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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 368 375
Rank change year-on-year +125 +7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 731 337 489
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.80% 0.77% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 1.84% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 449 192 287
10th Percentile £54,750 £63,642 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £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 £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £134,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £83,750 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.94% +12.50% -8.57%

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 23,609 18,355 24,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.79% 42.15% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,541 9,301 15,534
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £56,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.65% +0.89% -12.50%

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 1 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 1 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 +64 435 £95,000 -13.64% 497
North of England +19 125 £75,000 -3.85% 67
North West +48 84 £82,500 -2.94% 39
South East -3 82 £63,500 -15.33% 71
South West -42 33 £90,000 -7.69% 27
Midlands -21 30 £80,000 +6.67% 17
North East -36 22 £60,000 -34.92% 18
West Midlands -19 21 £82,500 +13.79% 13
East of England +2 20 £80,000 - 14
Yorkshire -34 19 £75,000 -3.23% 10
East Midlands -28 9 £76,000 -1.94% 4
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 17 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.09%) Apache
3 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.68%) Apache Pig
3 5 (0.68%) Camunda
3 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.55%) Confluence
4 4 (0.55%) JBoss
5 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) Solana
7 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 398 (54.45%) AWS
2 235 (32.15%) Azure
3 156 (21.34%) GCP
4 74 (10.12%) Serverless
5 53 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (6.43%) SaaS
7 43 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (5.20%) GitHub
9 37 (5.06%) Amazon S3
10 36 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (2.74%) Datadog
15 19 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (2.19%) Amazon Bedrock
17 16 (2.19%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 72 (9.85%) Broadband
2 15 (2.05%) HTTP
3 11 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.82%) Internet
5 5 (0.68%) DNS
5 5 (0.68%) Firewall
6 4 (0.55%) MQTT
7 3 (0.41%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) AMQP
8 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.27%) VoIP
9 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.14%) FTP
9 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.14%) LTE
9 1 (0.14%) Network Security
9 1 (0.14%) RTP
9 1 (0.14%) SCTP
9 1 (0.14%) SMS
9 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (10.67%) NoSQL
3 57 (7.80%) MongoDB
4 32 (4.38%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (3.42%) MySQL
6 25 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.15%) DynamoDB
8 22 (3.01%) Redis
9 19 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.64%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.50%) Hadoop
12 10 (1.37%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.23%) Big Data
13 9 (1.23%) Metadata
14 6 (0.82%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.82%) Flink
15 5 (0.68%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 73 (9.99%) Git
2 60 (8.21%) GitLab
3 47 (6.43%) Jenkins
4 39 (5.34%) Cucumber
5 26 (3.56%) JUnit
6 19 (2.60%) JMeter
7 17 (2.33%) JIRA
8 12 (1.64%) LoadRunner
9 11 (1.50%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.50%) Gatling
9 11 (1.50%) Mockito
10 10 (1.37%) Spock
11 7 (0.96%) Selenium
12 5 (0.68%) Maven
12 5 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.55%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.41%) MLflow
14 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.41%) WinDbg
General
1 171 (23.39%) Finance
2 144 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 49 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.02%) Banking
4 44 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (3.97%) Games
5 29 (3.97%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.69%) Law
7 26 (3.56%) Financial Institution
7 26 (3.56%) Retail
8 19 (2.60%) Front Office
9 15 (2.05%) Back Office
10 12 (1.64%) Advertising
11 10 (1.37%) Marketing
12 8 (1.09%) Polish Language
13 7 (0.96%) Electronics
13 7 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 188 (25.72%) Senior
2 164 (22.44%) Developer
3 144 (19.70%) Software Engineer
4 89 (12.18%) Lead
5 80 (10.94%) Principal Engineer
6 70 (9.58%) Java Engineer
7 54 (7.39%) Architect
7 54 (7.39%) Senior Developer
8 42 (5.75%) Python Engineer
8 42 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 41 (5.61%) Backend Developer
9 41 (5.61%) Python Developer
10 32 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 27 (3.69%) Java Developer
13 24 (3.28%) Principal Java Engineer
13 24 (3.28%) Scala Engineer
14 21 (2.87%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.74%) Senior Backend Developer
15 20 (2.74%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (16.01%) .NET
2 116 (15.87%) Kafka
3 109 (14.91%) Spring
4 94 (12.86%) REST
5 92 (12.59%) React
6 91 (12.45%) Spring Boot
7 74 (10.12%) RESTful
8 54 (7.39%) Node.js
9 38 (5.20%) AngularJS
9 38 (5.20%) gRPC
10 36 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (3.15%) OAuth
12 22 (3.01%) JSON
12 22 (3.01%) OAuth2
13 21 (2.87%) ASP.NET
13 21 (2.87%) LangChain
14 20 (2.74%) Django
14 20 (2.74%) FastAPI
15 17 (2.33%) Web Services
16 16 (2.19%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 240 (32.83%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.48%) Video\Live Streaming
3 49 (6.70%) Algorithms
4 44 (6.02%) Data Structures
5 36 (4.92%) AI Agents
5 36 (4.92%) Over-the-Top Content
6 35 (4.79%) Public Cloud
7 28 (3.83%) e-Learning
7 28 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (3.83%) Low-Code
8 24 (3.28%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.60%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (2.05%) Equities
11 15 (2.05%) Life Science
12 14 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.92%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.78%) Client/Server
13 13 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (9.71%) Linux
2 14 (1.92%) Windows
3 11 (1.50%) Unix
4 3 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.41%) VMS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (59.51%) CI/CD
2 375 (51.30%) Software Engineering
3 328 (44.87%) Microservices
4 255 (34.88%) AI
5 222 (30.37%) Observability
6 216 (29.55%) Agile
7 212 (29.00%) DevOps
8 208 (28.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 185 (25.31%) Event-Driven
10 172 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (23.39%) Mentoring
12 168 (22.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 168 (22.98%) Test Automation
13 163 (22.30%) Containerisation
14 144 (19.70%) Machine Learning
15 124 (16.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 113 (15.46%) Full-Stack Development
17 111 (15.18%) Clean Code
18 92 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
19 85 (11.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 343 (46.92%) Python
2 224 (30.64%) Java
3 147 (20.11%) SQL
4 113 (15.46%) C#
5 109 (14.91%) Go
6 100 (13.68%) TypeScript
7 96 (13.13%) JavaScript
8 56 (7.66%) C++
9 42 (5.75%) Scala
10 31 (4.24%) Rust
11 21 (2.87%) Bash
12 15 (2.05%) C
13 10 (1.37%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.23%) Groovy
14 9 (1.23%) PHP
15 8 (1.09%) Bicep
15 8 (1.09%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.68%) Perl
17 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (11.35%) Degree
2 55 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 48 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 28 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.64%) PhD
8 11 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
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 59 (8.07%) QA
2 8 (1.09%) GDPR
3 7 (0.96%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) PSD2
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 187 (25.58%) Docker
2 14 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.64%) Active Directory
5 11 (1.50%) KVM
6 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 180 (24.62%) Kubernetes
2 123 (16.83%) Terraform
3 31 (4.24%) Ansible
4 23 (3.15%) Grafana
5 17 (2.33%) Kibana
6 15 (2.05%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.82%) Argo
8 4 (0.55%) Packer
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.41%) SCCM
10 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) Graylog
11 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 76 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.34%) Google
3 36 (4.92%) Typelevel
4 25 (3.42%) AppDynamics
5 24 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.60%) Splunk
7 18 (2.46%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.46%) Oracle
8 14 (1.92%) VMware
9 11 (1.50%) IBM
10 8 (1.09%) Solace
11 7 (0.96%) Databricks
11 7 (0.96%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.55%) Adobe
12 4 (0.55%) Facebook
12 4 (0.55%) Instagram
12 4 (0.55%) TikTok
13 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.27%) Pega
13 2 (0.27%) WSO2