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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 343 427
Rank change year-on-year +86 +84 -27
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 599 330 487
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.84% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.87% 1.93% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 349 186 313
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,875 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £140,677 £149,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 20,847 17,099 31,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.20% 43.30% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13,666 8,204 21,237
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +58 363 £95,000 -9.52% 133
North of England 0 107 £80,000 +1.91% 49
North West +36 79 £82,500 +5.10% 28
South East +1 77 £67,500 -10.00% 48
Midlands -14 21 £87,500 +16.67% 7
South West -38 17 £85,000 -12.82% 23
Yorkshire -56 16 £75,000 -3.23% 10
West Midlands -17 12 £87,500 +20.69% 4
North East -37 12 £60,000 -34.92% 11
East of England -12 10 £72,500 - 13
East Midlands -20 9 £72,000 -8.28% 3
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 13 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.17%) Apache
2 7 (1.17%) IIS
2 7 (1.17%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.67%) Confluence
3 4 (0.67%) JBoss
4 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.17%) Solana
6 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 349 (58.26%) AWS
2 181 (30.22%) Azure
3 150 (25.04%) GCP
4 67 (11.19%) Serverless
5 47 (7.85%) SaaS
6 42 (7.01%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (5.34%) Amazon S3
9 30 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (4.51%) GitHub
11 25 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (2.67%) Datadog
15 14 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.00%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.69%) Broadband
2 13 (2.17%) HTTP
3 10 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.83%) DNS
4 5 (0.83%) Firewall
5 3 (0.50%) BGP
5 3 (0.50%) DHCP
5 3 (0.50%) VLAN
5 3 (0.50%) VoIP
5 3 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.33%) RTP
6 2 (0.33%) SS7
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) FTP
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-485
7 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.02%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (8.35%) MongoDB
2 50 (8.35%) NoSQL
3 28 (4.67%) Relational Database
4 25 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (3.01%) MySQL
7 17 (2.84%) Redis
8 16 (2.67%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.50%) BigQuery
10 13 (2.17%) Big Data
11 10 (1.67%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.34%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.00%) Tableau
14 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.83%) Metadata
15 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.67%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 59 (9.85%) Git
2 45 (7.51%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.01%) GitLab
4 30 (5.01%) Cucumber
5 18 (3.01%) JMeter
6 15 (2.50%) JIRA
6 15 (2.50%) JUnit
7 11 (1.84%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.67%) Gatling
8 10 (1.67%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.83%) Mockito
9 5 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.67%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.67%) Spock
11 3 (0.50%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.50%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 146 (24.37%) Finance
2 101 (16.86%) Social Skills
3 43 (7.18%) Banking
4 39 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.34%) Games
7 30 (5.01%) Law
8 28 (4.67%) Financial Institution
9 26 (4.34%) Retail
10 24 (4.01%) Public Sector
11 20 (3.34%) Back Office
12 11 (1.84%) Front Office
12 11 (1.84%) Polish Language
13 9 (1.50%) Advertising
14 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.67%) Electronics
15 4 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 148 (24.71%) Senior
2 142 (23.71%) Developer
3 117 (19.53%) Software Engineer
4 60 (10.02%) Lead
4 60 (10.02%) Principal Engineer
5 55 (9.18%) Architect
6 51 (8.51%) Java Engineer
7 49 (8.18%) Senior Developer
8 34 (5.68%) Backend Developer
9 30 (5.01%) Python Engineer
9 30 (5.01%) Scala Engineer
10 28 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 27 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 27 (4.51%) Python Developer
12 24 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 19 (3.17%) Lead Developer
13 19 (3.17%) Principal Java Engineer
14 18 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 18 (3.01%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.02%) Kafka
2 83 (13.86%) .NET
3 75 (12.52%) Spring
4 71 (11.85%) REST
5 65 (10.85%) Spring Boot
6 60 (10.02%) React
7 56 (9.35%) RESTful
8 47 (7.85%) gRPC
9 41 (6.84%) Node.js
10 28 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (3.51%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.34%) JSON
12 20 (3.34%) Web Services
13 19 (3.17%) Django
14 17 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (2.67%) ASP.NET
16 15 (2.50%) OAuth
17 14 (2.34%) LangChain
17 14 (2.34%) OAuth2
18 12 (2.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 179 (29.88%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.19%) Video\Live Streaming
3 51 (8.51%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.85%) Over-the-Top Content
5 45 (7.51%) Data Structures
6 28 (4.67%) Public Cloud
7 25 (4.17%) Low-Code
8 22 (3.67%) AI Agents
9 21 (3.51%) e-Learning
10 20 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (3.17%) Product Ownership
12 17 (2.84%) Client/Server
13 16 (2.67%) Equities
14 15 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
15 14 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (2.17%) Life Science
17 10 (1.67%) Blog
17 10 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
18 9 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.52%) Linux
2 16 (2.67%) Windows
3 3 (0.50%) Unix
3 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.17%) Debian
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (54.59%) CI/CD
2 286 (47.75%) Software Engineering
3 265 (44.24%) Microservices
4 180 (30.05%) AI
5 173 (28.88%) Agile
6 157 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (25.71%) Observability
8 153 (25.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (24.54%) DevOps
10 144 (24.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 141 (23.54%) Containerisation
12 130 (21.70%) Machine Learning
12 130 (21.70%) Test Automation
13 127 (21.20%) Event-Driven
14 111 (18.53%) Mentoring
15 99 (16.53%) Clean Code
16 87 (14.52%) Computer Science
17 81 (13.52%) Full-Stack Development
18 80 (13.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 79 (13.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 294 (49.08%) Python
2 174 (29.05%) Java
3 115 (19.20%) Go
4 102 (17.03%) SQL
5 91 (15.19%) C#
6 70 (11.69%) JavaScript
7 67 (11.19%) TypeScript
8 57 (9.52%) Scala
9 55 (9.18%) C++
10 37 (6.18%) Rust
11 16 (2.67%) C
12 15 (2.50%) Bash
13 9 (1.50%) PHP
13 9 (1.50%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.34%) Bicep
15 7 (1.17%) Groovy
16 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.83%) Perl
18 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (13.02%) Degree
2 51 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (5.68%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.51%) SC Cleared
5 23 (3.84%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (3.51%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.67%) PhD
9 4 (0.67%) MBA
10 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) HND
12 1 (0.17%) ISEB
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.35%) QA
2 12 (2.00%) SOC 2
3 8 (1.34%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.17%) GDPR
5 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 160 (26.71%) Docker
2 17 (2.84%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.34%) KVM
4 10 (1.67%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.33%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 146 (24.37%) Kubernetes
2 97 (16.19%) Terraform
3 26 (4.34%) Ansible
4 18 (3.01%) Grafana
5 15 (2.50%) Kibana
6 12 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.67%) Argo
7 4 (0.67%) Packer
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.50%) SCCM
9 1 (0.17%) Graylog
9 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 49 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.51%) Typelevel
3 21 (3.51%) Google
4 17 (2.84%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.84%) Oracle
4 17 (2.84%) VMware
5 14 (2.34%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.17%) Splunk
7 10 (1.67%) Databricks
8 8 (1.34%) IBM
8 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.17%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.17%) Solace
10 4 (0.67%) BT
11 3 (0.50%) Adobe
12 2 (0.33%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.33%) Pega
12 2 (0.33%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.33%) WSO2