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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 343 348
Rank change year-on-year +95 +5 +47
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 758 331 522
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.76% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.94% 1.82% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 445 189 306
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,875
90th Percentile £122,000 £138,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +16.13% -3.13%

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 25,783 18,225 22,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.74% 41.94% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,950 9,237 12,134
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,645 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +53 452 £95,000 -13.64% 587
North of England +33 132 £75,000 -5.36% 98
North West +37 85 £80,000 -8.57% 54
South East -9 80 £63,500 -15.33% 49
South West -48 32 £95,000 -2.56% 59
North East -30 29 £67,500 -41.30% 16
Midlands -39 27 £80,000 +6.67% 24
East of England -8 25 £80,000 -11.11% 18
West Midlands -19 22 £85,000 +13.33% 17
Yorkshire -54 18 £75,000 -2.28% 28
East Midlands -37 5 £76,000 -1.94% 7
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 17 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.19%) Apache
3 6 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.79%) Camunda
3 6 (0.79%) Confluence
4 5 (0.66%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.53%) JBoss
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.13%) Endur
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 404 (53.30%) AWS
2 237 (31.27%) Azure
3 141 (18.60%) GCP
4 74 (9.76%) Serverless
5 65 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 46 (6.07%) GitHub
6 46 (6.07%) SaaS
7 43 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 37 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (2.51%) Datadog
14 19 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (2.24%) Amazon Bedrock
16 17 (2.24%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 54 (7.12%) Broadband
2 14 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.58%) HTTP
4 6 (0.79%) DNS
4 6 (0.79%) Internet
5 4 (0.53%) DHCP
5 4 (0.53%) Firewall
5 4 (0.53%) MQTT
6 3 (0.40%) Multicast
6 3 (0.40%) X.509
7 2 (0.26%) AMQP
7 2 (0.26%) LTE
7 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.26%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) Network Security
8 1 (0.13%) SCTP
8 1 (0.13%) SMS
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (13.06%) NoSQL
2 90 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (7.92%) MongoDB
4 37 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 24 (3.17%) MySQL
7 23 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (2.90%) Redis
9 19 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.32%) Metadata
10 10 (1.32%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.19%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.19%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.06%) Big Data
12 8 (1.06%) Flink
13 7 (0.92%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.79%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.66%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (10.29%) Git
2 72 (9.50%) GitLab
3 52 (6.86%) Jenkins
4 49 (6.46%) Cucumber
5 30 (3.96%) JUnit
6 19 (2.51%) JIRA
7 17 (2.24%) JMeter
8 14 (1.85%) Mockito
9 12 (1.58%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.58%) Spock
10 9 (1.19%) LoadRunner
11 8 (1.06%) Gatling
11 8 (1.06%) Maven
12 7 (0.92%) Selenium
13 5 (0.66%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.53%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.53%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.53%) MLflow
15 2 (0.26%) HP UFT
General
1 200 (26.39%) Finance
2 174 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 64 (8.44%) Banking
4 51 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (4.62%) Law
6 31 (4.09%) Financial Institution
7 30 (3.96%) Public Sector
7 30 (3.96%) Retail
8 27 (3.56%) Games
9 19 (2.51%) Front Office
10 16 (2.11%) Back Office
11 13 (1.72%) Marketing
12 10 (1.32%) Advertising
12 10 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.79%) Electronics
14 6 (0.79%) Legal
14 6 (0.79%) Polish Language
15 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 208 (27.44%) Senior
2 176 (23.22%) Developer
3 149 (19.66%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.19%) Lead
5 83 (10.95%) Principal Engineer
6 82 (10.82%) Java Engineer
7 55 (7.26%) Architect
8 53 (6.99%) Senior Developer
9 50 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 45 (5.94%) Backend Developer
11 41 (5.41%) Python Engineer
12 39 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 39 (5.15%) Python Developer
13 37 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 32 (4.22%) Java Developer
15 31 (4.09%) Senior Java Engineer
16 26 (3.43%) Principal Java Engineer
17 22 (2.90%) Principal Software Engineer
18 21 (2.77%) Lead Software Engineer
19 20 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (19.00%) Kafka
2 138 (18.21%) Terraform
3 133 (17.55%) .NET
3 133 (17.55%) Spring
4 113 (14.91%) REST
5 110 (14.51%) Spring Boot
6 100 (13.19%) React
7 94 (12.40%) RESTful
8 60 (7.92%) Node.js
9 47 (6.20%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (3.17%) OAuth
12 23 (3.03%) LangChain
13 22 (2.90%) JSON
13 22 (2.90%) Next.js
13 22 (2.90%) OAuth2
14 21 (2.77%) ASP.NET
15 20 (2.64%) FastAPI
15 20 (2.64%) gRPC
16 18 (2.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 279 (36.81%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.20%) AI Agents
3 46 (6.07%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.67%) Video\Live Streaming
5 38 (5.01%) e-Learning
6 37 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (4.49%) Algorithms
8 28 (3.69%) Low-Code
8 28 (3.69%) Onboarding
9 27 (3.56%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (2.77%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.37%) IoT
12 17 (2.24%) Equities
12 17 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 17 (2.24%) Over-the-Top Content
13 16 (2.11%) Private Cloud
14 15 (1.98%) Life Science
15 14 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.72%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.05%) Linux
2 12 (1.58%) Unix
2 12 (1.58%) Windows
3 5 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (0.66%) VMS
4 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Android
5 2 (0.26%) Debian
5 2 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (60.03%) CI/CD
2 388 (51.19%) Software Engineering
3 352 (46.44%) Microservices
4 292 (38.52%) AI
5 249 (32.85%) Observability
6 240 (31.66%) Agile
7 231 (30.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 228 (30.08%) Event-Driven
9 214 (28.23%) DevOps
10 201 (26.52%) Mentoring
11 196 (25.86%) Test Automation
12 172 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 153 (20.18%) Containerisation
14 150 (19.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 148 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
16 129 (17.02%) Machine Learning
17 124 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
18 104 (13.72%) Technical Leadership
19 101 (13.32%) Clean Code
20 95 (12.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 321 (42.35%) Python
2 257 (33.91%) Java
3 171 (22.56%) SQL
4 122 (16.09%) TypeScript
5 121 (15.96%) C#
6 107 (14.12%) Go
7 103 (13.59%) JavaScript
8 39 (5.15%) C++
9 25 (3.30%) Scala
10 23 (3.03%) Bash
11 16 (2.11%) Rust
12 11 (1.45%) Groovy
12 11 (1.45%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.32%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.19%) Bicep
14 9 (1.19%) C
14 9 (1.19%) PHP
15 5 (0.66%) Perl
16 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (9.37%) Degree
2 69 (9.10%) Security Cleared
3 45 (5.94%) AWS Certification
4 43 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 40 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (5.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.06%) PhD
9 5 (0.66%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CISSP
12 1 (0.13%) CSPO
12 1 (0.13%) HND
12 1 (0.13%) ISEB
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.44%) QA
2 9 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.92%) GDPR
5 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.13%) GRC
7 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.13%) NIST
7 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.13%) PSD2
7 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 175 (23.09%) Docker
2 12 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.53%) KVM
6 3 (0.40%) Firmware
7 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 192 (25.33%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.83%) Ansible
3 26 (3.43%) Grafana
4 19 (2.51%) Kibana
5 16 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.92%) Argo
7 4 (0.53%) Packer
7 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) Bosun
9 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 84 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.33%) Google
3 27 (3.56%) OpenAI
4 26 (3.43%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.77%) Splunk
6 20 (2.64%) Oracle
7 17 (2.24%) Typelevel
8 16 (2.11%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.45%) IBM
10 8 (1.06%) Databricks
11 7 (0.92%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.92%) VMware
12 5 (0.66%) Solace
13 4 (0.53%) Adobe
13 4 (0.53%) Facebook
13 4 (0.53%) Instagram
13 4 (0.53%) TikTok
14 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.26%) New Relic
15 2 (0.26%) Okta