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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 316 407
Rank change year-on-year +39 +91 -65
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 504 345 466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.94% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 2.42% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 280 223 329
10th Percentile £58,625 £56,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,509 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -7.04%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £148,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +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 21,842 14,238 28,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.66% 38.96% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,346 8,188 20,554
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,591 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.02% +9.09% -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 9 April 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 April 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 +34 321 £100,000 +8.11% 164
North of England -54 90 £75,000 -1.64% 56
South East -26 63 £77,500 +21.57% 49
North West -2 58 £80,000 +4.92% 34
Yorkshire -65 29 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Midlands -30 16 £73,801 +4.09% 7
South West -25 14 £85,000 - 8
East Midlands - 13 £86,000 - 3
East of England -17 12 £82,500 +13.79% 8
West Midlands -24 3 £73,801 +4.09% 4
North East -37 3 £60,000 -13.52% 10
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 19 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.98%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.99%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.99%) IIS
5 4 (0.79%) Appian
6 3 (0.60%) Apache
6 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Confluence
7 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.20%) Solana
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 310 (61.51%) AWS
2 171 (33.93%) Azure
2 171 (33.93%) GCP
3 60 (11.90%) Serverless
4 51 (10.12%) Amazon ECS
5 43 (8.53%) SaaS
6 38 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 24 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (4.37%) GitHub
10 17 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (2.98%) Datadog
12 15 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
16 8 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (1.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.12%) Broadband
2 17 (3.37%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.38%) HTTP
4 6 (1.19%) BGP
4 6 (1.19%) VLAN
4 6 (1.19%) VPN
5 3 (0.60%) DNS
5 3 (0.60%) Firewall
6 2 (0.40%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.40%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.20%) RTP
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) SS7
7 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.92%) NoSQL
2 49 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (6.35%) Relational Database
4 30 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (4.96%) Redis
6 24 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.17%) DynamoDB
8 20 (3.97%) Hadoop
9 18 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (3.57%) Big Data
10 17 (3.37%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.78%) MySQL
12 13 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.98%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.19%) Couchbase
14 6 (1.19%) Tableau
15 5 (0.99%) DataStage
15 5 (0.99%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (10.71%) Git
2 51 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.97%) GitLab
4 16 (3.17%) JMeter
5 15 (2.98%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.18%) JIRA
7 10 (1.98%) Gatling
8 9 (1.79%) JUnit
8 9 (1.79%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.99%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.99%) Maven
10 4 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.79%) Mockito
11 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.60%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.40%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.40%) Selenium
12 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (25.40%) Finance
2 97 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.33%) Banking
4 39 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (7.54%) Law
6 32 (6.35%) Financial Institution
7 30 (5.95%) Public Sector
8 28 (5.56%) Retail
9 25 (4.96%) Telecoms
10 24 (4.76%) Back Office
11 12 (2.38%) Front Office
12 11 (2.18%) Marketing
12 11 (2.18%) Polish Language
13 10 (1.98%) Games
14 8 (1.59%) Advertising
15 7 (1.39%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.99%) Electronics
17 5 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 137 (27.18%) Senior
2 117 (23.21%) Software Engineer
3 108 (21.43%) Developer
4 56 (11.11%) Lead
5 40 (7.94%) Java Developer
6 37 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
7 34 (6.75%) Architect
8 30 (5.95%) Scala Engineer
9 29 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (5.36%) Java Engineer
10 27 (5.36%) Senior Developer
11 25 (4.96%) Backend Developer
12 24 (4.76%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.37%) Lead Developer
16 16 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
17 15 (2.98%) Scala Developer
17 15 (2.98%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.08%) REST
2 75 (14.88%) Kafka
3 62 (12.30%) gRPC
3 62 (12.30%) Spring
4 57 (11.31%) .NET
5 54 (10.71%) Spring Boot
6 53 (10.52%) React
7 41 (8.13%) RESTful
8 40 (7.94%) Node.js
9 35 (6.94%) Django
10 25 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
10 25 (4.96%) Web Services
11 20 (3.97%) AngularJS
11 20 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (3.37%) JSON
12 17 (3.37%) OAuth
13 15 (2.98%) FastAPI
14 14 (2.78%) HTML
14 14 (2.78%) OAuth2
15 11 (2.18%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 124 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.33%) Algorithms
2 47 (9.33%) Over-the-Top Content
2 47 (9.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 44 (8.73%) Data Structures
4 24 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (3.37%) Equities
7 16 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.98%) Client/Server
8 15 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.78%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.58%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.38%) e-Learning
12 11 (2.18%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.98%) Blog
14 9 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.79%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.59%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.50%) Linux
2 9 (1.79%) Android
2 9 (1.79%) Windows
3 7 (1.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (50.20%) CI/CD
2 239 (47.42%) Microservices
3 231 (45.83%) Software Engineering
4 150 (29.76%) Agile
4 150 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (28.77%) Containerisation
6 130 (25.79%) DevOps
7 104 (20.63%) Machine Learning
8 101 (20.04%) AI
9 99 (19.64%) Computer Science
9 99 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (17.86%) Clean Code
11 89 (17.66%) Observability
12 84 (16.67%) Event-Driven
13 79 (15.67%) Mentoring
14 76 (15.08%) Roadmaps
15 71 (14.09%) Data Science
16 69 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
17 67 (13.29%) Coaching
18 62 (12.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 224 (44.44%) Python
2 176 (34.92%) Java
3 117 (23.21%) Go
4 70 (13.89%) C#
5 67 (13.29%) SQL
6 63 (12.50%) Scala
7 58 (11.51%) C++
8 48 (9.52%) JavaScript
9 43 (8.53%) TypeScript
10 40 (7.94%) Rust
11 22 (4.37%) C
12 13 (2.58%) Bash
13 9 (1.79%) Groovy
13 9 (1.79%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.59%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.99%) R
15 5 (0.99%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.79%) Ruby
17 3 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 89 (17.66%) Degree
2 66 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.95%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 23 (4.56%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.38%) PhD
8 5 (0.99%) MBA
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ISEB
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.55%) QA
2 14 (2.78%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.98%) GDPR
5 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 171 (33.93%) Docker
2 14 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.58%) KVM
4 10 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.60%) HDFS
7 2 (0.40%) Ceph
7 2 (0.40%) Lustre
7 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 145 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.28%) Terraform
3 39 (7.74%) Ansible
4 14 (2.78%) Grafana
5 13 (2.58%) Kibana
6 9 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.79%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (8.93%) Typelevel
2 25 (4.96%) Google
3 17 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.78%) VMware
5 13 (2.58%) AppDynamics
5 13 (2.58%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.38%) Oracle
7 11 (2.18%) Databricks
8 8 (1.59%) IBM
9 7 (1.39%) Splunk
10 6 (1.19%) Pega
10 6 (1.19%) WSO2
11 5 (0.99%) BT
11 5 (0.99%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.99%) Informatica
11 5 (0.99%) Mavenir
11 5 (0.99%) Nokia
11 5 (0.99%) Talend
12 4 (0.79%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.79%) Solace