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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 328 445
Rank change year-on-year +59 +117 -45
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 602 333 487
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.84% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.83% 1.93% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 358 187 308
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £128,250 £140,677 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 21,250 17,229 31,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.37% 43.30% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,975 8,305 21,360
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +55 365 £95,000 -11.63% 150
North of England +18 111 £80,000 +1.91% 53
North West +51 82 £82,500 +5.10% 30
South East -3 72 £67,500 -10.00% 55
Midlands -21 21 £87,500 +16.67% 7
South West -49 17 £85,000 -12.82% 22
Yorkshire -51 16 £75,000 -5.36% 11
North East -42 13 £60,000 -34.92% 12
West Midlands -16 12 £87,500 +20.69% 4
East of England -2 11 £76,250 - 8
East Midlands -29 9 £72,000 -7.69% 3
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 11 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.00%) Apache
2 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.66%) Confluence
3 4 (0.66%) IIS
3 4 (0.66%) JBoss
4 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.17%) Solana
6 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 350 (58.14%) AWS
2 182 (30.23%) Azure
3 148 (24.58%) GCP
4 70 (11.63%) Serverless
5 46 (7.64%) SaaS
6 42 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (5.48%) Amazon S3
8 33 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (4.65%) GitHub
11 24 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (2.66%) Datadog
16 15 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (2.33%) Anthropic Claude
18 13 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
18 13 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.62%) Broadband
2 13 (2.16%) HTTP
3 10 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.83%) DNS
4 5 (0.83%) Firewall
5 3 (0.50%) BGP
5 3 (0.50%) DHCP
5 3 (0.50%) VLAN
5 3 (0.50%) VoIP
5 3 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.33%) RTP
6 2 (0.33%) SS7
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) DMARC
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-485
7 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (8.14%) MongoDB
2 49 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 26 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 25 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 20 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (3.32%) MySQL
7 19 (3.16%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.82%) Redis
9 14 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.66%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.50%) Big Data
12 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.83%) MariaDB
12 5 (0.83%) Metadata
13 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (9.97%) Git
2 43 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 42 (6.98%) GitLab
4 30 (4.98%) Cucumber
5 18 (2.99%) JMeter
6 15 (2.49%) JIRA
6 15 (2.49%) JUnit
7 13 (2.16%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.66%) Gatling
8 10 (1.66%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.83%) Mockito
9 5 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.66%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.66%) Spock
10 4 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.50%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 148 (24.58%) Finance
2 105 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 41 (6.81%) Banking
4 37 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.32%) Games
7 29 (4.82%) Law
8 27 (4.49%) Financial Institution
9 25 (4.15%) Retail
10 23 (3.82%) Public Sector
11 19 (3.16%) Back Office
12 11 (1.83%) Front Office
12 11 (1.83%) Polish Language
13 9 (1.50%) Advertising
14 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.66%) Electronics
16 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 145 (24.09%) Senior
2 138 (22.92%) Developer
3 117 (19.44%) Software Engineer
4 63 (10.47%) Principal Engineer
5 61 (10.13%) Lead
6 56 (9.30%) Architect
7 51 (8.47%) Java Engineer
8 47 (7.81%) Senior Developer
9 32 (5.32%) Backend Developer
10 30 (4.98%) Python Engineer
10 30 (4.98%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
12 28 (4.65%) Python Developer
13 26 (4.32%) Java Developer
14 25 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 19 (3.16%) Principal Java Engineer
16 18 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 18 (2.99%) Lead Developer
17 17 (2.82%) Data Engineer
17 17 (2.82%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (14.29%) .NET
2 84 (13.95%) Kafka
3 75 (12.46%) Spring
4 74 (12.29%) REST
5 66 (10.96%) Spring Boot
6 65 (10.80%) React
7 58 (9.63%) RESTful
8 47 (7.81%) gRPC
9 42 (6.98%) Node.js
10 30 (4.98%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (3.65%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.32%) JSON
13 19 (3.16%) Web Services
14 18 (2.99%) ASP.NET
14 18 (2.99%) Django
15 17 (2.82%) OAuth
16 16 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (2.66%) OAuth2
17 15 (2.49%) LangChain
18 14 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 186 (30.90%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.13%) Video\Live Streaming
3 48 (7.97%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.81%) Over-the-Top Content
5 44 (7.31%) Data Structures
6 28 (4.65%) Public Cloud
7 25 (4.15%) Low-Code
8 23 (3.82%) AI Agents
9 21 (3.49%) e-Learning
9 21 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.82%) Client/Server
10 17 (2.82%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.66%) Equities
12 15 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (2.16%) Life Science
15 10 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 9 (1.50%) Blog
16 9 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.47%) Linux
2 16 (2.66%) Windows
3 3 (0.50%) Unix
3 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.17%) Debian
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (55.32%) CI/CD
2 297 (49.34%) Software Engineering
3 272 (45.18%) Microservices
4 178 (29.57%) AI
5 172 (28.57%) Agile
6 160 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
7 156 (25.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 156 (25.91%) Observability
8 152 (25.25%) DevOps
9 148 (24.58%) Containerisation
10 147 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 134 (22.26%) Event-Driven
11 134 (22.26%) Test Automation
12 126 (20.93%) Machine Learning
13 114 (18.94%) Mentoring
14 101 (16.78%) Clean Code
15 87 (14.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 84 (13.95%) Computer Science
17 83 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
18 79 (13.12%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 287 (47.67%) Python
2 172 (28.57%) Java
3 112 (18.60%) Go
4 104 (17.28%) SQL
5 95 (15.78%) C#
6 72 (11.96%) JavaScript
6 72 (11.96%) TypeScript
7 54 (8.97%) C++
8 53 (8.80%) Scala
9 37 (6.15%) Rust
10 16 (2.66%) C
11 15 (2.49%) Bash
12 9 (1.50%) PHP
12 9 (1.50%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.33%) Bicep
14 7 (1.16%) Groovy
15 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.83%) Perl
17 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (12.46%) Degree
2 51 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (5.65%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.32%) SC Cleared
5 23 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (2.82%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.50%) PhD
9 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) HND
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) MBA
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.64%) QA
2 11 (1.83%) SOC 2
3 7 (1.16%) GDPR
3 7 (1.16%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 162 (26.91%) Docker
2 17 (2.82%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.33%) KVM
4 10 (1.66%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.33%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 147 (24.42%) Kubernetes
2 99 (16.45%) Terraform
3 26 (4.32%) Ansible
4 18 (2.99%) Grafana
5 15 (2.49%) Kibana
6 12 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.66%) Argo
7 4 (0.66%) Packer
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.50%) SCCM
9 1 (0.17%) Graylog
9 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 49 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.48%) Typelevel
3 19 (3.16%) Google
4 17 (2.82%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.82%) Oracle
4 17 (2.82%) VMware
5 14 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.16%) Splunk
7 9 (1.50%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.33%) Databricks
8 8 (1.33%) IBM
9 7 (1.16%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.16%) Solace
10 3 (0.50%) Adobe
11 2 (0.33%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.33%) Pega
11 2 (0.33%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.33%) WSO2
12 1 (0.17%) ServiceNow