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 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 349 376
Rank change year-on-year +103 +27 +20
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 715 338 495
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.79% 0.78% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 1.86% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 440 194 291
10th Percentile £54,875 £62,839 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £122,750 £136,750 £145,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -8.57%

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 23,114 18,218 25,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.62% 41.95% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,219 9,203 15,901
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,250 £79,880 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £58,497 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% +3.64% -13.39%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +68 426 £95,000 -13.64% 426
North of England +22 123 £75,000 -3.85% 60
North West +36 83 £82,500 -2.94% 37
South East -2 82 £63,500 -15.33% 66
South West -33 31 £90,000 -7.69% 20
Midlands -27 29 £80,000 +6.67% 18
North East -36 21 £60,000 -34.92% 16
West Midlands -20 20 £85,000 +17.24% 15
Yorkshire -33 19 £75,000 -3.23% 7
East of England -7 18 £80,000 - 12
East Midlands -27 9 £76,000 -1.94% 3
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 16 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.98%) Apache
3 5 (0.70%) Apache Pig
3 5 (0.70%) Camunda
3 5 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.56%) Confluence
4 4 (0.56%) JBoss
5 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.42%) IIS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) Solana
7 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 391 (54.69%) AWS
2 227 (31.75%) Azure
3 152 (21.26%) GCP
4 75 (10.49%) Serverless
5 53 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (6.29%) SaaS
7 42 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (5.31%) GitHub
9 37 (5.17%) Amazon S3
10 36 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (2.80%) Datadog
15 19 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (2.24%) Amazon Bedrock
17 16 (2.24%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 72 (10.07%) Broadband
2 15 (2.10%) HTTP
3 10 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.84%) Internet
5 5 (0.70%) DNS
5 5 (0.70%) Firewall
6 4 (0.56%) MQTT
7 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 2 (0.28%) AMQP
8 2 (0.28%) VoIP
9 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.14%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.14%) DMARC
9 1 (0.14%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
9 1 (0.14%) RS-232
9 1 (0.14%) RS-485
9 1 (0.14%) SCTP
9 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.14%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.33%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (10.91%) NoSQL
3 57 (7.97%) MongoDB
4 32 (4.48%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (3.50%) MySQL
6 25 (3.50%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.22%) DynamoDB
8 22 (3.08%) Redis
9 19 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.68%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.54%) Hadoop
12 10 (1.40%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.26%) Big Data
13 9 (1.26%) Metadata
14 6 (0.84%) Apache Hive
15 5 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.70%) Flink
16 4 (0.56%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 69 (9.65%) Git
2 58 (8.11%) GitLab
3 47 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 39 (5.45%) Cucumber
5 23 (3.22%) JUnit
6 19 (2.66%) JMeter
7 16 (2.24%) JIRA
8 12 (1.68%) LoadRunner
9 11 (1.54%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.54%) Gatling
10 10 (1.40%) Mockito
11 8 (1.12%) Spock
12 6 (0.84%) Selenium
13 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.56%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.42%) MLflow
15 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
15 3 (0.42%) WinDbg
16 2 (0.28%) Jaeger
General
1 164 (22.94%) Finance
2 139 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 46 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (6.01%) Banking
4 43 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (4.06%) Games
6 27 (3.78%) Public Sector
7 26 (3.64%) Law
8 25 (3.50%) Financial Institution
8 25 (3.50%) Retail
9 18 (2.52%) Front Office
10 14 (1.96%) Back Office
11 12 (1.68%) Advertising
12 9 (1.26%) Marketing
13 8 (1.12%) Polish Language
14 7 (0.98%) Electronics
14 7 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 184 (25.73%) Senior
2 161 (22.52%) Developer
3 140 (19.58%) Software Engineer
4 88 (12.31%) Lead
5 79 (11.05%) Principal Engineer
6 70 (9.79%) Java Engineer
7 56 (7.83%) Architect
8 54 (7.55%) Senior Developer
9 42 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 41 (5.73%) Python Developer
11 40 (5.59%) Backend Developer
11 40 (5.59%) Python Engineer
12 31 (4.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 29 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.64%) Java Developer
15 25 (3.50%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (3.36%) Scala Engineer
17 20 (2.80%) Senior Backend Developer
17 20 (2.80%) Senior Java Engineer
18 19 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (16.22%) .NET
2 113 (15.80%) Kafka
3 106 (14.83%) Spring
4 92 (12.87%) React
5 90 (12.59%) Spring Boot
6 89 (12.45%) REST
7 72 (10.07%) RESTful
8 53 (7.41%) Node.js
9 38 (5.31%) gRPC
10 36 (5.03%) AngularJS
10 36 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (3.22%) OAuth
12 22 (3.08%) OAuth2
13 21 (2.94%) ASP.NET
13 21 (2.94%) JSON
13 21 (2.94%) LangChain
14 20 (2.80%) Django
14 20 (2.80%) FastAPI
15 17 (2.38%) Web Services
16 16 (2.24%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 235 (32.87%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 48 (6.71%) Algorithms
4 43 (6.01%) Data Structures
5 36 (5.03%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (5.03%) Public Cloud
6 35 (4.90%) AI Agents
7 29 (4.06%) e-Learning
7 29 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (3.92%) Low-Code
9 23 (3.22%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (2.24%) Product Ownership
12 15 (2.10%) Equities
12 15 (2.10%) Life Science
13 14 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (1.82%) Client/Server
14 13 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (9.65%) Linux
2 14 (1.96%) Windows
3 9 (1.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Debian
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (59.44%) CI/CD
2 362 (50.63%) Software Engineering
3 321 (44.90%) Microservices
4 252 (35.24%) AI
5 213 (29.79%) Observability
6 211 (29.51%) Agile
7 206 (28.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 204 (28.53%) DevOps
9 178 (24.90%) Event-Driven
10 169 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
11 168 (23.50%) Mentoring
12 165 (23.08%) Test Automation
13 163 (22.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 161 (22.52%) Containerisation
15 141 (19.72%) Machine Learning
16 118 (16.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 110 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
18 109 (15.24%) Clean Code
19 92 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
20 83 (11.61%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 337 (47.13%) Python
2 214 (29.93%) Java
3 145 (20.28%) SQL
4 112 (15.66%) C#
5 108 (15.10%) Go
6 97 (13.57%) TypeScript
7 93 (13.01%) JavaScript
8 55 (7.69%) C++
9 42 (5.87%) Scala
10 30 (4.20%) Rust
11 20 (2.80%) Bash
12 14 (1.96%) C
13 10 (1.40%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.26%) PHP
15 8 (1.12%) Bicep
15 8 (1.12%) Groovy
16 7 (0.98%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.70%) Perl
18 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (11.19%) Degree
2 51 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 46 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (5.03%) AWS Certification
5 33 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 29 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.68%) PhD
8 11 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) HND
11 1 (0.14%) ISEB
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.11%) QA
2 8 (1.12%) GDPR
3 7 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.70%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 183 (25.59%) Docker
2 14 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.54%) KVM
5 6 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 176 (24.62%) Kubernetes
2 121 (16.92%) Terraform
3 31 (4.34%) Ansible
4 23 (3.22%) Grafana
5 17 (2.38%) Kibana
6 15 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.84%) Argo
8 4 (0.56%) Packer
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.42%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) Graylog
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.14%) Podman
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (10.35%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.17%) Google
3 36 (5.03%) Typelevel
4 24 (3.36%) OpenAI
5 23 (3.22%) AppDynamics
6 18 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.52%) Oracle
7 17 (2.38%) Splunk
8 14 (1.96%) VMware
9 11 (1.54%) IBM
10 8 (1.12%) Solace
11 7 (0.98%) Databricks
11 7 (0.98%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.56%) Facebook
12 4 (0.56%) Instagram
12 4 (0.56%) TikTok
13 3 (0.42%) Adobe
14 2 (0.28%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.28%) Pega
14 2 (0.28%) WSO2