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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 307 399
Rank change year-on-year +35 +92 -59
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 501 344 461
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.94% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 2.43% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 278 222 327
10th Percentile £58,375 £56,250 £45,750
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% -5.71%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,625
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £146,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +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 21,862 14,173 28,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.73% 38.77% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,373 8,153 20,384
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £43,750 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 8 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 8 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 +47 320 £100,000 +8.11% 164
North of England -35 89 £75,000 - 56
South East -33 62 £77,500 +21.57% 49
North West -5 57 £80,000 +4.92% 34
Yorkshire -57 29 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Midlands -33 16 £73,801 +4.09% 7
South West -33 14 £85,000 - 8
East Midlands - 13 £86,000 - 3
East of England -28 12 £82,500 +13.79% 8
West Midlands -8 3 £73,801 +4.09% 4
North East -31 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 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.00%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.00%) IIS
5 4 (0.80%) 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
1 307 (61.28%) AWS
2 171 (34.13%) GCP
3 169 (33.73%) Azure
4 57 (11.38%) Serverless
5 50 (9.98%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (8.38%) SaaS
7 38 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (5.59%) Amazon S3
9 22 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (4.39%) GitHub
10 21 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.79%) Datadog
14 13 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (1.60%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.18%) Broadband
2 17 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.40%) HTTP
4 6 (1.20%) BGP
4 6 (1.20%) VLAN
4 6 (1.20%) 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 49 (9.78%) NoSQL
1 49 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (6.39%) Relational Database
3 30 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (4.99%) Redis
5 24 (4.79%) MongoDB
6 23 (4.59%) SQL Server
7 20 (3.99%) DynamoDB
7 20 (3.99%) Hadoop
8 18 (3.59%) Big Data
9 17 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.39%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.79%) MySQL
11 13 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (2.00%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.20%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.20%) Tableau
14 5 (1.00%) DataStage
14 5 (1.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 53 (10.58%) Git
2 51 (10.18%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.79%) GitLab
4 16 (3.19%) JMeter
5 14 (2.79%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.20%) JIRA
7 10 (2.00%) Gatling
8 9 (1.80%) JUnit
8 9 (1.80%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.00%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.00%) Maven
10 4 (0.80%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.80%) 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
1 124 (24.75%) Finance
2 97 (19.36%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.38%) Banking
4 39 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (7.58%) Law
6 32 (6.39%) Financial Institution
7 30 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 28 (5.59%) Retail
9 25 (4.99%) Telecoms
10 24 (4.79%) Back Office
11 12 (2.40%) Front Office
12 11 (2.20%) Marketing
12 11 (2.20%) Polish Language
13 10 (2.00%) Games
14 8 (1.60%) Advertising
15 7 (1.40%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
17 5 (1.00%) Legal
17 5 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (26.95%) Senior
2 117 (23.35%) Software Engineer
3 107 (21.36%) Developer
4 55 (10.98%) Lead
5 40 (7.98%) Java Developer
6 36 (7.19%) Principal Engineer
7 32 (6.39%) Architect
8 30 (5.99%) Scala Engineer
9 29 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (5.19%) Java Engineer
10 26 (5.19%) Senior Developer
11 25 (4.99%) Backend Developer
12 24 (4.79%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (3.19%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (2.99%) Scala Developer
16 15 (2.99%) Scala Software Engineer
16 15 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.97%) REST
2 73 (14.57%) Kafka
3 62 (12.38%) gRPC
4 61 (12.18%) Spring
5 55 (10.98%) .NET
6 53 (10.58%) Spring Boot
7 52 (10.38%) React
8 41 (8.18%) RESTful
9 39 (7.78%) Node.js
10 35 (6.99%) Django
11 25 (4.99%) Elastic Stack
11 25 (4.99%) Web Services
12 20 (3.99%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (3.39%) JSON
14 16 (3.19%) OAuth
15 15 (2.99%) FastAPI
16 14 (2.79%) HTML
17 13 (2.59%) OAuth2
18 10 (2.00%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 121 (24.15%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.38%) Algorithms
2 47 (9.38%) Over-the-Top Content
2 47 (9.38%) Video\Live Streaming
3 44 (8.78%) Data Structures
4 24 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (3.39%) Equities
7 16 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.99%) Client/Server
9 14 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.59%) AI Agents
10 13 (2.59%) Public Cloud
11 11 (2.20%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.20%) e-Learning
12 10 (2.00%) Blog
13 9 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.80%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 64 (12.77%) Linux
2 9 (1.80%) Android
2 9 (1.80%) Windows
3 7 (1.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (50.10%) CI/CD
2 237 (47.31%) Microservices
3 230 (45.91%) Software Engineering
4 150 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (29.74%) Agile
6 144 (28.74%) Containerisation
7 128 (25.55%) DevOps
8 104 (20.76%) Machine Learning
9 100 (19.96%) AI
10 99 (19.76%) Computer Science
10 99 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (18.16%) Clean Code
12 87 (17.37%) Observability
13 82 (16.37%) Event-Driven
14 77 (15.37%) Mentoring
15 76 (15.17%) Roadmaps
16 71 (14.17%) Data Science
17 66 (13.17%) Coaching
17 66 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 62 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 224 (44.71%) Python
2 176 (35.13%) Java
3 117 (23.35%) Go
4 67 (13.37%) C#
5 65 (12.97%) SQL
6 64 (12.77%) Scala
7 58 (11.58%) C++
8 45 (8.98%) JavaScript
9 41 (8.18%) Rust
10 40 (7.98%) TypeScript
11 22 (4.39%) C
12 13 (2.59%) Bash
13 10 (2.00%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.80%) Groovy
15 8 (1.60%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.00%) R
16 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.80%) Ruby
18 3 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (17.76%) Degree
2 66 (13.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.99%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.79%) Master's Degree
5 23 (4.59%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.40%) PhD
7 11 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.00%) MBA
9 4 (0.80%) 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 (6.59%) QA
2 14 (2.79%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.00%) GDPR
5 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.80%) 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 (34.13%) Docker
2 14 (2.79%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.59%) KVM
4 10 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.20%) 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 (28.94%) Kubernetes
2 75 (14.97%) Terraform
3 39 (7.78%) Ansible
4 14 (2.79%) Grafana
5 13 (2.59%) Kibana
6 9 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.80%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.80%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (8.98%) Typelevel
2 25 (4.99%) Google
3 15 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.79%) VMware
5 13 (2.59%) AppDynamics
5 13 (2.59%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.40%) Oracle
7 11 (2.20%) Databricks
8 8 (1.60%) IBM
9 7 (1.40%) Splunk
10 6 (1.20%) Pega
10 6 (1.20%) WSO2
11 5 (1.00%) BT
11 5 (1.00%) Ericsson
11 5 (1.00%) Informatica
11 5 (1.00%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.00%) Nokia
11 5 (1.00%) Talend
12 4 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.80%) Solace