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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 359 363
Rank change year-on-year +122 +4 +30
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 750 324 496
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.80% 0.74% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 1.75% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 446 184 292
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,666 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £136,750 £145,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -8.05%

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 24,293 18,470 23,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 42.30% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,894 9,323 14,589
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,679 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,130 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +74 451 £95,000 -13.64% 660
North of England +19 125 £75,000 -4.46% 79
North West +38 83 £80,000 -8.57% 46
South East -6 82 £63,000 -16.00% 65
South West -38 36 £95,000 -2.56% 34
Midlands -40 28 £80,000 +6.67% 18
North East -36 26 £63,750 -44.57% 17
East of England - 22 £80,000 - 19
West Midlands -26 21 £82,500 +13.79% 13
Yorkshire -39 16 £75,000 -3.23% 16
East Midlands -26 7 £72,000 -7.10% 5
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 17 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.07%) Apache
3 6 (0.80%) Camunda
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.67%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.53%) JBoss
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Solana
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 406 (54.13%) AWS
2 240 (32.00%) Azure
3 158 (21.07%) GCP
4 74 (9.87%) Serverless
5 58 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (6.00%) SaaS
7 41 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (5.07%) Amazon S3
9 37 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (4.93%) GitHub
10 35 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (2.93%) Datadog
14 19 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
15 17 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 72 (9.60%) Broadband
2 14 (1.87%) HTTP
3 13 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.80%) Internet
5 5 (0.67%) DNS
5 5 (0.67%) Firewall
6 4 (0.53%) MQTT
7 3 (0.40%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) AMQP
8 2 (0.27%) Multicast
8 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.27%) VoIP
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.13%) DMARC
9 1 (0.13%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
9 1 (0.13%) RS-232
9 1 (0.13%) RS-485
9 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.13%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (11.47%) NoSQL
1 86 (11.47%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (7.60%) MongoDB
3 34 (4.53%) Relational Database
4 29 (3.87%) SQL Server
5 26 (3.47%) MySQL
6 25 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (3.20%) Redis
8 22 (2.93%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.47%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.47%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.33%) Metadata
11 10 (1.33%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.20%) Big Data
13 7 (0.93%) Flink
14 6 (0.80%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.80%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 75 (10.00%) Git
2 62 (8.27%) GitLab
3 48 (6.40%) Jenkins
4 42 (5.60%) Cucumber
5 26 (3.47%) JUnit
6 18 (2.40%) JIRA
6 18 (2.40%) JMeter
7 11 (1.47%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.47%) LoadRunner
7 11 (1.47%) Mockito
8 10 (1.33%) Gatling
8 10 (1.33%) Spock
9 7 (0.93%) Selenium
10 5 (0.67%) Maven
10 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.53%) MLflow
12 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.27%) WinDbg
General
1 186 (24.80%) Finance
2 163 (21.73%) Social Skills
3 55 (7.33%) Banking
4 51 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.93%) Law
7 29 (3.87%) Financial Institution
7 29 (3.87%) Games
7 29 (3.87%) Public Sector
8 25 (3.33%) Retail
9 21 (2.80%) Front Office
10 17 (2.27%) Back Office
11 12 (1.60%) Marketing
12 11 (1.47%) Advertising
13 7 (0.93%) Electronics
13 7 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.93%) Polish Language
14 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.80%) Legal
14 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 197 (26.27%) Senior
2 166 (22.13%) Developer
3 154 (20.53%) Software Engineer
4 93 (12.40%) Lead
5 81 (10.80%) Principal Engineer
6 72 (9.60%) Java Engineer
7 54 (7.20%) Senior Developer
8 53 (7.07%) Architect
9 46 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (5.87%) Python Engineer
11 42 (5.60%) Backend Developer
12 41 (5.47%) Python Developer
13 32 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 28 (3.73%) Java Developer
15 24 (3.20%) Scala Engineer
16 23 (3.07%) Principal Java Engineer
16 23 (3.07%) Senior Java Engineer
17 22 (2.93%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.80%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (16.53%) .NET
2 122 (16.27%) Kafka
3 118 (15.73%) Spring
4 99 (13.20%) Spring Boot
5 97 (12.93%) REST
6 95 (12.67%) React
7 82 (10.93%) RESTful
8 55 (7.33%) Node.js
9 39 (5.20%) AngularJS
10 37 (4.93%) gRPC
11 34 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.20%) OAuth
13 23 (3.07%) LangChain
13 23 (3.07%) OAuth2
14 22 (2.93%) ASP.NET
14 22 (2.93%) JSON
15 20 (2.67%) FastAPI
16 19 (2.53%) Django
17 17 (2.27%) .NET Framework
17 17 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 252 (33.60%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.13%) Video\Live Streaming
3 45 (6.00%) Algorithms
4 40 (5.33%) AI Agents
5 39 (5.20%) Data Structures
6 38 (5.07%) Public Cloud
7 35 (4.67%) Over-the-Top Content
8 32 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (4.13%) e-Learning
10 28 (3.73%) Low-Code
10 28 (3.73%) Onboarding
11 20 (2.67%) Product Ownership
12 19 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
12 19 (2.53%) Equities
13 16 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (2.00%) Life Science
15 14 (1.87%) Private Cloud
16 13 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.60%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 70 (9.33%) Linux
2 14 (1.87%) Windows
3 13 (1.73%) Unix
4 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (59.87%) CI/CD
2 390 (52.00%) Software Engineering
3 337 (44.93%) Microservices
4 268 (35.73%) AI
5 230 (30.67%) Observability
6 227 (30.27%) Agile
7 217 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 212 (28.27%) DevOps
9 196 (26.13%) Event-Driven
10 179 (23.87%) Mentoring
11 177 (23.60%) Test Automation
12 176 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 172 (22.93%) Containerisation
14 171 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
15 149 (19.87%) Machine Learning
16 129 (17.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 116 (15.47%) Clean Code
18 114 (15.20%) Full-Stack Development
19 95 (12.67%) Technical Leadership
20 88 (11.73%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 350 (46.67%) Python
2 242 (32.27%) Java
3 155 (20.67%) SQL
4 118 (15.73%) C#
5 111 (14.80%) Go
6 104 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 99 (13.20%) JavaScript
8 53 (7.07%) C++
9 43 (5.73%) Scala
10 25 (3.33%) Rust
11 22 (2.93%) Bash
12 14 (1.87%) C
13 12 (1.60%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.20%) Bicep
14 9 (1.20%) Groovy
14 9 (1.20%) PHP
15 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.67%) Perl
17 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (10.93%) Degree
2 63 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 48 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 38 (5.07%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.47%) PhD
8 8 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CSPO
11 1 (0.13%) HND
11 1 (0.13%) ISEB
11 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.27%) QA
2 8 (1.07%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.07%) GDPR
2 8 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.13%) GRC
4 1 (0.13%) NIST
4 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.13%) PSD2
4 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 191 (25.47%) Docker
2 13 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.33%) KVM
5 6 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 186 (24.80%) Kubernetes
2 122 (16.27%) Terraform
3 32 (4.27%) Ansible
4 24 (3.20%) Grafana
5 17 (2.27%) Kibana
6 15 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.67%) Argo
8 4 (0.53%) Packer
9 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.40%) SCCM
10 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) Graylog
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.87%) Google
3 35 (4.67%) Typelevel
4 26 (3.47%) OpenAI
5 25 (3.33%) AppDynamics
6 19 (2.53%) Oracle
6 19 (2.53%) Splunk
7 18 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.73%) VMware
9 11 (1.47%) IBM
10 9 (1.20%) Databricks
11 7 (0.93%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.93%) Solace
12 4 (0.53%) Adobe
12 4 (0.53%) Facebook
12 4 (0.53%) Instagram
12 4 (0.53%) TikTok
13 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.27%) Pega
13 2 (0.27%) WSO2