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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 342 431
Rank change year-on-year +77 +89 -39
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 592 331 480
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.84% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.88% 1.95% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 342 186 311
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,875 £48,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £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 £105,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £140,677 £147,500
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 20,552 17,009 30,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.10% 43.27% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,375 8,102 21,081
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +4.85% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 9 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 9 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 +51 359 £97,500 -7.14% 186
North of England 0 103 £80,000 +1.91% 58
South East +10 79 £67,500 -10.00% 54
North West +50 74 £95,000 +21.02% 36
Midlands -15 20 £87,500 +16.67% 7
South West -30 18 £85,000 -12.82% 27
Yorkshire -51 18 £75,000 -3.85% 10
West Midlands -18 11 £87,500 +20.69% 5
North East -38 11 £60,000 -34.92% 12
East of England +1 9 £72,500 - 9
East Midlands -20 9 £72,000 -8.28% 2
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 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.69%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.35%) IIS
4 6 (1.01%) Apache
5 4 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.68%) Confluence
5 4 (0.68%) JBoss
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
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
1 346 (58.45%) AWS
2 180 (30.41%) Azure
3 152 (25.68%) GCP
4 66 (11.15%) Serverless
5 46 (7.77%) SaaS
6 43 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (5.07%) Amazon S3
10 27 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (4.22%) GitHub
12 20 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (2.70%) Datadog
15 15 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
17 12 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 79 (13.34%) Broadband
2 13 (2.20%) HTTP
3 10 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.84%) DNS
4 5 (0.84%) Firewall
5 3 (0.51%) BGP
5 3 (0.51%) DHCP
5 3 (0.51%) VLAN
5 3 (0.51%) VoIP
5 3 (0.51%) 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%) MQTT
7 1 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-485
7 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (8.45%) NoSQL
3 47 (7.94%) MongoDB
4 28 (4.73%) Relational Database
5 25 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (3.21%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.70%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.70%) MySQL
8 15 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (2.53%) BigQuery
9 13 (2.20%) Big Data
9 13 (2.20%) Redis
10 9 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.52%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.01%) Tableau
12 5 (0.84%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.84%) Metadata
13 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.68%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 59 (9.97%) Git
2 48 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 40 (6.76%) GitLab
4 29 (4.90%) Cucumber
5 18 (3.04%) JMeter
6 15 (2.53%) JIRA
7 13 (2.20%) JUnit
8 11 (1.86%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.69%) Gatling
9 10 (1.69%) LoadRunner
10 6 (1.01%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.84%) Mockito
12 4 (0.68%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.51%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.34%) Maven
14 2 (0.34%) Selenium
14 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 144 (24.32%) Finance
2 100 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 46 (7.77%) Banking
4 39 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.41%) Law
7 29 (4.90%) Financial Institution
7 29 (4.90%) Games
8 26 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 26 (4.39%) Retail
9 21 (3.55%) Back Office
10 12 (2.03%) Front Office
11 11 (1.86%) Polish Language
12 9 (1.52%) Advertising
12 9 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.18%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.84%) Marketing
15 5 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (24.16%) Senior
2 139 (23.48%) Developer
3 116 (19.59%) Software Engineer
4 59 (9.97%) Lead
5 58 (9.80%) Principal Engineer
6 54 (9.12%) Architect
7 50 (8.45%) Java Engineer
8 46 (7.77%) Senior Developer
9 34 (5.74%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.07%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (4.90%) Java Developer
12 28 (4.73%) Python Engineer
13 25 (4.22%) Python Developer
13 25 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 18 (3.04%) Data Engineer
15 18 (3.04%) Lead Developer
15 18 (3.04%) Principal Java Engineer
16 17 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 17 (2.87%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (14.86%) Kafka
2 82 (13.85%) .NET
3 74 (12.50%) Spring
4 73 (12.33%) REST
5 66 (11.15%) Spring Boot
6 59 (9.97%) React
7 56 (9.46%) RESTful
8 50 (8.45%) gRPC
9 40 (6.76%) Node.js
10 26 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (3.89%) Web Services
12 22 (3.72%) JSON
13 20 (3.38%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (3.04%) Django
15 16 (2.70%) ASP.NET
15 16 (2.70%) OAuth
16 15 (2.53%) OAuth2
17 14 (2.36%) LangChain
18 13 (2.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 70 (11.82%) Video\Live Streaming
3 50 (8.45%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.94%) Over-the-Top Content
5 44 (7.43%) Data Structures
6 27 (4.56%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.89%) Low-Code
8 22 (3.72%) AI Agents
9 20 (3.38%) e-Learning
10 19 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (3.21%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.87%) Client/Server
11 17 (2.87%) Equities
12 15 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (2.03%) Life Science
16 11 (1.86%) Blog
16 11 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
17 8 (1.35%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.63%) Linux
2 16 (2.70%) Windows
3 3 (0.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Debian
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (54.56%) CI/CD
2 278 (46.96%) Software Engineering
3 263 (44.43%) Microservices
4 172 (29.05%) Agile
5 168 (28.38%) AI
6 156 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
7 148 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 146 (24.66%) DevOps
8 146 (24.66%) Observability
9 144 (24.32%) Containerisation
10 142 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (21.45%) Event-Driven
12 126 (21.28%) Machine Learning
13 122 (20.61%) Test Automation
14 105 (17.74%) Mentoring
15 96 (16.22%) Clean Code
16 92 (15.54%) Computer Science
17 79 (13.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 79 (13.34%) Full-Stack Development
18 76 (12.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 287 (48.48%) Python
2 177 (29.90%) Java
3 115 (19.43%) Go
4 98 (16.55%) SQL
5 91 (15.37%) C#
6 70 (11.82%) JavaScript
7 62 (10.47%) TypeScript
8 57 (9.63%) Scala
9 56 (9.46%) C++
10 37 (6.25%) Rust
11 16 (2.70%) Bash
11 16 (2.70%) C
12 9 (1.52%) PHP
12 9 (1.52%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.35%) Bicep
13 8 (1.35%) Groovy
14 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.84%) Perl
15 5 (0.84%) R
16 4 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (14.02%) Degree
2 54 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.91%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.56%) SC Cleared
5 23 (3.89%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.72%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.69%) PhD
8 5 (0.84%) MBA
9 3 (0.51%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) HND
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.78%) QA
2 13 (2.20%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.01%) GDPR
5 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.51%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 162 (27.36%) Docker
2 17 (2.87%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.36%) KVM
4 10 (1.69%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 149 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 95 (16.05%) Terraform
3 27 (4.56%) Ansible
4 18 (3.04%) Grafana
5 15 (2.53%) Kibana
6 12 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.68%) Argo
7 4 (0.68%) Packer
8 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.51%) SCCM
9 1 (0.17%) Graylog
9 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 47 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.60%) Typelevel
3 20 (3.38%) Google
4 17 (2.87%) Oracle
4 17 (2.87%) VMware
5 15 (2.53%) AppDynamics
6 14 (2.36%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.86%) Splunk
8 10 (1.69%) Databricks
9 8 (1.35%) IBM
10 7 (1.18%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.18%) Solace
11 5 (0.84%) BT
11 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.51%) Adobe
13 2 (0.34%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.34%) Pega
13 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.34%) WSO2