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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 328 389
Rank change year-on-year +55 +61 -76
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 420 386 428
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.86% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 2.27% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 261 242 333
10th Percentile £62,500 £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 £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £140,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -2.94%

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 19,397 16,989 23,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.08% 37.82% 35.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9,957 8,012 17,721
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.83% -14.71%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +42 282 £107,500 +10.26% 143
North of England -1 74 £75,000 +10.29% 31
North West +40 44 £75,000 +8.21% 22
South East -4 40 £72,500 +16.00% 50
Yorkshire -49 29 £75,000 +10.29% 5
East of England +21 14 £82,500 +13.79% 7
Midlands -4 13 £75,000 +8.21% 18
East Midlands -8 8 £100,000 - 4
South West -14 8 £83,750 - 8
West Midlands +10 5 £75,000 +8.21% 14
North East -8 1 £73,801 +6.48% 4
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 40 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.57%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.38%) Apache
5 5 (1.19%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.19%) IIS
5 5 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.95%) Appian
7 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 2 (0.48%) Luigi
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 255 (60.71%) AWS
2 153 (36.43%) Azure
3 135 (32.14%) GCP
4 53 (12.62%) Serverless
5 45 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (10.24%) SaaS
7 39 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (5.95%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.00%) GitHub
10 19 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (3.81%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 15 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.62%) Amazon ECR
16 10 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.76%) Broadband
2 16 (3.81%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.43%) BGP
3 6 (1.43%) HTTP
3 6 (1.43%) VLAN
3 6 (1.43%) VPN
4 4 (0.95%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.48%) InfiniBand
5 2 (0.48%) Multicast
6 1 (0.24%) 4G
6 1 (0.24%) 5G
6 1 (0.24%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.24%) MQTT
6 1 (0.24%) RTP
6 1 (0.24%) SS7
6 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (13.57%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 36 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 34 (8.10%) Hadoop
5 32 (7.62%) Big Data
5 32 (7.62%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.95%) Redis
7 24 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (5.71%) DynamoDB
7 24 (5.71%) SQL Server
8 23 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (4.29%) RDBMS
11 14 (3.33%) MySQL
12 13 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (3.10%) Apache Hive
13 10 (2.38%) BigQuery
14 9 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (2.14%) DataStage
14 9 (2.14%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 38 (9.05%) Jenkins
2 33 (7.86%) Git
3 18 (4.29%) GitLab
4 15 (3.57%) JMeter
5 14 (3.33%) JUnit
6 9 (2.14%) Mockito
7 8 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.43%) JIRA
9 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.95%) Maven
9 4 (0.95%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.71%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.71%) Gatling
11 2 (0.48%) JConsole
11 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.48%) Postman
11 2 (0.48%) Selenium
11 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.48%) VisualVM
General
1 116 (27.62%) Finance
2 89 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.48%) Banking
4 40 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.29%) Financial Institution
6 36 (8.57%) Law
7 28 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (6.19%) Public Sector
9 25 (5.95%) Retail
10 23 (5.48%) Telecoms
11 20 (4.76%) Back Office
12 13 (3.10%) Front Office
13 12 (2.86%) Marketing
14 10 (2.38%) Games
15 8 (1.90%) Polish Language
16 6 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 5 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.95%) Advertising
18 4 (0.95%) Legal
19 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (28.10%) Senior
2 98 (23.33%) Software Engineer
3 97 (23.10%) Developer
4 68 (16.19%) Lead
5 45 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 40 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
7 27 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (5.95%) Data Engineer
9 24 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (5.48%) Architect
11 22 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (5.24%) Java Engineer
11 22 (5.24%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.76%) Lead Developer
13 19 (4.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 17 (4.05%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 17 (4.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 17 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
15 15 (3.57%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (21.67%) Kafka
2 63 (15.00%) REST
2 63 (15.00%) Spring
3 58 (13.81%) Spring Boot
4 49 (11.67%) .NET
5 48 (11.43%) React
6 39 (9.29%) RESTful
7 38 (9.05%) gRPC
8 35 (8.33%) Node.js
9 30 (7.14%) Django
10 24 (5.71%) Web Services
11 19 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (4.52%) HTML
12 18 (4.29%) FastAPI
13 17 (4.05%) AngularJS
13 17 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (3.81%) Hibernate
14 16 (3.81%) JSON
14 16 (3.81%) OAuth
15 13 (3.10%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 125 (29.76%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 35 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 34 (8.10%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (4.76%) Over-the-Top Content
7 18 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (3.81%) Legacy Code
8 16 (3.81%) Management Information System
8 16 (3.81%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.57%) e-Learning
9 15 (3.57%) Equities
10 12 (2.86%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.62%) Data Centre
12 10 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (2.14%) Blog
13 9 (2.14%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 59 (14.05%) Linux
2 11 (2.62%) Unix
3 9 (2.14%) Android
4 4 (0.95%) Windows
5 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (47.14%) Microservices
2 197 (46.90%) CI/CD
3 180 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 136 (32.38%) Agile
5 113 (26.90%) DevOps
6 111 (26.43%) Containerisation
7 97 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (22.14%) Computer Science
9 88 (20.95%) AI
10 86 (20.48%) Mentoring
11 83 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 77 (18.33%) Machine Learning
13 73 (17.38%) Event-Driven
14 72 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
15 68 (16.19%) Roadmaps
16 64 (15.24%) Observability
17 59 (14.05%) Analytics
18 54 (12.86%) TDD
19 53 (12.62%) Clean Code
20 52 (12.38%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 186 (44.29%) Java
2 180 (42.86%) Python
3 94 (22.38%) Go
4 65 (15.48%) C#
5 63 (15.00%) SQL
6 49 (11.67%) C++
7 47 (11.19%) Scala
8 45 (10.71%) JavaScript
9 40 (9.52%) TypeScript
10 34 (8.10%) Rust
11 25 (5.95%) C
12 13 (3.10%) Bash
13 9 (2.14%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.14%) PowerShell
13 9 (2.14%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.19%) R
15 4 (0.95%) Groovy
16 3 (0.71%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) COBOL
17 2 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (20.00%) Degree
2 57 (13.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (6.43%) Master's Degree
4 24 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 15 (3.57%) PhD
6 13 (3.10%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.19%) MBA
10 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.00%) QA
2 16 (3.81%) GDPR
3 14 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.33%) SOC 2
4 8 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.95%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 131 (31.19%) Docker
2 14 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.14%) HDFS
3 9 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.43%) KVM
5 5 (1.19%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.48%) Ceph
6 2 (0.48%) Lustre
6 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 143 (34.05%) Kubernetes
2 51 (12.14%) Terraform
3 30 (7.14%) Ansible
4 14 (3.33%) Kibana
5 12 (2.86%) Grafana
6 11 (2.62%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.19%) logstash
8 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.71%) Rancher
9 3 (0.71%) vRealize
10 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.48%) Puppet
10 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.24%) Argo
11 1 (0.24%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (5.24%) Google
2 19 (4.52%) Databricks
3 18 (4.29%) Typelevel
4 12 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 12 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 12 (2.86%) Splunk
5 10 (2.38%) Oracle
6 9 (2.14%) Informatica
6 9 (2.14%) Talend
6 9 (2.14%) VMware
7 6 (1.43%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.19%) BT
8 5 (1.19%) Dell
8 5 (1.19%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.19%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.19%) Nokia
9 4 (0.95%) Pega
9 4 (0.95%) SAP
9 4 (0.95%) Solace
9 4 (0.95%) WSO2