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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 341 342
Rank change year-on-year +94 +1 +49
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 771 331 488
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.77% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.80% 1.84% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 462 199 301
10th Percentile £53,075 £66,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £74,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £148,000 £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 27,496 17,952 21,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.45% 41.72% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,712 9,260 10,427
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 11 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 11 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 +53 463 £95,000 -13.64% 1,175
North of England -1 118 £72,500 -6.45% 123
South East -7 78 £62,500 -21.88% 99
North West +28 74 £77,500 -10.14% 72
South West -37 38 £95,000 - 47
Midlands -32 35 £80,000 +6.67% 41
North East - 30 £67,500 - 17
East of England -21 26 £80,000 - 41
West Midlands -32 26 £82,500 +10.00% 26
Yorkshire -56 14 £72,500 -3.33% 34
East Midlands -29 9 £75,000 -3.23% 15
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 (2.20%) 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 3 (0.39%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Simulink
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
1 408 (52.92%) AWS
2 238 (30.87%) Azure
3 139 (18.03%) GCP
4 71 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 71 (9.21%) Serverless
5 65 (8.43%) GitHub
6 55 (7.13%) SaaS
7 44 (5.71%) Amazon S3
8 38 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.72%) Datadog
15 19 (2.46%) Anthropic Claude
16 18 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
17 17 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.28%) Broadband
2 25 (3.24%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.95%) HTTP
4 11 (1.43%) VPN
5 10 (1.30%) BGP
6 8 (1.04%) Firewall
7 7 (0.91%) Network Security
8 6 (0.78%) Internet
9 5 (0.65%) MQTT
10 4 (0.52%) DNS
10 4 (0.52%) VLAN
11 3 (0.39%) DHCP
11 3 (0.39%) Multicast
11 3 (0.39%) X.509
12 2 (0.26%) AMQP
12 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.26%) VoIP
13 1 (0.13%) FTP
13 1 (0.13%) RTSP
13 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (14.27%) NoSQL
1 110 (14.27%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (7.91%) MongoDB
3 39 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (4.80%) Relational Database
5 28 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.50%) Redis
7 25 (3.24%) DynamoDB
8 23 (2.98%) MySQL
9 21 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.82%) Metadata
11 10 (1.30%) Flink
12 9 (1.17%) 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 82 (10.64%) GitLab
2 64 (8.30%) Git
3 51 (6.61%) Cucumber
4 34 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 29 (3.76%) JUnit
6 19 (2.46%) JMeter
7 15 (1.95%) JIRA
8 14 (1.82%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.69%) Mockito
10 12 (1.56%) Gatling
10 12 (1.56%) LoadRunner
10 12 (1.56%) Spock
10 12 (1.56%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.04%) Maven
12 6 (0.78%) Selenium
13 4 (0.52%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.52%) MLflow
14 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.26%) NUnit
15 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
General
1 219 (28.40%) Finance
2 201 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 78 (10.12%) Banking
4 66 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (5.58%) Financial Institution
7 41 (5.32%) Public Sector
8 40 (5.19%) Law
8 40 (5.19%) Retail
9 27 (3.50%) Games
10 24 (3.11%) Back Office
11 19 (2.46%) Front Office
12 13 (1.69%) Marketing
13 9 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Advertising
14 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.65%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.65%) Legal
15 5 (0.65%) Polish Language
15 5 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 219 (28.40%) Senior
2 161 (20.88%) Developer
3 160 (20.75%) Software Engineer
4 112 (14.53%) Lead
5 91 (11.80%) Principal Engineer
6 87 (11.28%) Java Engineer
7 66 (8.56%) Architect
8 58 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 49 (6.36%) Senior Developer
10 44 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 41 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 40 (5.19%) Python Engineer
13 39 (5.06%) Python Developer
14 38 (4.93%) Backend Developer
15 34 (4.41%) Senior Java Engineer
16 30 (3.89%) Principal Java Engineer
17 26 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
17 26 (3.37%) Principal Software Engineer
18 24 (3.11%) Java Developer
19 23 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (19.84%) Kafka
2 142 (18.42%) .NET
3 141 (18.29%) Terraform
4 135 (17.51%) Spring
5 121 (15.69%) REST
6 114 (14.79%) Spring Boot
7 102 (13.23%) RESTful
8 100 (12.97%) React
9 58 (7.52%) Node.js
10 45 (5.84%) AngularJS
11 35 (4.54%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.11%) FastAPI
13 23 (2.98%) Next.js
14 22 (2.85%) OAuth
14 22 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
15 21 (2.72%) .NET Framework
15 21 (2.72%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.72%) LangChain
15 21 (2.72%) OAuth2
16 20 (2.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 304 (39.43%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.52%) AI Agents
3 52 (6.74%) Public Cloud
4 47 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (5.84%) e-Learning
6 28 (3.63%) Algorithms
6 28 (3.63%) Low-Code
6 28 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 27 (3.50%) Video\Live Streaming
8 26 (3.37%) Onboarding
9 24 (3.11%) Blog
10 21 (2.72%) IoT
10 21 (2.72%) Robotics
11 19 (2.46%) Data Structures
11 19 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
12 18 (2.33%) Management Information System
13 17 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (2.08%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (1.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.74%) 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
1 479 (62.13%) CI/CD
2 386 (50.06%) Software Engineering
3 361 (46.82%) Microservices
4 313 (40.60%) AI
5 269 (34.89%) Observability
6 260 (33.72%) Event-Driven
7 250 (32.43%) Agile
8 240 (31.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 215 (27.89%) DevOps
9 215 (27.89%) Mentoring
10 208 (26.98%) Test Automation
11 180 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 172 (22.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 141 (18.29%) Containerisation
14 137 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
15 134 (17.38%) Technical Leadership
16 133 (17.25%) Full-Stack Development
17 116 (15.05%) Machine Learning
18 103 (13.36%) Roadmaps
19 100 (12.97%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 295 (38.26%) Python
2 270 (35.02%) Java
3 198 (25.68%) SQL
4 129 (16.73%) C#
5 123 (15.95%) TypeScript
6 106 (13.75%) Go
7 100 (12.97%) JavaScript
8 34 (4.41%) C++
9 23 (2.98%) Bash
10 11 (1.43%) Rust
10 11 (1.43%) Scala
11 8 (1.04%) PHP
11 8 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.91%) Bicep
12 7 (0.91%) C
13 6 (0.78%) Groovy
13 6 (0.78%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.52%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (9.34%) Security Cleared
2 65 (8.43%) Degree
3 55 (7.13%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 45 (5.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.17%) CISSP
9 8 (1.04%) PhD
10 6 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (0.78%) CCSP
10 6 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.78%) CISM
11 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.52%) QA
2 20 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.56%) SOC 2
5 11 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.17%) NIST
8 8 (1.04%) GDPR
9 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.13%) ECSS
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 169 (21.92%) 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
1 202 (26.20%) Kubernetes
2 50 (6.49%) Grafana
3 22 (2.85%) Prometheus
4 18 (2.33%) Kibana
5 15 (1.95%) Ansible
6 10 (1.30%) Argo
7 8 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.78%) 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%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 87 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.91%) Google
3 31 (4.02%) OpenAI
4 22 (2.85%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.72%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.59%) Splunk
7 14 (1.82%) Oracle
8 8 (1.04%) Databricks
9 5 (0.65%) Adobe
9 5 (0.65%) Solace
10 4 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.52%) Facebook
10 4 (0.52%) HubSpot
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%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.26%) Reuters