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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 338 407
Rank change year-on-year +75 +69 0
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 650 354 524
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.83% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.92% 1.99% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 394 202 314
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £69,063 £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 £100,938 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £124,250 £140,677 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 22,247 17,805 30,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.71% 41.87% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14,749 8,841 20,309
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,853 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%

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 8 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 8 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 +61 391 £95,000 -13.64% 227
North of England +2 116 £78,750 -0.63% 72
North West +40 83 £82,500 - 43
South East -5 77 £66,250 -5.36% 67
South West -37 24 £85,000 -12.82% 33
Midlands -19 23 £86,250 +15.00% 24
Yorkshire -40 18 £75,000 -3.85% 16
North East -36 15 £60,000 -34.92% 13
West Midlands -11 14 £87,500 +20.69% 19
East of England -12 12 £72,500 - 14
East Midlands -24 9 £72,000 -5.57% 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 13 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.77%) Apache
2 5 (0.77%) Confluence
2 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.62%) JBoss
4 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Pig
4 3 (0.46%) Camunda
4 3 (0.46%) IIS
4 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.31%) 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 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.31%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 369 (56.77%) AWS
2 200 (30.77%) Azure
3 147 (22.62%) GCP
4 75 (11.54%) Serverless
5 51 (7.85%) SaaS
6 43 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (5.38%) Amazon S3
9 33 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
9 33 (5.08%) GitHub
10 32 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (2.77%) Datadog
15 16 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.15%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (2.15%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 82 (12.62%) Broadband
2 13 (2.00%) HTTP
3 11 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.77%) DNS
4 5 (0.77%) Firewall
5 4 (0.62%) Internet
6 3 (0.46%) BGP
6 3 (0.46%) DHCP
6 3 (0.46%) VLAN
6 3 (0.46%) VoIP
6 3 (0.46%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) Diameter Protocol
7 2 (0.31%) MQTT
7 2 (0.31%) RTP
7 2 (0.31%) SS7
8 1 (0.15%) 5G
8 1 (0.15%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
8 1 (0.15%) RS-232
8 1 (0.15%) RS-485
8 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (8.77%) NoSQL
3 50 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 25 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.54%) MySQL
5 23 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (3.23%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.62%) Redis
9 12 (1.85%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.54%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.23%) Big Data
12 7 (1.08%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.08%) Metadata
13 5 (0.77%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.62%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 62 (9.54%) Git
2 50 (7.69%) GitLab
3 44 (6.77%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.38%) Cucumber
5 19 (2.92%) JUnit
6 18 (2.77%) JMeter
7 16 (2.46%) JIRA
8 12 (1.85%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.54%) Gatling
9 10 (1.54%) LoadRunner
10 8 (1.23%) Mockito
11 6 (0.92%) Spock
12 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.62%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.46%) Selenium
14 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.46%) WinDbg
15 2 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 156 (24.00%) Finance
2 111 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 41 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.15%) Banking
5 37 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.92%) Games
7 28 (4.31%) Financial Institution
7 28 (4.31%) Retail
8 27 (4.15%) Law
9 24 (3.69%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.92%) Back Office
11 12 (1.85%) Front Office
12 11 (1.69%) Polish Language
13 10 (1.54%) Advertising
14 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.08%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.77%) Electronics
16 5 (0.77%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 153 (23.54%) Senior
2 147 (22.62%) Developer
3 122 (18.77%) Software Engineer
4 71 (10.92%) Lead
5 70 (10.77%) Principal Engineer
6 58 (8.92%) Java Engineer
7 56 (8.62%) Architect
8 47 (7.23%) Senior Developer
9 35 (5.38%) Backend Developer
10 34 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
11 32 (4.92%) Python Developer
12 30 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 30 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 30 (4.62%) Scala Engineer
13 24 (3.69%) Java Developer
14 22 (3.38%) Principal Java Engineer
15 19 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.77%) Lead Developer
16 18 (2.77%) Test Engineer
17 17 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (15.08%) .NET
2 88 (13.54%) Kafka
3 84 (12.92%) Spring
4 77 (11.85%) REST
5 76 (11.69%) React
6 73 (11.23%) Spring Boot
7 62 (9.54%) RESTful
8 47 (7.23%) gRPC
9 43 (6.62%) Node.js
10 29 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (4.00%) AngularJS
12 21 (3.23%) JSON
13 20 (3.08%) OAuth
14 19 (2.92%) ASP.NET
14 19 (2.92%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.62%) Django
15 17 (2.62%) LangChain
15 17 (2.62%) Web Services
16 15 (2.31%) ASP.NET Core
16 15 (2.31%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 210 (32.31%) Cloud Native
2 72 (11.08%) Video\Live Streaming
3 46 (7.08%) Algorithms
3 46 (7.08%) Over-the-Top Content
4 43 (6.62%) Data Structures
5 32 (4.92%) Public Cloud
6 30 (4.62%) AI Agents
7 27 (4.15%) Low-Code
8 25 (3.85%) e-Learning
8 25 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.62%) Client/Server
11 16 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
12 15 (2.31%) Life Science
13 14 (2.15%) Equities
13 14 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (2.00%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.54%) Linux
2 16 (2.46%) Windows
3 3 (0.46%) Unix
3 3 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Debian
5 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (56.92%) CI/CD
2 324 (49.85%) Software Engineering
3 291 (44.77%) Microservices
4 210 (32.31%) AI
5 187 (28.77%) Agile
6 182 (28.00%) Observability
7 178 (27.38%) DevOps
8 177 (27.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 172 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
10 156 (24.00%) Containerisation
11 154 (23.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 149 (22.92%) Test Automation
13 147 (22.62%) Event-Driven
14 136 (20.92%) Mentoring
15 135 (20.77%) Machine Learning
16 105 (16.15%) Clean Code
17 96 (14.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 94 (14.46%) Full-Stack Development
19 87 (13.38%) Computer Science
20 86 (13.23%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 311 (47.85%) Python
2 185 (28.46%) Java
3 120 (18.46%) SQL
4 114 (17.54%) Go
5 102 (15.69%) C#
6 82 (12.62%) TypeScript
7 80 (12.31%) JavaScript
8 57 (8.77%) C++
9 50 (7.69%) Scala
10 37 (5.69%) Rust
11 17 (2.62%) Bash
11 17 (2.62%) C
12 10 (1.54%) PHP
13 9 (1.38%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.23%) Bicep
14 8 (1.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.77%) Perl
17 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (12.62%) Degree
2 49 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 28 (4.31%) SC Cleared
6 26 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (2.62%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.00%) PhD
9 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.31%) 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 (8.92%) QA
2 11 (1.69%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.38%) GDPR
4 7 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.15%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 170 (26.15%) Docker
2 17 (2.62%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.15%) KVM
4 10 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 153 (23.54%) Kubernetes
2 109 (16.77%) Terraform
3 29 (4.46%) Ansible
4 20 (3.08%) Grafana
5 15 (2.31%) Kibana
6 14 (2.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.92%) Argo
8 4 (0.62%) Packer
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.46%) SCCM
10 1 (0.15%) Graylog
10 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 60 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.92%) Typelevel
3 21 (3.23%) Google
4 19 (2.92%) AppDynamics
5 17 (2.62%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.62%) Oracle
5 17 (2.62%) VMware
6 16 (2.46%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.31%) Splunk
8 9 (1.38%) IBM
9 7 (1.08%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.08%) Solace
10 6 (0.92%) Databricks
11 3 (0.46%) Adobe
12 2 (0.31%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.31%) Pega
12 2 (0.31%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.31%) WSO2
13 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow