Distributed Systems Jobs 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 424 431
Rank change year-on-year +51 +7 -206
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 360 526 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.58% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 1.76% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 203 313 339
10th Percentile £62,500 £48,250 £57,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £149,500 £131,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.57% +2.94%

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 19,676 29,923 32,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.48% 33.27% 42.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,469 19,747 19,541
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £35,427
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,918 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +4.65% -14.10% +2.45%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in England.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 13 July 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 13 July 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 +96 243 £110,000 +10.00% 272
North of England -38 69 £80,000 +17.65% 51
South East +36 55 £70,000 +7.69% 35
North West -47 34 £82,500 +6.45% 31
Yorkshire +14 29 £78,500 +15.44% 12
Midlands +74 20 £73,750 +22.92% 7
West Midlands +43 12 £72,500 +20.83% 3
East Midlands +47 8 £76,250 -42.99% 4
South West +99 6 £97,500 +47.17% 10
North East +44 6 £92,192 +22.92% 8
East of England +15 2 - - 24
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (7.78%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.61%) JBoss
3 12 (3.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 11 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.94%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.39%) SAS
7 3 (0.83%) Confluence
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 167 (46.39%) AWS
2 91 (25.28%) Azure
3 74 (20.56%) GCP
4 49 (13.61%) Amazon ECS
5 47 (13.06%) Serverless
6 44 (12.22%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (9.17%) SaaS
8 27 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (3.33%) GitHub
11 11 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 8 (2.22%) AWS CodeBuild
13 8 (2.22%) dbt
13 8 (2.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.17%) HTTP
2 8 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.28%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) Multicast
3 1 (0.28%) NAS
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) SAN
3 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.22%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (13.61%) Relational Database
3 38 (10.56%) NoSQL
4 29 (8.06%) Big Data
5 22 (6.11%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.83%) RDBMS
7 15 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.61%) Redis
8 13 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.50%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.50%) MySQL
10 8 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.11%) Flink
12 4 (1.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 66 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 58 (16.11%) Git
3 47 (13.06%) JUnit
4 28 (7.78%) Mockito
5 21 (5.83%) JMeter
6 13 (3.61%) JIRA
7 12 (3.33%) Maven
8 10 (2.78%) Gradle
9 9 (2.50%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.22%) GitLab
11 5 (1.39%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.39%) jMock
11 5 (1.39%) MLflow
12 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.11%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (1.11%) PHPUnit
12 4 (1.11%) Postman
12 4 (1.11%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.83%) Xcode
General
1 144 (40.00%) Finance
2 112 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 101 (28.06%) Banking
4 80 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (16.39%) Law
6 48 (13.33%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (5.00%) Front Office
9 17 (4.72%) Retail
10 16 (4.44%) Investment Banking
11 15 (4.17%) Marketing
12 13 (3.61%) Games
13 12 (3.33%) Advertising
14 11 (3.06%) Legal
15 9 (2.50%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (1.39%) Publishing
18 5 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (42.50%) Software Engineer
2 95 (26.39%) Lead
3 94 (26.11%) Senior
4 83 (23.06%) Developer
5 76 (21.11%) Lead Software Engineer
6 56 (15.56%) Java Developer
7 47 (13.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 46 (12.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (9.72%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 31 (8.61%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 23 (6.39%) Java Engineer
12 21 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
12 21 (5.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 20 (5.56%) Python Engineer
14 17 (4.72%) C# Software Engineer
14 17 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
14 17 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
14 17 (4.72%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 15 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (21.94%) Kafka
2 78 (21.67%) Spring
3 70 (19.44%) Spring Boot
4 65 (18.06%) REST
5 59 (16.39%) RESTful
6 54 (15.00%) Web Services
7 37 (10.28%) Hibernate
8 36 (10.00%) .NET
9 33 (9.17%) HTML
10 32 (8.89%) Apache Camel
11 31 (8.61%) React
12 26 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
13 25 (6.94%) jQuery
14 21 (5.83%) AngularJS
14 21 (5.83%) SOAP
15 20 (5.56%) WireMock
16 17 (4.72%) JSON
17 15 (4.17%) .NET Core
17 15 (4.17%) J2EE
17 15 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (29.72%) Cloud Native
2 46 (12.78%) Algorithms
3 42 (11.67%) Product Ownership
4 37 (10.28%) Data Structures
5 34 (9.44%) Public Cloud
6 31 (8.61%) Legacy Code
7 21 (5.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (4.44%) Virtual Team
9 15 (4.17%) Management Information System
10 14 (3.89%) Derivative
10 14 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (3.33%) Equities
11 12 (3.33%) Fixed Income
12 11 (3.06%) Hedge funds
13 10 (2.78%) Reference Data
13 10 (2.78%) Replication
14 9 (2.50%) Mobile Banking
15 8 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
15 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 66 (18.33%) Linux
2 12 (3.33%) Unix
3 4 (1.11%) Windows
4 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (56.67%) Software Engineering
2 167 (46.39%) Agile
3 164 (45.56%) CI/CD
4 159 (44.17%) Microservices
5 102 (28.33%) DevOps
6 86 (23.89%) TDD
7 75 (20.83%) SDLC
8 72 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 59 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (16.11%) Roadmaps
11 51 (14.17%) BDD
11 51 (14.17%) Mentoring
12 46 (12.78%) Computer Science
12 46 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 46 (12.78%) Test Automation
13 44 (12.22%) Artificial Intelligence
13 44 (12.22%) Machine Learning
14 39 (10.83%) Fintech
14 39 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 159 (44.17%) Java
2 125 (34.72%) Python
3 89 (24.72%) SQL
4 63 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 58 (16.11%) C#
6 52 (14.44%) C++
7 51 (14.17%) Go
8 42 (11.67%) Rust
9 34 (9.44%) C
10 25 (6.94%) Scala
10 25 (6.94%) Shell Script
11 20 (5.56%) TypeScript
12 19 (5.28%) Kotlin
13 15 (4.17%) PowerShell
14 8 (2.22%) Groovy
15 6 (1.67%) Bash
15 6 (1.67%) PHP
16 5 (1.39%) PL/SQL
17 4 (1.11%) R
18 3 (0.83%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 44 (12.22%) Degree
2 42 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.61%) Master's Degree
6 12 (3.33%) PhD
7 11 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CEH
11 1 (0.28%) CISM
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) GIAC
11 1 (0.28%) OSCP
11 1 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.11%) GDPR
2 15 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 14 (3.89%) QA
4 13 (3.61%) SOC 2
5 12 (3.33%) SLA
6 5 (1.39%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.11%) Basel II
7 4 (1.11%) Basel III
7 4 (1.11%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (1.11%) IFRS
7 4 (1.11%) IFRS 9
7 4 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 131 (36.39%) Docker
2 11 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.11%) Postfix
4 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.83%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 180 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 58 (16.11%) Terraform
3 20 (5.56%) Kibana
4 18 (5.00%) Ansible
5 10 (2.78%) Grafana
6 8 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (1.67%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.39%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.83%) Argo
10 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (8.06%) Google
2 26 (7.22%) Splunk
3 23 (6.39%) Dynatrace
4 21 (5.83%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.78%) Apple
5 10 (2.78%) Oracle
6 5 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.39%) Bloomberg
6 5 (1.39%) IBM
7 4 (1.11%) Foundry
7 4 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.11%) Palantir
8 3 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (0.83%) NetApp
9 2 (0.56%) ESRI
9 2 (0.56%) SAP
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.28%) Reuters
10 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.28%) Syncsort