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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 322 406
Rank change year-on-year +37 +84 -49
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 512 344 477
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.92% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 2.33% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 287 215 326
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 £111,875 £115,000 £120,938
90th Percentile £132,500 £139,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +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 22,571 14,773 28,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.98% 39.54% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11,721 8,279 20,667
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,750
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 £76,125
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 21 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 21 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 +37 326 £100,000 +6.67% 166
North of England -39 93 £76,250 -1.61% 36
South East -37 66 £75,000 +17.65% 54
North West +4 64 £81,250 +1.56% 27
Yorkshire -68 25 £75,000 -3.23% 3
Midlands -22 15 £73,500 +1.38% 5
South West -50 13 £83,750 -16.25% 13
East Midlands - 13 £86,000 - 2
East of England -24 11 £82,500 - 15
North East -41 4 £60,000 -13.52% 6
West Midlands -29 2 £68,750 -5.17% 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 18 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.34%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.37%) IIS
5 5 (0.98%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.78%) 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
1 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 308 (60.16%) AWS
2 172 (33.59%) Azure
3 168 (32.81%) GCP
4 59 (11.52%) Serverless
5 47 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (8.59%) SaaS
7 34 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (5.27%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.69%) GitHub
10 23 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (3.52%) Datadog
13 15 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (2.93%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.95%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (1.37%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 52 (10.16%) Broadband
2 14 (2.73%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.34%) HTTP
4 5 (0.98%) BGP
4 5 (0.98%) VLAN
4 5 (0.98%) VPN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) Firewall
6 2 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.39%) Multicast
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%) 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 50 (9.77%) NoSQL
2 41 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.05%) Relational Database
4 30 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (5.08%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.49%) DynamoDB
7 22 (4.30%) MongoDB
7 22 (4.30%) Redis
8 19 (3.71%) BigQuery
8 19 (3.71%) Hadoop
9 17 (3.32%) Big Data
10 16 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (3.13%) MySQL
11 12 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.95%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.17%) Tableau
14 5 (0.98%) Couchbase
14 5 (0.98%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.98%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (9.96%) Git
2 49 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.91%) GitLab
4 15 (2.93%) JMeter
5 13 (2.54%) Cucumber
5 13 (2.54%) JIRA
6 10 (1.95%) Gatling
6 10 (1.95%) JUnit
7 9 (1.76%) LoadRunner
7 9 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.98%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.98%) Maven
10 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.78%) 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
1 131 (25.59%) Finance
2 98 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 43 (8.40%) Banking
4 40 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (7.23%) Law
7 28 (5.47%) Financial Institution
8 26 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.08%) Retail
9 25 (4.88%) Telecoms
10 23 (4.49%) Back Office
11 13 (2.54%) Front Office
12 11 (2.15%) Polish Language
13 10 (1.95%) Games
13 10 (1.95%) Marketing
14 9 (1.76%) Advertising
15 7 (1.37%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.17%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.98%) Legal
17 5 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (26.37%) Senior
2 118 (23.05%) Software Engineer
3 109 (21.29%) Developer
4 52 (10.16%) Lead
5 41 (8.01%) Architect
6 38 (7.42%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (6.84%) Java Developer
8 30 (5.86%) Java Engineer
8 30 (5.86%) Scala Engineer
9 29 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
10 28 (5.47%) Senior Developer
11 25 (4.88%) Backend Developer
12 23 (4.49%) Data Engineer
13 20 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (3.13%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.13%) Python Engineer
16 15 (2.93%) Scala Developer
16 15 (2.93%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (14.84%) Kafka
2 74 (14.45%) REST
3 64 (12.50%) .NET
4 62 (12.11%) gRPC
5 59 (11.52%) Spring
6 53 (10.35%) React
7 50 (9.77%) Spring Boot
8 43 (8.40%) Node.js
9 42 (8.20%) RESTful
10 30 (5.86%) Django
11 24 (4.69%) Web Services
12 22 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
12 22 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (3.71%) OAuth
14 18 (3.52%) JSON
15 17 (3.32%) AngularJS
16 16 (3.13%) OAuth2
17 14 (2.73%) HTML
18 11 (2.15%) .NET Core
18 11 (2.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 126 (24.61%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.38%) Algorithms
3 47 (9.18%) Over-the-Top Content
3 47 (9.18%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (8.79%) Data Structures
5 25 (4.88%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.52%) Equities
7 17 (3.32%) Client/Server
7 17 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.54%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.54%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.95%) Blog
10 10 (1.95%) e-Learning
11 9 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 57 (11.13%) Linux
2 12 (2.34%) Windows
3 9 (1.76%) Android
4 5 (0.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (50.39%) CI/CD
2 241 (47.07%) Microservices
3 237 (46.29%) Software Engineering
4 154 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
5 148 (28.91%) Containerisation
6 146 (28.52%) Agile
7 130 (25.39%) DevOps
8 110 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 106 (20.70%) AI
9 106 (20.70%) Machine Learning
10 101 (19.73%) Computer Science
11 94 (18.36%) Observability
12 90 (17.58%) Clean Code
13 87 (16.99%) Event-Driven
14 79 (15.43%) Mentoring
15 78 (15.23%) Roadmaps
16 73 (14.26%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (13.87%) Data Science
18 67 (13.09%) Coaching
19 63 (12.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 227 (44.34%) Python
2 172 (33.59%) Java
3 116 (22.66%) Go
4 75 (14.65%) C#
5 68 (13.28%) SQL
6 61 (11.91%) Scala
7 59 (11.52%) C++
8 51 (9.96%) JavaScript
9 46 (8.98%) TypeScript
10 40 (7.81%) Rust
11 20 (3.91%) C
12 12 (2.34%) Bash
13 9 (1.76%) Groovy
13 9 (1.76%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.37%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.98%) R
15 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.78%) Bicep
16 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 94 (18.36%) Degree
2 68 (13.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (6.05%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.88%) Master's Degree
5 24 (4.69%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.34%) PhD
7 11 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.98%) MBA
9 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ITIL 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 (7.42%) QA
2 13 (2.54%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.76%) GDPR
5 5 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 168 (32.81%) Docker
2 14 (2.73%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.54%) KVM
4 8 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.39%) HDFS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 143 (27.93%) Kubernetes
2 74 (14.45%) Terraform
3 34 (6.64%) Ansible
4 14 (2.73%) Grafana
5 12 (2.34%) Kibana
6 10 (1.95%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.78%) Packer
8 2 (0.39%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (8.79%) Typelevel
2 25 (4.88%) Google
2 25 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.73%) Oracle
3 14 (2.73%) VMware
4 13 (2.54%) AppDynamics
4 13 (2.54%) Dynatrace
5 10 (1.95%) Databricks
6 8 (1.56%) IBM
7 6 (1.17%) Splunk
8 5 (0.98%) BT
8 5 (0.98%) Ericsson
8 5 (0.98%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.98%) Informatica
8 5 (0.98%) Mavenir
8 5 (0.98%) Nokia
8 5 (0.98%) Solace
8 5 (0.98%) Talend
9 4 (0.78%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.59%) SAP