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 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 301 328 357
Rank change year-on-year +27 +29 -54
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 344 407 375
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.85% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 2.26% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 229 269 283
10th Percentile £66,250 £53,000 £45,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £152,500 £138,000 £144,750
UK median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -5.88%

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 18,351 17,991 17,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.41% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,250 8,462 13,367
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,013 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 12 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 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
London +15 229 £112,500 +15.38% 144
North of England +4 66 £75,000 +10.29% 93
North West +56 37 £75,000 +8.21% 35
South East +1 34 £68,750 +12.24% 213
Yorkshire -37 28 £75,000 +33.93% 43
East of England +28 13 £82,500 +13.79% 88
Midlands +17 11 £76,250 +10.02% 58
South West +8 6 £83,750 -11.84% 60
East Midlands -2 6 £77,500 - 39
West Midlands +15 5 £75,000 +8.21% 18
North East +2 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 (12.21%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.36%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.91%) Apache
5 5 (1.45%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.45%) Confluence
5 5 (1.45%) IIS
6 4 (1.16%) Appian
7 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.58%) Luigi
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.29%) CMS
9 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 202 (58.72%) AWS
2 135 (39.24%) Azure
3 100 (29.07%) GCP
4 53 (15.41%) Serverless
5 41 (11.92%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (9.01%) SaaS
8 22 (6.40%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.23%) GitHub
10 17 (4.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 16 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (3.20%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (3.20%) OpenShift
16 11 (3.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.20%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.16%) HTTP
2 4 (1.16%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.87%) BGP
3 3 (0.87%) VLAN
3 3 (0.87%) VPN
4 2 (0.58%) AMQP
4 2 (0.58%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.58%) Multicast
5 1 (0.29%) 4G
5 1 (0.29%) 5G
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.29%) MQTT
5 1 (0.29%) RTP
5 1 (0.29%) SS7
5 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.15%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (16.86%) NoSQL
3 38 (11.05%) Relational Database
4 37 (10.76%) Hadoop
5 36 (10.47%) Big Data
6 32 (9.30%) MongoDB
7 26 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (6.98%) DynamoDB
9 23 (6.69%) Redis
9 23 (6.69%) SQL Server
10 21 (6.10%) RDBMS
11 18 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (4.07%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (4.07%) MySQL
14 13 (3.78%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (2.91%) BigQuery
16 10 (2.91%) Neo4j
16 10 (2.91%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 40 (11.63%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.76%) Git
3 16 (4.65%) JMeter
3 16 (4.65%) JUnit
4 14 (4.07%) GitLab
5 11 (3.20%) Mockito
6 9 (2.62%) JIRA
7 4 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.16%) Maven
7 4 (1.16%) Postman
7 4 (1.16%) Selenium
7 4 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.87%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.58%) JConsole
9 2 (0.58%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (27.62%) Finance
2 79 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.17%) Banking
5 33 (9.59%) Financial Institution
6 25 (7.27%) Law
6 25 (7.27%) Public Sector
7 23 (6.69%) Telecoms
8 17 (4.94%) Retail
9 15 (4.36%) Front Office
10 13 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (3.78%) Marketing
11 9 (2.62%) Back Office
12 6 (1.74%) Games
12 6 (1.74%) Legal
12 6 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.45%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.16%) Polish Language
15 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (29.36%) Senior
2 97 (28.20%) Developer
3 79 (22.97%) Software Engineer
4 64 (18.60%) Lead
5 49 (14.24%) Java Developer
6 34 (9.88%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (6.98%) Data Engineer
8 23 (6.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (6.10%) Senior Developer
10 19 (5.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 19 (5.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 19 (5.52%) Lead Developer
10 19 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.94%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 17 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (4.65%) Principal Software Engineer
14 14 (4.07%) Architect
14 14 (4.07%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (25.87%) Kafka
2 59 (17.15%) REST
2 59 (17.15%) Spring
3 54 (15.70%) Spring Boot
4 53 (15.41%) React
5 49 (14.24%) .NET
6 37 (10.76%) Node.js
7 35 (10.17%) RESTful
8 28 (8.14%) Django
9 26 (7.56%) Web Services
10 22 (6.40%) HTML
11 21 (6.10%) gRPC
12 18 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (5.23%) FastAPI
13 17 (4.94%) AngularJS
13 17 (4.94%) Hibernate
13 17 (4.94%) JSON
14 16 (4.65%) OAuth
15 15 (4.36%) Apache Camel
16 14 (4.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (32.27%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.92%) Algorithms
3 35 (10.17%) Product Ownership
4 28 (8.14%) Data Structures
5 16 (4.65%) Equities
5 16 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (4.65%) Legacy Code
5 16 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.78%) e-Learning
7 13 (3.78%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.20%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (2.91%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.16%) Hackathon
12 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (13.66%) Linux
2 12 (3.49%) Unix
3 9 (2.62%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (48.84%) Microservices
2 159 (46.22%) CI/CD
3 135 (39.24%) Software Engineering
4 126 (36.63%) Agile
5 97 (28.20%) DevOps
6 88 (25.58%) Containerisation
7 79 (22.97%) AI
8 78 (22.67%) Mentoring
9 77 (22.38%) Computer Science
10 75 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 70 (20.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 65 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (18.31%) Machine Learning
14 62 (18.02%) Roadmaps
15 60 (17.44%) Event-Driven
16 54 (15.70%) TDD
17 53 (15.41%) Analytics
17 53 (15.41%) Observability
18 51 (14.83%) Low Latency
19 48 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 168 (48.84%) Java
2 149 (43.31%) Python
3 67 (19.48%) Go
3 67 (19.48%) SQL
4 60 (17.44%) C#
5 47 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 41 (11.92%) TypeScript
7 33 (9.59%) C++
8 31 (9.01%) Scala
9 20 (5.81%) C
9 20 (5.81%) Rust
10 13 (3.78%) Bash
11 11 (3.20%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.62%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.33%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.45%) R
15 4 (1.16%) Groovy
16 2 (0.58%) COBOL
16 2 (0.58%) Ruby
17 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (20.64%) Degree
2 44 (12.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 24 (6.98%) Security Cleared
5 17 (4.94%) PhD
6 11 (3.20%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.45%) MBA
9 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.65%) QA
2 14 (4.07%) GDPR
3 8 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.03%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.03%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.16%) SLA
8 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.87%) WCAG
9 2 (0.58%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 106 (30.81%) Docker
2 14 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (4.07%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.62%) HDFS
4 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.58%) Ceph
5 2 (0.58%) Lustre
5 2 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 138 (40.12%) Kubernetes
2 40 (11.63%) Terraform
3 31 (9.01%) Ansible
4 15 (4.36%) Kibana
5 12 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.20%) Grafana
7 5 (1.45%) logstash
8 4 (1.16%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.16%) Rancher
8 4 (1.16%) vRealize
9 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.58%) Puppet
9 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (5.81%) Google
2 18 (5.23%) Databricks
3 15 (4.36%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.49%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.49%) Splunk
5 11 (3.20%) Oracle
6 10 (2.91%) Informatica
6 10 (2.91%) Talend
7 6 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.45%) BT
8 5 (1.45%) Dell
8 5 (1.45%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.45%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.45%) Nokia
8 5 (1.45%) SAP
8 5 (1.45%) VMware
9 4 (1.16%) Pega
9 4 (1.16%) WSO2
10 3 (0.87%) Solace
11 2 (0.58%) Confluent