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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 407 385
Rank change year-on-year +54 -22 -159
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 337 487 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.57% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 1.64% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 206 326 402
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,250 £56,375
25th Percentile £65,313 £63,750 £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 £140,338 £148,750 £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 16,037 29,755 40,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.82% 34.92% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,791 20,890 21,646
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £98,750 £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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +75 231 £93,750 -1.32% 411
North of England +100 70 £77,500 +13.97% 67
South East +47 57 £63,750 -1.92% 93
Yorkshire +86 34 £77,500 +13.97% 16
North West +32 29 £80,000 - 45
South West +103 8 £100,000 +60.00% 14
Midlands +44 8 £73,750 +25.96% 19
North East +55 7 £69,384 -7.49% 7
West Midlands +18 6 £72,500 +32.66% 10
East Midlands +44 2 £76,250 -12.86% 5
East of England +41 2 - - 17
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 22 (6.53%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.86%) JBoss
3 12 (3.56%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (2.37%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.37%) SAS
5 4 (1.19%) Confluence
6 2 (0.59%) CMS
6 2 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (7.12%) Ripple
1 24 (7.12%) Ripple XRP
2 3 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 116 (34.42%) AWS
2 74 (21.96%) Azure
3 65 (19.29%) GCP
4 48 (14.24%) Serverless
5 45 (13.35%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (11.87%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (7.42%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (7.12%) SaaS
9 18 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.75%) GitHub
11 12 (3.56%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.67%) Sentry
14 8 (2.37%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.37%) AWS CodeBuild
14 8 (2.37%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.42%) HTTP
2 9 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.30%) DNS
3 1 (0.30%) Multicast
3 1 (0.30%) NAS
3 1 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (18.69%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (12.46%) Relational Database
3 27 (8.01%) NoSQL
4 20 (5.93%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.93%) RDBMS
5 14 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.15%) Big Data
6 12 (3.56%) Redis
7 11 (3.26%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.67%) MySQL
9 5 (1.48%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.19%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.19%) Metadata
11 3 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.59%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.59%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.30%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 63 (18.69%) Jenkins
2 52 (15.43%) Git
3 43 (12.76%) JUnit
4 25 (7.42%) Mockito
5 19 (5.64%) JMeter
6 13 (3.86%) JIRA
7 10 (2.97%) Gradle
8 9 (2.67%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.67%) Maven
8 9 (2.67%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.78%) GitLab
9 6 (1.78%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.48%) DbUnit
10 5 (1.48%) jMock
11 3 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.89%) Postman
12 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.59%) PHPUnit
12 2 (0.59%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.59%) XCTest
General
1 130 (38.58%) Social Skills
2 122 (36.20%) Finance
3 51 (15.13%) Banking
4 48 (14.24%) Public Sector
5 42 (12.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (10.09%) Law
7 27 (8.01%) Advertising
7 27 (8.01%) Games
8 26 (7.72%) Financial Institution
9 25 (7.42%) Retail
10 24 (7.12%) Digital Economy
11 16 (4.75%) Front Office
12 11 (3.26%) Marketing
12 11 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.67%) Telecoms
14 8 (2.37%) Legal
15 7 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
15 7 (2.08%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (1.19%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 123 (36.50%) Software Engineer
2 85 (25.22%) Senior
3 78 (23.15%) Developer
4 62 (18.40%) Lead
5 56 (16.62%) Java Developer
6 45 (13.35%) Lead Software Engineer
7 44 (13.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 42 (12.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 39 (11.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 38 (11.28%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 33 (9.79%) Principal Engineer
12 23 (6.82%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 19 (5.64%) Architect
14 18 (5.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 16 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
16 14 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
17 12 (3.56%) Senior Developer
18 11 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 10 (2.97%) C# Developer
19 10 (2.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.58%) Kafka
2 63 (18.69%) REST
3 53 (15.73%) Spring
4 52 (15.43%) Spring Boot
5 43 (12.76%) Web Services
6 42 (12.46%) RESTful
7 31 (9.20%) Apache Camel
7 31 (9.20%) React
8 27 (8.01%) Hibernate
8 27 (8.01%) HTML
9 24 (7.12%) .NET
10 23 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
11 22 (6.53%) jQuery
12 20 (5.93%) AngularJS
12 20 (5.93%) SOAP
13 18 (5.34%) Node.js
13 18 (5.34%) WireMock
14 14 (4.15%) J2EE
15 13 (3.86%) gRPC
16 12 (3.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 74 (21.96%) Cloud Native
2 52 (15.43%) Algorithms
3 38 (11.28%) Legacy Code
4 35 (10.39%) Public Cloud
5 32 (9.50%) Product Ownership
6 27 (8.01%) Blockchain
6 27 (8.01%) Data Structures
7 18 (5.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (3.86%) Hedge funds
9 10 (2.97%) Reference Data
9 10 (2.97%) Replication
10 9 (2.67%) Equities
10 9 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.08%) Credit Risk
11 7 (2.08%) Fixed Income
11 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.08%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.48%) Sports Betting
14 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.66%) Linux
2 11 (3.26%) Unix
3 4 (1.19%) Windows
4 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (47.18%) Software Engineering
2 147 (43.62%) Agile
3 145 (43.03%) CI/CD
4 129 (38.28%) Microservices
5 84 (24.93%) DevOps
6 80 (23.74%) TDD
7 59 (17.51%) Containerisation
8 58 (17.21%) Roadmaps
9 57 (16.91%) SDLC
10 54 (16.02%) Mentoring
11 50 (14.84%) Computer Science
12 49 (14.54%) BDD
12 49 (14.54%) Scrum
13 47 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (13.65%) Open Source
15 45 (13.35%) Observability
16 40 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
17 39 (11.57%) Machine Learning
18 38 (11.28%) Test Automation
19 36 (10.68%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 117 (34.72%) Python
2 113 (33.53%) Java
3 75 (22.26%) C++
4 65 (19.29%) SQL
5 57 (16.91%) Go
6 56 (16.62%) JavaScript
7 55 (16.32%) Rust
8 49 (14.54%) C#
9 45 (13.35%) C
10 29 (8.61%) Scala
11 22 (6.53%) Shell Script
12 21 (6.23%) TypeScript
13 15 (4.45%) PowerShell
14 7 (2.08%) R
15 6 (1.78%) Clojure
15 6 (1.78%) Elixir
15 6 (1.78%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.19%) Bash
16 4 (1.19%) Bicep
16 4 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 56 (16.62%) Degree
2 44 (13.06%) Security Cleared
3 42 (12.46%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.86%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.19%) PhD
7 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.23%) GDPR
2 13 (3.86%) QA
3 12 (3.56%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.56%) SLA
3 12 (3.56%) SOC 2
4 8 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.08%) Basel II
5 7 (2.08%) Basel III
5 7 (2.08%) Dodd-Frank
5 7 (2.08%) IFRS
5 7 (2.08%) IFRS 9
5 7 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.89%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 104 (30.86%) Docker
2 12 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.89%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) Postfix
5 1 (0.30%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 168 (49.85%) Kubernetes
2 58 (17.21%) Terraform
3 18 (5.34%) Ansible
3 18 (5.34%) Kibana
4 9 (2.67%) Grafana
5 8 (2.37%) Argo
5 8 (2.37%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (1.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.19%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (13.35%) Google
2 28 (8.31%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.82%) Splunk
4 21 (6.23%) Apple
5 20 (5.93%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.67%) Oracle
7 5 (1.48%) IBM
8 4 (1.19%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.19%) SAP
9 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.89%) NetApp
9 3 (0.89%) Sparx
10 2 (0.59%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.59%) ESRI
11 1 (0.30%) New Relic
11 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.30%) Reuters
11 1 (0.30%) Syncsort