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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 348 340
Rank change year-on-year +98 -8 +58
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 766 324 505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.76% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.88% 1.80% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 458 183 306
10th Percentile £53,750 £66,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £114,375
90th Percentile £121,250 £144,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,250 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.08% +15.63% -

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 26,588 17,962 21,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.96% 41.98% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 17,311 9,085 11,447
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,597 £31,345
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,750
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,950 £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 22 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 22 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 +53 455 £95,000 -13.64% 1,006
North of England +10 131 £75,000 -3.85% 146
South East -4 84 £63,500 -15.33% 86
North West +19 82 £80,000 -8.57% 88
South West -47 34 £90,000 -7.69% 83
North East -35 31 £67,500 -41.30% 18
Midlands -35 28 £80,000 +6.67% 58
East of England -6 25 £80,000 -11.11% 38
West Midlands -35 23 £83,750 +11.67% 42
Yorkshire -51 18 £75,000 -1.32% 40
East Midlands -32 5 £75,000 -3.23% 16
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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.17%) Apache
3 8 (1.04%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.78%) Camunda
5 5 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.65%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.52%) JBoss
7 3 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Endur
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 408 (53.26%) AWS
2 246 (32.11%) Azure
3 135 (17.62%) GCP
4 79 (10.31%) Serverless
5 66 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 53 (6.92%) GitHub
7 47 (6.14%) SaaS
8 45 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
9 44 (5.74%) Amazon S3
10 42 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
17 20 (2.61%) Datadog
18 19 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
19 18 (2.35%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.48%) Broadband
2 14 (1.83%) HTTP
2 14 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.78%) Internet
4 5 (0.65%) DNS
5 4 (0.52%) DHCP
5 4 (0.52%) MQTT
6 3 (0.39%) Firewall
6 3 (0.39%) Multicast
6 3 (0.39%) X.509
7 2 (0.26%) AMQP
7 2 (0.26%) LTE
7 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.26%) 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
1 105 (13.71%) NoSQL
2 94 (12.27%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (7.96%) MongoDB
4 41 (5.35%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.79%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 25 (3.26%) Redis
8 24 (3.13%) MySQL
9 21 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.44%) Metadata
11 10 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.31%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.17%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.04%) Big Data
13 8 (1.04%) Flink
14 7 (0.91%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.78%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.78%) Pinecone
16 5 (0.65%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 77 (10.05%) Git
2 74 (9.66%) GitLab
3 51 (6.66%) Cucumber
4 48 (6.27%) Jenkins
5 30 (3.92%) JUnit
6 20 (2.61%) JIRA
6 20 (2.61%) JMeter
7 14 (1.83%) Claude Code
7 14 (1.83%) Mockito
8 12 (1.57%) LoadRunner
8 12 (1.57%) Spock
9 11 (1.44%) Gatling
10 8 (1.04%) Maven
11 6 (0.78%) Selenium
12 5 (0.65%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.52%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.52%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.52%) MLflow
14 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 206 (26.89%) Finance
2 180 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 68 (8.88%) Banking
4 53 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (4.70%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.57%) Law
7 31 (4.05%) Retail
8 30 (3.92%) Financial Institution
9 27 (3.52%) Games
10 20 (2.61%) Front Office
11 14 (1.83%) Back Office
12 13 (1.70%) Marketing
13 12 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.31%) Advertising
15 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.78%) Legal
17 5 (0.65%) Electronics
17 5 (0.65%) Polish Language
17 5 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 213 (27.81%) Senior
2 179 (23.37%) Developer
3 148 (19.32%) Software Engineer
4 105 (13.71%) Lead
5 84 (10.97%) Java Engineer
5 84 (10.97%) Principal Engineer
6 61 (7.96%) Architect
7 52 (6.79%) Senior Developer
8 50 (6.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 46 (6.01%) Backend Developer
10 40 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 40 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 39 (5.09%) Python Developer
11 39 (5.09%) Python Engineer
12 32 (4.18%) Senior Java Engineer
13 30 (3.92%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.52%) Principal Java Engineer
15 23 (3.00%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
16 22 (2.87%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (19.71%) Kafka
2 145 (18.93%) Terraform
3 140 (18.28%) .NET
4 136 (17.75%) Spring
5 120 (15.67%) REST
6 113 (14.75%) Spring Boot
7 101 (13.19%) React
8 99 (12.92%) RESTful
9 60 (7.83%) Node.js
10 48 (6.27%) AngularJS
11 44 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (3.26%) OAuth
13 23 (3.00%) LangChain
13 23 (3.00%) Next.js
13 23 (3.00%) OAuth2
14 21 (2.74%) ASP.NET
14 21 (2.74%) FastAPI
14 21 (2.74%) JSON
15 20 (2.61%) .NET Framework
16 19 (2.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 285 (37.21%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.79%) AI Agents
3 49 (6.40%) Public Cloud
4 41 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (5.22%) e-Learning
6 36 (4.70%) Video\Live Streaming
7 32 (4.18%) Algorithms
8 28 (3.66%) Low-Code
9 27 (3.52%) Onboarding
10 25 (3.26%) Data Structures
10 25 (3.26%) Product Ownership
11 22 (2.87%) IoT
12 21 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
13 16 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (2.09%) Private Cloud
14 15 (1.96%) Equities
14 15 (1.96%) Life Science
15 14 (1.83%) Robotics
16 13 (1.70%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 55 (7.18%) Linux
2 13 (1.70%) Unix
3 11 (1.44%) Windows
4 5 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.65%) VMS
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Debian
6 2 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (60.31%) CI/CD
2 389 (50.78%) Software Engineering
3 358 (46.74%) Microservices
4 302 (39.43%) AI
5 259 (33.81%) Observability
6 244 (31.85%) Agile
7 243 (31.72%) Event-Driven
8 240 (31.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 219 (28.59%) DevOps
10 202 (26.37%) Mentoring
11 196 (25.59%) Test Automation
12 170 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 160 (20.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 149 (19.45%) Containerisation
15 139 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
16 128 (16.71%) Full-Stack Development
17 125 (16.32%) Machine Learning
18 111 (14.49%) Technical Leadership
19 96 (12.53%) Roadmaps
20 93 (12.14%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 310 (40.47%) Python
2 266 (34.73%) Java
3 184 (24.02%) SQL
4 127 (16.58%) C#
5 126 (16.45%) TypeScript
6 107 (13.97%) Go
7 104 (13.58%) JavaScript
8 36 (4.70%) C++
9 23 (3.00%) Bash
10 17 (2.22%) Scala
11 12 (1.57%) Rust
12 11 (1.44%) Groovy
13 10 (1.31%) Bicep
13 10 (1.31%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.04%) PHP
15 7 (0.91%) C
16 5 (0.65%) Perl
17 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (9.66%) Security Cleared
2 69 (9.01%) Degree
3 49 (6.40%) AWS Certification
4 48 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 40 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.04%) PhD
9 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.26%) CISSP
10 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CSPO
11 1 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.22%) QA
2 10 (1.31%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.91%) GDPR
5 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.52%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.26%) NIST
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 173 (22.58%) Docker
2 12 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.39%) Firmware
6 2 (0.26%) KVM
6 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 203 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.31%) Grafana
3 27 (3.52%) Ansible
4 21 (2.74%) Kibana
5 19 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.17%) Argo
7 4 (0.52%) Packer
7 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.39%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) Bosun
9 2 (0.26%) 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 92 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.27%) Google
3 30 (3.92%) OpenAI
4 28 (3.66%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.74%) Oracle
5 21 (2.74%) Splunk
6 19 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.44%) IBM
8 9 (1.17%) Typelevel
9 8 (1.04%) Databricks
10 7 (0.91%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.78%) Solace
12 5 (0.65%) Adobe
12 5 (0.65%) VMware
13 4 (0.52%) Facebook
13 4 (0.52%) Instagram
13 4 (0.52%) TikTok
14 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.39%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.26%) Salesforce