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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 332 388
Rank change year-on-year +12 +56 -128
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 354 466 355
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.82% 0.76% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.06% 2.30% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 213 295 260
10th Percentile £67,500 £48,250 £51,125
25th Percentile £73,000 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £140,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% - -3.03%

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 17,194 20,286 19,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 40.05% 32.96% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,291 9,901 14,599
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

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 October 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 25 October 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 +69 256 £110,000 +12.82% 267
North of England -62 53 £76,250 +22.00% 64
South East +30 39 £85,000 +58.17% 175
Yorkshire -25 27 £75,000 +33.93% 8
North West -40 25 £85,000 +36.00% 45
Midlands +42 19 £75,000 +8.21% 2
West Midlands +42 10 £75,000 +8.21% 1
East Midlands +19 9 £76,250 -25.61% 1
East of England -2 7 £80,000 +10.34% 16
South West +34 3 £95,000 - 14
North East +13 1 £73,801 +6.48% 11
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 49 (13.84%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.26%) Apache
3 8 (2.26%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.69%) Confluence
5 5 (1.41%) JBoss
5 5 (1.41%) Red Hat Fuse
6 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.56%) Luigi
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 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
1 209 (59.04%) AWS
2 109 (30.79%) Azure
3 83 (23.45%) GCP
4 55 (15.54%) Serverless
5 49 (13.84%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (12.43%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (11.02%) SaaS
8 28 (7.91%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (5.08%) GitHub
10 17 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.95%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.11%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.11%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.54%) OpenShift
16 8 (2.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.85%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.56%) AMQP
3 2 (0.56%) BGP
3 2 (0.56%) HTTP
3 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.56%) VLAN
3 2 (0.56%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) Firewall
4 1 (0.28%) MQTT
4 1 (0.28%) Multicast
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.80%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (15.25%) Relational Database
3 47 (13.28%) NoSQL
4 41 (11.58%) Big Data
5 28 (7.91%) RDBMS
6 23 (6.50%) Hadoop
7 22 (6.21%) MongoDB
8 20 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (5.37%) DynamoDB
10 13 (3.67%) Redis
10 13 (3.67%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.39%) MySQL
12 11 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (3.11%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (3.11%) Apache Hive
13 10 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (2.26%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.98%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.98%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 50 (14.12%) Jenkins
2 45 (12.71%) Git
3 33 (9.32%) JUnit
4 26 (7.34%) Mockito
5 25 (7.06%) JMeter
6 12 (3.39%) GitLab
7 11 (3.11%) JIRA
8 7 (1.98%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.98%) Maven
9 5 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.41%) MLflow
9 5 (1.41%) Postman
9 5 (1.41%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.13%) DbUnit
10 4 (1.13%) jMock
10 4 (1.13%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.85%) Selenium
11 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 139 (39.27%) Finance
2 87 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 78 (22.03%) Banking
4 69 (19.49%) Law
5 63 (17.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (13.28%) Public Sector
7 35 (9.89%) Financial Institution
8 31 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (5.65%) Front Office
10 16 (4.52%) Retail
11 14 (3.95%) Marketing
12 13 (3.67%) Investment Banking
13 10 (2.82%) Legal
14 9 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.69%) Back Office
17 5 (1.41%) Games
18 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
18 4 (1.13%) Publishing
19 3 (0.85%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 121 (34.18%) Software Engineer
2 98 (27.68%) Developer
2 98 (27.68%) Lead
3 90 (25.42%) Senior
4 59 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 54 (15.25%) Java Developer
6 38 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (9.60%) Senior Software Engineer
8 32 (9.04%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 32 (9.04%) Principal Engineer
9 27 (7.63%) Java Engineer
10 26 (7.34%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 25 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (6.21%) Data Engineer
13 20 (5.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 20 (5.65%) Java Software Engineer
14 18 (5.08%) Python Engineer
14 18 (5.08%) Senior Developer
15 16 (4.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (22.60%) Spring
2 76 (21.47%) Kafka
3 68 (19.21%) Spring Boot
4 58 (16.38%) REST
5 52 (14.69%) RESTful
6 46 (12.99%) .NET
6 46 (12.99%) Web Services
7 43 (12.15%) React
8 37 (10.45%) Hibernate
9 32 (9.04%) HTML
10 30 (8.47%) Apache Camel
11 26 (7.34%) ActiveMQ
12 24 (6.78%) jQuery
13 23 (6.50%) JSON
14 21 (5.93%) WireMock
14 21 (5.93%) XML
15 20 (5.65%) AngularJS
16 17 (4.80%) Node.js
17 16 (4.52%) .NET Core
18 13 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 128 (36.16%) Cloud Native
2 46 (12.99%) Algorithms
3 40 (11.30%) Product Ownership
4 30 (8.47%) Public Cloud
5 29 (8.19%) Data Structures
6 26 (7.34%) Legacy Code
7 23 (6.50%) Management Information System
8 20 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (5.08%) Virtual Team
10 16 (4.52%) Derivative
11 15 (4.24%) Equities
12 11 (3.11%) e-Learning
13 10 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (2.54%) Mobile Banking
15 8 (2.26%) Equity Derivative
15 8 (2.26%) Onboarding
16 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.98%) Fixed Income
17 6 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.97%) Linux
2 12 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (51.69%) Software Engineering
2 158 (44.63%) CI/CD
3 157 (44.35%) Microservices
4 145 (40.96%) Agile
5 91 (25.71%) DevOps
6 79 (22.32%) Mentoring
7 75 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (20.90%) Containerisation
9 68 (19.21%) AI
10 65 (18.36%) Roadmaps
10 65 (18.36%) SDLC
11 64 (18.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 59 (16.67%) TDD
13 58 (16.38%) Computer Science
14 54 (15.25%) Machine Learning
15 49 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (13.56%) Fintech
17 43 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
18 41 (11.58%) BDD
19 38 (10.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 192 (54.24%) Java
2 149 (42.09%) Python
3 80 (22.60%) SQL
4 57 (16.10%) C#
5 53 (14.97%) JavaScript
6 51 (14.41%) Go
7 43 (12.15%) C++
8 31 (8.76%) Scala
9 30 (8.47%) Rust
10 26 (7.34%) C
11 24 (6.78%) Kotlin
12 23 (6.50%) Shell Script
13 18 (5.08%) TypeScript
14 9 (2.54%) Bash
15 8 (2.26%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.41%) Groovy
16 5 (1.41%) PHP
17 3 (0.85%) COBOL
18 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.28%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 43 (12.15%) Degree
2 34 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.06%) Master's Degree
4 23 (6.50%) PhD
5 18 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CEH
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) GIAC
9 1 (0.28%) OSCP
9 1 (0.28%) SANS
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.24%) GDPR
2 11 (3.11%) QA
3 8 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.69%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.41%) SLA
7 4 (1.13%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.85%) WCAG
9 2 (0.56%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 114 (32.20%) Docker
2 12 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (2.26%) HDFS
4 4 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.85%) Postfix
6 2 (0.56%) Ceph
6 2 (0.56%) Lustre
6 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 160 (45.20%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.58%) Terraform
3 25 (7.06%) Kibana
4 24 (6.78%) Ansible
5 13 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.39%) Grafana
7 5 (1.41%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.41%) logstash
8 4 (1.13%) Rancher
8 4 (1.13%) 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 25 (7.06%) Dynatrace
2 23 (6.50%) Splunk
3 15 (4.24%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.11%) Databricks
5 10 (2.82%) Oracle
6 9 (2.54%) Google
7 7 (1.98%) Informatica
7 7 (1.98%) Talend
8 4 (1.13%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.13%) Dell
8 4 (1.13%) Foundry
8 4 (1.13%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.13%) Palantir
8 4 (1.13%) Pega
8 4 (1.13%) Solace
8 4 (1.13%) VMware
8 4 (1.13%) WSO2
9 3 (0.85%) SAP
10 2 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.56%) Salesforce