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 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 326 407
Rank change year-on-year +47 +81 -46
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 510 343 482
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.92% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 2.34% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 286 215 330
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,938
90th Percentile £132,500 £139,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -5.71%

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 22,440 14,637 29,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.16% 39.38% 35.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,651 8,254 20,814
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,474
UK median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -15.38%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +56 325 £100,000 +6.67% 152
North of England -38 90 £77,500 - 37
South East -31 67 £77,500 +21.57% 48
North West +12 62 £82,500 +3.13% 25
Yorkshire -77 24 £75,000 -3.23% 7
Midlands -25 15 £73,500 +1.38% 6
South West -40 14 £85,000 - 11
East Midlands - 13 £86,000 - 3
East of England -24 11 £82,500 +13.79% 9
North East -34 4 £60,000 -13.52% 5
West Midlands -26 2 £68,750 -5.17% 3
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 18 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.35%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.18%) IIS
5 5 (0.98%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.78%) Appian
7 3 (0.59%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.39%) Confluence
8 2 (0.39%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Solana
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 307 (60.20%) AWS
2 171 (33.53%) Azure
3 168 (32.94%) GCP
4 59 (11.57%) Serverless
5 48 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (8.63%) SaaS
7 35 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (5.49%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.71%) GitHub
10 23 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (3.53%) Datadog
13 16 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
16 7 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.00%) Broadband
2 15 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.35%) HTTP
4 6 (1.18%) BGP
4 6 (1.18%) VLAN
4 6 (1.18%) VPN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) Firewall
6 2 (0.39%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.39%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) RTP
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) SS7
7 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.80%) NoSQL
2 42 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.08%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.51%) DynamoDB
6 23 (4.51%) Redis
7 22 (4.31%) MongoDB
8 19 (3.73%) BigQuery
8 19 (3.73%) Hadoop
9 17 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.33%) Big Data
10 15 (2.94%) MySQL
11 12 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.96%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.18%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.18%) Tableau
14 5 (0.98%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.98%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 51 (10.00%) Git
2 50 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.92%) GitLab
4 16 (3.14%) JMeter
5 14 (2.75%) Cucumber
6 12 (2.35%) JIRA
7 10 (1.96%) Gatling
7 10 (1.96%) JUnit
8 9 (1.76%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.18%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.98%) Maven
11 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.78%) Mockito
12 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.59%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.39%) Selenium
13 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 132 (25.88%) Finance
2 99 (19.41%) Social Skills
3 44 (8.63%) Banking
4 39 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (7.45%) Law
6 29 (5.69%) Financial Institution
7 27 (5.29%) Retail
8 26 (5.10%) Public Sector
9 25 (4.90%) Telecoms
10 24 (4.71%) Back Office
11 13 (2.55%) Front Office
12 11 (2.16%) Polish Language
13 10 (1.96%) Games
13 10 (1.96%) Marketing
14 8 (1.57%) Advertising
15 7 (1.37%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.18%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.98%) Electronics
17 5 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 136 (26.67%) Senior
2 117 (22.94%) Software Engineer
3 108 (21.18%) Developer
4 52 (10.20%) Lead
5 38 (7.45%) Architect
6 37 (7.25%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (6.86%) Java Developer
8 31 (6.08%) Java Engineer
9 30 (5.88%) Scala Engineer
10 29 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (5.49%) Senior Developer
12 25 (4.90%) Backend Developer
13 23 (4.51%) Data Engineer
14 21 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.14%) Lead Developer
16 16 (3.14%) Python Engineer
17 15 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (2.94%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.10%) Kafka
2 74 (14.51%) REST
3 62 (12.16%) gRPC
4 60 (11.76%) .NET
4 60 (11.76%) Spring
5 52 (10.20%) React
6 51 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 43 (8.43%) RESTful
8 41 (8.04%) Node.js
9 30 (5.88%) Django
10 23 (4.51%) Web Services
11 22 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (3.73%) OAuth
13 18 (3.53%) JSON
14 17 (3.33%) AngularJS
15 16 (3.14%) OAuth2
16 14 (2.75%) HTML
17 11 (2.16%) .NET Core
17 11 (2.16%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 126 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.41%) Algorithms
3 47 (9.22%) Over-the-Top Content
3 47 (9.22%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (8.82%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.71%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.53%) Equities
6 18 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.33%) Client/Server
7 17 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.55%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.55%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.16%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.96%) Blog
11 10 (1.96%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (11.57%) Linux
2 11 (2.16%) Windows
3 9 (1.76%) Android
4 5 (0.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (50.39%) CI/CD
2 239 (46.86%) Microservices
3 237 (46.47%) Software Engineering
4 154 (30.20%) Problem-Solving
5 150 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 145 (28.43%) Agile
7 130 (25.49%) DevOps
8 107 (20.98%) Machine Learning
9 106 (20.78%) AI
9 106 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 101 (19.80%) Computer Science
11 93 (18.24%) Observability
12 90 (17.65%) Clean Code
13 86 (16.86%) Event-Driven
14 80 (15.69%) Mentoring
15 75 (14.71%) Roadmaps
16 73 (14.31%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (13.92%) Data Science
18 67 (13.14%) Coaching
19 63 (12.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 229 (44.90%) Python
2 173 (33.92%) Java
3 116 (22.75%) Go
4 72 (14.12%) C#
5 68 (13.33%) SQL
6 61 (11.96%) Scala
7 59 (11.57%) C++
8 49 (9.61%) JavaScript
9 46 (9.02%) TypeScript
10 40 (7.84%) Rust
11 20 (3.92%) C
12 14 (2.75%) Bash
13 9 (1.76%) Groovy
13 9 (1.76%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.37%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.98%) R
15 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.78%) Bicep
16 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 94 (18.43%) Degree
2 68 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 24 (4.71%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.35%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.35%) PhD
7 11 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.98%) MBA
9 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ISEB
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.25%) QA
2 14 (2.75%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.35%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.76%) GDPR
5 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.78%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 169 (33.14%) Docker
2 14 (2.75%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.55%) KVM
4 8 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.39%) Ceph
7 2 (0.39%) HDFS
7 2 (0.39%) Lustre
7 2 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 143 (28.04%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.10%) Terraform
3 36 (7.06%) Ansible
4 15 (2.94%) Grafana
5 13 (2.55%) Kibana
6 10 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.78%) Packer
8 2 (0.39%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (8.82%) Typelevel
2 25 (4.90%) Google
3 24 (4.71%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.75%) Oracle
4 14 (2.75%) VMware
5 13 (2.55%) AppDynamics
5 13 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.96%) Databricks
7 8 (1.57%) IBM
8 7 (1.37%) Splunk
9 5 (0.98%) BT
9 5 (0.98%) Ericsson
9 5 (0.98%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.98%) Informatica
9 5 (0.98%) Mavenir
9 5 (0.98%) Nokia
9 5 (0.98%) Solace
9 5 (0.98%) Talend
10 4 (0.78%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.59%) SAP