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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 363 354
Rank change year-on-year +121 -9 +23
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 740 326 506
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 0.74% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.03% 1.76% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 444 188 301
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,714 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,806 £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 £122,500 £138,250 £145,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -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 24,399 18,474 23,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.72% 42.01% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 15,987 9,386 14,274
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,381
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 £105,875 £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 17 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 17 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 +59 439 £95,000 -13.64% 82
North of England +14 128 £75,000 -4.46% 40
North West +38 84 £80,000 -8.57% 18
South East -8 82 £63,500 -15.33% 40
South West -43 35 £95,000 -2.56% 27
Midlands -19 27 £80,000 +6.67% 8
North East -40 27 £60,000 -47.83% 12
East of England - 22 £80,000 - 6
West Midlands -8 20 £85,000 +13.33% 7
Yorkshire -36 17 £75,000 -3.23% 10
East Midlands -22 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 18 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.22%) Apache
3 6 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.81%) Camunda
4 5 (0.68%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.68%) Confluence
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.54%) JBoss
6 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) Solana
Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 397 (53.65%) AWS
2 235 (31.76%) Azure
3 147 (19.86%) GCP
4 74 (10.00%) Serverless
5 56 (7.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (6.08%) SaaS
7 40 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (5.27%) Amazon S3
9 37 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (5.00%) GitHub
10 35 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (2.97%) Datadog
15 20 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.57%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
17 17 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.65%) Broadband
2 13 (1.76%) HTTP
3 12 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.81%) Internet
5 4 (0.54%) DNS
5 4 (0.54%) Firewall
5 4 (0.54%) MQTT
6 3 (0.41%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) AMQP
7 2 (0.27%) Multicast
7 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.27%) VoIP
8 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.14%) LTE
8 1 (0.14%) Network Security
8 1 (0.14%) RTSP
8 1 (0.14%) SCTP
8 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.14%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.14%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (11.49%) NoSQL
3 56 (7.57%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.73%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.51%) MySQL
7 23 (3.11%) DynamoDB
7 23 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.11%) Redis
8 19 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.49%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.35%) Big Data
10 10 (1.35%) Metadata
10 10 (1.35%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.95%) Flink
12 6 (0.81%) Apache Hive
12 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.81%) Pinecone
13 5 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 77 (10.41%) Git
2 62 (8.38%) GitLab
3 49 (6.62%) Jenkins
4 41 (5.54%) Cucumber
5 27 (3.65%) JUnit
6 18 (2.43%) JIRA
7 17 (2.30%) JMeter
8 12 (1.62%) Mockito
9 11 (1.49%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.35%) LoadRunner
10 10 (1.35%) Spock
11 9 (1.22%) Gatling
12 7 (0.95%) Selenium
13 6 (0.81%) Maven
14 5 (0.68%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.54%) MLflow
16 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
16 2 (0.27%) WinDbg
General
1 185 (25.00%) Finance
2 167 (22.57%) Social Skills
3 53 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (7.16%) Banking
4 48 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.59%) Law
6 29 (3.92%) Games
7 28 (3.78%) Public Sector
8 27 (3.65%) Financial Institution
9 23 (3.11%) Retail
10 21 (2.84%) Front Office
11 16 (2.16%) Back Office
12 13 (1.76%) Marketing
13 11 (1.49%) Advertising
14 8 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.95%) Electronics
16 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Legal
16 6 (0.81%) Polish Language
17 5 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 199 (26.89%) Senior
2 166 (22.43%) Developer
3 154 (20.81%) Software Engineer
4 95 (12.84%) Lead
5 80 (10.81%) Principal Engineer
6 73 (9.86%) Java Engineer
7 53 (7.16%) Senior Developer
8 52 (7.03%) Architect
9 49 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
10 42 (5.68%) Python Engineer
11 41 (5.54%) Python Developer
12 40 (5.41%) Backend Developer
13 34 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 33 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.92%) Java Developer
16 25 (3.38%) Senior Java Engineer
17 22 (2.97%) Principal Java Engineer
18 20 (2.70%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.70%) Lead Software Engineer
18 20 (2.70%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (17.16%) .NET
2 124 (16.76%) Kafka
3 121 (16.35%) Spring
4 100 (13.51%) Spring Boot
5 99 (13.38%) REST
6 96 (12.97%) React
7 83 (11.22%) RESTful
8 57 (7.70%) Node.js
9 41 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 35 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
11 29 (3.92%) gRPC
12 25 (3.38%) OAuth
13 23 (3.11%) LangChain
13 23 (3.11%) OAuth2
14 22 (2.97%) ASP.NET
14 22 (2.97%) JSON
15 20 (2.70%) FastAPI
16 19 (2.57%) Django
17 18 (2.43%) Next.js
18 17 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 253 (34.19%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.16%) Video\Live Streaming
3 43 (5.81%) Algorithms
4 41 (5.54%) AI Agents
5 37 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 37 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (4.05%) e-Learning
8 28 (3.78%) Low-Code
8 28 (3.78%) Onboarding
9 27 (3.65%) Over-the-Top Content
10 20 (2.70%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.57%) Distributed Architecture
12 18 (2.43%) Equities
13 17 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 16 (2.16%) Life Science
15 14 (1.89%) IoT
15 14 (1.89%) Private Cloud
16 13 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.05%) Linux
2 14 (1.89%) Windows
3 13 (1.76%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (60.27%) CI/CD
2 388 (52.43%) Software Engineering
3 331 (44.73%) Microservices
4 268 (36.22%) AI
5 233 (31.49%) Observability
6 223 (30.14%) Agile
7 216 (29.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 211 (28.51%) DevOps
9 197 (26.62%) Event-Driven
10 182 (24.59%) Mentoring
11 178 (24.05%) Test Automation
12 174 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (21.89%) Containerisation
13 162 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
14 140 (18.92%) Machine Learning
15 131 (17.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 114 (15.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 108 (14.59%) Clean Code
18 100 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
19 87 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 339 (45.81%) Python
2 244 (32.97%) Java
3 155 (20.95%) SQL
4 119 (16.08%) C#
5 108 (14.59%) Go
6 107 (14.46%) TypeScript
7 100 (13.51%) JavaScript
8 50 (6.76%) C++
9 35 (4.73%) Scala
10 23 (3.11%) Bash
10 23 (3.11%) Rust
11 12 (1.62%) C
12 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.22%) Bicep
13 9 (1.22%) Groovy
13 9 (1.22%) PHP
14 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.68%) Perl
16 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (10.81%) Degree
2 65 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 46 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 37 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 30 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.49%) PhD
8 8 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) CSPO
11 1 (0.14%) HND
11 1 (0.14%) ISEB
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.51%) QA
2 8 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.95%) GDPR
3 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.14%) GRC
6 1 (0.14%) PSD2
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 182 (24.59%) Docker
2 13 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.08%) KVM
6 6 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 186 (25.14%) Kubernetes
2 126 (17.03%) Terraform
3 32 (4.32%) Ansible
4 22 (2.97%) Grafana
5 16 (2.16%) Kibana
6 15 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.68%) Argo
8 4 (0.54%) Packer
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.41%) SCCM
10 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.14%) Graylog
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.14%) Podman
11 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 80 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.08%) Google
3 27 (3.65%) Typelevel
4 26 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 24 (3.24%) AppDynamics
6 19 (2.57%) Oracle
7 18 (2.43%) Splunk
8 17 (2.30%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.49%) IBM
9 11 (1.49%) VMware
10 9 (1.22%) Databricks
11 7 (0.95%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.95%) 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%) Salesforce