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 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 350 341
Rank change year-on-year +94 -9 +55
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 744 331 518
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.76% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.90% 1.82% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 444 188 308
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,875 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +17.19% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,125
90th Percentile £121,250 £141,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +16.13% -3.13%

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 25,674 18,200 22,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.95% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 16,839 9,227 12,040
10th Percentile £31,016 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +57 443 £95,000 -13.64% 881
North of England +14 129 £75,000 -5.36% 124
North West +41 82 £80,000 -8.57% 71
South East -6 80 £63,500 -15.33% 71
South West -41 32 £95,000 -2.56% 57
North East -34 29 £67,500 -41.30% 17
Midlands -48 27 £80,000 +6.67% 37
East of England -10 24 £80,000 -11.11% 28
West Midlands -27 22 £85,000 +13.33% 24
Yorkshire -52 18 £75,000 -2.28% 36
East Midlands -37 5 £76,000 -1.94% 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 17 (2.28%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.21%) Apache
3 6 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.81%) Camunda
3 6 (0.81%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.54%) JBoss
5 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Endur
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 394 (52.96%) AWS
2 232 (31.18%) Azure
3 134 (18.01%) GCP
4 72 (9.68%) Serverless
5 65 (8.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (6.32%) SaaS
7 45 (6.05%) GitHub
8 42 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
9 41 (5.51%) Amazon S3
10 37 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.55%) Datadog
16 19 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
18 17 (2.28%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (2.28%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 46 (6.18%) Broadband
2 14 (1.88%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.61%) HTTP
4 6 (0.81%) DNS
4 6 (0.81%) Internet
5 4 (0.54%) DHCP
5 4 (0.54%) Firewall
5 4 (0.54%) MQTT
6 3 (0.40%) Multicast
6 3 (0.40%) X.509
7 2 (0.27%) AMQP
7 2 (0.27%) LTE
7 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.27%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) Network Security
8 1 (0.13%) SCTP
8 1 (0.13%) VPN
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (13.31%) NoSQL
2 89 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (8.06%) MongoDB
4 36 (4.84%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 23 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (3.09%) MySQL
8 22 (2.96%) Redis
9 19 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.34%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.34%) Metadata
10 10 (1.34%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.21%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.08%) Big Data
12 8 (1.08%) Flink
13 7 (0.94%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.81%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.67%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 75 (10.08%) Git
2 71 (9.54%) GitLab
3 51 (6.85%) Jenkins
4 49 (6.59%) Cucumber
5 30 (4.03%) JUnit
6 19 (2.55%) JIRA
7 17 (2.28%) JMeter
8 14 (1.88%) Mockito
9 12 (1.61%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.61%) Spock
10 9 (1.21%) LoadRunner
11 8 (1.08%) Gatling
11 8 (1.08%) Maven
12 6 (0.81%) Selenium
13 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.54%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.54%) MLflow
15 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
16 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 199 (26.75%) Finance
2 170 (22.85%) Social Skills
3 65 (8.74%) Banking
4 51 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (4.70%) Law
7 31 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 30 (4.03%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.90%) Retail
10 27 (3.63%) Games
11 19 (2.55%) Front Office
12 16 (2.15%) Back Office
13 13 (1.75%) Marketing
14 10 (1.34%) Advertising
14 10 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.81%) Electronics
16 6 (0.81%) Legal
16 6 (0.81%) Polish Language
17 5 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 207 (27.82%) Senior
2 173 (23.25%) Developer
3 147 (19.76%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.44%) Lead
5 83 (11.16%) Principal Engineer
6 82 (11.02%) Java Engineer
7 55 (7.39%) Architect
8 53 (7.12%) Senior Developer
9 50 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (5.91%) Backend Developer
11 41 (5.51%) Python Engineer
12 39 (5.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 39 (5.24%) Python Developer
13 37 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 31 (4.17%) Java Developer
14 31 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
15 26 (3.49%) Principal Java Engineer
16 22 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (2.96%) Principal Software Engineer
17 19 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (19.49%) Kafka
2 137 (18.41%) Terraform
3 133 (17.88%) Spring
4 130 (17.47%) .NET
5 112 (15.05%) REST
6 110 (14.78%) Spring Boot
7 98 (13.17%) React
8 93 (12.50%) RESTful
9 56 (7.53%) Node.js
10 46 (6.18%) AngularJS
11 42 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.23%) OAuth
13 23 (3.09%) LangChain
14 22 (2.96%) Next.js
14 22 (2.96%) OAuth2
15 21 (2.82%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.82%) JSON
16 20 (2.69%) FastAPI
17 18 (2.42%) Hibernate
18 17 (2.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 274 (36.83%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.32%) AI Agents
3 46 (6.18%) Public Cloud
4 38 (5.11%) e-Learning
5 37 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (4.70%) Video\Live Streaming
7 34 (4.57%) Algorithms
8 28 (3.76%) Low-Code
9 27 (3.63%) Data Structures
9 27 (3.63%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
11 20 (2.69%) Product Ownership
12 18 (2.42%) IoT
13 16 (2.15%) Equities
13 16 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (2.15%) Private Cloud
14 15 (2.02%) Life Science
15 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.75%) Robotics
17 12 (1.61%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.20%) Linux
2 12 (1.61%) Unix
2 12 (1.61%) Windows
3 5 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (0.67%) VMS
4 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Debian
5 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (59.68%) CI/CD
2 380 (51.08%) Software Engineering
3 340 (45.70%) Microservices
4 292 (39.25%) AI
5 248 (33.33%) Observability
6 237 (31.85%) Agile
7 229 (30.78%) Event-Driven
7 229 (30.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 208 (27.96%) DevOps
9 199 (26.75%) Mentoring
10 195 (26.21%) Test Automation
11 170 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 151 (20.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 144 (19.35%) Containerisation
14 140 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
15 121 (16.26%) Full-Stack Development
15 121 (16.26%) Machine Learning
16 103 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
17 93 (12.50%) Roadmaps
18 92 (12.37%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 312 (41.94%) Python
2 256 (34.41%) Java
3 173 (23.25%) SQL
4 122 (16.40%) TypeScript
5 117 (15.73%) C#
6 101 (13.58%) JavaScript
7 100 (13.44%) Go
8 38 (5.11%) C++
9 23 (3.09%) Bash
10 17 (2.28%) Scala
11 14 (1.88%) Rust
12 11 (1.48%) Groovy
13 10 (1.34%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.21%) Bicep
14 9 (1.21%) C
15 8 (1.08%) PHP
16 5 (0.67%) Perl
17 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (9.41%) Degree
2 69 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 45 (6.05%) AWS Certification
4 43 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 39 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.08%) PhD
9 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) CSPO
11 1 (0.13%) HND
11 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.60%) QA
2 9 (1.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.81%) GDPR
5 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.13%) PSD2
6 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (22.45%) Docker
2 12 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.54%) KVM
6 3 (0.40%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 192 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.76%) Ansible
3 27 (3.63%) Grafana
4 19 (2.55%) Kibana
5 17 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.08%) Argo
7 4 (0.54%) Packer
7 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.27%) Bosun
9 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 83 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.45%) Google
3 27 (3.63%) OpenAI
4 26 (3.49%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.82%) Splunk
6 20 (2.69%) Oracle
7 16 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.48%) IBM
9 9 (1.21%) Typelevel
10 8 (1.08%) Databricks
11 7 (0.94%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.94%) VMware
12 5 (0.67%) Solace
13 4 (0.54%) Adobe
13 4 (0.54%) Facebook
13 4 (0.54%) Instagram
13 4 (0.54%) TikTok
14 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.27%) New Relic
15 2 (0.27%) Okta