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 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 332 400
Rank change year-on-year +52 +68 -78
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 463 340 446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.89% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 2.28% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 269 224 325
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,000 £140,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £93,750 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 20,661 14,883 26,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.10% 39.05% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,634 8,023 19,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,028 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.95% +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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +40 307 £100,000 +5.26% 179
North of England -28 75 £75,000 +8.09% 60
South East -30 50 £75,000 +20.00% 42
North West +15 48 £75,000 +3.45% 35
Yorkshire -41 25 £75,000 - 16
Midlands -12 14 £74,401 +7.35% 9
South West -19 13 £83,750 - 6
East of England -5 12 £82,500 +13.79% 9
East Midlands -34 11 £100,000 - 3
West Midlands -5 3 £73,801 +6.48% 6
North East -25 2 £60,651 -12.54% 12
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 28 (6.05%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.02%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.08%) Apache
4 5 (1.08%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.08%) IIS
5 4 (0.86%) Appian
6 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Confluence
7 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.22%) Solana
7 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 277 (59.83%) AWS
2 159 (34.34%) GCP
3 158 (34.13%) Azure
4 43 (9.29%) Amazon ECS
4 43 (9.29%) Serverless
5 41 (8.86%) SaaS
6 30 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (4.75%) Amazon S3
8 20 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (3.89%) GitHub
10 13 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.16%) Datadog
13 9 (1.94%) Snowflake
14 8 (1.73%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.07%) Broadband
2 18 (3.89%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.16%) HTTP
4 6 (1.30%) BGP
4 6 (1.30%) VLAN
4 6 (1.30%) VPN
5 5 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.43%) DNS
6 2 (0.43%) Firewall
6 2 (0.43%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.43%) Multicast
7 1 (0.22%) 4G
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.22%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.22%) RTP
7 1 (0.22%) SS7
7 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.80%) NoSQL
2 49 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (6.48%) Relational Database
5 26 (5.62%) Redis
6 25 (5.40%) MongoDB
7 24 (5.18%) Hadoop
7 24 (5.18%) SQL Server
8 23 (4.97%) Big Data
9 18 (3.89%) DynamoDB
10 15 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (3.02%) BigQuery
11 14 (3.02%) MySQL
12 13 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (2.59%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.94%) Apache Hive
15 7 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (1.30%) Couchbase
16 6 (1.30%) Neo4j
16 6 (1.30%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 39 (8.42%) Git
1 39 (8.42%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.46%) JMeter
3 14 (3.02%) GitLab
4 11 (2.38%) JUnit
5 9 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.73%) Gatling
7 7 (1.51%) LoadRunner
8 6 (1.30%) Mockito
9 5 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.08%) JIRA
9 5 (1.08%) Maven
10 4 (0.86%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.65%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.43%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.43%) Selenium
12 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.43%) WinDbg
13 1 (0.22%) Gradle
General
1 117 (25.27%) Finance
2 94 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.50%) Banking
4 37 (7.99%) Law
5 36 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (6.70%) Financial Institution
8 28 (6.05%) Public Sector
9 25 (5.40%) Retail
10 24 (5.18%) Telecoms
11 22 (4.75%) Back Office
12 12 (2.59%) Front Office
13 11 (2.38%) Marketing
14 10 (2.16%) Games
14 10 (2.16%) Polish Language
15 7 (1.51%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.08%) Advertising
16 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.86%) Electronics
17 4 (0.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 124 (26.78%) Senior
2 117 (25.27%) Software Engineer
3 96 (20.73%) Developer
4 58 (12.53%) Lead
5 38 (8.21%) Java Developer
5 38 (8.21%) Principal Engineer
6 30 (6.48%) Architect
6 30 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (5.18%) Scala Engineer
7 24 (5.18%) Senior Developer
8 22 (4.75%) Data Engineer
8 22 (4.75%) Java Engineer
9 21 (4.54%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (4.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (4.32%) Backend Developer
11 16 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (3.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 16 (3.46%) Lead Developer
12 14 (3.02%) C# Developer
12 14 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (15.77%) Kafka
2 62 (13.39%) REST
3 57 (12.31%) Spring
4 53 (11.45%) gRPC
5 52 (11.23%) .NET
6 51 (11.02%) Spring Boot
7 48 (10.37%) React
8 36 (7.78%) Django
8 36 (7.78%) RESTful
9 35 (7.56%) Node.js
10 22 (4.75%) Web Services
11 19 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (3.46%) FastAPI
12 16 (3.46%) OAuth
13 15 (3.24%) HTML
14 14 (3.02%) AngularJS
14 14 (3.02%) OAuth2
15 13 (2.81%) JSON
16 12 (2.59%) Hibernate
17 11 (2.38%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 117 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.94%) Algorithms
3 43 (9.29%) Data Structures
4 38 (8.21%) Over-the-Top Content
4 38 (8.21%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (6.05%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (3.24%) Equities
7 15 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.81%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.81%) Client/Server
10 11 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.38%) e-Learning
10 11 (2.38%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.16%) Legacy Code
12 9 (1.94%) Blog
12 9 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.94%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.73%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 69 (14.90%) Linux
2 11 (2.38%) Unix
3 9 (1.94%) Android
4 7 (1.51%) Windows
5 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (47.73%) CI/CD
2 215 (46.44%) Microservices
3 213 (46.00%) Software Engineering
4 138 (29.81%) Agile
5 131 (28.29%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (26.35%) Containerisation
7 111 (23.97%) DevOps
8 99 (21.38%) Computer Science
9 98 (21.17%) Machine Learning
10 96 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (20.30%) AI
12 79 (17.06%) Observability
13 77 (16.63%) Clean Code
14 76 (16.41%) Event-Driven
14 76 (16.41%) Roadmaps
15 74 (15.98%) Mentoring
16 65 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
17 62 (13.39%) Data Science
18 61 (13.17%) Coaching
19 56 (12.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 201 (43.41%) Python
2 168 (36.29%) Java
3 107 (23.11%) Go
4 71 (15.33%) C#
5 61 (13.17%) C++
6 59 (12.74%) SQL
7 54 (11.66%) Scala
8 45 (9.72%) Rust
9 42 (9.07%) JavaScript
10 34 (7.34%) TypeScript
11 25 (5.40%) C
12 10 (2.16%) Bash
13 9 (1.94%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.08%) R
16 4 (0.86%) Groovy
17 3 (0.65%) Ruby
18 2 (0.43%) COBOL
18 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 90 (19.44%) Degree
2 66 (14.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.62%) Master's Degree
4 23 (4.97%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.02%) PhD
5 14 (3.02%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.08%) MBA
9 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.65%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.22%) ISEB
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.40%) QA
2 12 (2.59%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.59%) SOC 2
3 10 (2.16%) GDPR
4 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.86%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 150 (32.40%) Docker
2 14 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.59%) Hyper-V
3 12 (2.59%) KVM
3 12 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.16%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.65%) HDFS
7 2 (0.43%) Ceph
7 2 (0.43%) Lustre
7 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 136 (29.37%) Kubernetes
2 51 (11.02%) Terraform
3 30 (6.48%) Ansible
4 15 (3.24%) Grafana
5 14 (3.02%) Kibana
6 10 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.86%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.65%) logstash
9 2 (0.43%) Argo
10 1 (0.22%) Graylog
10 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (7.78%) Typelevel
2 23 (4.97%) Google
3 15 (3.24%) Dynatrace
4 13 (2.81%) Databricks
5 12 (2.59%) VMware
6 9 (1.94%) Splunk
7 8 (1.73%) Microsoft
8 7 (1.51%) Oracle
9 6 (1.30%) Dell
9 6 (1.30%) Informatica
9 6 (1.30%) Talend
10 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.08%) BT
10 5 (1.08%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.08%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.08%) Nokia
10 5 (1.08%) Pega
10 5 (1.08%) WSO2
11 4 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.65%) SAP