Distributed Systems Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 382 382
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +76
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 132 174 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.48% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 1.41% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 81 94 130
10th Percentile £57,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £66,500 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +5.43% -7.86%
75th Percentile £83,750 £74,144 £75,938
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £87,875
UK median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -5.88%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,545 12,317 11,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.28% 34.25% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,236 5,308 8,511
10th Percentile £26,313 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,756
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,793 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +3.38% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,341 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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 of England +4 66 £75,000 +10.29% 132
North West +56 37 £75,000 +8.21% 49
South East +1 34 £68,750 +12.24% 258
Yorkshire -37 28 £75,000 +33.93% 62
East of England +28 13 £82,500 +13.79% 123
Midlands +17 11 £76,250 +10.02% 92
Wales +6 8 £68,958 -0.50% 43
South West +8 6 £83,750 -11.84% 95
East Midlands -2 6 £77,500 - 64
West Midlands +15 5 £75,000 +8.21% 27
Scotland -2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 23
North East +2 1 £73,801 +6.48% 21
Northern Ireland -13 1 £73,801 +6.48% 21
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (9.09%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.79%) IIS
3 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (71.97%) AWS
2 64 (48.48%) Azure
3 39 (29.55%) Serverless
4 36 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (21.97%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (19.70%) GCP
7 21 (15.91%) SaaS
8 14 (10.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 11 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (7.58%) Amazon ECR
11 10 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (5.30%) dbt
14 6 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (4.55%) Pulumi
15 5 (3.79%) Snowflake
16 4 (3.03%) Apigee
16 4 (3.03%) Azure AKS
16 4 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.03%) HTTP
3 2 (1.52%) AMQP
3 2 (1.52%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.76%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 22 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 10 (7.58%) Redis
5 7 (5.30%) Big Data
5 7 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.55%) Hadoop
6 6 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.79%) Data Mining
7 5 (3.79%) Tableau
8 3 (2.27%) MySQL
9 2 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.76%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.76%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 31 (23.48%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.39%) Git
3 16 (12.12%) JUnit
4 13 (9.85%) JMeter
5 11 (8.33%) Mockito
6 5 (3.79%) GitLab
7 4 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.03%) JIRA
7 4 (3.03%) Maven
7 4 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.76%) Selenium
General
1 19 (14.39%) Public Sector
2 18 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.12%) Finance
4 9 (6.82%) Marketing
5 8 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.03%) Retail
8 3 (2.27%) Law
9 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.76%) Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (34.85%) Developer
2 35 (26.52%) Lead
3 32 (24.24%) Senior
4 28 (21.21%) Java Developer
5 24 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 20 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (13.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (10.61%) Principal Engineer
9 12 (9.09%) C# Developer
9 12 (9.09%) Lead Developer
10 11 (8.33%) Lead C# Developer
10 11 (8.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (7.58%) Architect
12 9 (6.82%) Principal Software Engineer
12 9 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (6.06%) Senior Developer
13 8 (6.06%) Site Engineer
13 8 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 7 (5.30%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (32.58%) Spring
1 43 (32.58%) Spring Boot
2 37 (28.03%) React
3 36 (27.27%) .NET
4 31 (23.48%) REST
5 25 (18.94%) Web Services
6 21 (15.91%) Kafka
7 19 (14.39%) Node.js
8 18 (13.64%) HTML
9 17 (12.88%) Hibernate
10 16 (12.12%) AngularJS
11 15 (11.36%) Apache Camel
12 14 (10.61%) JSON
13 12 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (9.09%) XML
14 11 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
14 11 (8.33%) jQuery
14 11 (8.33%) WireMock
15 8 (6.06%) Mustache
16 7 (5.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.03%) Cloud Native
2 23 (17.42%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.30%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.27%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) IoT
7 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.33%) Linux
2 6 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (65.91%) Microservices
2 84 (63.64%) Agile
3 77 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 53 (40.15%) Software Engineering
5 51 (38.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (37.12%) DevOps
7 46 (34.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 40 (30.30%) Containerisation
10 39 (29.55%) TDD
11 31 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (21.21%) Coaching
12 28 (21.21%) Scrum
13 26 (19.70%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (18.94%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (17.42%) Design Patterns
16 22 (16.67%) Event-Driven
16 22 (16.67%) Roadmaps
17 20 (15.15%) Clean Code
17 20 (15.15%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (40.91%) Java
2 37 (28.03%) C#
2 37 (28.03%) JavaScript
3 34 (25.76%) Python
4 26 (19.70%) SQL
5 19 (14.39%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.30%) Bash
8 6 (4.55%) Scala
9 5 (3.79%) Go
9 5 (3.79%) R
10 4 (3.03%) Groovy
11 3 (2.27%) C
11 3 (2.27%) C++
12 2 (1.52%) COBOL
13 1 (0.76%) Bicep
13 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.58%) Degree
3 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.79%) MBA
5 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) QA
2 5 (3.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.52%) GRC
3 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.52%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 62 (46.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Ceph
2 2 (1.52%) Lustre
2 2 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.76%) HDFS
3 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.76%) KVM
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 20 (15.15%) Terraform
3 12 (9.09%) Kibana
4 11 (8.33%) Ansible
5 4 (3.03%) Argo
5 4 (3.03%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.52%) Grafana
6 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.76%) Istio
7 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (9.09%) Dynatrace
1 12 (9.09%) Splunk
2 6 (4.55%) Databricks
2 6 (4.55%) Google
3 5 (3.79%) BT
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.03%) PagerDuty
4 4 (3.03%) Pega
4 4 (3.03%) WSO2
5 2 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.52%) SAP
6 1 (0.76%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle
6 1 (0.76%) VMware