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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 346 356
Rank change year-on-year +107 +10 +21
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 744 327 491
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.80% 0.75% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.07% 1.78% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 445 186 288
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,690 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £124,000 £130,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 24,216 18,418 23,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.95% 42.26% 32.88%
Number of salaries quoted 15,836 9,311 14,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

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 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 8 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 +71 447 £95,000 -13.64% 645
North of England +19 123 £75,000 -4.46% 81
North West +50 83 £80,000 -8.57% 45
South East -4 83 £63,500 -15.33% 63
South West -38 35 £95,000 -2.56% 34
Midlands -18 29 £80,000 +6.67% 18
North East -33 24 £63,750 -30.85% 17
West Midlands -12 21 £82,500 +13.79% 14
East of England - 21 £80,000 - 20
Yorkshire -43 16 £75,000 -3.23% 19
East Midlands -23 8 £76,000 -1.94% 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 16 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.08%) Apache
3 6 (0.81%) Camunda
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.67%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.54%) JBoss
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
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 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 403 (54.17%) AWS
2 239 (32.12%) Azure
3 160 (21.51%) GCP
4 74 (9.95%) Serverless
5 56 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (6.05%) SaaS
7 41 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (5.11%) Amazon S3
9 36 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (4.84%) GitHub
10 35 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (2.82%) Datadog
14 19 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (2.28%) Amazon Bedrock
17 16 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.02%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 73 (9.81%) Broadband
2 14 (1.88%) HTTP
3 13 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.81%) Internet
5 5 (0.67%) DNS
5 5 (0.67%) Firewall
6 4 (0.54%) MQTT
7 3 (0.40%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) AMQP
8 2 (0.27%) Multicast
8 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.27%) VoIP
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.13%) DMARC
9 1 (0.13%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
9 1 (0.13%) RS-232
9 1 (0.13%) RS-485
9 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.13%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (11.16%) NoSQL
3 57 (7.66%) MongoDB
4 34 (4.57%) Relational Database
5 28 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.49%) MySQL
7 25 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (3.09%) Redis
9 22 (2.96%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.48%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.48%) Hadoop
12 10 (1.34%) Metadata
12 10 (1.34%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.21%) Big Data
14 6 (0.81%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.81%) Flink
14 6 (0.81%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 74 (9.95%) Git
2 60 (8.06%) GitLab
3 48 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 40 (5.38%) Cucumber
5 26 (3.49%) JUnit
6 18 (2.42%) JIRA
6 18 (2.42%) JMeter
7 11 (1.48%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.48%) LoadRunner
7 11 (1.48%) Mockito
8 10 (1.34%) Gatling
8 10 (1.34%) Spock
9 7 (0.94%) Selenium
10 5 (0.67%) Maven
10 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.54%) MLflow
12 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.27%) WinDbg
General
1 183 (24.60%) Finance
2 160 (21.51%) Social Skills
3 53 (7.12%) Banking
4 51 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.97%) Law
7 30 (4.03%) Games
8 29 (3.90%) Financial Institution
8 29 (3.90%) Public Sector
9 26 (3.49%) Retail
10 21 (2.82%) Front Office
11 17 (2.28%) Back Office
12 12 (1.61%) Marketing
13 11 (1.48%) Advertising
14 8 (1.08%) Polish Language
15 7 (0.94%) Electronics
15 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Legal
16 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 197 (26.48%) Senior
2 166 (22.31%) Developer
3 152 (20.43%) Software Engineer
4 90 (12.10%) Lead
5 81 (10.89%) Principal Engineer
6 71 (9.54%) Java Engineer
7 54 (7.26%) Senior Developer
8 52 (6.99%) Architect
9 48 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 45 (6.05%) Python Engineer
11 42 (5.65%) Backend Developer
12 41 (5.51%) Python Developer
13 32 (4.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 28 (3.76%) Java Developer
15 24 (3.23%) Scala Engineer
16 23 (3.09%) Principal Java Engineer
17 22 (2.96%) Senior Java Engineer
18 21 (2.82%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.82%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (16.40%) .NET
2 119 (15.99%) Kafka
3 114 (15.32%) Spring
4 97 (13.04%) REST
5 95 (12.77%) Spring Boot
6 93 (12.50%) React
7 82 (11.02%) RESTful
8 53 (7.12%) Node.js
9 39 (5.24%) AngularJS
10 38 (5.11%) gRPC
11 34 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.23%) OAuth
13 23 (3.09%) LangChain
13 23 (3.09%) OAuth2
14 22 (2.96%) ASP.NET
14 22 (2.96%) JSON
15 20 (2.69%) FastAPI
16 19 (2.55%) Django
17 17 (2.28%) ASP.NET Core
17 17 (2.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 249 (33.47%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 45 (6.05%) Algorithms
4 39 (5.24%) AI Agents
4 39 (5.24%) Data Structures
5 36 (4.84%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (4.84%) Public Cloud
6 31 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (3.90%) e-Learning
8 28 (3.76%) Low-Code
8 28 (3.76%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.69%) Product Ownership
10 19 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 18 (2.42%) Equities
12 16 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (2.02%) Life Science
14 14 (1.88%) Private Cloud
15 13 (1.75%) Client/Server
15 13 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.68%) Linux
2 14 (1.88%) Windows
3 13 (1.75%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (59.81%) CI/CD
2 389 (52.28%) Software Engineering
3 334 (44.89%) Microservices
4 265 (35.62%) AI
5 228 (30.65%) Observability
6 223 (29.97%) Agile
7 213 (28.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 211 (28.36%) DevOps
9 193 (25.94%) Event-Driven
10 176 (23.66%) Mentoring
11 175 (23.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 175 (23.52%) Test Automation
12 171 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
13 170 (22.85%) Containerisation
14 150 (20.16%) Machine Learning
15 128 (17.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 115 (15.46%) Clean Code
17 113 (15.19%) Full-Stack Development
18 94 (12.63%) Technical Leadership
19 88 (11.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 349 (46.91%) Python
2 239 (32.12%) Java
3 151 (20.30%) SQL
4 117 (15.73%) C#
5 112 (15.05%) Go
6 103 (13.84%) TypeScript
7 97 (13.04%) JavaScript
8 54 (7.26%) C++
9 44 (5.91%) Scala
10 27 (3.63%) Rust
11 21 (2.82%) Bash
12 15 (2.02%) C
13 11 (1.48%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.21%) Bicep
14 9 (1.21%) Groovy
14 9 (1.21%) PHP
15 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.67%) Perl
17 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (11.16%) Degree
2 61 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 48 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 36 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.61%) PhD
8 11 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.54%) 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 61 (8.20%) QA
2 8 (1.08%) GDPR
2 8 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.13%) PSD2
6 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 192 (25.81%) Docker
2 14 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.48%) KVM
5 6 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 185 (24.87%) Kubernetes
2 121 (16.26%) Terraform
3 32 (4.30%) Ansible
4 23 (3.09%) Grafana
5 17 (2.28%) Kibana
6 15 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.67%) Argo
8 4 (0.54%) Packer
9 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.40%) SCCM
10 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) Graylog
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.91%) Google
3 36 (4.84%) Typelevel
4 26 (3.49%) OpenAI
5 25 (3.36%) AppDynamics
6 19 (2.55%) Oracle
6 19 (2.55%) Splunk
7 18 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.88%) VMware
9 11 (1.48%) IBM
10 8 (1.08%) Databricks
11 7 (0.94%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.94%) Solace
12 4 (0.54%) Adobe
12 4 (0.54%) Facebook
12 4 (0.54%) Instagram
12 4 (0.54%) TikTok
13 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.27%) Pega
13 2 (0.27%) WSO2