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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 341 402
Rank change year-on-year +90 +61 +17
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 678 350 521
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.77% 0.81% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.01% 1.94% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 414 201 311
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £61,875
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 £124,250 £140,677 £145,000
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 22,517 18,039 28,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.67% 41.65% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,903 9,033 18,921
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,445 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.64% +4.55% -15.37%

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 17 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 17 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 +61 406 £95,000 -13.64% 246
North of England +23 119 £77,500 -1.27% 50
North West +44 84 £82,500 - 29
South East +2 79 £65,000 -7.14% 50
Midlands -23 26 £85,000 +15.25% 12
South West -31 26 £85,000 -12.82% 19
Yorkshire -43 19 £75,000 -3.23% 6
West Midlands -13 17 £86,250 +18.97% 9
North East -47 16 £60,000 -34.92% 15
East of England +2 15 £76,250 - 7
East Midlands -12 9 £72,000 -5.57% 3
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 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.74%) Apache
2 5 (0.74%) Apache Pig
2 5 (0.74%) Confluence
2 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.59%) Camunda
3 4 (0.59%) JBoss
4 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.44%) IIS
4 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.29%) 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 5 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 379 (55.90%) AWS
2 209 (30.83%) Azure
3 149 (21.98%) GCP
4 77 (11.36%) Serverless
5 51 (7.52%) SaaS
6 46 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (5.46%) Amazon S3
9 36 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (5.31%) GitHub
10 35 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (2.65%) Datadog
15 18 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (2.36%) Amazon EventBridge
16 16 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 81 (11.95%) Broadband
2 13 (1.92%) HTTP
3 11 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.88%) Internet
5 5 (0.74%) DNS
5 5 (0.74%) Firewall
6 4 (0.59%) MQTT
7 3 (0.44%) BGP
7 3 (0.44%) DHCP
7 3 (0.44%) VLAN
7 3 (0.44%) VPN
8 2 (0.29%) AMQP
8 2 (0.29%) VoIP
9 1 (0.15%) FTP
9 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.15%) RTP
9 1 (0.15%) RTSP
9 1 (0.15%) SMS
9 1 (0.15%) SS7
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (9.59%) NoSQL
3 54 (7.96%) MongoDB
4 28 (4.13%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (3.69%) MySQL
7 24 (3.54%) SQL Server
8 22 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.24%) DynamoDB
9 18 (2.65%) Redis
10 12 (1.77%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.47%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.47%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.18%) Big Data
12 8 (1.18%) Metadata
13 6 (0.88%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.74%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.44%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 65 (9.59%) Git
2 53 (7.82%) GitLab
3 45 (6.64%) Jenkins
4 36 (5.31%) Cucumber
5 21 (3.10%) JUnit
6 17 (2.51%) JIRA
6 17 (2.51%) JMeter
7 11 (1.62%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.47%) LoadRunner
9 9 (1.33%) Gatling
9 9 (1.33%) Mockito
10 7 (1.03%) Spock
11 5 (0.74%) Selenium
11 5 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.59%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.44%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.29%) Maven
14 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (23.01%) Finance
2 115 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 44 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (6.19%) Banking
5 38 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (4.57%) Games
6 31 (4.57%) Retail
7 29 (4.28%) Financial Institution
8 25 (3.69%) Law
9 24 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.80%) Back Office
11 13 (1.92%) Front Office
12 12 (1.77%) Advertising
13 11 (1.62%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.88%) Electronics
15 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 160 (23.60%) Senior
2 156 (23.01%) Developer
3 126 (18.58%) Software Engineer
4 76 (11.21%) Lead
5 72 (10.62%) Principal Engineer
6 64 (9.44%) Java Engineer
7 57 (8.41%) Architect
8 50 (7.37%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.60%) Backend Developer
10 36 (5.31%) Python Developer
10 36 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 32 (4.72%) Python Engineer
12 31 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 30 (4.42%) Scala Engineer
14 26 (3.83%) Java Developer
15 24 (3.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 24 (3.54%) Principal Java Engineer
16 20 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
17 18 (2.65%) Test Engineer
18 17 (2.51%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (15.34%) .NET
2 99 (14.60%) Kafka
3 94 (13.86%) Spring
4 85 (12.54%) React
5 84 (12.39%) REST
6 82 (12.09%) Spring Boot
7 67 (9.88%) RESTful
8 47 (6.93%) gRPC
9 46 (6.78%) Node.js
10 32 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (4.57%) AngularJS
12 22 (3.24%) JSON
12 22 (3.24%) OAuth
13 21 (3.10%) OAuth2
14 20 (2.95%) ASP.NET
15 18 (2.65%) Django
15 18 (2.65%) FastAPI
15 18 (2.65%) LangChain
16 17 (2.51%) Web Services
17 16 (2.36%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 220 (32.45%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.47%) Video\Live Streaming
3 47 (6.93%) Algorithms
4 45 (6.64%) Over-the-Top Content
5 43 (6.34%) Data Structures
6 33 (4.87%) Public Cloud
7 31 (4.57%) AI Agents
8 27 (3.98%) Low-Code
9 26 (3.83%) e-Learning
10 25 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (2.80%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.65%) Product Ownership
13 16 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
14 15 (2.21%) Life Science
15 14 (2.06%) Client/Server
16 13 (1.92%) Equities
16 13 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
18 11 (1.62%) IoT
18 11 (1.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.29%) Linux
2 15 (2.21%) Windows
3 4 (0.59%) Unix
4 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.29%) Debian
5 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (57.96%) CI/CD
2 335 (49.41%) Software Engineering
3 306 (45.13%) Microservices
4 231 (34.07%) AI
5 195 (28.76%) Observability
6 194 (28.61%) Agile
7 189 (27.88%) DevOps
8 188 (27.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 175 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
10 159 (23.45%) Containerisation
11 158 (23.30%) Event-Driven
12 155 (22.86%) Test Automation
13 151 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 147 (21.68%) Mentoring
15 139 (20.50%) Machine Learning
16 109 (16.08%) Clean Code
17 105 (15.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 103 (15.19%) Full-Stack Development
19 85 (12.54%) Coaching
20 84 (12.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 320 (47.20%) Python
2 196 (28.91%) Java
3 130 (19.17%) SQL
4 116 (17.11%) Go
5 105 (15.49%) C#
6 91 (13.42%) TypeScript
7 85 (12.54%) JavaScript
8 54 (7.96%) C++
9 49 (7.23%) Scala
10 33 (4.87%) Rust
11 18 (2.65%) Bash
12 14 (2.06%) C
13 10 (1.47%) PHP
13 10 (1.47%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.18%) Bicep
14 8 (1.18%) Groovy
15 6 (0.88%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.74%) Perl
17 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (11.80%) Degree
2 46 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (5.90%) Security Cleared
4 32 (4.72%) AWS Certification
5 26 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (3.69%) SC Cleared
7 15 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.06%) PhD
9 8 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.15%) HND
11 1 (0.15%) ISEB
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.41%) QA
2 10 (1.47%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.33%) GDPR
4 7 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.15%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 175 (25.81%) Docker
2 15 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.06%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.77%) KVM
5 10 (1.47%) Active Directory
6 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 159 (23.45%) Kubernetes
2 115 (16.96%) Terraform
3 29 (4.28%) Ansible
4 21 (3.10%) Grafana
5 15 (2.21%) Kibana
5 15 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.88%) Argo
7 4 (0.59%) Packer
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.44%) SCCM
9 1 (0.15%) Graylog
9 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 67 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.64%) Typelevel
3 26 (3.83%) Google
4 20 (2.95%) AppDynamics
5 19 (2.80%) OpenAI
6 17 (2.51%) Oracle
7 16 (2.36%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.36%) Splunk
8 15 (2.21%) VMware
9 11 (1.62%) IBM
10 7 (1.03%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.03%) Solace
11 6 (0.88%) Databricks
12 3 (0.44%) Adobe
12 3 (0.44%) Facebook
12 3 (0.44%) Instagram
12 3 (0.44%) TikTok
13 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.29%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.29%) TIBCO