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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 353 361
Rank change year-on-year +116 +8 +31
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 749 321 498
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 0.73% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.05% 1.75% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 444 185 303
10th Percentile £54,125 £64,054 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £73,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,313 £115,000 £113,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £141,500 £142,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +16.13% -8.82%

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 24,574 18,363 23,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.98% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,136 9,344 14,036
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,781
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,981 £42,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.73%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +71 444 £95,000 -13.64% 78
North of England +27 129 £75,000 -6.25% 39
North West +45 84 £80,000 -8.57% 19
South East +8 81 £64,250 -14.33% 36
South West -40 35 £95,000 -2.56% 29
North East -32 28 £60,000 -47.83% 14
Midlands -25 27 £80,000 +6.67% 4
East of England - 23 £80,000 - 7
West Midlands -21 20 £85,000 +13.33% 3
Yorkshire -49 17 £75,000 -3.23% 6
East Midlands -30 7 £72,000 -7.10% 1
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 19 (2.54%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.20%) Apache
3 6 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.80%) Camunda
3 6 (0.80%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.53%) JBoss
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%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Solana
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 405 (54.07%) AWS
2 237 (31.64%) Azure
3 150 (20.03%) GCP
4 74 (9.88%) Serverless
5 59 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 46 (6.14%) SaaS
7 41 (5.47%) GitHub
8 40 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 38 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (2.67%) Datadog
16 19 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
19 16 (2.14%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.54%) Broadband
2 14 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.74%) HTTP
4 6 (0.80%) DNS
4 6 (0.80%) Internet
5 4 (0.53%) DHCP
5 4 (0.53%) Firewall
5 4 (0.53%) MQTT
6 3 (0.40%) X.509
7 2 (0.27%) AMQP
7 2 (0.27%) LTE
7 2 (0.27%) Multicast
7 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.27%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) 5G
8 1 (0.13%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.13%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
8 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.13%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.13%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.88%) NoSQL
2 88 (11.75%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (7.88%) MongoDB
4 36 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 30 (4.01%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.60%) MySQL
7 23 (3.07%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (2.94%) Redis
9 21 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.47%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.34%) Big Data
11 10 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.34%) Metadata
11 10 (1.34%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.07%) Flink
13 6 (0.80%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.80%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.67%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 79 (10.55%) Git
2 64 (8.54%) GitLab
3 51 (6.81%) Jenkins
4 43 (5.74%) Cucumber
5 27 (3.60%) JUnit
6 18 (2.40%) JIRA
7 17 (2.27%) JMeter
8 12 (1.60%) Mockito
9 11 (1.47%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.34%) LoadRunner
10 10 (1.34%) Spock
11 9 (1.20%) Gatling
12 7 (0.93%) Selenium
13 6 (0.80%) Maven
14 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.53%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.53%) MLflow
16 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
16 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 188 (25.10%) Finance
2 170 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 55 (7.34%) Banking
4 54 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.67%) Law
7 30 (4.01%) Public Sector
8 29 (3.87%) Games
9 28 (3.74%) Financial Institution
10 24 (3.20%) Retail
11 22 (2.94%) Front Office
12 16 (2.14%) Back Office
13 13 (1.74%) Marketing
14 11 (1.47%) Advertising
15 8 (1.07%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.93%) Electronics
17 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.80%) Legal
17 6 (0.80%) Polish Language
18 4 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 202 (26.97%) Senior
2 168 (22.43%) Developer
3 155 (20.69%) Software Engineer
4 94 (12.55%) Lead
5 79 (10.55%) Principal Engineer
6 76 (10.15%) Java Engineer
7 53 (7.08%) Architect
7 53 (7.08%) Senior Developer
8 50 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 41 (5.47%) Backend Developer
9 41 (5.47%) Python Developer
9 41 (5.47%) Python Engineer
10 36 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 34 (4.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (4.01%) Java Developer
13 27 (3.60%) Senior Java Engineer
14 23 (3.07%) Principal Java Engineer
15 21 (2.80%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
16 20 (2.67%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (17.49%) Kafka
1 131 (17.49%) Terraform
2 128 (17.09%) .NET
3 124 (16.56%) Spring
4 106 (14.15%) REST
5 103 (13.75%) Spring Boot
6 100 (13.35%) React
7 89 (11.88%) RESTful
8 57 (7.61%) Node.js
9 42 (5.61%) AngularJS
10 38 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
11 29 (3.87%) gRPC
12 25 (3.34%) OAuth
13 23 (3.07%) LangChain
13 23 (3.07%) OAuth2
14 22 (2.94%) ASP.NET
14 22 (2.94%) JSON
15 20 (2.67%) FastAPI
15 20 (2.67%) Next.js
16 18 (2.40%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 264 (35.25%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.08%) Video\Live Streaming
3 43 (5.74%) AI Agents
4 40 (5.34%) Algorithms
5 39 (5.21%) Public Cloud
6 34 (4.54%) Data Structures
6 34 (4.54%) Enterprise Software
7 32 (4.27%) e-Learning
8 28 (3.74%) Low-Code
8 28 (3.74%) Onboarding
9 27 (3.60%) Over-the-Top Content
10 21 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
11 20 (2.67%) Product Ownership
12 18 (2.40%) Equities
12 18 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (2.14%) Life Science
14 14 (1.87%) IoT
14 14 (1.87%) Private Cloud
15 13 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.81%) Linux
2 13 (1.74%) Unix
2 13 (1.74%) Windows
3 5 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 390 (52.07%) Software Engineering
3 343 (45.79%) Microservices
4 275 (36.72%) AI
5 237 (31.64%) Observability
6 229 (30.57%) Agile
7 221 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 213 (28.44%) DevOps
9 210 (28.04%) Event-Driven
10 187 (24.97%) Test Automation
11 184 (24.57%) Mentoring
12 174 (23.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 167 (22.30%) Containerisation
14 162 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
15 142 (18.96%) Machine Learning
16 137 (18.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 117 (15.62%) Full-Stack Development
18 108 (14.42%) Clean Code
19 102 (13.62%) Technical Leadership
20 88 (11.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 341 (45.53%) Python
2 253 (33.78%) Java
3 159 (21.23%) SQL
4 117 (15.62%) C#
5 111 (14.82%) TypeScript
6 110 (14.69%) Go
7 101 (13.48%) JavaScript
8 46 (6.14%) C++
9 35 (4.67%) Scala
10 23 (3.07%) Bash
11 22 (2.94%) Rust
12 11 (1.47%) C
12 11 (1.47%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.20%) Bicep
13 9 (1.20%) Groovy
13 9 (1.20%) PHP
13 9 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.67%) Perl
15 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (10.28%) Degree
2 69 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 44 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (5.61%) SC Cleared
5 39 (5.21%) AWS Certification
6 32 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.34%) PhD
9 7 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CSPO
12 1 (0.13%) HND
12 1 (0.13%) ISEB
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.54%) QA
2 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.93%) GDPR
3 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.13%) PSD2
6 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 186 (24.83%) Docker
2 13 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.80%) KVM
5 6 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
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
1 191 (25.50%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.41%) Ansible
3 23 (3.07%) Grafana
4 16 (2.14%) Kibana
5 14 (1.87%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.80%) Argo
7 4 (0.53%) Packer
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Graylog
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 82 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.41%) Google
3 27 (3.60%) OpenAI
3 27 (3.60%) Typelevel
4 24 (3.20%) AppDynamics
5 20 (2.67%) Oracle
6 18 (2.40%) Splunk
7 17 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.47%) IBM
9 9 (1.20%) Databricks
9 9 (1.20%) VMware
10 7 (0.93%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.80%) Solace
12 4 (0.53%) Adobe
12 4 (0.53%) Facebook
12 4 (0.53%) Instagram
12 4 (0.53%) TikTok
13 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.27%) Pega
13 2 (0.27%) WSO2