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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 340 402
Rank change year-on-year +85 +62 +12
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 661 355 526
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.82% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.93% 1.97% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 400 203 313
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £122,750 £140,677 £149,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -8.57%

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 22,539 18,005 29,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.73% 41.47% 33.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14,885 9,001 19,740
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,577 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.87% +4.55% -14.06%

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 July 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 July 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 +57 396 £95,000 -13.64% 339
North of England +20 117 £77,500 -3.13% 70
North West +34 82 £82,500 - 38
South East +1 78 £65,000 -7.14% 67
Midlands -26 25 £86,250 +16.95% 18
South West -43 24 £85,000 -12.82% 31
Yorkshire -44 19 £75,000 -4.46% 16
West Midlands -16 16 £87,500 +20.69% 11
North East -41 16 £60,000 -34.92% 16
East of England -3 15 £76,250 - 9
East Midlands -29 9 £72,000 -5.57% 7
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 15 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.76%) Apache
2 5 (0.76%) Apache Pig
2 5 (0.76%) Confluence
2 5 (0.76%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.61%) Camunda
3 4 (0.61%) JBoss
4 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.45%) IIS
4 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.15%) Solana
6 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.30%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 375 (56.73%) AWS
2 203 (30.71%) Azure
3 149 (22.54%) GCP
4 77 (11.65%) Serverless
5 50 (7.56%) SaaS
6 44 (6.66%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (6.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (5.45%) Amazon S3
7 36 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (5.30%) GitHub
9 34 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (2.72%) Datadog
14 17 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.42%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 81 (12.25%) Broadband
2 13 (1.97%) HTTP
3 11 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.91%) Internet
5 5 (0.76%) DNS
5 5 (0.76%) Firewall
6 4 (0.61%) MQTT
7 3 (0.45%) BGP
7 3 (0.45%) DHCP
7 3 (0.45%) VLAN
7 3 (0.45%) VPN
8 2 (0.30%) AMQP
8 2 (0.30%) VoIP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) FTP
9 1 (0.15%) LTE
9 1 (0.15%) Network Security
9 1 (0.15%) SCTP
9 1 (0.15%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (9.23%) NoSQL
3 52 (7.87%) MongoDB
4 27 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.78%) MySQL
6 23 (3.48%) SQL Server
7 22 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (3.33%) DynamoDB
8 18 (2.72%) Redis
9 12 (1.82%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.51%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.36%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.21%) Big Data
12 8 (1.21%) Metadata
13 6 (0.91%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.76%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 64 (9.68%) Git
2 51 (7.72%) GitLab
3 44 (6.66%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.30%) Cucumber
5 20 (3.03%) JUnit
6 18 (2.72%) JMeter
7 16 (2.42%) JIRA
8 11 (1.66%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.51%) Gatling
9 10 (1.51%) LoadRunner
10 9 (1.36%) Mockito
11 6 (0.91%) Spock
12 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.61%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.61%) Selenium
14 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.45%) WinDbg
15 2 (0.30%) Maven
15 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 153 (23.15%) Finance
2 110 (16.64%) Social Skills
3 42 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.20%) Banking
5 38 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.84%) Games
7 30 (4.54%) Retail
8 28 (4.24%) Financial Institution
8 28 (4.24%) Law
9 25 (3.78%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.87%) Back Office
11 12 (1.82%) Front Office
12 11 (1.66%) Advertising
12 11 (1.66%) Polish Language
13 7 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.91%) Electronics
14 6 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 149 (22.54%) Developer
1 149 (22.54%) Senior
2 123 (18.61%) Software Engineer
3 72 (10.89%) Lead
3 72 (10.89%) Principal Engineer
4 60 (9.08%) Java Engineer
5 58 (8.77%) Architect
6 47 (7.11%) Senior Developer
7 36 (5.45%) Backend Developer
8 34 (5.14%) Python Developer
9 33 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 31 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 30 (4.54%) Python Engineer
11 30 (4.54%) Scala Engineer
12 24 (3.63%) Java Developer
12 24 (3.63%) Principal Java Engineer
13 20 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (2.72%) Test Engineer
15 17 (2.57%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.83%) .NET
2 95 (14.37%) Kafka
3 89 (13.46%) Spring
4 80 (12.10%) REST
5 78 (11.80%) React
5 78 (11.80%) Spring Boot
6 65 (9.83%) RESTful
7 47 (7.11%) gRPC
8 43 (6.51%) Node.js
9 31 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
10 27 (4.08%) AngularJS
11 22 (3.33%) JSON
12 21 (3.18%) OAuth
13 20 (3.03%) OAuth2
14 19 (2.87%) ASP.NET
15 17 (2.57%) Django
15 17 (2.57%) LangChain
15 17 (2.57%) Web Services
16 16 (2.42%) FastAPI
16 16 (2.42%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 212 (32.07%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.74%) Video\Live Streaming
3 46 (6.96%) Algorithms
4 45 (6.81%) Over-the-Top Content
5 43 (6.51%) Data Structures
6 32 (4.84%) Public Cloud
7 31 (4.69%) AI Agents
8 28 (4.24%) Low-Code
9 25 (3.78%) e-Learning
9 25 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (2.87%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.72%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.42%) Client/Server
12 16 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (2.27%) Life Science
14 14 (2.12%) Equities
15 13 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.82%) Blog
16 12 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
17 10 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.53%) Linux
2 16 (2.42%) Windows
3 3 (0.45%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.30%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Debian
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (57.49%) CI/CD
2 328 (49.62%) Software Engineering
3 297 (44.93%) Microservices
4 221 (33.43%) AI
5 188 (28.44%) Agile
5 188 (28.44%) Observability
6 184 (27.84%) DevOps
7 182 (27.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 174 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
9 157 (23.75%) Containerisation
10 151 (22.84%) Test Automation
11 150 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 150 (22.69%) Event-Driven
12 142 (21.48%) Mentoring
13 137 (20.73%) Machine Learning
14 106 (16.04%) Clean Code
15 99 (14.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 96 (14.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 87 (13.16%) Computer Science
18 84 (12.71%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 314 (47.50%) Python
2 191 (28.90%) Java
3 125 (18.91%) SQL
4 115 (17.40%) Go
5 101 (15.28%) C#
6 84 (12.71%) TypeScript
7 82 (12.41%) JavaScript
8 57 (8.62%) C++
9 49 (7.41%) Scala
10 35 (5.30%) Rust
11 18 (2.72%) Bash
12 15 (2.27%) C
13 10 (1.51%) PHP
14 9 (1.36%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.21%) Bicep
15 8 (1.21%) Groovy
16 6 (0.91%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.76%) Perl
18 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
19 3 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (12.41%) Degree
2 48 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (6.20%) Security Cleared
4 32 (4.84%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 26 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.27%) PhD
9 7 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.15%) HND
11 1 (0.15%) ISEB
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.77%) QA
2 11 (1.66%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.36%) GDPR
4 7 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.15%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 170 (25.72%) Docker
2 16 (2.42%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.97%) KVM
4 10 (1.51%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.30%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 154 (23.30%) Kubernetes
2 113 (17.10%) Terraform
3 29 (4.39%) Ansible
4 20 (3.03%) Grafana
5 15 (2.27%) Kibana
6 14 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.91%) Argo
8 4 (0.61%) Packer
9 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.45%) SCCM
10 1 (0.15%) Graylog
10 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 62 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.81%) Typelevel
3 24 (3.63%) Google
4 19 (2.87%) AppDynamics
4 19 (2.87%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.57%) Oracle
6 16 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.42%) VMware
7 15 (2.27%) Splunk
8 11 (1.66%) IBM
9 7 (1.06%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.06%) Solace
10 6 (0.91%) Databricks
11 3 (0.45%) Adobe
12 2 (0.30%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.30%) Facebook
12 2 (0.30%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.30%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.30%) TIBCO
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2