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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 323 353
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 -53
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 343 413 365
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 0.86% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 2.29% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 229 274 274
10th Percentile £65,500 £53,000 £46,280
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,063 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £109,375
90th Percentile £152,500 £139,250 £144,625
UK median annual salary £97,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.71% +6.25% -5.88%

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 18,504 18,019 17,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.20% 37.33% 36.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,358 8,502 12,915
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,513 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,438 £83,750 £83,903
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +20 230 £112,500 +15.38% 134
North of England +1 65 £75,000 +10.29% 111
North West +42 36 £74,401 +7.35% 38
South East 0 33 £68,750 +14.58% 220
Yorkshire -34 28 £75,000 +33.93% 54
East of England +24 13 £82,500 +13.79% 107
Midlands +25 12 £75,000 +8.21% 67
West Midlands +18 6 £75,000 +8.21% 17
East Midlands 0 6 £77,500 - 49
South West -2 5 £82,500 -12.93% 72
North East +5 1 £73,801 +6.48% 19
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 42 (12.24%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.37%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.92%) Apache
5 5 (1.46%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.46%) Confluence
5 5 (1.46%) IIS
6 4 (1.17%) Appian
7 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.58%) Luigi
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.29%) CMS
9 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 199 (58.02%) AWS
2 134 (39.07%) Azure
3 99 (28.86%) GCP
4 54 (15.74%) Serverless
5 41 (11.95%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (11.37%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (8.75%) SaaS
8 22 (6.41%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.25%) GitHub
10 17 (4.96%) Amazon Kinesis
11 16 (4.66%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.21%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (3.21%) OpenShift
14 11 (3.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.21%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.17%) HTTP
2 4 (1.17%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.87%) BGP
3 3 (0.87%) VLAN
3 3 (0.87%) VPN
4 2 (0.58%) AMQP
4 2 (0.58%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.58%) Multicast
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.20%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (16.91%) NoSQL
3 38 (11.08%) Relational Database
4 37 (10.79%) Hadoop
5 36 (10.50%) Big Data
6 32 (9.33%) MongoDB
7 26 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (7.00%) DynamoDB
8 24 (7.00%) SQL Server
9 23 (6.71%) Redis
10 21 (6.12%) RDBMS
11 18 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (4.08%) MySQL
14 13 (3.79%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (2.92%) BigQuery
16 10 (2.92%) Neo4j
16 10 (2.92%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 40 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 38 (11.08%) Git
3 16 (4.66%) JMeter
3 16 (4.66%) JUnit
4 14 (4.08%) GitLab
5 11 (3.21%) Mockito
6 9 (2.62%) JIRA
7 4 (1.17%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.17%) Maven
7 4 (1.17%) Postman
7 4 (1.17%) Selenium
7 4 (1.17%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.87%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.58%) JConsole
9 2 (0.58%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.29%) NUnit
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 97 (28.28%) Finance
2 79 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.50%) Banking
5 34 (9.91%) Financial Institution
6 25 (7.29%) Law
6 25 (7.29%) Public Sector
7 22 (6.41%) Telecoms
8 17 (4.96%) Retail
9 16 (4.66%) Front Office
10 13 (3.79%) Marketing
11 12 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.62%) Back Office
13 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.75%) Games
14 6 (1.75%) Legal
15 5 (1.46%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.17%) Polish Language
17 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (29.15%) Senior
2 99 (28.86%) Developer
3 78 (22.74%) Software Engineer
4 63 (18.37%) Lead
5 51 (14.87%) Java Developer
6 32 (9.33%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (7.00%) Data Engineer
8 23 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (6.12%) Senior Developer
10 19 (5.54%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 19 (5.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 19 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (5.25%) Lead Developer
12 17 (4.96%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 17 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (4.66%) Principal Software Engineer
14 14 (4.08%) Architect
15 13 (3.79%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (26.24%) Kafka
2 60 (17.49%) REST
3 59 (17.20%) Spring
4 54 (15.74%) Spring Boot
5 52 (15.16%) React
6 49 (14.29%) .NET
7 37 (10.79%) Node.js
8 35 (10.20%) RESTful
9 28 (8.16%) Django
10 26 (7.58%) Web Services
11 22 (6.41%) HTML
12 21 (6.12%) gRPC
13 18 (5.25%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (5.25%) FastAPI
14 17 (4.96%) AngularJS
14 17 (4.96%) Hibernate
14 17 (4.96%) JSON
15 16 (4.66%) OAuth
16 15 (4.37%) Apache Camel
17 14 (4.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (32.36%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.54%) Algorithms
3 34 (9.91%) Product Ownership
4 28 (8.16%) Data Structures
5 19 (5.54%) Equities
6 17 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (4.66%) Legacy Code
7 16 (4.66%) Management Information System
8 15 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (3.79%) e-Learning
9 13 (3.79%) Public Cloud
10 11 (3.21%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (2.92%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 7 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (2.04%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (1.17%) Hackathon
14 4 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.41%) Linux
2 12 (3.50%) Unix
3 9 (2.62%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (48.98%) Microservices
2 159 (46.36%) CI/CD
3 132 (38.48%) Software Engineering
4 126 (36.73%) Agile
5 98 (28.57%) DevOps
6 89 (25.95%) Containerisation
7 79 (23.03%) AI
8 77 (22.45%) Computer Science
8 77 (22.45%) Mentoring
9 73 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (20.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 64 (18.66%) Machine Learning
12 63 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (18.37%) Roadmaps
13 61 (17.78%) Event-Driven
14 55 (16.03%) TDD
15 54 (15.74%) Analytics
16 53 (15.45%) Low Latency
17 52 (15.16%) Observability
18 48 (13.99%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 171 (49.85%) Java
2 150 (43.73%) Python
3 67 (19.53%) SQL
4 66 (19.24%) Go
5 60 (17.49%) C#
6 47 (13.70%) JavaScript
7 41 (11.95%) TypeScript
8 31 (9.04%) C++
8 31 (9.04%) Scala
9 18 (5.25%) C
9 18 (5.25%) Rust
10 13 (3.79%) Bash
11 11 (3.21%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.62%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.33%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.46%) R
15 4 (1.17%) Groovy
16 2 (0.58%) COBOL
16 2 (0.58%) Ruby
17 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (20.70%) Degree
2 43 (12.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.58%) Master's Degree
4 24 (7.00%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.54%) PhD
6 11 (3.21%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.46%) MBA
9 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.66%) QA
2 14 (4.08%) GDPR
3 8 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.04%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.17%) SLA
8 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.87%) WCAG
9 2 (0.58%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 105 (30.61%) Docker
2 14 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.62%) HDFS
4 5 (1.46%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.58%) Ceph
6 2 (0.58%) Lustre
6 2 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 137 (39.94%) Kubernetes
2 40 (11.66%) Terraform
3 31 (9.04%) Ansible
4 15 (4.37%) Kibana
5 12 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.21%) Grafana
7 5 (1.46%) logstash
8 4 (1.17%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.17%) Rancher
8 4 (1.17%) vRealize
9 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.58%) Puppet
9 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (5.83%) Google
2 18 (5.25%) Databricks
3 15 (4.37%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.79%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.50%) Splunk
6 11 (3.21%) Oracle
7 10 (2.92%) Informatica
7 10 (2.92%) Talend
8 6 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.46%) BT
9 5 (1.46%) Dell
9 5 (1.46%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.46%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.46%) Nokia
9 5 (1.46%) SAP
10 4 (1.17%) Pega
10 4 (1.17%) VMware
10 4 (1.17%) WSO2
11 3 (0.87%) Solace
12 2 (0.58%) Confluent