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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 337 428
Rank change year-on-year +75 +91 -19
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 595 328 486
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.83% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 1.91% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 350 184 311
10th Percentile £56,200 £58,250 £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 £103,125 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £140,677 £150,000
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 20,969 17,152 31,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.20% 43.37% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13,780 8,236 21,248
10th Percentile £31,000 £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 £110,750 £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 17 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 17 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 +49 359 £97,500 -10.34% 279
North of England +14 109 £80,000 +1.91% 72
North West +47 80 £88,750 +13.06% 49
South East +6 73 £67,500 -10.00% 77
Midlands -15 21 £87,500 +16.67% 13
South West -41 17 £85,000 -12.82% 34
Yorkshire -50 17 £75,000 -4.46% 12
West Midlands -15 12 £87,500 +20.69% 6
North East -41 12 £60,000 -34.92% 11
East of England -3 11 £76,250 - 21
East Midlands -26 9 £72,000 -7.69% 7
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 12 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.18%) Apache
3 6 (1.01%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.84%) IIS
5 4 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.67%) Confluence
5 4 (0.67%) JBoss
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.17%) Solana
8 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 344 (57.82%) AWS
2 182 (30.59%) Azure
3 150 (25.21%) GCP
4 66 (11.09%) Serverless
5 46 (7.73%) SaaS
6 41 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 30 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (4.54%) GitHub
11 25 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (2.69%) Datadog
15 14 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.02%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.78%) Broadband
2 13 (2.18%) HTTP
3 10 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.84%) DNS
4 5 (0.84%) 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 (0.34%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.34%) RTP
6 2 (0.34%) SS7
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-485
7 1 (0.17%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (8.24%) MongoDB
3 46 (7.73%) NoSQL
4 26 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 25 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 18 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (3.03%) MySQL
8 16 (2.69%) Redis
9 15 (2.52%) BigQuery
9 15 (2.52%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.85%) Big Data
11 10 (1.68%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.84%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.84%) Metadata
13 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.67%) Tableau
14 3 (0.50%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 57 (9.58%) Git
2 44 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.06%) GitLab
4 30 (5.04%) Cucumber
5 18 (3.03%) JMeter
6 15 (2.52%) JIRA
6 15 (2.52%) JUnit
7 11 (1.85%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.68%) Gatling
8 10 (1.68%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.84%) Mockito
9 5 (0.84%) 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 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 143 (24.03%) Finance
2 101 (16.97%) Social Skills
3 41 (6.89%) Banking
4 36 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (5.38%) Games
6 29 (4.87%) Law
7 27 (4.54%) Financial Institution
8 25 (4.20%) Retail
9 24 (4.03%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.19%) Back Office
11 11 (1.85%) Front Office
11 11 (1.85%) Polish Language
12 9 (1.51%) Advertising
13 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.67%) Electronics
15 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 143 (24.03%) Senior
2 138 (23.19%) Developer
3 116 (19.50%) Software Engineer
4 62 (10.42%) Principal Engineer
5 59 (9.92%) Lead
6 56 (9.41%) Architect
7 51 (8.57%) Java Engineer
8 47 (7.90%) Senior Developer
9 32 (5.38%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.04%) Python Engineer
10 30 (5.04%) Scala Engineer
11 28 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (4.54%) Python Developer
13 26 (4.37%) Java Developer
14 24 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 19 (3.19%) Principal Java Engineer
16 18 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 18 (3.03%) Data Engineer
16 18 (3.03%) Lead Developer
17 17 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (14.29%) .NET
2 82 (13.78%) Kafka
3 73 (12.27%) Spring
4 69 (11.60%) REST
5 64 (10.76%) Spring Boot
6 60 (10.08%) React
7 55 (9.24%) RESTful
8 47 (7.90%) gRPC
9 39 (6.55%) Node.js
10 28 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (3.53%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.36%) JSON
13 19 (3.19%) Web Services
14 18 (3.03%) Django
15 17 (2.86%) ASP.NET
16 16 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (2.52%) LangChain
17 15 (2.52%) OAuth
18 14 (2.35%) OAuth2
19 13 (2.18%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 178 (29.92%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.27%) Video\Live Streaming
3 48 (8.07%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.90%) Over-the-Top Content
5 44 (7.39%) Data Structures
6 28 (4.71%) Public Cloud
7 25 (4.20%) Low-Code
8 23 (3.87%) AI Agents
9 21 (3.53%) e-Learning
10 20 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (3.03%) Product Ownership
12 17 (2.86%) Client/Server
13 16 (2.69%) Equities
14 15 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
15 14 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (2.18%) Life Science
17 9 (1.51%) Blog
17 9 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 9 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.75%) Linux
2 16 (2.69%) 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
1 325 (54.62%) CI/CD
2 291 (48.91%) Software Engineering
3 262 (44.03%) Microservices
4 174 (29.24%) AI
5 167 (28.07%) Agile
6 157 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (25.71%) Observability
8 152 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (24.71%) DevOps
10 145 (24.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (23.87%) Containerisation
12 129 (21.68%) Test Automation
13 127 (21.34%) Event-Driven
14 126 (21.18%) Machine Learning
15 112 (18.82%) Mentoring
16 98 (16.47%) Clean Code
17 85 (14.29%) Computer Science
18 81 (13.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 80 (13.45%) Coaching
20 79 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 290 (48.74%) Python
2 171 (28.74%) Java
3 114 (19.16%) Go
4 100 (16.81%) SQL
5 92 (15.46%) C#
6 70 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 65 (10.92%) TypeScript
8 55 (9.24%) C++
9 54 (9.08%) Scala
10 37 (6.22%) Rust
11 16 (2.69%) C
12 15 (2.52%) Bash
13 9 (1.51%) PHP
13 9 (1.51%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.34%) Bicep
15 7 (1.18%) Groovy
16 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.84%) Perl
18 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
19 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 76 (12.77%) Degree
2 51 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.54%) SC Cleared
5 23 (3.87%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.51%) PhD
9 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.34%) MBA
11 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) HND
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.40%) QA
2 11 (1.85%) SOC 2
3 7 (1.18%) GDPR
3 7 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 159 (26.72%) Docker
2 17 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.35%) KVM
4 10 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.34%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 145 (24.37%) Kubernetes
2 94 (15.80%) Terraform
3 26 (4.37%) Ansible
4 18 (3.03%) Grafana
5 15 (2.52%) Kibana
6 12 (2.02%) 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 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.56%) Typelevel
3 20 (3.36%) Google
4 17 (2.86%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.86%) Oracle
4 17 (2.86%) VMware
5 14 (2.35%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.18%) Splunk
7 8 (1.34%) Databricks
7 8 (1.34%) IBM
7 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.18%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.18%) Solace
9 3 (0.50%) Adobe
10 2 (0.34%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.34%) BT
10 2 (0.34%) Pega
10 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.34%) WSO2