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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 350 340
Rank change year-on-year +103 -10 +52
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 752 328 514
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.76% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 1.81% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 448 186 306
10th Percentile £53,525 £66,375 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,806 £75,000 £61,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £114,375
90th Percentile £121,625 £138,750 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -

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 25,991 18,090 22,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 41.92% 32.18%
Number of salaries quoted 16,978 9,160 11,767
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,575 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 16 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 16 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 +62 449 £95,000 -13.64% 1,563
North of England +6 128 £75,000 -4.46% 193
South East -17 81 £62,500 -16.67% 109
North West +36 80 £80,000 -8.57% 113
South West -41 34 £95,000 -2.56% 86
North East -36 30 £67,500 -41.30% 29
Midlands -23 27 £80,000 +6.67% 65
East of England -11 25 £80,000 -11.11% 64
West Midlands -28 22 £85,000 +13.33% 40
Yorkshire -41 18 £75,000 -2.28% 51
East Midlands -35 5 £76,000 -1.94% 25
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 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.20%) Apache
3 7 (0.93%) Confluence
4 6 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.80%) Camunda
5 5 (0.66%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.53%) JBoss
6 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.40%) IIS
7 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.27%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Endur
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 402 (53.46%) AWS
2 239 (31.78%) Azure
3 136 (18.09%) GCP
4 75 (9.97%) Serverless
5 66 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 49 (6.52%) GitHub
7 47 (6.25%) SaaS
8 43 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
9 41 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 40 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.53%) Datadog
17 18 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
18 17 (2.26%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (2.26%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.59%) Broadband
2 14 (1.86%) HTTP
2 14 (1.86%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.80%) Internet
4 5 (0.66%) DNS
5 4 (0.53%) DHCP
5 4 (0.53%) MQTT
6 3 (0.40%) Firewall
6 3 (0.40%) Multicast
6 3 (0.40%) 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 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) Network Security
8 1 (0.13%) SCTP
8 1 (0.13%) VPN
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (13.83%) NoSQL
2 91 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 37 (4.92%) Relational Database
5 28 (3.72%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (3.19%) DynamoDB
7 24 (3.19%) Redis
8 23 (3.06%) MySQL
9 22 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.33%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.33%) Metadata
10 10 (1.33%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.20%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.06%) Big Data
12 8 (1.06%) Flink
13 7 (0.93%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.80%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.66%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 77 (10.24%) Git
2 74 (9.84%) GitLab
3 51 (6.78%) Cucumber
4 48 (6.38%) Jenkins
5 30 (3.99%) JUnit
6 19 (2.53%) JIRA
6 19 (2.53%) JMeter
7 14 (1.86%) Mockito
8 12 (1.60%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.60%) Spock
9 11 (1.46%) LoadRunner
10 10 (1.33%) Gatling
11 8 (1.06%) Maven
12 6 (0.80%) Selenium
13 5 (0.66%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.53%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.53%) MLflow
15 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
16 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 204 (27.13%) Finance
2 172 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 69 (9.18%) Banking
4 54 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.79%) Law
7 33 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 33 (4.39%) Retail
8 32 (4.26%) Financial Institution
9 27 (3.59%) Games
10 20 (2.66%) Front Office
11 16 (2.13%) Back Office
12 13 (1.73%) Marketing
13 11 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.33%) Advertising
15 7 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.80%) Electronics
16 6 (0.80%) Legal
16 6 (0.80%) Polish Language
17 5 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 206 (27.39%) Senior
2 175 (23.27%) Developer
3 146 (19.41%) Software Engineer
4 102 (13.56%) Lead
5 84 (11.17%) Java Engineer
5 84 (11.17%) Principal Engineer
6 57 (7.58%) Architect
7 51 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 50 (6.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 45 (5.98%) Backend Developer
10 40 (5.32%) Python Engineer
11 39 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 39 (5.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 39 (5.19%) Python Developer
12 32 (4.26%) Senior Java Engineer
13 30 (3.99%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.59%) Principal Java Engineer
15 22 (2.93%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (2.93%) Principal Software Engineer
16 20 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (19.68%) Kafka
2 143 (19.02%) Terraform
3 134 (17.82%) Spring
4 133 (17.69%) .NET
5 113 (15.03%) REST
6 111 (14.76%) Spring Boot
7 97 (12.90%) React
7 97 (12.90%) RESTful
8 56 (7.45%) Node.js
9 47 (6.25%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (3.19%) OAuth
12 23 (3.06%) LangChain
12 23 (3.06%) Next.js
13 22 (2.93%) OAuth2
14 21 (2.79%) ASP.NET
14 21 (2.79%) JSON
15 20 (2.66%) FastAPI
16 18 (2.39%) .NET Framework
16 18 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 282 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.65%) AI Agents
3 49 (6.52%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.32%) e-Learning
5 38 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (4.65%) Video\Live Streaming
7 33 (4.39%) Algorithms
8 28 (3.72%) Low-Code
9 27 (3.59%) Onboarding
10 25 (3.32%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.79%) Product Ownership
12 20 (2.66%) IoT
13 16 (2.13%) Equities
13 16 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (2.13%) Private Cloud
14 15 (1.99%) Life Science
15 14 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.73%) Blog
16 13 (1.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.58%) Linux
2 13 (1.73%) Unix
3 12 (1.60%) Windows
4 5 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.66%) VMS
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (59.84%) CI/CD
2 383 (50.93%) Software Engineering
3 349 (46.41%) Microservices
4 294 (39.10%) AI
5 250 (33.24%) Observability
6 239 (31.78%) Agile
7 235 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 234 (31.12%) Event-Driven
9 212 (28.19%) DevOps
10 198 (26.33%) Mentoring
11 193 (25.66%) Test Automation
12 167 (22.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 153 (20.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 145 (19.28%) Containerisation
15 134 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
16 124 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
17 122 (16.22%) Machine Learning
18 107 (14.23%) Technical Leadership
19 91 (12.10%) Code Quality
20 90 (11.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 307 (40.82%) Python
2 261 (34.71%) Java
3 177 (23.54%) SQL
4 124 (16.49%) TypeScript
5 121 (16.09%) C#
6 102 (13.56%) Go
7 101 (13.43%) JavaScript
8 37 (4.92%) C++
9 23 (3.06%) Bash
10 17 (2.26%) Scala
11 12 (1.60%) Rust
12 11 (1.46%) Groovy
13 10 (1.33%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.33%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.20%) Bicep
15 8 (1.06%) C
15 8 (1.06%) PHP
16 5 (0.66%) Perl
17 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (9.44%) Security Cleared
2 70 (9.31%) Degree
3 48 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 45 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 40 (5.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 39 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.06%) PhD
9 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.27%) CISSP
10 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CSPO
11 1 (0.13%) HND
11 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.38%) QA
2 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.93%) GDPR
5 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.27%) NIST
6 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.13%) GRC
7 1 (0.13%) PSD2
7 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 168 (22.34%) Docker
2 12 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
5 3 (0.40%) KVM
6 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 195 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.99%) Grafana
3 28 (3.72%) Ansible
4 21 (2.79%) Kibana
5 18 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.06%) Argo
7 4 (0.53%) Packer
7 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.27%) Bosun
9 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 86 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.52%) Google
3 28 (3.72%) AppDynamics
4 27 (3.59%) OpenAI
5 21 (2.79%) Splunk
6 20 (2.66%) Oracle
7 17 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.46%) IBM
9 9 (1.20%) Typelevel
10 8 (1.06%) Databricks
11 7 (0.93%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.80%) Solace
12 6 (0.80%) VMware
13 4 (0.53%) Adobe
13 4 (0.53%) Facebook
13 4 (0.53%) Instagram
13 4 (0.53%) TikTok
14 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.27%) New Relic
15 2 (0.27%) Okta