Distributed Systems Jobs 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 422 390
Rank change year-on-year +15 -32 -166
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 298 482 724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.55% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 1.60% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 188 322 376
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £147,250 £125,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

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 18,271 30,096 38,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.77% 34.04% 43.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,369 20,900 20,691
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in England.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 +78 192 £105,000 +10.53% 466
North of England +30 66 £78,500 +15.44% 102
South East +24 50 £65,000 - 125
North West -7 32 £79,250 -0.94% 66
Yorkshire +55 28 £77,500 +13.97% 21
Midlands +30 13 £75,000 +25.73% 22
West Midlands +38 9 £72,500 +32.66% 17
South West +113 6 £97,500 +56.00% 13
North East +52 6 £92,192 +22.92% 15
East Midlands +35 4 £78,000 -10.86% 5
East of England +29 2 - - 12
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (6.71%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.70%) JBoss
3 13 (4.36%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (2.68%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.68%) SAS
6 3 (1.01%) Confluence
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 118 (39.60%) AWS
2 76 (25.50%) Azure
3 60 (20.13%) GCP
4 42 (14.09%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (12.75%) Serverless
6 36 (12.08%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (9.06%) SaaS
8 20 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.36%) GitHub
11 12 (4.03%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (2.68%) AWS CodeBuild
14 8 (2.68%) dbt
14 8 (2.68%) Pulumi
14 8 (2.68%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.05%) HTTP
2 9 (3.02%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) DNS
3 1 (0.34%) Multicast
3 1 (0.34%) NAS
3 1 (0.34%) SAN
3 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (12.08%) Relational Database
3 24 (8.05%) NoSQL
4 20 (6.71%) MongoDB
5 15 (5.03%) Big Data
6 14 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (4.36%) RDBMS
8 11 (3.69%) Redis
9 9 (3.02%) MySQL
9 9 (3.02%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.68%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.34%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.01%) Metadata
14 2 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.67%) Flink
14 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 59 (19.80%) Jenkins
2 53 (17.79%) Git
3 40 (13.42%) JUnit
4 20 (6.71%) Mockito
5 14 (4.70%) JMeter
6 13 (4.36%) JIRA
7 10 (3.36%) Gradle
7 10 (3.36%) Maven
8 8 (2.68%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.35%) CircleCI
10 6 (2.01%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.68%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.68%) GitLab
11 5 (1.68%) jMock
12 4 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.34%) PHPUnit
13 3 (1.01%) Postman
14 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.67%) SoapUI
14 2 (0.67%) XCTest
General
1 100 (33.56%) Finance
2 91 (30.54%) Social Skills
3 57 (19.13%) Banking
4 46 (15.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (14.43%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.38%) Law
7 20 (6.71%) Advertising
7 20 (6.71%) Games
7 20 (6.71%) Retail
8 13 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (4.03%) Front Office
10 9 (3.02%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.02%) Marketing
10 9 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.68%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.01%) Legal
13 5 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (41.61%) Software Engineer
2 85 (28.52%) Senior
3 70 (23.49%) Developer
3 70 (23.49%) Lead
4 54 (18.12%) Lead Software Engineer
5 52 (17.45%) Java Developer
6 43 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 43 (14.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 36 (12.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 35 (11.74%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 21 (7.05%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 18 (6.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 14 (4.70%) C# Software Engineer
11 14 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.36%) Architect
13 11 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.69%) Senior Developer
14 10 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.02%) Site Engineer
15 9 (3.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.48%) Kafka
2 58 (19.46%) REST
3 56 (18.79%) Spring
3 56 (18.79%) Spring Boot
4 46 (15.44%) RESTful
5 42 (14.09%) Web Services
6 33 (11.07%) React
7 26 (8.72%) .NET
7 26 (8.72%) Apache Camel
8 24 (8.05%) Hibernate
8 24 (8.05%) HTML
9 22 (7.38%) AngularJS
10 21 (7.05%) SOAP
11 19 (6.38%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (6.04%) jQuery
13 16 (5.37%) Node.js
14 15 (5.03%) J2EE
15 14 (4.70%) gRPC
16 13 (4.36%) WireMock
17 12 (4.03%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 75 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.74%) Legacy Code
3 34 (11.41%) Product Ownership
4 29 (9.73%) Algorithms
5 28 (9.40%) Data Structures
5 28 (9.40%) Public Cloud
6 20 (6.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (3.69%) Hedge funds
8 10 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (3.36%) Reference Data
8 10 (3.36%) Replication
9 9 (3.02%) Equities
9 9 (3.02%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.35%) Management Information System
11 6 (2.01%) Derivative
12 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.34%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 71 (23.83%) Linux
2 11 (3.69%) Unix
3 4 (1.34%) Windows
4 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (53.36%) Software Engineering
2 131 (43.96%) Agile
2 131 (43.96%) CI/CD
3 121 (40.60%) Microservices
4 84 (28.19%) DevOps
5 77 (25.84%) TDD
6 60 (20.13%) Containerisation
7 50 (16.78%) SDLC
8 45 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (14.77%) BDD
10 42 (14.09%) Scrum
11 39 (13.09%) Roadmaps
12 38 (12.75%) Computer Science
13 35 (11.74%) Test Automation
14 34 (11.41%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (11.41%) Machine Learning
14 34 (11.41%) Mentoring
15 31 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (9.73%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 112 (37.58%) Java
2 94 (31.54%) Python
3 67 (22.48%) SQL
4 52 (17.45%) Go
4 52 (17.45%) JavaScript
5 48 (16.11%) C#
6 47 (15.77%) C++
7 46 (15.44%) Rust
8 38 (12.75%) C
9 24 (8.05%) Scala
10 20 (6.71%) TypeScript
11 16 (5.37%) Shell Script
12 14 (4.70%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.35%) Kotlin
14 6 (2.01%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.68%) PHP
16 4 (1.34%) Bicep
16 4 (1.34%) Clojure
16 4 (1.34%) Elixir
16 4 (1.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 43 (14.43%) Degree
2 40 (13.42%) Security Cleared
3 37 (12.42%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.36%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.01%) PhD
7 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.71%) GDPR
2 14 (4.70%) HIPAA
3 13 (4.36%) SLA
3 13 (4.36%) SOC 2
4 12 (4.03%) QA
5 5 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.34%) Basel II
6 4 (1.34%) Basel III
6 4 (1.34%) Dodd-Frank
6 4 (1.34%) IFRS
6 4 (1.34%) IFRS 9
6 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 108 (36.24%) Docker
2 12 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.34%) Postfix
4 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.01%) vSphere
5 1 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 157 (52.68%) Kubernetes
2 54 (18.12%) Terraform
3 18 (6.04%) Ansible
4 13 (4.36%) Kibana
5 11 (3.69%) Grafana
6 8 (2.68%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (2.35%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.34%) Argo
9 2 (0.67%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (12.42%) Google
2 23 (7.72%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.04%) Splunk
4 16 (5.37%) Apple
5 15 (5.03%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.02%) Oracle
7 5 (1.68%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.68%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.34%) IBM
8 4 (1.34%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.01%) NetApp
9 3 (1.01%) SAP
10 2 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.67%) ESRI
11 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.34%) Databricks
11 1 (0.34%) New Relic
11 1 (0.34%) Palantir
11 1 (0.34%) Solace
11 1 (0.34%) Syncsort