front Office
12 13 (1.69%) Marketing
13 11 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Advertising
14 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.65%) Legal
15 5 (0.65%) Polish Language
15 5 (0.65%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 215 (28.03%) Senior
2 163 (21.25%) Developer
3 156 (20.34%) Software Engineer
4 113 (14.73%) Lead
5 91 (11.86%) Principal Engineer
6 88 (11.47%) Java Engineer
7 67 (8.74%) Architect
8 55 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 50 (6.52%) Senior Developer
10 43 (5.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 41 (5.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 41 (5.35%) Python Developer
12 39 (5.08%) Backend Developer
12 39 (5.08%) Python Engineer
13 34 (4.43%) Senior Java Engineer
14 31 (4.04%) Principal Java Engineer
15 26 (3.39%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (3.39%) Principal Software Engineer
16 23 (3.00%) Java Developer
17 22 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (20.21%) Kafka
2 144 (18.77%) .NET
3 137 (17.86%) Spring
3 137 (17.86%) Terraform
4 121 (15.78%) REST
5 116 (15.12%) Spring Boot
6 101 (13.17%) React
7 100 (13.04%) RESTful
8 59 (7.69%) Node.js
9 45 (5.87%) AngularJS
10 35 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (3.00%) FastAPI
11 23 (3.00%) Next.js
11 23 (3.00%) OAuth
12 22 (2.87%) OAuth2
13 21 (2.74%) .NET Framework
13 21 (2.74%) ASP.NET
13 21 (2.74%) LangChain
13 21 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
14 20 (2.61%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 302 (39.37%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.30%) AI Agents
3 54 (7.04%) Public Cloud
4 48 (6.26%) Enterprise Software
5 46 (6.00%) e-Learning
6 28 (3.65%) Algorithms
6 28 (3.65%) Low-Code
7 27 (3.52%) Product Ownership
7 27 (3.52%) Video\Live Streaming
8 26 (3.39%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.87%) IoT
10 21 (2.74%) Blog
11 20 (2.61%) Data Structures
11 20 (2.61%) Robotics
12 18 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
12 18 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (2.22%) Management Information System
14 16 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 16 (2.09%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.65%) Linux
2 13 (1.69%) Unix
3 9 (1.17%) Windows
4 5 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.65%) VMS
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Debian
6 2 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (61.67%) CI/CD
2 385 (50.20%) Software Engineering
3 358 (46.68%) Microservices
4 314 (40.94%) AI
5 270 (35.20%) Observability
6 260 (33.90%) Event-Driven
7 246 (32.07%) Agile
8 240 (31.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 215 (28.03%) DevOps
9 215 (28.03%) Mentoring
10 205 (26.73%) Test Automation
11 174 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 171 (22.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 141 (18.38%) Containerisation
14 134 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
15 132 (17.21%) Full-Stack Development
16 127 (16.56%) Technical Leadership
17 118 (15.38%) Machine Learning
18 103 (13.43%) Roadmaps
19 100 (13.04%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 294 (38.33%) Python
2 266 (34.68%) Java
3 198 (25.81%) SQL
4 132 (17.21%) C#
5 125 (16.30%) TypeScript
6 103 (13.43%) JavaScript
7 102 (13.30%) Go
8 35 (4.56%) C++
9 22 (2.87%) Bash
10 12 (1.56%) Rust
11 11 (1.43%) Scala
12 8 (1.04%) Bicep
12 8 (1.04%) PHP
12 8 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.91%) C
13 7 (0.91%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.78%) Groovy
15 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.39%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 66 (8.60%) Degree
3 56 (7.30%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.13%) SC Cleared
5 46 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.04%) CISSP
8 8 (1.04%) PhD
9 5 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (0.65%) CCSP
9 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.65%) CISM
10 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (7.43%) QA
2 17 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.17%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.04%) GDPR
6 8 (1.04%) NIST
7 7 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (21.77%) Docker
2 11 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) Firmware
4 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.26%) KVM
5 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 198 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 48 (6.26%) Grafana
3 21 (2.74%) Prometheus
4 18 (2.35%) Kibana
5 15 (1.96%) Ansible
6 10 (1.30%) Argo
7 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.65%) Cilium
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.39%) SCCM
10 2 (0.26%) Bosun
10 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.13%) Consul
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.56%) Google
3 31 (4.04%) OpenAI
4 22 (2.87%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.74%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.61%) Splunk
7 15 (1.96%) Oracle
8 8 (1.04%) Databricks
9 5 (0.65%) Adobe
9 5 (0.65%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.65%) Solace
10 4 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.52%) Facebook
10 4 (0.52%) Instagram
10 4 (0.52%) TikTok
10 4 (0.52%) VMware
11 3 (0.39%) IBM
11 3 (0.39%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.26%) Reuters
12 2 (0.26%) Salesforce