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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 320 412
Rank change year-on-year +43 +92 -62
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 501 342 474
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.93% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 2.39% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 279 218 326
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,313 £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 £115,938
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £148,750
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 22,148 14,318 28,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.21% 38.94% 35.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,490 8,224 20,653
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,561 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,445 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +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 15 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 15 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 +38 318 £100,000 +5.26% 146
North of England -50 88 £76,250 -1.61% 37
South East -35 63 £77,500 +21.57% 53
North West +9 60 £80,000 - 25
Yorkshire -71 24 £75,000 -3.23% 9
Midlands -29 16 £73,801 +1.79% 8
South West -44 14 £85,000 - 9
East of England -12 13 £82,500 +13.79% 11
East Midlands - 13 £86,000 - 4
North East -32 4 £60,000 -13.52% 6
West Midlands -20 3 £73,801 +1.79% 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 19 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.20%) 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
1 304 (60.68%) AWS
2 168 (33.53%) GCP
3 167 (33.33%) Azure
4 55 (10.98%) Serverless
5 45 (8.98%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (8.58%) SaaS
7 33 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (5.59%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.79%) GitHub
10 22 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (3.19%) Datadog
13 15 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (2.20%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.18%) Broadband
2 16 (3.19%) 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%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
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
2 42 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
3 29 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 25 (4.99%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.79%) Redis
6 23 (4.59%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.19%) DynamoDB
8 20 (3.99%) Hadoop
9 18 (3.59%) Big Data
10 17 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (3.39%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.79%) MySQL
12 13 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.80%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.20%) Couchbase
14 6 (1.20%) Tableau
15 5 (1.00%) Apache Hive
15 5 (1.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 50 (9.98%) Git
2 47 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.99%) GitLab
4 15 (2.99%) JMeter
5 14 (2.79%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.20%) JIRA
7 10 (2.00%) Gatling
8 9 (1.80%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.60%) JUnit
10 6 (1.20%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.00%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.00%) Maven
12 4 (0.80%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.60%) Mockito
13 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.60%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.40%) Selenium
14 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 129 (25.75%) Finance
2 97 (19.36%) Social Skills
3 45 (8.98%) Banking
4 39 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (7.58%) Law
6 31 (6.19%) Financial Institution
7 27 (5.39%) Retail
8 25 (4.99%) Public Sector
8 25 (4.99%) Telecoms
9 24 (4.79%) Back Office
10 12 (2.40%) Front Office
11 11 (2.20%) Polish Language
12 10 (2.00%) Games
12 10 (2.00%) Marketing
13 8 (1.60%) Advertising
14 7 (1.40%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.00%) Electronics
16 5 (1.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 136 (27.15%) Senior
2 115 (22.95%) Software Engineer
3 105 (20.96%) Developer
4 52 (10.38%) Lead
5 36 (7.19%) Principal Engineer
6 35 (6.99%) Architect
7 34 (6.79%) Java Developer
8 30 (5.99%) Scala Engineer
9 28 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (5.39%) Java Engineer
10 27 (5.39%) Senior Developer
11 25 (4.99%) Backend Developer
12 24 (4.79%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (2.99%) Scala Developer
15 15 (2.99%) Scala Software Engineer
16 14 (2.79%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.97%) Kafka
2 71 (14.17%) REST
3 62 (12.38%) gRPC
4 58 (11.58%) Spring
5 57 (11.38%) .NET
6 51 (10.18%) React
7 49 (9.78%) Spring Boot
8 41 (8.18%) RESTful
9 37 (7.39%) Node.js
10 32 (6.39%) Django
11 21 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (3.99%) Web Services
13 17 (3.39%) OAuth
14 16 (3.19%) AngularJS
14 16 (3.19%) JSON
15 14 (2.79%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.59%) FastAPI
16 13 (2.59%) HTML
17 10 (2.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 123 (24.55%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.58%) Algorithms
3 47 (9.38%) Over-the-Top Content
3 47 (9.38%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (8.98%) Data Structures
5 23 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.39%) Client/Server
7 17 (3.39%) Equities
7 17 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.79%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.59%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.20%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.20%) e-Learning
11 10 (2.00%) Blog
12 9 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (11.98%) Linux
2 9 (1.80%) Android
2 9 (1.80%) Windows
3 6 (1.20%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 234 (46.71%) Microservices
3 233 (46.51%) Software Engineering
4 153 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (28.94%) Containerisation
6 141 (28.14%) Agile
7 128 (25.55%) DevOps
8 106 (21.16%) Machine Learning
9 103 (20.56%) AI
10 101 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 99 (19.76%) Computer Science
12 90 (17.96%) Clean Code
12 90 (17.96%) Observability
13 85 (16.97%) Event-Driven
14 78 (15.57%) Mentoring
15 76 (15.17%) Roadmaps
16 71 (14.17%) Data Science
17 68 (13.57%) Infrastructure as Code
18 65 (12.97%) Coaching
19 60 (11.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 226 (45.11%) Python
2 170 (33.93%) Java
3 116 (23.15%) Go
4 69 (13.77%) C#
5 67 (13.37%) SQL
6 63 (12.57%) Scala
7 58 (11.58%) C++
8 44 (8.78%) JavaScript
9 42 (8.38%) TypeScript
10 39 (7.78%) Rust
11 20 (3.99%) C
12 14 (2.79%) Bash
13 9 (1.80%) Groovy
13 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.60%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.00%) R
16 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.80%) Ruby
16 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 91 (18.16%) Degree
2 66 (13.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (5.79%) 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 34 (6.79%) 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
1 165 (32.93%) Docker
2 14 (2.79%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.59%) KVM
4 8 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.80%) 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
1 137 (27.35%) Kubernetes
2 73 (14.57%) Terraform
3 35 (6.99%) Ansible
4 15 (2.99%) Grafana
5 12 (2.40%) Kibana
6 10 (2.00%) 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 24 (4.79%) Google
3 19 (3.79%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.79%) VMware
5 13 (2.59%) AppDynamics
5 13 (2.59%) Oracle
6 12 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.20%) Databricks
8 8 (1.60%) IBM
9 6 (1.20%) Splunk
10 5 (1.00%) BT
10 5 (1.00%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.00%) Informatica
10 5 (1.00%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.00%) Nokia
10 5 (1.00%) Solace
10 5 (1.00%) Talend
11 4 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.60%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.60%) SAP