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 6 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 303 355
Rank change year-on-year 0 +52 -63
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 362 505 358
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.90% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 2.53% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 239 311 270
10th Percentile £66,000 £53,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,625 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -3.03% -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 17,408 19,955 17,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.80% 35.47% 38.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,566 9,803 12,877
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,761 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,895 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,125 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +20 253 £112,500 +15.38% 126
North of England -10 70 £75,000 +11.11% 126
North West +25 38 £75,000 +11.11% 57
South East +8 33 £65,000 +6.12% 170
Yorkshire -29 31 £75,000 +33.93% 61
Midlands +33 17 £74,401 +7.35% 97
East of England +23 11 £82,500 +13.79% 102
East Midlands +24 9 £70,000 - 38
West Midlands +28 8 £75,000 +8.21% 53
South West +16 4 £87,500 -7.89% 53
North East +7 1 £73,801 +6.48% 10
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 47 (12.98%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.04%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.21%) Apache
5 6 (1.66%) Confluence
6 4 (1.10%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.10%) Appian
7 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.55%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) JBoss
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 209 (57.73%) AWS
2 133 (36.74%) Azure
3 98 (27.07%) GCP
4 61 (16.85%) Serverless
5 46 (12.71%) Amazon ECS
6 45 (12.43%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (9.39%) SaaS
8 23 (6.35%) GitHub
9 22 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (5.25%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (4.42%) AWS Step Functions
13 16 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (4.14%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (3.04%) OpenShift
18 10 (2.76%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.04%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.10%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.83%) BGP
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) VLAN
3 3 (0.83%) VPN
4 2 (0.55%) AMQP
4 2 (0.55%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.55%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (17.96%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (15.47%) NoSQL
3 49 (13.54%) Relational Database
4 36 (9.94%) Big Data
5 31 (8.56%) Hadoop
6 30 (8.29%) RDBMS
7 29 (8.01%) MongoDB
8 26 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (6.91%) DynamoDB
10 22 (6.08%) SQL Server
11 20 (5.52%) Redis
12 18 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (4.14%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (4.14%) MySQL
14 14 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (3.59%) Apache Hive
16 12 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (3.04%) DataStage
17 11 (3.04%) Neo4j
17 11 (3.04%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 45 (12.43%) Jenkins
2 38 (10.50%) Git
3 24 (6.63%) JMeter
3 24 (6.63%) JUnit
4 19 (5.25%) Mockito
5 16 (4.42%) GitLab
6 9 (2.49%) JIRA
7 6 (1.66%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.38%) MLflow
9 4 (1.10%) Postman
9 4 (1.10%) Selenium
10 3 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.83%) Maven
10 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.55%) JConsole
11 2 (0.55%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 114 (31.49%) Finance
2 86 (23.76%) Social Skills
3 47 (12.98%) Banking
4 36 (9.94%) Law
4 36 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.67%) Financial Institution
6 33 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (5.25%) Telecoms
9 18 (4.97%) Front Office
9 18 (4.97%) Retail
10 12 (3.31%) Marketing
11 9 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.21%) Back Office
12 8 (2.21%) Legal
13 6 (1.66%) Games
13 6 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Polish Language
14 4 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (29.28%) Developer
2 101 (27.90%) Senior
3 94 (25.97%) Software Engineer
4 79 (21.82%) Lead
5 56 (15.47%) Java Developer
6 34 (9.39%) Principal Engineer
7 32 (8.84%) Lead Software Engineer
8 29 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 26 (7.18%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 26 (7.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (6.63%) Data Engineer
11 24 (6.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 22 (6.08%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 22 (6.08%) Senior Developer
13 19 (5.25%) Java Engineer
14 17 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (4.70%) C# Developer
15 16 (4.42%) Lead Developer
16 15 (4.14%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (25.69%) Kafka
2 67 (18.51%) Spring
3 62 (17.13%) REST
4 61 (16.85%) Spring Boot
5 54 (14.92%) .NET
6 51 (14.09%) React
7 36 (9.94%) RESTful
8 33 (9.12%) Node.js
8 33 (9.12%) Web Services
9 29 (8.01%) HTML
10 28 (7.73%) Hibernate
11 24 (6.63%) Apache Camel
11 24 (6.63%) Django
11 24 (6.63%) JSON
12 21 (5.80%) XML
13 20 (5.52%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (5.25%) jQuery
14 19 (5.25%) WireMock
15 17 (4.70%) .NET Core
15 17 (4.70%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 126 (34.81%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.60%) Algorithms
3 39 (10.77%) Product Ownership
4 30 (8.29%) Data Structures
5 22 (6.08%) Legacy Code
5 22 (6.08%) Public Cloud
6 21 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (5.25%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.42%) Equities
9 14 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (3.59%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (3.59%) e-Learning
11 10 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.76%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.21%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.66%) Derivative
15 5 (1.38%) Data Centre
16 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
16 4 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.81%) Linux
2 12 (3.31%) Unix
3 7 (1.93%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (48.34%) CI/CD
2 173 (47.79%) Microservices
3 160 (44.20%) Software Engineering
4 139 (38.40%) Agile
5 105 (29.01%) DevOps
6 93 (25.69%) Containerisation
7 84 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (22.65%) Mentoring
9 81 (22.38%) AI
10 75 (20.72%) Full-Stack Development
11 72 (19.89%) Computer Science
11 72 (19.89%) Roadmaps
12 65 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (17.13%) Machine Learning
14 59 (16.30%) TDD
15 57 (15.75%) Event-Driven
16 54 (14.92%) Low Latency
17 53 (14.64%) Data Pipeline
18 47 (12.98%) Observability
18 47 (12.98%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 180 (49.72%) Java
2 156 (43.09%) Python
3 78 (21.55%) SQL
4 66 (18.23%) C#
4 66 (18.23%) Go
5 54 (14.92%) JavaScript
6 39 (10.77%) C++
7 38 (10.50%) TypeScript
8 26 (7.18%) Rust
9 25 (6.91%) Scala
10 24 (6.63%) C
11 20 (5.52%) Shell Script
12 13 (3.59%) Bash
12 13 (3.59%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.21%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.10%) COBOL
14 4 (1.10%) Groovy
15 1 (0.28%) Bicep
15 1 (0.28%) PHP
15 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (17.13%) Degree
2 37 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (6.91%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.63%) Master's Degree
5 22 (6.08%) PhD
6 9 (2.49%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.21%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CEH
10 1 (0.28%) CISM
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) GIAC
10 1 (0.28%) OSCP
10 1 (0.28%) SANS
10 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.87%) GDPR
2 13 (3.59%) QA
3 9 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.38%) SLA
5 5 (1.38%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.83%) WCAG
7 2 (0.55%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 117 (32.32%) Docker
2 14 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.87%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.49%) HDFS
4 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.55%) Ceph
6 2 (0.55%) Lustre
6 2 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 159 (43.92%) Kubernetes
2 40 (11.05%) Terraform
3 31 (8.56%) Ansible
4 23 (6.35%) Kibana
5 12 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.04%) Grafana
7 5 (1.38%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.38%) logstash
8 4 (1.10%) Rancher
8 4 (1.10%) vRealize
9 3 (0.83%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.55%) Puppet
10 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (6.35%) Dynatrace
2 20 (5.52%) Splunk
3 15 (4.14%) Google
4 14 (3.87%) Microsoft
5 13 (3.59%) Oracle
6 12 (3.31%) Databricks
7 11 (3.04%) Informatica
7 11 (3.04%) Talend
8 6 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.38%) Dell
9 5 (1.38%) SAP
10 4 (1.10%) Ericsson
10 4 (1.10%) Mavenir
10 4 (1.10%) Nokia
10 4 (1.10%) Pega
10 4 (1.10%) VMware
10 4 (1.10%) WSO2
11 3 (0.83%) Solace
12 2 (0.55%) Foundry
12 2 (0.55%) Palantir