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 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 313 402
Rank change year-on-year +30 +89 -62
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 505 348 467
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.95% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 2.46% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 280 225 326
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £45,625
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,509 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £120,938
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +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 21,956 14,135 28,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.66% 38.68% 35.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,418 8,189 20,566
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £58,099 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.17% +9.09% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +39 320 £100,000 +5.26% 164
North of England -48 91 £75,000 -1.64% 56
South East -26 63 £77,500 +21.57% 49
North West 0 59 £80,000 +4.92% 34
Yorkshire -59 29 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Midlands -41 16 £73,801 +4.09% 7
South West -39 14 £85,000 - 8
East of England -28 13 £82,500 +13.79% 8
East Midlands - 13 £86,000 - 3
West Midlands -20 3 £73,801 +4.09% 4
North East -35 3 £60,000 -13.52% 10
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 19 (3.76%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.97%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.99%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.99%) IIS
5 4 (0.79%) Appian
6 3 (0.59%) Apache
6 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Confluence
7 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.20%) Solana
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 309 (61.19%) AWS
2 170 (33.66%) Azure
3 169 (33.47%) GCP
4 60 (11.88%) Serverless
5 51 (10.10%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (8.51%) SaaS
7 38 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (5.54%) Amazon S3
9 23 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.16%) GitHub
12 17 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (2.97%) Datadog
15 14 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
17 12 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
18 8 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (1.58%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.10%) Broadband
2 17 (3.37%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.38%) HTTP
4 6 (1.19%) BGP
4 6 (1.19%) VLAN
4 6 (1.19%) VPN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) Firewall
6 2 (0.40%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.40%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) RTP
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) SS7
7 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.50%) NoSQL
1 48 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (6.53%) Relational Database
3 30 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (4.95%) Redis
4 25 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 21 (4.16%) DynamoDB
7 20 (3.96%) Hadoop
8 18 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (3.56%) Big Data
9 17 (3.37%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.77%) MySQL
11 13 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.98%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.19%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.19%) Tableau
14 5 (0.99%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.99%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 53 (10.50%) Git
2 51 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.76%) GitLab
4 16 (3.17%) JMeter
5 14 (2.77%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.18%) JIRA
7 10 (1.98%) Gatling
8 9 (1.78%) JUnit
8 9 (1.78%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.99%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.99%) Maven
10 4 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.79%) Mockito
11 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.59%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.40%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.40%) Selenium
12 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 127 (25.15%) Finance
2 98 (19.41%) Social Skills
3 45 (8.91%) Banking
4 39 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (7.52%) Law
6 31 (6.14%) Financial Institution
7 30 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 28 (5.54%) Retail
9 25 (4.95%) Telecoms
10 24 (4.75%) Back Office
11 13 (2.57%) Front Office
12 11 (2.18%) Marketing
12 11 (2.18%) Polish Language
13 10 (1.98%) Games
14 8 (1.58%) Advertising
15 7 (1.39%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.99%) Electronics
17 5 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 134 (26.53%) Senior
2 117 (23.17%) Software Engineer
3 109 (21.58%) Developer
4 55 (10.89%) Lead
5 41 (8.12%) Java Developer
6 37 (7.33%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (6.93%) Architect
8 30 (5.94%) Scala Engineer
9 29 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (5.15%) Java Engineer
10 26 (5.15%) Senior Developer
11 24 (4.75%) Backend Developer
11 24 (4.75%) Data Engineer
12 22 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.17%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (2.97%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.85%) Kafka
1 75 (14.85%) REST
2 62 (12.28%) gRPC
2 62 (12.28%) Spring
3 57 (11.29%) .NET
4 54 (10.69%) Spring Boot
5 53 (10.50%) React
6 41 (8.12%) Node.js
6 41 (8.12%) RESTful
7 33 (6.53%) Django
8 25 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (4.95%) Web Services
9 20 (3.96%) AngularJS
9 20 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (3.37%) JSON
10 17 (3.37%) OAuth
11 14 (2.77%) HTML
11 14 (2.77%) OAuth2
12 13 (2.57%) FastAPI
13 10 (1.98%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 124 (24.55%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.31%) Over-the-Top Content
2 47 (9.31%) Video\Live Streaming
3 46 (9.11%) Algorithms
4 43 (8.51%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.75%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.37%) Equities
7 17 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (3.17%) Client/Server
9 15 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.57%) AI Agents
10 13 (2.57%) Public Cloud
11 11 (2.18%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.18%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.98%) Blog
13 9 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.78%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.48%) Linux
2 9 (1.78%) Android
2 9 (1.78%) Windows
3 7 (1.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (50.10%) CI/CD
2 238 (47.13%) Microservices
3 232 (45.94%) Software Engineering
4 150 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
5 147 (29.11%) Agile
6 144 (28.51%) Containerisation
7 131 (25.94%) DevOps
8 106 (20.99%) Machine Learning
9 102 (20.20%) AI
10 100 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (19.41%) Computer Science
12 91 (18.02%) Observability
13 90 (17.82%) Clean Code
14 85 (16.83%) Event-Driven
15 79 (15.64%) Mentoring
16 77 (15.25%) Roadmaps
17 71 (14.06%) Data Science
18 69 (13.66%) Infrastructure as Code
19 67 (13.27%) Coaching
20 61 (12.08%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 224 (44.36%) Python
2 176 (34.85%) Java
3 117 (23.17%) Go
4 70 (13.86%) C#
5 65 (12.87%) SQL
6 63 (12.48%) Scala
7 59 (11.68%) C++
8 49 (9.70%) JavaScript
9 42 (8.32%) TypeScript
10 41 (8.12%) Rust
11 22 (4.36%) C
12 13 (2.57%) Bash
13 9 (1.78%) Groovy
13 9 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.58%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.99%) R
15 5 (0.99%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.79%) Ruby
17 3 (0.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (17.82%) Degree
2 66 (13.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.75%) Master's Degree
5 23 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.38%) PhD
7 11 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.99%) MBA
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ISEB
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.53%) QA
2 14 (2.77%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.98%) GDPR
5 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 169 (33.47%) Docker
2 14 (2.77%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.57%) KVM
4 10 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.59%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.59%) HDFS
7 2 (0.40%) Ceph
7 2 (0.40%) Lustre
7 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 143 (28.32%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.25%) Terraform
3 39 (7.72%) Ansible
4 14 (2.77%) Grafana
5 13 (2.57%) Kibana
6 9 (1.78%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.79%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (8.91%) Typelevel
2 25 (4.95%) Google
3 17 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.77%) VMware
5 13 (2.57%) AppDynamics
5 13 (2.57%) Dynatrace
5 13 (2.57%) Oracle
6 11 (2.18%) Databricks
7 8 (1.58%) IBM
8 7 (1.39%) Splunk
9 6 (1.19%) Pega
9 6 (1.19%) WSO2
10 5 (0.99%) BT
10 5 (0.99%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.99%) Informatica
10 5 (0.99%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.99%) Nokia
10 5 (0.99%) Talend
11 4 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.79%) Solace