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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 322 398
Rank change year-on-year +36 +76 -83
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 447 360 432
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.87% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 2.26% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 273 230 325
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £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 20,412 15,909 25,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.01% 38.62% 35.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,519 7,862 18,717
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,040 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -15.38%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +42 303 £102,500 +6.49% 199
North of England -18 76 £75,000 +8.21% 49
North West +16 47 £75,000 +5.78% 22
South East -30 44 £70,000 +12.00% 77
Yorkshire -45 27 £75,000 +10.29% 20
Midlands -4 13 £74,401 +7.35% 27
East of England +8 12 £81,250 +12.07% 33
South West -11 11 £83,750 - 28
East Midlands -20 10 £100,000 - 10
West Midlands -1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 17
North East -15 2 £60,651 -12.54% 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 32 (7.16%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.91%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.79%) Apache
3 8 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.12%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.12%) IIS
5 4 (0.89%) Appian
6 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Confluence
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 266 (59.51%) AWS
2 154 (34.45%) Azure
3 150 (33.56%) GCP
4 46 (10.29%) Serverless
5 44 (9.84%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (9.40%) SaaS
7 34 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (4.92%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (4.03%) GitHub
11 14 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (2.46%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (2.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.01%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.49%) Broadband
2 17 (3.80%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.46%) HTTP
4 6 (1.34%) BGP
4 6 (1.34%) VLAN
4 6 (1.34%) VPN
5 5 (1.12%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.45%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.45%) Multicast
7 1 (0.22%) 4G
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.22%) DNS
7 1 (0.22%) Firewall
7 1 (0.22%) RTP
7 1 (0.22%) SS7
7 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.08%) NoSQL
2 52 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (7.16%) Relational Database
4 30 (6.71%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (6.71%) MongoDB
5 28 (6.26%) Redis
6 27 (6.04%) Hadoop
7 26 (5.82%) Big Data
8 23 (5.15%) SQL Server
9 20 (4.47%) DynamoDB
10 17 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (3.13%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.91%) MySQL
13 12 (2.68%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.46%) Apache Hive
15 9 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
16 7 (1.57%) DataStage
16 7 (1.57%) Neo4j
16 7 (1.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (8.05%) Git
2 34 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.80%) JMeter
4 15 (3.36%) GitLab
5 13 (2.91%) JUnit
6 9 (2.01%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.79%) Gatling
8 7 (1.57%) LoadRunner
8 7 (1.57%) Mockito
9 6 (1.34%) JIRA
10 5 (1.12%) Maven
11 4 (0.89%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.89%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.67%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.45%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.45%) JConsole
13 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.45%) VisualVM
13 2 (0.45%) WinDbg
General
1 119 (26.62%) Finance
2 92 (20.58%) Social Skills
3 46 (10.29%) Banking
4 37 (8.28%) Law
5 35 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (7.61%) Financial Institution
7 29 (6.49%) Public Sector
8 24 (5.37%) Retail
8 24 (5.37%) Telecoms
9 21 (4.70%) Back Office
10 14 (3.13%) Front Office
11 12 (2.68%) Marketing
12 9 (2.01%) Games
12 9 (2.01%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.01%) Polish Language
13 5 (1.12%) Advertising
13 5 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.89%) Legal
15 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (27.74%) Senior
2 112 (25.06%) Software Engineer
3 95 (21.25%) Developer
4 65 (14.54%) Lead
5 40 (8.95%) Principal Engineer
6 39 (8.72%) Java Developer
7 29 (6.49%) Architect
8 28 (6.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (5.59%) Java Engineer
10 24 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (5.15%) Senior Developer
12 22 (4.92%) Data Engineer
13 21 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (4.25%) Backend Developer
16 18 (4.03%) Scala Engineer
17 17 (3.80%) Lead Developer
17 17 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
18 16 (3.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 15 (3.36%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (18.79%) Kafka
2 63 (14.09%) REST
2 63 (14.09%) Spring
3 57 (12.75%) Spring Boot
4 50 (11.19%) .NET
5 47 (10.51%) gRPC
6 44 (9.84%) React
7 38 (8.50%) RESTful
8 32 (7.16%) Django
8 32 (7.16%) Node.js
9 22 (4.92%) Web Services
10 18 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (4.03%) FastAPI
11 17 (3.80%) OAuth
12 16 (3.58%) HTML
13 15 (3.36%) AngularJS
14 14 (3.13%) OAuth2
15 13 (2.91%) Flask
15 13 (2.91%) JSON
15 13 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 120 (26.85%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.07%) Algorithms
3 42 (9.40%) Data Structures
4 31 (6.94%) Product Ownership
5 30 (6.71%) Video\Live Streaming
6 29 (6.49%) Over-the-Top Content
7 17 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (3.13%) Equities
9 14 (3.13%) Legacy Code
9 14 (3.13%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.91%) e-Learning
11 12 (2.68%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.68%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.46%) Data Centre
13 10 (2.24%) Client/Server
14 9 (2.01%) Blog
14 9 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.65%) Linux
2 11 (2.46%) Unix
3 9 (2.01%) Android
4 5 (1.12%) Windows
5 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (46.76%) CI/CD
2 206 (46.09%) Microservices
3 200 (44.74%) Software Engineering
4 139 (31.10%) Agile
5 117 (26.17%) Containerisation
6 112 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (24.38%) DevOps
8 95 (21.25%) Computer Science
9 93 (20.81%) AI
10 88 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (19.24%) Machine Learning
12 78 (17.45%) Mentoring
13 77 (17.23%) Event-Driven
14 69 (15.44%) Observability
14 69 (15.44%) Roadmaps
15 68 (15.21%) Full-Stack Development
16 63 (14.09%) Clean Code
17 56 (12.53%) Data Science
18 55 (12.30%) Analytics
19 54 (12.08%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 185 (41.39%) Python
2 181 (40.49%) Java
3 101 (22.60%) Go
4 68 (15.21%) C#
5 62 (13.87%) SQL
6 58 (12.98%) C++
7 48 (10.74%) Scala
8 44 (9.84%) JavaScript
9 41 (9.17%) Rust
10 37 (8.28%) TypeScript
11 26 (5.82%) C
12 11 (2.46%) Bash
13 9 (2.01%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.57%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.34%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.12%) R
17 4 (0.89%) Groovy
18 3 (0.67%) Ruby
19 2 (0.45%) COBOL
20 1 (0.22%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 84 (18.79%) Degree
2 61 (13.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (5.37%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.15%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.68%) PhD
7 11 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.12%) MBA
9 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.67%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.92%) QA
2 12 (2.68%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.68%) SOC 2
3 10 (2.24%) GDPR
4 6 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.89%) SLA
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 141 (31.54%) Docker
2 14 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.01%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.01%) KVM
5 6 (1.34%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.45%) Ceph
7 2 (0.45%) Lustre
7 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 141 (31.54%) Kubernetes
2 48 (10.74%) Terraform
3 26 (5.82%) Ansible
4 15 (3.36%) Kibana
5 14 (3.13%) Grafana
6 11 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.12%) logstash
8 4 (0.89%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.22%) Argo
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) Rancher
10 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (6.04%) Typelevel
2 23 (5.15%) Google
3 15 (3.36%) Databricks
4 14 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.24%) Splunk
5 10 (2.24%) VMware
6 9 (2.01%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.79%) Oracle
8 7 (1.57%) Informatica
8 7 (1.57%) Talend
9 6 (1.34%) Dell
10 5 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.12%) BT
10 5 (1.12%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.12%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.12%) Nokia
10 5 (1.12%) Solace
11 4 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.89%) Pega
11 4 (0.89%) WSO2