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 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 328 376
Rank change year-on-year +32 +48 -65
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 366 402 410
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.85% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 2.26% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 234 258 319
10th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -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 18,878 17,763 21,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.21% 37.36% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,582 8,311 16,104
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £41,246
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,644 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +6.28% -10.77%
75th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,900
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.63% -10.92%

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 25 January 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 25 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
London +20 248 £110,000 +12.82% 183
North of England -7 64 £75,000 +10.29% 85
North West +35 37 £75,000 +8.21% 39
South East +3 37 £70,000 +12.00% 210
Yorkshire -48 26 £75,000 +10.29% 32
East of England +27 13 £82,500 +13.79% 86
Midlands +10 11 £76,250 +10.02% 49
East Midlands +2 6 £77,500 - 29
South West -6 6 £83,750 - 54
West Midlands +19 5 £75,000 +8.21% 18
North East -1 1 £73,801 +6.48% 15
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 42 (11.48%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.10%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.73%) Apache
5 5 (1.37%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.37%) IIS
6 4 (1.09%) Appian
6 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.82%) Confluence
8 2 (0.55%) Luigi
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.27%) CMS
9 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 218 (59.56%) AWS
2 142 (38.80%) Azure
3 108 (29.51%) GCP
4 51 (13.93%) Serverless
5 42 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (10.93%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (10.38%) SaaS
8 24 (6.56%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.64%) Amazon Kinesis
10 17 (4.64%) GitHub
11 16 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (4.37%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (3.01%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (3.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.10%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.37%) BGP
2 5 (1.37%) VLAN
2 5 (1.37%) VPN
3 4 (1.09%) HTTP
3 4 (1.09%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.55%) Broadband
4 2 (0.55%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.55%) Multicast
5 1 (0.27%) 4G
5 1 (0.27%) 5G
5 1 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.27%) MQTT
5 1 (0.27%) RTP
5 1 (0.27%) SS7
5 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (15.57%) NoSQL
3 37 (10.11%) Hadoop
3 37 (10.11%) Relational Database
4 36 (9.84%) Big Data
5 31 (8.47%) MongoDB
6 26 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (6.56%) DynamoDB
7 24 (6.56%) Redis
7 24 (6.56%) SQL Server
8 20 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (5.46%) RDBMS
9 19 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 14 (3.83%) MySQL
11 13 (3.55%) Apache Hive
12 12 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (3.01%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.73%) Neo4j
14 10 (2.73%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 40 (10.93%) Jenkins
2 34 (9.29%) Git
3 16 (4.37%) GitLab
4 15 (4.10%) JMeter
4 15 (4.10%) JUnit
5 10 (2.73%) Mockito
6 7 (1.91%) JIRA
7 6 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.09%) Maven
8 4 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.82%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.82%) Postman
9 3 (0.82%) Selenium
10 2 (0.55%) JConsole
10 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.55%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 111 (30.33%) Finance
2 86 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 41 (11.20%) Banking
4 39 (10.66%) Financial Institution
5 38 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (8.74%) Law
7 26 (7.10%) Public Sector
8 23 (6.28%) Retail
8 23 (6.28%) Telecoms
9 21 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (4.37%) Back Office
11 15 (4.10%) Front Office
12 13 (3.55%) Marketing
13 10 (2.73%) Games
14 6 (1.64%) Polish Language
15 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.09%) Legal
17 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 109 (29.78%) Senior
2 94 (25.68%) Developer
3 84 (22.95%) Software Engineer
4 64 (17.49%) Lead
5 48 (13.11%) Java Developer
6 34 (9.29%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (6.56%) Data Engineer
7 24 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (5.74%) Senior Developer
11 19 (5.19%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 19 (5.19%) Lead Developer
12 18 (4.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 17 (4.64%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 17 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
14 16 (4.37%) Architect
14 16 (4.37%) Java Engineer
15 13 (3.55%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (24.32%) Kafka
2 60 (16.39%) REST
3 59 (16.12%) Spring
4 54 (14.75%) Spring Boot
5 49 (13.39%) .NET
5 49 (13.39%) React
6 37 (10.11%) RESTful
7 34 (9.29%) Node.js
8 29 (7.92%) Django
9 25 (6.83%) Web Services
10 21 (5.74%) gRPC
11 20 (5.46%) HTML
12 18 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (4.92%) FastAPI
13 17 (4.64%) AngularJS
13 17 (4.64%) Hibernate
14 16 (4.37%) JSON
14 16 (4.37%) OAuth
15 14 (3.83%) Apache Camel
15 14 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 115 (31.42%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.93%) Algorithms
3 35 (9.56%) Product Ownership
4 29 (7.92%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (4.64%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.37%) Equities
7 16 (4.37%) Legacy Code
8 15 (4.10%) e-Learning
8 15 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (4.10%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.01%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (2.73%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.73%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.19%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.91%) Blog
13 6 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.37%) Client/Server
15 4 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.30%) Linux
2 12 (3.28%) Unix
3 9 (2.46%) Android
4 3 (0.82%) Windows
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (46.72%) Microservices
2 167 (45.63%) CI/CD
3 141 (38.52%) Software Engineering
4 129 (35.25%) Agile
5 101 (27.60%) DevOps
6 88 (24.04%) Containerisation
7 86 (23.50%) Computer Science
8 78 (21.31%) AI
8 78 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (21.04%) Mentoring
10 71 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (19.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 66 (18.03%) Event-Driven
13 65 (17.76%) Roadmaps
14 63 (17.21%) Machine Learning
15 61 (16.67%) Observability
16 59 (16.12%) Analytics
17 53 (14.48%) TDD
18 50 (13.66%) Low Latency
19 48 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 179 (48.91%) Java
2 153 (41.80%) Python
3 73 (19.95%) Go
4 66 (18.03%) SQL
5 63 (17.21%) C#
6 44 (12.02%) JavaScript
7 41 (11.20%) C++
8 39 (10.66%) TypeScript
9 32 (8.74%) Scala
10 27 (7.38%) Rust
11 23 (6.28%) C
12 13 (3.55%) Bash
13 10 (2.73%) Shell Script
14 9 (2.46%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.19%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.37%) R
17 4 (1.09%) Groovy
18 3 (0.82%) Ruby
19 2 (0.55%) COBOL
20 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (21.86%) Degree
2 50 (13.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.38%) Master's Degree
4 26 (7.10%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.19%) PhD
6 14 (3.83%) SC Cleared
7 10 (2.73%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.37%) MBA
10 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.19%) QA
2 14 (3.83%) GDPR
3 12 (3.28%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.28%) SOC 2
4 8 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.09%) SLA
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) GRC
8 2 (0.55%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 107 (29.23%) Docker
2 14 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.83%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.46%) HDFS
4 8 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.37%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.09%) KVM
7 2 (0.55%) Ceph
7 2 (0.55%) Lustre
7 2 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 137 (37.43%) Kubernetes
2 45 (12.30%) Terraform
3 31 (8.47%) Ansible
4 14 (3.83%) Kibana
5 12 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.01%) Grafana
7 5 (1.37%) logstash
8 4 (1.09%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.09%) Rancher
8 4 (1.09%) vRealize
9 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.55%) Puppet
9 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (5.74%) Google
2 18 (4.92%) Databricks
3 13 (3.55%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.28%) Splunk
5 11 (3.01%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.01%) Oracle
6 10 (2.73%) Informatica
6 10 (2.73%) Talend
7 8 (2.19%) VMware
8 6 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.37%) BT
9 5 (1.37%) Dell
9 5 (1.37%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.37%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.37%) Nokia
9 5 (1.37%) SAP
10 4 (1.09%) Pega
10 4 (1.09%) WSO2
11 3 (0.82%) Solace
12 2 (0.55%) Confluent