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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 349 427
Rank change year-on-year +83 +78 -35
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 579 314 485
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.80% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.55% 1.86% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 332 193 321
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,438 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £131,125 £140,677 £145,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £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 22,663 16,853 29,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.25% 43.20% 34.01%
Number of salaries quoted 13,185 8,034 20,911
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +68 353 £95,000 -9.52% 239
North of England -4 101 £80,000 +1.91% 56
South East +17 78 £67,500 -3.57% 58
North West +36 70 £95,000 +19.87% 37
Midlands -27 21 £87,500 +16.67% 13
Yorkshire -49 20 £75,000 -3.23% 8
South West -42 16 £85,000 -12.82% 25
West Midlands -28 11 £87,500 +20.69% 8
North East -41 11 £60,000 -34.92% 11
East of England -9 10 £77,500 - 7
East Midlands -22 10 £72,000 -8.28% 5
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 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.90%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.38%) IIS
4 6 (1.04%) Apache
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) Confluence
6 4 (0.69%) JBoss
7 3 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.17%) Solana
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 341 (58.89%) AWS
2 183 (31.61%) Azure
3 156 (26.94%) GCP
4 66 (11.40%) Serverless
5 44 (7.60%) SaaS
6 43 (7.43%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (5.18%) Amazon S3
10 26 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (4.15%) GitHub
13 20 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (2.94%) Datadog
15 15 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
19 11 (1.90%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 73 (12.61%) Broadband
2 12 (2.07%) HTTP
3 10 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.86%) DNS
4 5 (0.86%) Firewall
5 3 (0.52%) BGP
5 3 (0.52%) DHCP
5 3 (0.52%) VLAN
5 3 (0.52%) VoIP
5 3 (0.52%) VPN
6 2 (0.35%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.35%) RTP
6 2 (0.35%) SS7
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) MQTT
7 1 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-485
7 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.15%) NoSQL
2 51 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (7.25%) MongoDB
4 31 (5.35%) Relational Database
5 27 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 20 (3.45%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.76%) Big Data
8 16 (2.76%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.76%) MySQL
9 14 (2.42%) Redis
10 13 (2.25%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.90%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.04%) Tableau
14 5 (0.86%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.69%) DataStage
15 4 (0.69%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 57 (9.84%) Git
2 49 (8.46%) Jenkins
3 39 (6.74%) GitLab
4 26 (4.49%) Cucumber
5 17 (2.94%) JMeter
6 15 (2.59%) JIRA
7 12 (2.07%) JUnit
8 10 (1.73%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.73%) Gatling
9 9 (1.55%) LoadRunner
10 7 (1.21%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.86%) Mockito
12 4 (0.69%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.52%) Maven
13 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.52%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.35%) Selenium
14 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 145 (25.04%) Finance
2 102 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 46 (7.94%) Banking
4 42 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (6.04%) Law
7 29 (5.01%) Financial Institution
8 26 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 25 (4.32%) Retail
10 23 (3.97%) Games
11 21 (3.63%) Back Office
12 12 (2.07%) Front Office
13 11 (1.90%) Polish Language
14 10 (1.73%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.55%) Advertising
16 7 (1.21%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.86%) Marketing
18 5 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 138 (23.83%) Senior
2 135 (23.32%) Developer
3 118 (20.38%) Software Engineer
4 58 (10.02%) Principal Engineer
5 56 (9.67%) Lead
6 54 (9.33%) Architect
7 49 (8.46%) Java Engineer
8 43 (7.43%) Senior Developer
9 32 (5.53%) Backend Developer
10 31 (5.35%) Java Developer
11 30 (5.18%) Scala Engineer
12 26 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (4.15%) Python Engineer
14 22 (3.80%) Python Developer
15 18 (3.11%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 17 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (2.94%) Principal Java Engineer
17 16 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
17 16 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (15.20%) Kafka
2 78 (13.47%) .NET
3 75 (12.95%) Spring
4 71 (12.26%) REST
5 66 (11.40%) Spring Boot
6 54 (9.33%) React
7 52 (8.98%) RESTful
8 51 (8.81%) gRPC
9 39 (6.74%) Node.js
10 26 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (4.15%) Web Services
12 22 (3.80%) JSON
13 21 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (3.45%) AngularJS
14 20 (3.45%) Django
15 16 (2.76%) OAuth
16 15 (2.59%) ASP.NET
16 15 (2.59%) OAuth2
17 13 (2.25%) LangChain
17 13 (2.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (27.63%) Cloud Native
2 64 (11.05%) Video\Live Streaming
3 49 (8.46%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.12%) Over-the-Top Content
5 43 (7.43%) Data Structures
6 26 (4.49%) Public Cloud
7 21 (3.63%) AI Agents
7 21 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 19 (3.28%) e-Learning
9 18 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.94%) Client/Server
10 17 (2.94%) Equities
10 17 (2.94%) Low-Code
11 15 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (2.07%) Life Science
14 11 (1.90%) Blog
15 8 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.67%) Linux
2 16 (2.76%) Windows
3 3 (0.52%) Android
3 3 (0.52%) Unix
3 3 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.17%) Debian
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (54.58%) CI/CD
2 269 (46.46%) Software Engineering
3 262 (45.25%) Microservices
4 171 (29.53%) Agile
5 154 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (26.42%) AI
7 145 (25.04%) Containerisation
8 144 (24.87%) DevOps
9 137 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 136 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 133 (22.97%) Observability
12 125 (21.59%) Event-Driven
13 120 (20.73%) Machine Learning
14 112 (19.34%) Test Automation
15 101 (17.44%) Mentoring
16 96 (16.58%) Computer Science
17 94 (16.23%) Clean Code
18 77 (13.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 74 (12.78%) Coaching
19 74 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 276 (47.67%) Python
2 180 (31.09%) Java
3 110 (19.00%) Go
4 95 (16.41%) SQL
5 90 (15.54%) C#
6 72 (12.44%) JavaScript
7 60 (10.36%) TypeScript
8 58 (10.02%) Scala
9 56 (9.67%) C++
10 37 (6.39%) Rust
11 16 (2.76%) Bash
11 16 (2.76%) C
12 9 (1.55%) Groovy
12 9 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.38%) Bicep
13 8 (1.38%) PHP
14 6 (1.04%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.86%) Perl
15 5 (0.86%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (15.03%) Degree
2 58 (10.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (6.04%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.66%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.15%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 21 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.90%) PhD
9 5 (0.86%) MBA
10 3 (0.52%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) HND
12 1 (0.17%) ISEB
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.46%) QA
2 13 (2.25%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.86%) GDPR
4 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
6 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 166 (28.67%) Docker
2 17 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.42%) KVM
4 10 (1.73%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 148 (25.56%) Kubernetes
2 93 (16.06%) Terraform
3 28 (4.84%) Ansible
4 17 (2.94%) Grafana
5 15 (2.59%) Kibana
6 11 (1.90%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.69%) Packer
8 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.52%) SCCM
9 2 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (7.77%) Microsoft
1 45 (7.77%) Typelevel
2 20 (3.45%) Google
2 20 (3.45%) Oracle
3 17 (2.94%) VMware
4 15 (2.59%) AppDynamics
5 13 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.90%) Splunk
7 9 (1.55%) Databricks
8 8 (1.38%) IBM
9 7 (1.21%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.21%) Solace
10 5 (0.86%) BT
10 5 (0.86%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.69%) Informatica
11 4 (0.69%) Talend
12 3 (0.52%) Adobe
13 2 (0.35%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.35%) WSO2