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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 293 344
Rank change year-on-year -12 +51 -47
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 360 492 364
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.96% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 2.60% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 244 306 273
10th Percentile £66,250 £48,250 £47,400
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £84,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% +5.00% -5.88%

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 18,862 18,918 16,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.62% 36.76% 37.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,574 9,307 12,326
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £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 £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.25%

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 17 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 17 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 +20 243 £112,500 +15.38% 70
North of England -19 70 £75,000 +11.11% 29
North West +24 37 £75,000 +8.21% 21
South East +17 36 £67,500 +12.50% 58
Yorkshire -38 32 £75,000 +33.93% 9
Midlands +24 14 £75,000 +8.21% 11
East of England +24 11 £82,500 +13.79% 29
East Midlands +10 8 £70,000 - 4
West Midlands +17 6 £75,000 +8.21% 7
South West -1 5 £82,500 -13.16% 10
North East +2 1 £73,801 +6.48% 1
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 45 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.17%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.22%) Apache
5 5 (1.39%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.39%) Confluence
6 4 (1.11%) Appian
7 3 (0.83%) IIS
7 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 211 (58.61%) AWS
2 135 (37.50%) Azure
3 99 (27.50%) GCP
4 62 (17.22%) Serverless
5 47 (13.06%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (12.22%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (10.00%) SaaS
8 22 (6.11%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (5.83%) GitHub
10 19 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (4.72%) Amazon Kinesis
11 17 (4.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (3.06%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.11%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.83%) BGP
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) VLAN
3 3 (0.83%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) AMQP
4 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.56%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (18.61%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (16.94%) NoSQL
3 46 (12.78%) Relational Database
4 36 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 35 (9.72%) Big Data
6 30 (8.33%) MongoDB
7 28 (7.78%) DynamoDB
8 27 (7.50%) RDBMS
9 26 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (7.22%) SQL Server
10 22 (6.11%) Redis
11 18 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (4.17%) MySQL
13 14 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (3.61%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (3.06%) DataStage
16 11 (3.06%) Neo4j
16 11 (3.06%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 46 (12.78%) Jenkins
2 40 (11.11%) Git
3 21 (5.83%) JMeter
4 20 (5.56%) JUnit
5 16 (4.44%) GitLab
5 16 (4.44%) Mockito
6 8 (2.22%) JIRA
7 5 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.11%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.11%) Maven
8 4 (1.11%) MLflow
8 4 (1.11%) Postman
8 4 (1.11%) Selenium
8 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.56%) JConsole
10 2 (0.56%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 101 (28.06%) Finance
2 85 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 36 (10.00%) Banking
4 35 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.72%) Financial Institution
5 31 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.67%) Law
7 22 (6.11%) Telecoms
8 20 (5.56%) Retail
9 18 (5.00%) Front Office
10 13 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (3.61%) Marketing
11 10 (2.78%) Back Office
12 9 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.67%) Games
13 6 (1.67%) Legal
14 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.11%) Polish Language
16 3 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (30.56%) Developer
2 101 (28.06%) Senior
3 80 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 71 (19.72%) Lead
5 56 (15.56%) Java Developer
6 31 (8.61%) Principal Engineer
7 27 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.39%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 23 (6.39%) Data Engineer
9 23 (6.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 23 (6.39%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (5.83%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 19 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.72%) C# Developer
12 17 (4.72%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.89%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (26.39%) Kafka
2 65 (18.06%) REST
2 65 (18.06%) Spring
3 60 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 56 (15.56%) .NET
5 54 (15.00%) React
6 37 (10.28%) Node.js
7 34 (9.44%) RESTful
8 31 (8.61%) Web Services
9 26 (7.22%) Django
9 26 (7.22%) HTML
10 23 (6.39%) Hibernate
10 23 (6.39%) JSON
11 20 (5.56%) Apache Camel
11 20 (5.56%) gRPC
11 20 (5.56%) XML
12 18 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (5.00%) FastAPI
13 17 (4.72%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (4.72%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 119 (33.06%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.67%) Algorithms
3 39 (10.83%) Product Ownership
4 30 (8.33%) Data Structures
5 20 (5.56%) Legacy Code
6 18 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (4.72%) Equities
7 17 (4.72%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (4.44%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (3.61%) e-Learning
10 10 (2.78%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (2.50%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.94%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.11%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (13.61%) Linux
2 12 (3.33%) Unix
3 9 (2.50%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (48.33%) CI/CD
2 172 (47.78%) Microservices
3 143 (39.72%) Software Engineering
4 137 (38.06%) Agile
5 108 (30.00%) DevOps
6 91 (25.28%) Containerisation
7 83 (23.06%) AI
8 81 (22.50%) Mentoring
9 79 (21.94%) Computer Science
9 79 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 79 (21.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (19.72%) Roadmaps
11 65 (18.06%) Machine Learning
12 64 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (17.22%) Event-Driven
14 60 (16.67%) TDD
15 58 (16.11%) Low Latency
16 52 (14.44%) Observability
17 51 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
18 50 (13.89%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 174 (48.33%) Java
2 156 (43.33%) Python
3 78 (21.67%) SQL
4 69 (19.17%) Go
5 67 (18.61%) C#
6 54 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 41 (11.39%) TypeScript
8 35 (9.72%) C++
9 27 (7.50%) Scala
10 24 (6.67%) Rust
11 22 (6.11%) C
12 17 (4.72%) Shell Script
13 15 (4.17%) Bash
14 10 (2.78%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.22%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.11%) COBOL
16 4 (1.11%) Groovy
17 3 (0.83%) R
18 1 (0.28%) PHP
18 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (20.00%) Degree
2 43 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.50%) Master's Degree
4 25 (6.94%) Security Cleared
5 22 (6.11%) PhD
6 9 (2.50%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.83%) MBA
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.44%) QA
2 14 (3.89%) GDPR
3 8 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.94%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.83%) WCAG
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 117 (32.50%) Docker
2 14 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.89%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.50%) HDFS
4 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.56%) Ceph
6 2 (0.56%) Lustre
6 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 152 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.39%) Terraform
3 32 (8.89%) Ansible
4 20 (5.56%) Kibana
5 12 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.06%) Grafana
7 5 (1.39%) logstash
8 4 (1.11%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.11%) Kubeflow
8 4 (1.11%) Rancher
8 4 (1.11%) vRealize
9 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 17 (4.72%) Splunk
3 16 (4.44%) Google
4 15 (4.17%) Databricks
5 14 (3.89%) Microsoft
6 13 (3.61%) Oracle
7 11 (3.06%) Informatica
7 11 (3.06%) Talend
8 6 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.39%) Dell
9 5 (1.39%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.39%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.39%) Nokia
9 5 (1.39%) SAP
10 4 (1.11%) Pega
10 4 (1.11%) VMware
10 4 (1.11%) WSO2
11 3 (0.83%) BT
11 3 (0.83%) Solace
12 2 (0.56%) Confluent