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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 359 344
Rank change year-on-year +114 -15 +53
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 738 317 523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.96% 1.76% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 434 180 312
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,602 £75,000 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +17.19% -4.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,625
90th Percentile £122,125 £140,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £91,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.59% +17.74% -3.13%

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 24,912 18,043 22,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 42.02% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16,381 9,144 12,684
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,701
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.30% -6.08%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +64 438 £95,000 -13.64% 1,100
North of England +20 131 £75,000 -6.25% 133
North West +42 85 £80,000 -8.57% 75
South East -11 78 £63,500 -15.33% 79
South West -45 32 £95,000 -2.56% 84
North East -37 28 £67,500 -41.30% 28
Midlands -31 25 £80,000 +6.67% 35
East of England -2 24 £80,000 -20.00% 43
West Midlands -17 20 £85,000 +13.33% 18
Yorkshire -47 18 £75,000 -2.28% 30
East Midlands -38 5 £76,000 -1.94% 17
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 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.22%) Apache
3 6 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.81%) Camunda
3 6 (0.81%) Confluence
4 5 (0.68%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.54%) JBoss
6 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) Solana
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 391 (52.98%) AWS
2 229 (31.03%) Azure
3 138 (18.70%) GCP
4 72 (9.76%) Serverless
5 63 (8.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 46 (6.23%) SaaS
7 42 (5.69%) GitHub
8 41 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
9 40 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 37 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.57%) Datadog
17 18 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
19 16 (2.17%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.45%) Broadband
2 14 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.36%) HTTP
4 6 (0.81%) DNS
4 6 (0.81%) Internet
5 4 (0.54%) DHCP
5 4 (0.54%) Firewall
5 4 (0.54%) MQTT
6 3 (0.41%) Multicast
6 3 (0.41%) X.509
7 2 (0.27%) AMQP
7 2 (0.27%) LTE
7 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.27%) VoIP
8 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.14%) FTP
8 1 (0.14%) Network Security
8 1 (0.14%) SCTP
8 1 (0.14%) SMS
8 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (12.60%) NoSQL
2 87 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.86%) MongoDB
4 34 (4.61%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.25%) MySQL
7 23 (3.12%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (2.85%) Redis
10 19 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.36%) Metadata
12 9 (1.22%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.22%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.22%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.08%) Big Data
13 8 (1.08%) Flink
14 6 (0.81%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.81%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.68%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (10.57%) Git
2 70 (9.49%) GitLab
3 52 (7.05%) Jenkins
4 47 (6.37%) Cucumber
5 29 (3.93%) JUnit
6 17 (2.30%) JIRA
7 14 (1.90%) JMeter
8 13 (1.76%) Mockito
9 12 (1.63%) Spock
10 11 (1.49%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.08%) Maven
12 7 (0.95%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.95%) Selenium
13 6 (0.81%) Gatling
14 5 (0.68%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.54%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.54%) MLflow
16 2 (0.27%) HP UFT
General
1 192 (26.02%) Finance
2 166 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 59 (7.99%) Banking
4 51 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.74%) Law
7 31 (4.20%) Financial Institution
8 28 (3.79%) Games
9 27 (3.66%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.52%) Retail
11 20 (2.71%) Front Office
12 17 (2.30%) Back Office
13 13 (1.76%) Marketing
14 10 (1.36%) Advertising
15 8 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.95%) Electronics
16 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Legal
17 6 (0.81%) Polish Language
18 4 (0.54%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 205 (27.78%) Senior
2 168 (22.76%) Developer
3 150 (20.33%) Software Engineer
4 96 (13.01%) Lead
5 80 (10.84%) Java Engineer
6 79 (10.70%) Principal Engineer
7 53 (7.18%) Senior Developer
8 51 (6.91%) Architect
8 51 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
9 41 (5.56%) Python Engineer
10 40 (5.42%) Backend Developer
10 40 (5.42%) Python Developer
11 38 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 31 (4.20%) Java Developer
14 30 (4.07%) Senior Java Engineer
15 25 (3.39%) Principal Java Engineer
16 20 (2.71%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (2.71%) Principal Software Engineer
17 19 (2.57%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (18.97%) Kafka
2 136 (18.43%) Terraform
3 130 (17.62%) Spring
4 128 (17.34%) .NET
5 109 (14.77%) REST
6 107 (14.50%) Spring Boot
7 99 (13.41%) React
8 92 (12.47%) RESTful
9 59 (7.99%) Node.js
10 46 (6.23%) AngularJS
11 41 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.25%) OAuth
13 23 (3.12%) LangChain
14 22 (2.98%) OAuth2
15 21 (2.85%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.85%) JSON
16 20 (2.71%) FastAPI
16 20 (2.71%) gRPC
16 20 (2.71%) Next.js
17 18 (2.44%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 267 (36.18%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.96%) Video\Live Streaming
3 43 (5.83%) AI Agents
3 43 (5.83%) Public Cloud
4 36 (4.88%) e-Learning
5 35 (4.74%) Algorithms
5 35 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (3.93%) Data Structures
7 28 (3.79%) Low-Code
7 28 (3.79%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
9 20 (2.71%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.44%) Over-the-Top Content
11 17 (2.30%) Equities
12 16 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (2.17%) IoT
12 16 (2.17%) Private Cloud
13 15 (2.03%) Life Science
14 13 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.67%) Linux
2 13 (1.76%) Windows
3 12 (1.63%) Unix
4 5 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.68%) VMS
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (60.43%) CI/CD
2 381 (51.63%) Software Engineering
3 345 (46.75%) Microservices
4 278 (37.67%) AI
5 242 (32.79%) Observability
6 231 (31.30%) Agile
7 228 (30.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 218 (29.54%) Event-Driven
9 212 (28.73%) DevOps
10 192 (26.02%) Mentoring
10 192 (26.02%) Test Automation
11 171 (23.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 154 (20.87%) Containerisation
13 148 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
14 142 (19.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 128 (17.34%) Machine Learning
16 121 (16.40%) Full-Stack Development
17 100 (13.55%) Clean Code
17 100 (13.55%) Technical Leadership
18 89 (12.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 323 (43.77%) Python
2 255 (34.55%) Java
3 163 (22.09%) SQL
4 118 (15.99%) TypeScript
5 116 (15.72%) C#
6 104 (14.09%) Go
7 101 (13.69%) JavaScript
8 41 (5.56%) C++
9 26 (3.52%) Scala
10 23 (3.12%) Bash
11 18 (2.44%) Rust
12 11 (1.49%) Groovy
12 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.36%) C
14 9 (1.22%) Bicep
14 9 (1.22%) PHP
14 9 (1.22%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.68%) Perl
16 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (10.03%) Degree
2 68 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 42 (5.69%) AWS Certification
3 42 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.22%) PhD
7 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CSPO
10 1 (0.14%) HND
10 1 (0.14%) ISEB
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.67%) QA
2 9 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.95%) GDPR
3 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.14%) GRC
6 1 (0.14%) PSD2
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 175 (23.71%) Docker
2 12 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.68%) KVM
7 3 (0.41%) Firmware
8 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 189 (25.61%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.07%) Ansible
3 22 (2.98%) Grafana
4 15 (2.03%) Kibana
4 15 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.95%) Argo
6 4 (0.54%) Packer
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.41%) SCCM
8 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.14%) Consul
9 1 (0.14%) Graylog
9 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.14%) Podman
9 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 82 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.50%) Google
3 27 (3.66%) OpenAI
4 24 (3.25%) AppDynamics
5 20 (2.71%) Oracle
5 20 (2.71%) Splunk
6 18 (2.44%) Typelevel
7 13 (1.76%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.49%) IBM
9 8 (1.08%) Databricks
9 8 (1.08%) VMware
10 7 (0.95%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.68%) Solace
12 4 (0.54%) Adobe
12 4 (0.54%) Facebook
12 4 (0.54%) Instagram
12 4 (0.54%) TikTok
13 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.27%) Pega
13 2 (0.27%) WSO2