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 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 306 377
Rank change year-on-year +16 +71 -104
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 386 510 357
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.84% 0.84% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 2.52% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 241 316 260
10th Percentile £66,250 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £84,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +1.82% -2.94%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% - -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 17,458 20,240 18,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.95% 33.25% 38.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,711 9,715 13,628
10th Percentile £27,750 £34,000 £33,925
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +38 284 £110,000 +12.82% 354
North of England -34 59 £75,000 +20.00% 64
South East +14 35 £75,000 +20.00% 44
North West +9 33 £76,500 +22.40% 50
Yorkshire -30 25 £75,000 +42.18% 6
Midlands +54 19 £75,000 +8.21% 8
East Midlands +32 10 £77,500 -24.39% 1
West Midlands +35 9 £75,000 +8.21% 7
East of England +21 9 £82,500 +13.79% 20
South West +17 4 £87,500 -7.89% 14
North East +6 1 £73,801 +6.48% 8
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 51 (13.21%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.07%) Apache
3 8 (2.07%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.55%) Confluence
5 4 (1.04%) JBoss
5 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.52%) Luigi
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 227 (58.81%) AWS
2 131 (33.94%) Azure
3 98 (25.39%) GCP
4 57 (14.77%) Serverless
5 49 (12.69%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (11.40%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (9.84%) SaaS
8 24 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (5.44%) GitHub
10 18 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.89%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (3.37%) Amazon S3
14 12 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.11%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.85%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (2.59%) OpenShift
17 8 (2.07%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.85%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.04%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.78%) BGP
3 3 (0.78%) VLAN
3 3 (0.78%) VPN
4 2 (0.52%) AMQP
4 2 (0.52%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) MQTT
5 1 (0.26%) Multicast
5 1 (0.26%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (16.32%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (14.51%) NoSQL
3 53 (13.73%) Relational Database
4 44 (11.40%) Big Data
5 27 (6.99%) RDBMS
6 26 (6.74%) Hadoop
7 25 (6.48%) MongoDB
8 21 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (4.92%) DynamoDB
9 19 (4.92%) Redis
9 19 (4.92%) SQL Server
10 18 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (3.37%) Apache Hive
12 12 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (2.85%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (2.85%) MySQL
14 8 (2.07%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.81%) DataStage
15 7 (1.81%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 45 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 39 (10.10%) Git
3 27 (6.99%) JUnit
4 25 (6.48%) JMeter
5 22 (5.70%) Mockito
6 13 (3.37%) GitLab
7 9 (2.33%) JIRA
8 6 (1.55%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.55%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.30%) MLflow
9 5 (1.30%) Postman
10 4 (1.04%) Selenium
10 4 (1.04%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.78%) Maven
11 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.52%) JConsole
12 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.52%) VisualVM
13 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 146 (37.82%) Finance
2 96 (24.87%) Social Skills
3 83 (21.50%) Banking
4 71 (18.39%) Law
5 65 (16.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (10.88%) Public Sector
7 40 (10.36%) Financial Institution
8 33 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (5.70%) Front Office
10 17 (4.40%) Retail
11 16 (4.15%) Marketing
12 13 (3.37%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.37%) Telecoms
13 12 (3.11%) Legal
14 9 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (2.07%) Back Office
16 6 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (1.30%) Games
18 4 (1.04%) Publishing
18 4 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (33.42%) Software Engineer
2 108 (27.98%) Senior
3 103 (26.68%) Developer
3 103 (26.68%) Lead
4 58 (15.03%) Lead Software Engineer
5 56 (14.51%) Java Developer
6 38 (9.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 37 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 33 (8.55%) Principal Engineer
9 32 (8.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 31 (8.03%) Java Engineer
11 26 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (6.74%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 26 (6.74%) Data Engineer
12 23 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (5.70%) Java Software Engineer
14 21 (5.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 20 (5.18%) Senior Developer
16 18 (4.66%) Python Engineer
17 16 (4.15%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (24.09%) Kafka
2 79 (20.47%) Spring
3 65 (16.84%) Spring Boot
4 59 (15.28%) REST
5 55 (14.25%) .NET
6 53 (13.73%) RESTful
7 44 (11.40%) React
8 42 (10.88%) Web Services
9 34 (8.81%) Hibernate
10 29 (7.51%) HTML
11 28 (7.25%) Apache Camel
12 25 (6.48%) JSON
13 24 (6.22%) Node.js
14 22 (5.70%) ActiveMQ
15 21 (5.44%) XML
16 20 (5.18%) jQuery
16 20 (5.18%) WireMock
17 17 (4.40%) .NET Core
17 17 (4.40%) Django
18 16 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 143 (37.05%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.92%) Algorithms
3 40 (10.36%) Product Ownership
4 31 (8.03%) Data Structures
4 31 (8.03%) Public Cloud
5 26 (6.74%) Legacy Code
6 23 (5.96%) Management Information System
7 22 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (4.92%) Virtual Team
9 16 (4.15%) Derivative
10 15 (3.89%) Equities
11 13 (3.37%) e-Learning
12 10 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (2.33%) Mobile Banking
14 8 (2.07%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (2.07%) Onboarding
15 7 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (1.55%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.99%) Linux
2 13 (3.37%) Unix
3 4 (1.04%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 182 (47.15%) Microservices
3 177 (45.85%) CI/CD
4 152 (39.38%) Agile
5 102 (26.42%) DevOps
6 88 (22.80%) Containerisation
7 86 (22.28%) Mentoring
8 85 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 81 (20.98%) AI
10 69 (17.88%) Computer Science
10 69 (17.88%) Roadmaps
10 69 (17.88%) SDLC
11 66 (17.10%) Full-Stack Development
12 64 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (16.58%) TDD
13 63 (16.32%) Machine Learning
14 54 (13.99%) Event-Driven
15 51 (13.21%) Fintech
16 50 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
17 48 (12.44%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 202 (52.33%) Java
2 156 (40.41%) Python
3 85 (22.02%) SQL
4 65 (16.84%) C#
5 63 (16.32%) Go
6 48 (12.44%) JavaScript
7 45 (11.66%) C++
8 34 (8.81%) Scala
9 30 (7.77%) Rust
10 28 (7.25%) C
11 26 (6.74%) Kotlin
12 24 (6.22%) TypeScript
13 22 (5.70%) Shell Script
14 10 (2.59%) Bash
15 9 (2.33%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.30%) Groovy
17 3 (0.78%) COBOL
18 2 (0.52%) PHP
19 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
19 1 (0.26%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 54 (13.99%) Degree
2 31 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (6.48%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.44%) PhD
6 13 (3.37%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CEH
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) OSCP
10 1 (0.26%) SANS
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.40%) GDPR
2 13 (3.37%) QA
3 9 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.81%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.30%) SLA
7 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.78%) WCAG
8 2 (0.52%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 122 (31.61%) Docker
2 14 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.63%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.33%) HDFS
4 5 (1.30%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.52%) Ceph
6 2 (0.52%) Lustre
6 2 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.26%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 176 (45.60%) Kubernetes
2 44 (11.40%) Terraform
3 30 (7.77%) Ansible
4 24 (6.22%) Kibana
5 13 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.11%) Grafana
7 5 (1.30%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.30%) logstash
8 4 (1.04%) Rancher
8 4 (1.04%) vRealize
9 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.52%) Puppet
9 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.22%) Dynatrace
2 22 (5.70%) Splunk
3 16 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.11%) Databricks
4 12 (3.11%) Google
5 10 (2.59%) Oracle
6 7 (1.81%) Informatica
6 7 (1.81%) Talend
7 5 (1.30%) Dell
7 5 (1.30%) SAP
8 4 (1.04%) Foundry
8 4 (1.04%) Palantir
8 4 (1.04%) Pega
8 4 (1.04%) Solace
8 4 (1.04%) VMware
8 4 (1.04%) WSO2
9 3 (0.78%) Ericsson
9 3 (0.78%) Mavenir
9 3 (0.78%) Nokia
9 3 (0.78%) OpenAI