Distributed Systems Job Trends in the North of England

Distributed Systems
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 240 292
Rank change year-on-year +14 +52 +75
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 109 62 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.55% 0.76% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.58% 1.71% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 81 50 66
10th Percentile £55,000 £64,433 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,750 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +15.44% +0.70%
75th Percentile £97,500 £106,063 £69,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £140,677 £86,250
England median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,219 3,624 5,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.13% 44.31% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,016 1,387 4,004
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,480 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in the North of England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the North of England

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
North West +47 80 £88,750 +13.06% 50
Yorkshire -50 17 £75,000 -4.46% 12
North East -41 12 £60,000 -34.92% 11
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (3.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.83%) Apache
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.83%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.83%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 79 (72.48%) AWS
2 39 (35.78%) Azure
3 28 (25.69%) Serverless
4 23 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (18.35%) GCP
6 19 (17.43%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (12.84%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (12.84%) Amazon S3
8 12 (11.01%) SaaS
9 11 (10.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (10.09%) Datadog
10 10 (9.17%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (8.26%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (7.34%) GitHub
13 7 (6.42%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) DNS
1 2 (1.83%) Firewall
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
1 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) DynamoDB
2 10 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.26%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.34%) MySQL
5 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.75%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.75%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.83%) Big Data
7 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.83%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.83%) Redis
7 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (14.68%) Git
2 15 (13.76%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.26%) Claude Code
3 9 (8.26%) GitLab
4 6 (5.50%) JIRA
5 5 (4.59%) JUnit
6 4 (3.67%) Spock
7 3 (2.75%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.92%) Gatling
8 1 (0.92%) JMeter
8 1 (0.92%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (22.02%) Finance
2 19 (17.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.75%) Advertising
6 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (32.11%) Developer
2 23 (21.10%) Senior
3 22 (20.18%) Lead
4 21 (19.27%) Architect
5 14 (12.84%) Java Developer
5 14 (12.84%) Lead Developer
6 11 (10.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (9.17%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 7 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (6.42%) Integration Developer
9 7 (6.42%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Systems Architect
10 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Principal Architect
10 6 (5.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.52%) React
2 29 (26.61%) .NET
3 22 (20.18%) Node.js
4 20 (18.35%) Spring
5 16 (14.68%) REST
5 16 (14.68%) Spring Boot
6 14 (12.84%) Kafka
7 13 (11.93%) AngularJS
8 10 (9.17%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (8.26%) LangChain
9 9 (8.26%) Vue
10 8 (7.34%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (7.34%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (7.34%) RESTful
11 6 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (5.50%) Web Services
12 5 (4.59%) CSS
13 4 (3.67%) Backbone.js
13 4 (3.67%) Flask
13 4 (3.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (28.44%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.17%) AI Agents
3 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.34%) Life Science
5 4 (3.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.67%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) Microservices
2 53 (48.62%) CI/CD
3 51 (46.79%) AI
4 46 (42.20%) Software Engineering
5 42 (38.53%) DevOps
6 39 (35.78%) Agile
7 36 (33.03%) Event-Driven
8 34 (31.19%) Observability
9 33 (30.28%) Mentoring
9 33 (30.28%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (28.44%) Containerisation
10 31 (28.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (26.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (22.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (22.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (21.10%) Decision-Making
14 17 (15.60%) Code Quality
14 17 (15.60%) Machine Learning
14 17 (15.60%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.20%) Python
2 35 (32.11%) Java
3 27 (24.77%) SQL
4 26 (23.85%) C#
5 25 (22.94%) JavaScript
6 21 (19.27%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.50%) Bash
7 6 (5.50%) Go
8 5 (4.59%) Groovy
9 3 (2.75%) PHP
9 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.59%) Degree
4 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (30.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (31.19%) Kubernetes
2 30 (27.52%) Terraform
3 7 (6.42%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) Grafana
5 3 (2.75%) Packer
5 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) AppDynamics
2 7 (6.42%) HubSpot
3 6 (5.50%) Oracle
4 5 (4.59%) IBM
5 4 (3.67%) Splunk
6 3 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.83%) Pega
7 2 (1.83%) WSO2
8 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace