Distributed Systems Jobs 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 407 363
Rank change year-on-year +60 -44 -136
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 349 484 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.77% 0.58% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 1.65% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 215 326 404
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,250 £56,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £120,938 £110,000
90th Percentile £139,000 £150,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +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 15,957 29,313 41,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.03% 34.88% 44.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,716 20,688 22,030
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £76,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £98,474 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in England.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 21 April 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 21 April 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 +72 243 £93,750 -1.32% 643
North of England +105 70 £77,500 +13.97% 79
South East +53 61 £63,750 -1.92% 77
Yorkshire +99 35 £77,500 +31.36% 18
North West +21 28 £80,000 - 51
South West +116 8 £100,000 +66.67% 23
North East +53 7 £69,384 -7.49% 11
Midlands +28 6 £72,500 +25.43% 29
West Midlands +5 6 £72,500 +32.66% 16
East of England +45 2 - - 31
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (6.88%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.72%) JBoss
3 12 (3.44%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (2.29%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.29%) SAS
5 5 (1.43%) Confluence
6 3 (0.86%) CMS
6 3 (0.86%) nginx
7 2 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.29%) Magnolia
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (6.88%) Ripple
1 24 (6.88%) Ripple XRP
2 3 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 118 (33.81%) AWS
2 76 (21.78%) Azure
3 67 (19.20%) GCP
4 51 (14.61%) Serverless
5 46 (13.18%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (11.75%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (7.74%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.44%) GitHub
8 19 (5.44%) SaaS
9 15 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.58%) Sentry
14 8 (2.29%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.74%) HTTP
2 10 (2.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) Multicast
3 1 (0.29%) NAS
3 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (18.91%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (12.61%) Relational Database
3 29 (8.31%) NoSQL
4 21 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 21 (6.02%) RDBMS
5 18 (5.16%) Big Data
6 15 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.44%) Redis
8 11 (3.15%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.58%) MySQL
10 6 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.15%) Metadata
13 3 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.57%) CouchDB
14 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 66 (18.91%) Jenkins
2 54 (15.47%) Git
3 45 (12.89%) JUnit
4 27 (7.74%) Mockito
5 20 (5.73%) JMeter
6 14 (4.01%) JIRA
7 11 (3.15%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.87%) Gradle
8 10 (2.87%) Maven
8 10 (2.87%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.72%) DbUnit
9 6 (1.72%) GitLab
9 6 (1.72%) jMock
9 6 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.86%) Postman
11 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.57%) Subversion
11 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.57%) XCTest
General
1 134 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 129 (36.96%) Finance
3 51 (14.61%) Banking
3 51 (14.61%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (10.60%) Law
6 29 (8.31%) Advertising
6 29 (8.31%) Games
7 27 (7.74%) Retail
8 26 (7.45%) Financial Institution
9 24 (6.88%) Digital Economy
10 19 (5.44%) Front Office
11 13 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (3.15%) Marketing
13 9 (2.58%) Legal
13 9 (2.58%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
14 7 (2.01%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.15%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 132 (37.82%) Software Engineer
2 95 (27.22%) Senior
3 82 (23.50%) Developer
4 62 (17.77%) Lead
5 58 (16.62%) Java Developer
6 49 (14.04%) Senior Software Engineer
7 47 (13.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 44 (12.61%) Lead Software Engineer
9 42 (12.03%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 41 (11.75%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 33 (9.46%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (6.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 20 (5.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 19 (5.44%) Architect
15 17 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
17 14 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 13 (3.72%) Senior Developer
19 12 (3.44%) C# Developer
19 12 (3.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.48%) Kafka
2 66 (18.91%) REST
3 54 (15.47%) Spring
4 52 (14.90%) Spring Boot
5 45 (12.89%) Web Services
6 44 (12.61%) RESTful
7 32 (9.17%) Apache Camel
8 31 (8.88%) React
9 29 (8.31%) Hibernate
10 27 (7.74%) .NET
10 27 (7.74%) HTML
11 25 (7.16%) ActiveMQ
12 23 (6.59%) jQuery
13 22 (6.30%) AngularJS
14 21 (6.02%) SOAP
15 19 (5.44%) WireMock
16 18 (5.16%) Node.js
17 14 (4.01%) J2EE
18 13 (3.72%) gRPC
19 12 (3.44%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 80 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 50 (14.33%) Algorithms
3 41 (11.75%) Legacy Code
4 40 (11.46%) Public Cloud
5 31 (8.88%) Product Ownership
6 27 (7.74%) Blockchain
7 25 (7.16%) Data Structures
8 17 (4.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (3.72%) Hedge funds
10 12 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.87%) Equities
11 10 (2.87%) Reference Data
11 10 (2.87%) Replication
12 7 (2.01%) Credit Risk
12 7 (2.01%) Fixed Income
12 7 (2.01%) Management Information System
12 7 (2.01%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.43%) Sports Betting
15 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 78 (22.35%) Linux
2 11 (3.15%) Unix
3 4 (1.15%) Windows
4 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (48.42%) Software Engineering
2 152 (43.55%) Agile
2 152 (43.55%) CI/CD
3 136 (38.97%) Microservices
4 85 (24.36%) DevOps
5 80 (22.92%) TDD
6 66 (18.91%) SDLC
7 62 (17.77%) Containerisation
8 56 (16.05%) Computer Science
9 55 (15.76%) Mentoring
10 53 (15.19%) Roadmaps
11 52 (14.90%) BDD
12 49 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (14.04%) Scrum
13 48 (13.75%) Open Source
14 44 (12.61%) Machine Learning
14 44 (12.61%) Observability
15 42 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
16 39 (11.17%) Test Automation
17 36 (10.32%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 128 (36.68%) Python
2 119 (34.10%) Java
3 78 (22.35%) C++
4 67 (19.20%) SQL
5 62 (17.77%) Rust
6 60 (17.19%) Go
7 54 (15.47%) JavaScript
8 50 (14.33%) C#
9 48 (13.75%) C
10 34 (9.74%) Scala
11 23 (6.59%) Shell Script
12 22 (6.30%) TypeScript
13 15 (4.30%) PowerShell
14 9 (2.58%) Clojure
14 9 (2.58%) Elixir
15 7 (2.01%) R
16 6 (1.72%) PL/SQL
17 4 (1.15%) Bash
17 4 (1.15%) Groovy
17 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 62 (17.77%) Degree
2 44 (12.61%) Security Cleared
3 42 (12.03%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.86%) PhD
7 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.02%) GDPR
2 12 (3.44%) HIPAA
2 12 (3.44%) QA
2 12 (3.44%) SLA
2 12 (3.44%) SOC 2
3 11 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.29%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.01%) Basel II
5 7 (2.01%) Basel III
5 7 (2.01%) Dodd-Frank
5 7 (2.01%) IFRS
5 7 (2.01%) IFRS 9
5 7 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.15%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.86%) NIST
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 109 (31.23%) Docker
2 12 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.86%) vSphere
4 2 (0.57%) Postfix
5 1 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 179 (51.29%) Kubernetes
2 60 (17.19%) Terraform
3 19 (5.44%) Kibana
4 18 (5.16%) Ansible
5 9 (2.58%) Grafana
6 8 (2.29%) Argo
6 8 (2.29%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.15%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (13.75%) Google
2 30 (8.60%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.88%) Splunk
4 23 (6.59%) Apple
5 20 (5.73%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.58%) Oracle
7 5 (1.43%) IBM
8 4 (1.15%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.15%) SAP
9 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.86%) NetApp
9 3 (0.86%) Sparx
10 2 (0.57%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.57%) ESRI
10 2 (0.57%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.29%) Databricks
11 1 (0.29%) New Relic
11 1 (0.29%) Reuters