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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 337 352
Rank change year-on-year +35 +15 -43
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 349 419 366
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.86% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 2.30% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 234 277 274
10th Percentile £63,625 £50,050 £46,350
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £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 £138,500 £143,375
UK median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +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 18,597 18,183 17,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.36% 37.29% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,394 8,604 12,873
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,688 £83,750 £84,056
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 7 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 7 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 +14 236 £112,500 +15.38% 138
North of England +1 65 £75,000 +10.29% 79
North West +43 36 £74,401 +7.35% 33
South East 0 34 £68,750 +14.58% 156
Yorkshire -38 28 £75,000 +33.93% 35
East of England +26 13 £82,500 +13.79% 58
Midlands +18 12 £75,000 +8.21% 40
West Midlands +17 6 £75,000 +8.21% 11
East Midlands +7 6 £77,500 - 27
South West +4 5 £82,500 -12.93% 38
North East +3 1 £73,801 +6.48% 11
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 45 (12.89%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.30%) OpenStack
3 10 (2.87%) Apache
4 5 (1.43%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.43%) Confluence
4 5 (1.43%) IIS
5 4 (1.15%) Appian
6 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.57%) Luigi
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 204 (58.45%) AWS
2 137 (39.26%) Azure
3 102 (29.23%) GCP
4 56 (16.05%) Serverless
5 42 (12.03%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (11.46%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (8.60%) SaaS
8 22 (6.30%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.44%) GitHub
10 17 (4.87%) Amazon Kinesis
10 17 (4.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.15%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (3.15%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.15%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.15%) HTTP
2 4 (1.15%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.86%) BGP
3 3 (0.86%) VLAN
3 3 (0.86%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) AMQP
4 2 (0.57%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.57%) Multicast
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (16.91%) NoSQL
3 39 (11.17%) Relational Database
4 37 (10.60%) Hadoop
5 36 (10.32%) Big Data
6 32 (9.17%) MongoDB
7 26 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (7.16%) DynamoDB
9 24 (6.88%) SQL Server
10 23 (6.59%) Redis
11 22 (6.30%) RDBMS
12 18 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (4.01%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (4.01%) MySQL
15 13 (3.72%) Apache Hive
16 12 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (2.87%) BigQuery
17 10 (2.87%) Neo4j
17 10 (2.87%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 41 (11.75%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.17%) Git
3 17 (4.87%) JMeter
3 17 (4.87%) JUnit
4 15 (4.30%) GitLab
5 12 (3.44%) Mockito
6 9 (2.58%) JIRA
7 4 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.15%) Maven
7 4 (1.15%) Postman
7 4 (1.15%) Selenium
7 4 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.86%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.86%) MLflow
8 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.57%) JConsole
9 2 (0.57%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (28.08%) Finance
2 83 (23.78%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.32%) Banking
5 34 (9.74%) Financial Institution
6 26 (7.45%) Public Sector
7 25 (7.16%) Law
8 22 (6.30%) Telecoms
9 18 (5.16%) Retail
10 17 (4.87%) Front Office
11 13 (3.72%) Marketing
12 12 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.87%) Back Office
14 7 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.72%) Games
15 6 (1.72%) Legal
16 5 (1.43%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (1.15%) Polish Language
18 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (28.65%) Developer
1 100 (28.65%) Senior
2 79 (22.64%) Software Engineer
3 64 (18.34%) Lead
4 52 (14.90%) Java Developer
5 32 (9.17%) Principal Engineer
6 24 (6.88%) Data Engineer
6 24 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (6.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (6.02%) Senior Developer
9 20 (5.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 19 (5.44%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 19 (5.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (5.16%) Lead Developer
12 17 (4.87%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 17 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (4.58%) Principal Software Engineer
14 14 (4.01%) Architect
15 13 (3.72%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (26.65%) Kafka
2 61 (17.48%) REST
3 60 (17.19%) Spring
4 55 (15.76%) Spring Boot
5 52 (14.90%) React
6 49 (14.04%) .NET
7 37 (10.60%) Node.js
8 35 (10.03%) RESTful
9 28 (8.02%) Django
10 27 (7.74%) Web Services
11 23 (6.59%) HTML
12 21 (6.02%) gRPC
13 18 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (5.16%) FastAPI
13 18 (5.16%) Hibernate
13 18 (5.16%) JSON
14 17 (4.87%) AngularJS
15 16 (4.58%) Apache Camel
15 16 (4.58%) OAuth
16 15 (4.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (32.09%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.61%) Algorithms
3 34 (9.74%) Product Ownership
4 29 (8.31%) Data Structures
5 19 (5.44%) Equities
6 18 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (4.58%) Legacy Code
7 16 (4.58%) Management Information System
8 15 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (3.72%) e-Learning
9 13 (3.72%) Public Cloud
10 12 (3.44%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (2.87%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.01%) Data Centre
12 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (2.01%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (1.15%) Hackathon
14 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.18%) Linux
2 12 (3.44%) Unix
3 9 (2.58%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (48.42%) Microservices
2 162 (46.42%) CI/CD
3 136 (38.97%) Software Engineering
4 127 (36.39%) Agile
5 102 (29.23%) DevOps
6 92 (26.36%) Containerisation
7 82 (23.50%) AI
8 79 (22.64%) Computer Science
9 78 (22.35%) Mentoring
10 73 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 67 (19.20%) Machine Learning
13 64 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (18.34%) Roadmaps
14 62 (17.77%) Event-Driven
15 57 (16.33%) Low Latency
16 56 (16.05%) TDD
17 54 (15.47%) Analytics
18 53 (15.19%) Observability
19 49 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 172 (49.28%) Java
2 155 (44.41%) Python
3 70 (20.06%) SQL
4 67 (19.20%) Go
5 60 (17.19%) C#
6 48 (13.75%) JavaScript
7 42 (12.03%) TypeScript
8 31 (8.88%) C++
8 31 (8.88%) Scala
9 19 (5.44%) Rust
10 18 (5.16%) C
11 15 (4.30%) Bash
12 12 (3.44%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.58%) Kotlin
14 8 (2.29%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.43%) R
16 4 (1.15%) Groovy
17 2 (0.57%) COBOL
17 2 (0.57%) Ruby
18 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (20.92%) Degree
2 44 (12.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.74%) Master's Degree
4 25 (7.16%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.73%) PhD
6 11 (3.15%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.43%) MBA
9 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.58%) QA
2 14 (4.01%) GDPR
3 9 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.01%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.01%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.15%) SLA
8 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.86%) WCAG
9 2 (0.57%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 109 (31.23%) Docker
2 14 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (4.01%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.58%) HDFS
4 5 (1.43%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) Ceph
6 2 (0.57%) Lustre
6 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 141 (40.40%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.75%) Terraform
3 31 (8.88%) Ansible
4 16 (4.58%) Kibana
5 12 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.15%) Grafana
7 5 (1.43%) logstash
8 4 (1.15%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.15%) Rancher
8 4 (1.15%) vRealize
9 3 (0.86%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.57%) Puppet
10 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (5.73%) Google
2 18 (5.16%) Databricks
3 16 (4.58%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.72%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.72%) Splunk
5 11 (3.15%) Oracle
6 10 (2.87%) Informatica
6 10 (2.87%) Talend
7 6 (1.72%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.43%) BT
8 5 (1.43%) Dell
8 5 (1.43%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.43%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.43%) Nokia
8 5 (1.43%) SAP
9 4 (1.15%) Pega
9 4 (1.15%) VMware
9 4 (1.15%) WSO2
10 3 (0.86%) Solace
11 2 (0.57%) Confluent