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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 353 342
Rank change year-on-year +107 -11 +53
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 745 319 518
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.77% 0.73% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.00% 1.74% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 438 181 309
10th Percentile £54,625 £65,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -4.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £145,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +16.13% -3.13%

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 24,813 18,323 23,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.55% 41.86% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,321 9,367 13,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 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 1 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 +63 440 £95,000 -13.64% 1,057
North of England +25 130 £75,000 -6.25% 119
North West +38 84 £80,000 -8.57% 71
South East -5 82 £65,000 -13.33% 71
South West -46 32 £95,000 -2.56% 86
North East -34 29 £63,750 -44.57% 28
Midlands -36 26 £80,000 +6.67% 35
East of England +3 24 £80,000 -20.00% 42
West Midlands -13 20 £85,000 +13.33% 18
Yorkshire -45 17 £75,000 -2.28% 20
East Midlands -23 6 £76,000 -1.94% 17
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 18 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.21%) Apache
3 6 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.81%) Camunda
3 6 (0.81%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.54%) JBoss
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Solana
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 397 (53.29%) AWS
2 232 (31.14%) Azure
3 140 (18.79%) GCP
4 73 (9.80%) Serverless
5 63 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 46 (6.17%) SaaS
7 41 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (5.50%) GitHub
8 40 (5.37%) Amazon S3
9 38 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.22%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (2.68%) Datadog
16 19 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.28%) Amazon Bedrock
19 16 (2.15%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.38%) Broadband
2 14 (1.88%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.74%) HTTP
4 6 (0.81%) DNS
4 6 (0.81%) Internet
5 4 (0.54%) DHCP
5 4 (0.54%) Firewall
5 4 (0.54%) MQTT
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%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) Network Security
8 1 (0.13%) RTP
8 1 (0.13%) RTSP
8 1 (0.13%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (12.48%) NoSQL
2 88 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (7.92%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.70%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.89%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.36%) MySQL
7 24 (3.22%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (2.82%) Redis
10 20 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.34%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.34%) Metadata
11 10 (1.34%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.21%) Big Data
12 9 (1.21%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.07%) Flink
14 6 (0.81%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.81%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.67%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (10.47%) Git
2 70 (9.40%) GitLab
3 52 (6.98%) Jenkins
4 47 (6.31%) Cucumber
5 28 (3.76%) JUnit
6 17 (2.28%) JIRA
6 17 (2.28%) JMeter
7 12 (1.61%) Mockito
7 12 (1.61%) Spock
8 11 (1.48%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.34%) LoadRunner
10 9 (1.21%) Gatling
11 7 (0.94%) Maven
11 7 (0.94%) Selenium
12 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.54%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.54%) MLflow
14 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 193 (25.91%) Finance
2 168 (22.55%) Social Skills
3 59 (7.92%) Banking
4 53 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (4.83%) Law
7 30 (4.03%) Financial Institution
8 29 (3.89%) Games
9 28 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.49%) Retail
11 20 (2.68%) Front Office
12 16 (2.15%) Back Office
13 13 (1.74%) Marketing
14 10 (1.34%) Advertising
15 8 (1.07%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.94%) Electronics
17 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Legal
17 6 (0.81%) Polish Language
18 4 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 206 (27.65%) Senior
2 167 (22.42%) Developer
3 151 (20.27%) Software Engineer
4 94 (12.62%) Lead
5 80 (10.74%) Principal Engineer
6 79 (10.60%) Java Engineer
7 53 (7.11%) Senior Developer
8 51 (6.85%) Architect
8 51 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 41 (5.50%) Python Engineer
10 40 (5.37%) Python Developer
11 39 (5.23%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 37 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 30 (4.03%) Java Developer
14 29 (3.89%) Senior Java Engineer
15 25 (3.36%) Principal Java Engineer
16 20 (2.68%) Principal Software Engineer
17 19 (2.55%) Lead Software Engineer
17 19 (2.55%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (18.66%) Kafka
2 136 (18.26%) Terraform
3 129 (17.32%) .NET
4 128 (17.18%) Spring
5 107 (14.36%) REST
6 106 (14.23%) Spring Boot
7 100 (13.42%) React
8 92 (12.35%) RESTful
9 58 (7.79%) Node.js
10 45 (6.04%) AngularJS
11 40 (5.37%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.22%) OAuth
13 23 (3.09%) LangChain
14 22 (2.95%) ASP.NET
14 22 (2.95%) JSON
14 22 (2.95%) OAuth2
15 20 (2.68%) FastAPI
15 20 (2.68%) gRPC
15 20 (2.68%) Next.js
16 18 (2.42%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 268 (35.97%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.91%) AI Agents
2 44 (5.91%) Video\Live Streaming
3 43 (5.77%) Public Cloud
4 36 (4.83%) Algorithms
4 36 (4.83%) e-Learning
4 36 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (4.03%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.76%) Low-Code
6 28 (3.76%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.95%) Distributed Architecture
8 21 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.42%) Equities
9 18 (2.42%) Over-the-Top Content
10 16 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 16 (2.15%) IoT
10 16 (2.15%) Life Science
10 16 (2.15%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.86%) Linux
2 13 (1.74%) Windows
3 12 (1.61%) Unix
4 5 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.67%) VMS
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (60.27%) CI/CD
2 382 (51.28%) Software Engineering
3 343 (46.04%) Microservices
4 279 (37.45%) AI
5 246 (33.02%) Observability
6 236 (31.68%) Agile
7 228 (30.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 218 (29.26%) Event-Driven
9 215 (28.86%) DevOps
10 194 (26.04%) Test Automation
11 189 (25.37%) Mentoring
12 173 (23.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 155 (20.81%) Containerisation
14 149 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
15 141 (18.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 130 (17.45%) Machine Learning
17 119 (15.97%) Full-Stack Development
18 100 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
19 98 (13.15%) Clean Code
20 89 (11.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 327 (43.89%) Python
2 255 (34.23%) Java
3 162 (21.74%) SQL
4 118 (15.84%) C#
5 116 (15.57%) TypeScript
6 105 (14.09%) Go
7 101 (13.56%) JavaScript
8 44 (5.91%) C++
9 26 (3.49%) Scala
10 23 (3.09%) Bash
11 21 (2.82%) Rust
12 11 (1.48%) C
12 11 (1.48%) Groovy
12 11 (1.48%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.21%) Bicep
13 9 (1.21%) PHP
13 9 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.67%) Perl
15 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (10.20%) Degree
2 68 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 43 (5.77%) AWS Certification
3 43 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (5.64%) SC Cleared
5 36 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.34%) PhD
7 7 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.13%) CSPO
10 1 (0.13%) HND
10 1 (0.13%) ISEB
10 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.72%) QA
2 9 (1.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.94%) GDPR
3 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.13%) PSD2
6 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 177 (23.76%) Docker
2 12 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.81%) KVM
5 6 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.40%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 191 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.16%) Ansible
3 24 (3.22%) Grafana
4 16 (2.15%) Kibana
5 15 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.94%) Argo
7 4 (0.54%) Packer
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Graylog
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 83 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.44%) Google
3 27 (3.62%) OpenAI
4 26 (3.49%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.82%) Oracle
6 20 (2.68%) Splunk
7 18 (2.42%) Typelevel
8 16 (2.15%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.48%) IBM
10 9 (1.21%) Databricks
10 9 (1.21%) VMware
11 7 (0.94%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.67%) Solace
13 4 (0.54%) Adobe
13 4 (0.54%) Facebook
13 4 (0.54%) Instagram
13 4 (0.54%) TikTok
14 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.27%) Pega
14 2 (0.27%) Salesforce