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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 307 352
Rank change year-on-year +8 +45 -69
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 360 504 357
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.89% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 2.50% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 237 310 269
10th Percentile £65,750 £53,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,063 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -3.03% -2.94%

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 17,394 20,125 17,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.90% 35.49% 38.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,586 9,880 12,803
10th Percentile £27,707 £34,000 £33,037
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 +25 253 £112,500 +15.38% 112
North of England -9 69 £75,000 +11.11% 161
North West +26 38 £75,000 +11.11% 81
South East +17 32 £65,000 +6.12% 202
Yorkshire -34 30 £75,000 +33.93% 68
Midlands +46 17 £74,401 +7.35% 135
East of England +24 10 £82,500 +13.79% 121
East Midlands +16 9 £70,000 - 60
West Midlands +25 8 £75,000 +8.21% 66
South West +7 4 £87,500 -7.89% 76
North East +7 1 £73,801 +6.48% 14
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 47 (13.06%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.78%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.22%) Apache
5 6 (1.67%) Confluence
6 4 (1.11%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (1.11%) Appian
7 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) JBoss
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 207 (57.50%) AWS
2 131 (36.39%) Azure
3 97 (26.94%) GCP
4 60 (16.67%) Serverless
5 45 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (12.22%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (9.44%) SaaS
8 23 (6.39%) GitHub
9 22 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.00%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
13 16 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (3.06%) OpenShift
18 10 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.11%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.83%) BGP
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) VLAN
3 3 (0.83%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) AMQP
4 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.56%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (15.56%) NoSQL
3 48 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 36 (10.00%) Big Data
5 31 (8.61%) Hadoop
6 30 (8.33%) RDBMS
7 29 (8.06%) MongoDB
8 26 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (6.94%) DynamoDB
10 22 (6.11%) SQL Server
11 20 (5.56%) Redis
12 18 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (4.17%) MySQL
14 13 (3.61%) Apache Hive
14 13 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (3.06%) DataStage
16 11 (3.06%) Neo4j
16 11 (3.06%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 44 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.28%) Git
3 24 (6.67%) JMeter
3 24 (6.67%) JUnit
4 19 (5.28%) Mockito
5 16 (4.44%) GitLab
6 9 (2.50%) JIRA
7 6 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.39%) MLflow
9 4 (1.11%) Postman
9 4 (1.11%) Selenium
10 3 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.83%) Maven
10 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.56%) JConsole
11 2 (0.56%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 114 (31.67%) Finance
2 86 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 47 (13.06%) Banking
4 36 (10.00%) Law
4 36 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.72%) Financial Institution
6 33 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (5.28%) Telecoms
9 18 (5.00%) Front Office
9 18 (5.00%) Retail
10 12 (3.33%) Marketing
11 9 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.22%) Back Office
12 8 (2.22%) Legal
13 6 (1.67%) Games
13 6 (1.67%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.11%) Polish Language
14 4 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 105 (29.17%) Developer
2 100 (27.78%) Senior
3 92 (25.56%) Software Engineer
4 79 (21.94%) Lead
5 55 (15.28%) Java Developer
6 33 (9.17%) Principal Engineer
7 32 (8.89%) Lead Software Engineer
8 29 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 26 (7.22%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 25 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (6.67%) Data Engineer
11 24 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (6.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 22 (6.11%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 22 (6.11%) Senior Developer
14 19 (5.28%) Java Engineer
15 17 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (4.72%) C# Developer
16 16 (4.44%) Lead Developer
17 15 (4.17%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (25.56%) Kafka
2 66 (18.33%) Spring
3 61 (16.94%) REST
4 60 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 54 (15.00%) .NET
6 50 (13.89%) React
7 36 (10.00%) RESTful
8 32 (8.89%) Node.js
8 32 (8.89%) Web Services
9 29 (8.06%) HTML
10 28 (7.78%) Hibernate
11 24 (6.67%) Apache Camel
11 24 (6.67%) JSON
12 23 (6.39%) Django
13 21 (5.83%) XML
14 20 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (5.28%) jQuery
15 19 (5.28%) WireMock
16 17 (4.72%) .NET Core
16 17 (4.72%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 125 (34.72%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.67%) Algorithms
3 39 (10.83%) Product Ownership
4 30 (8.33%) Data Structures
5 22 (6.11%) Legacy Code
5 22 (6.11%) Public Cloud
6 20 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (5.28%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.44%) Equities
9 14 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (3.61%) e-Learning
11 10 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.78%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.22%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.67%) Derivative
15 5 (1.39%) Data Centre
15 5 (1.39%) Fixed Income
16 4 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.89%) Linux
2 12 (3.33%) Unix
3 7 (1.94%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (48.06%) CI/CD
2 170 (47.22%) Microservices
3 158 (43.89%) Software Engineering
4 138 (38.33%) Agile
5 104 (28.89%) DevOps
6 93 (25.83%) Containerisation
7 83 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (22.78%) Mentoring
9 81 (22.50%) AI
10 74 (20.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 71 (19.72%) Computer Science
11 71 (19.72%) Roadmaps
12 65 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (17.22%) Machine Learning
14 58 (16.11%) TDD
15 56 (15.56%) Event-Driven
16 54 (15.00%) Low Latency
17 53 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
18 48 (13.33%) Observability
19 46 (12.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 179 (49.72%) Java
2 155 (43.06%) Python
3 78 (21.67%) SQL
4 66 (18.33%) Go
5 65 (18.06%) C#
6 53 (14.72%) JavaScript
7 39 (10.83%) C++
8 38 (10.56%) TypeScript
9 26 (7.22%) Rust
10 25 (6.94%) Scala
11 24 (6.67%) C
12 20 (5.56%) Shell Script
13 13 (3.61%) Bash
13 13 (3.61%) Kotlin
14 8 (2.22%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.11%) COBOL
15 4 (1.11%) Groovy
16 1 (0.28%) Bicep
16 1 (0.28%) PHP
16 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (16.94%) Degree
2 36 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 22 (6.11%) PhD
6 9 (2.50%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CEH
10 1 (0.28%) CISM
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) GIAC
10 1 (0.28%) OSCP
10 1 (0.28%) SANS
10 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.89%) GDPR
1 14 (3.89%) QA
2 9 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.39%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.39%) SLA
4 5 (1.39%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.83%) WCAG
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 116 (32.22%) Docker
2 14 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.89%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.50%) HDFS
4 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.56%) Ceph
6 2 (0.56%) Lustre
6 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 158 (43.89%) Kubernetes
2 40 (11.11%) Terraform
3 31 (8.61%) Ansible
4 23 (6.39%) Kibana
5 12 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.06%) Grafana
7 5 (1.39%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.39%) logstash
8 4 (1.11%) Rancher
8 4 (1.11%) vRealize
9 3 (0.83%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.56%) Puppet
10 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (6.39%) Dynatrace
2 20 (5.56%) Splunk
3 14 (3.89%) Google
3 14 (3.89%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.61%) Oracle
5 12 (3.33%) Databricks
6 11 (3.06%) Informatica
6 11 (3.06%) Talend
7 6 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.39%) Dell
8 5 (1.39%) SAP
9 4 (1.11%) Ericsson
9 4 (1.11%) Mavenir
9 4 (1.11%) Nokia
9 4 (1.11%) Pega
9 4 (1.11%) VMware
9 4 (1.11%) WSO2
10 3 (0.83%) Solace
11 2 (0.56%) Foundry
11 2 (0.56%) Palantir