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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 297 331
Rank change year-on-year +1 +34 -36
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 359 484 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.95% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 2.58% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 244 304 278
10th Percentile £63,250 £48,250 £46,630
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £114,688
90th Percentile £152,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £84,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% +5.00% -5.88%

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 18,789 18,791 16,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.29% 37.07% 37.93%
Number of salaries quoted 9,519 9,194 12,329
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +20 243 £112,500 +15.38% 79
North of England -16 69 £75,000 +11.11% 22
North West +33 38 £75,000 +8.21% 14
South East +16 36 £67,500 +12.50% 44
Yorkshire -30 30 £75,000 +33.93% 7
Midlands +19 14 £75,000 +8.21% 5
East of England +22 11 £82,500 +13.79% 15
East Midlands +5 8 £70,000 -
West Midlands +22 6 £75,000 +8.21% 5
South West -4 5 £82,500 -13.16% 6
North East +5 1 £73,801 +6.48% 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 46 (12.81%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.18%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.51%) Apache
5 5 (1.39%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.39%) Confluence
6 4 (1.11%) Appian
6 4 (1.11%) IIS
7 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 211 (58.77%) AWS
2 137 (38.16%) Azure
3 102 (28.41%) GCP
4 60 (16.71%) Serverless
5 47 (13.09%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (11.98%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (10.03%) SaaS
8 23 (6.41%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.13%) GitHub
10 20 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.01%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (4.74%) Amazon Kinesis
12 17 (4.74%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (3.06%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.11%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.84%) BGP
3 3 (0.84%) HTTP
3 3 (0.84%) VLAN
3 3 (0.84%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) AMQP
4 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.56%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (18.38%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (16.99%) NoSQL
3 45 (12.53%) Relational Database
4 37 (10.31%) Big Data
4 37 (10.31%) Hadoop
5 30 (8.36%) MongoDB
6 27 (7.52%) DynamoDB
7 26 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (7.24%) RDBMS
7 26 (7.24%) SQL Server
8 21 (5.85%) Redis
9 18 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (4.18%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (4.18%) MySQL
11 14 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (3.62%) Apache Hive
13 12 (3.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (3.06%) DataStage
14 11 (3.06%) Neo4j
14 11 (3.06%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 45 (12.53%) Jenkins
2 40 (11.14%) Git
3 20 (5.57%) JMeter
4 19 (5.29%) JUnit
5 15 (4.18%) GitLab
5 15 (4.18%) Mockito
6 8 (2.23%) JIRA
7 4 (1.11%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.11%) Maven
7 4 (1.11%) MLflow
7 4 (1.11%) Postman
7 4 (1.11%) Selenium
7 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.56%) JConsole
9 2 (0.56%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 99 (27.58%) Finance
2 84 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.75%) Banking
4 35 (9.75%) Financial Institution
5 31 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.69%) Law
7 22 (6.13%) Telecoms
8 18 (5.01%) Front Office
8 18 (5.01%) Retail
9 12 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.34%) Marketing
10 10 (2.79%) Back Office
11 9 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.67%) Games
12 6 (1.67%) Legal
13 5 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.11%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 109 (30.36%) Developer
2 99 (27.58%) Senior
3 80 (22.28%) Software Engineer
4 71 (19.78%) Lead
5 55 (15.32%) Java Developer
6 31 (8.64%) Principal Engineer
7 28 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (7.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (6.69%) Data Engineer
10 23 (6.41%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 23 (6.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 22 (6.13%) Lead Software Engineer
11 22 (6.13%) Senior Developer
12 21 (5.85%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 19 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (5.01%) Lead Developer
15 17 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (4.74%) C# Developer
16 14 (3.90%) Mid-Level Java Developer
17 13 (3.62%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (26.18%) Kafka
2 64 (17.83%) REST
3 63 (17.55%) Spring
4 58 (16.16%) Spring Boot
5 55 (15.32%) .NET
5 55 (15.32%) React
6 37 (10.31%) Node.js
7 34 (9.47%) RESTful
8 30 (8.36%) Web Services
9 26 (7.24%) Django
10 25 (6.96%) HTML
11 22 (6.13%) Hibernate
11 22 (6.13%) JSON
12 20 (5.57%) gRPC
13 19 (5.29%) Apache Camel
13 19 (5.29%) XML
14 18 (5.01%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (5.01%) FastAPI
15 17 (4.74%) AngularJS
16 16 (4.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (33.15%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.98%) Algorithms
3 39 (10.86%) Product Ownership
4 29 (8.08%) Data Structures
5 20 (5.57%) Legacy Code
6 17 (4.74%) Equities
6 17 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.74%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (4.18%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.62%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (3.62%) e-Learning
10 10 (2.79%) AI Agents
11 9 (2.51%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.95%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.11%) Hackathon
13 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.93%) Linux
2 12 (3.34%) Unix
3 9 (2.51%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (47.63%) CI/CD
1 171 (47.63%) Microservices
2 143 (39.83%) Software Engineering
3 134 (37.33%) Agile
4 109 (30.36%) DevOps
5 92 (25.63%) Containerisation
6 84 (23.40%) AI
7 82 (22.84%) Mentoring
8 79 (22.01%) Computer Science
8 79 (22.01%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (20.06%) Roadmaps
11 66 (18.38%) Machine Learning
11 66 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (16.99%) Event-Driven
13 59 (16.43%) Low Latency
14 58 (16.16%) TDD
15 52 (14.48%) Analytics
15 52 (14.48%) Data Pipeline
15 52 (14.48%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 173 (48.19%) Java
2 159 (44.29%) Python
3 78 (21.73%) SQL
4 71 (19.78%) Go
5 66 (18.38%) C#
6 54 (15.04%) JavaScript
7 42 (11.70%) TypeScript
8 36 (10.03%) C++
9 28 (7.80%) Scala
10 24 (6.69%) Rust
11 22 (6.13%) C
12 16 (4.46%) Shell Script
13 15 (4.18%) Bash
14 10 (2.79%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.23%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.11%) Groovy
16 4 (1.11%) R
17 2 (0.56%) COBOL
18 1 (0.28%) PHP
18 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (20.33%) Degree
2 43 (11.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (7.80%) Master's Degree
4 26 (7.24%) Security Cleared
5 22 (6.13%) PhD
6 10 (2.79%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.11%) MBA
10 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.46%) QA
2 14 (3.90%) GDPR
3 9 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.95%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.95%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.11%) SLA
7 3 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.84%) WCAG
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 116 (32.31%) Docker
2 14 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.90%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.51%) HDFS
4 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.56%) Ceph
6 2 (0.56%) Lustre
6 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 152 (42.34%) Kubernetes
2 42 (11.70%) Terraform
3 31 (8.64%) Ansible
4 19 (5.29%) Kibana
5 12 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.06%) Grafana
7 5 (1.39%) logstash
8 4 (1.11%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.11%) Kubeflow
8 4 (1.11%) Rancher
8 4 (1.11%) vRealize
9 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (5.29%) Dynatrace
2 17 (4.74%) Google
3 16 (4.46%) Databricks
3 16 (4.46%) Splunk
4 14 (3.90%) Microsoft
5 13 (3.62%) Oracle
6 11 (3.06%) Informatica
6 11 (3.06%) Talend
7 6 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.39%) Dell
8 5 (1.39%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.39%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.39%) Nokia
8 5 (1.39%) SAP
9 4 (1.11%) BT
9 4 (1.11%) Pega
9 4 (1.11%) VMware
9 4 (1.11%) WSO2
10 3 (0.84%) Solace
11 2 (0.56%) Confluent