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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 356 418
Rank change year-on-year +88 +62 -35
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 537 318 479
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 1.96% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 297 200 329
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,938 £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 £107,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,677 £148,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +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 22,312 16,242 29,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.63% 41.69% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,231 8,383 20,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,997
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +55 337 £100,000 +8.11% 183
North of England -32 96 £80,000 +1.91% 48
South East -7 71 £70,000 +9.80% 50
North West +19 66 £95,000 +18.75% 32
Yorkshire -60 24 £75,000 -3.23% 5
Midlands -31 14 £87,500 +20.69% 8
South West -41 13 £85,000 -15.00% 17
East of England +3 11 £80,000 - 11
East Midlands -15 11 £86,000 +12.79% 2
North East -46 6 £60,000 -13.52% 11
West Midlands -36 3 £87,500 +20.69% 6
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 15 (2.79%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.23%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.30%) IIS
5 4 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.74%) Appian
6 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.56%) JBoss
6 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.19%) Solana
8 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 325 (60.52%) AWS
2 171 (31.84%) Azure
3 159 (29.61%) GCP
4 58 (10.80%) Serverless
5 41 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (6.70%) SaaS
7 31 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (5.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (4.47%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.47%) GitHub
10 21 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.54%) Datadog
13 16 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
16 8 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.22%) Broadband
2 12 (2.23%) HTTP
3 7 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.93%) DNS
4 5 (0.93%) Firewall
5 3 (0.56%) BGP
5 3 (0.56%) DHCP
5 3 (0.56%) VLAN
5 3 (0.56%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.19%) LTE
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.19%) RTP
6 1 (0.19%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) SS7
6 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (9.50%) NoSQL
3 39 (7.26%) MongoDB
4 32 (5.96%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (3.72%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.54%) BigQuery
7 19 (3.54%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.98%) MySQL
9 15 (2.79%) Hadoop
9 15 (2.79%) Redis
10 13 (2.42%) Big Data
11 11 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.86%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.12%) Tableau
14 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.93%) ClickHouse
14 5 (0.93%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 55 (10.24%) Git
2 50 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.96%) GitLab
4 19 (3.54%) Cucumber
5 16 (2.98%) JIRA
6 14 (2.61%) JMeter
7 11 (2.05%) JUnit
8 10 (1.86%) Gatling
9 9 (1.68%) LoadRunner
9 9 (1.68%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.49%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.93%) Maven
12 4 (0.74%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.74%) Mockito
13 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.56%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.37%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 133 (24.77%) Finance
2 91 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 41 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.45%) Banking
5 32 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.77%) Law
7 24 (4.47%) Games
7 24 (4.47%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.28%) Financial Institution
9 21 (3.91%) Retail
10 18 (3.35%) Back Office
11 16 (2.98%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.23%) Front Office
13 8 (1.49%) Marketing
13 8 (1.49%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.30%) Advertising
14 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (25.14%) Senior
2 121 (22.53%) Developer
3 108 (20.11%) Software Engineer
4 52 (9.68%) Lead
5 51 (9.50%) Architect
6 46 (8.57%) Principal Engineer
7 40 (7.45%) Senior Developer
8 38 (7.08%) Java Engineer
9 31 (5.77%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.59%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (5.40%) Java Developer
12 22 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (3.72%) Data Engineer
13 20 (3.72%) Python Engineer
14 18 (3.35%) Python Developer
14 18 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 16 (2.98%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.79%) Scala Developer
16 15 (2.79%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.71%) Kafka
2 73 (13.59%) REST
3 68 (12.66%) .NET
4 63 (11.73%) Spring
5 58 (10.80%) gRPC
6 56 (10.43%) RESTful
6 56 (10.43%) Spring Boot
7 53 (9.87%) React
8 40 (7.45%) Node.js
9 28 (5.21%) Django
10 24 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (4.28%) Web Services
12 22 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (3.72%) JSON
14 19 (3.54%) AngularJS
15 16 (2.98%) OAuth
16 15 (2.79%) OAuth2
17 14 (2.61%) HTML
18 13 (2.42%) FastAPI
19 12 (2.23%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 147 (27.37%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.73%) Video\Live Streaming
3 53 (9.87%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.75%) Data Structures
4 47 (8.75%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.54%) Public Cloud
7 18 (3.35%) AI Agents
7 18 (3.35%) Equities
8 17 (3.17%) Low-Code
9 16 (2.98%) Client/Server
10 15 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (2.61%) e-Learning
11 14 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (1.86%) Blog
14 9 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.49%) Life Science
15 8 (1.49%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.31%) Linux
2 15 (2.79%) Windows
3 7 (1.30%) Android
4 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (53.82%) CI/CD
2 252 (46.93%) Software Engineering
3 246 (45.81%) Microservices
4 150 (27.93%) Agile
4 150 (27.93%) Containerisation
5 149 (27.75%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (25.14%) AI
7 133 (24.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 130 (24.21%) DevOps
9 122 (22.72%) Machine Learning
10 115 (21.42%) Observability
11 106 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 100 (18.62%) Event-Driven
13 99 (18.44%) Computer Science
14 94 (17.50%) Test Automation
15 90 (16.76%) Clean Code
16 81 (15.08%) Mentoring
17 73 (13.59%) Roadmaps
18 72 (13.41%) Data Science
18 72 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 260 (48.42%) Python
2 168 (31.28%) Java
3 118 (21.97%) Go
4 80 (14.90%) SQL
5 79 (14.71%) C#
6 61 (11.36%) JavaScript
7 56 (10.43%) C++
7 56 (10.43%) Scala
8 54 (10.06%) TypeScript
9 36 (6.70%) Rust
10 15 (2.79%) Bash
11 14 (2.61%) C
12 10 (1.86%) Groovy
12 10 (1.86%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.93%) Bicep
13 5 (0.93%) Perl
13 5 (0.93%) R
13 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.74%) PHP
14 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (16.76%) Degree
2 64 (11.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.03%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.23%) PhD
9 5 (0.93%) MBA
10 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) ISEB
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.38%) QA
2 13 (2.42%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.68%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.12%) GDPR
5 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 171 (31.84%) Docker
2 16 (2.98%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.42%) KVM
4 9 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (27.37%) Kubernetes
2 79 (14.71%) Terraform
3 33 (6.15%) Ansible
4 14 (2.61%) Grafana
5 12 (2.23%) Kibana
6 10 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.74%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.74%) Packer
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.56%) SCCM
9 2 (0.37%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.38%) Typelevel
2 35 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.91%) Google
4 16 (2.98%) Oracle
4 16 (2.98%) VMware
5 14 (2.61%) AppDynamics
6 13 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.68%) Databricks
8 8 (1.49%) IBM
9 7 (1.30%) Splunk
10 6 (1.12%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.12%) Solace
11 5 (0.93%) BT
11 5 (0.93%) Informatica
11 5 (0.93%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.93%) Talend
12 3 (0.56%) Ericsson
12 3 (0.56%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.56%) Nokia
13 2 (0.37%) Pega