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 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 341 413
Rank change year-on-year +83 +72 -9
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 634 349 520
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.84% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.88% 1.99% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 385 199 316
10th Percentile £55,300 £62,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £125,750 £140,677 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -8.57%

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 22,007 17,566 30,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.63% 42.05% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14,567 8,685 20,764
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% +4.55% -14.10%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +61 384 £95,000 -13.64% 325
North of England +8 114 £80,000 +0.95% 64
North West +40 82 £88,750 +7.58% 39
South East -6 73 £67,500 -3.57% 58
Midlands -18 22 £87,500 +16.67% 18
South West -48 22 £85,000 -12.82% 27
Yorkshire -45 18 £75,000 -3.85% 12
North East -40 14 £63,750 -30.85% 13
East of England +1 13 £76,250 - 12
West Midlands -19 13 £87,500 +20.69% 9
East Midlands -13 9 £72,000 -5.57% 9
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 12 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.79%) Apache
2 5 (0.79%) Confluence
2 5 (0.79%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.63%) JBoss
4 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.47%) IIS
4 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.32%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Camunda
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.16%) Solana
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.32%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 365 (57.57%) AWS
2 196 (30.91%) Azure
3 148 (23.34%) GCP
4 74 (11.67%) Serverless
5 50 (7.89%) SaaS
6 43 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 32 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (5.05%) GitHub
11 29 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (2.68%) Datadog
15 16 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (2.37%) Anthropic Claude
16 15 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (2.21%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 82 (12.93%) Broadband
2 13 (2.05%) HTTP
3 11 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.79%) DNS
4 5 (0.79%) Firewall
5 3 (0.47%) BGP
5 3 (0.47%) DHCP
5 3 (0.47%) Internet
5 3 (0.47%) VLAN
5 3 (0.47%) VoIP
5 3 (0.47%) VPN
6 2 (0.32%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.32%) MQTT
6 2 (0.32%) RTP
6 2 (0.32%) SS7
7 1 (0.16%) 5G
7 1 (0.16%) DMARC
7 1 (0.16%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.16%) RS-232
7 1 (0.16%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (8.36%) NoSQL
3 50 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 25 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (3.47%) MySQL
7 20 (3.15%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.68%) Redis
9 13 (2.05%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.58%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.26%) Big Data
12 7 (1.10%) Metadata
13 6 (0.95%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.79%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.47%) Apache Hive
16 3 (0.47%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 59 (9.31%) Git
2 45 (7.10%) GitLab
3 44 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.21%) Cucumber
5 18 (2.84%) JMeter
6 15 (2.37%) JIRA
6 15 (2.37%) JUnit
7 13 (2.05%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.58%) Gatling
8 10 (1.58%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.95%) Mockito
10 5 (0.79%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.63%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.63%) Spock
12 3 (0.47%) Selenium
12 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.47%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
General
1 152 (23.97%) Finance
2 108 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 40 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (5.99%) Banking
5 36 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.05%) Games
7 27 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 27 (4.26%) Law
7 27 (4.26%) Retail
8 24 (3.79%) Public Sector
9 19 (3.00%) Back Office
10 11 (1.74%) Front Office
10 11 (1.74%) Polish Language
11 9 (1.42%) Advertising
12 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.79%) Electronics
15 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 150 (23.66%) Senior
2 143 (22.56%) Developer
3 123 (19.40%) Software Engineer
4 71 (11.20%) Principal Engineer
5 67 (10.57%) Lead
6 56 (8.83%) Java Engineer
7 54 (8.52%) Architect
8 46 (7.26%) Senior Developer
9 34 (5.36%) Backend Developer
9 34 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 30 (4.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 30 (4.73%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (4.57%) Python Developer
11 29 (4.57%) Python Engineer
12 24 (3.79%) Java Developer
13 21 (3.31%) Principal Java Engineer
14 18 (2.84%) Lead Developer
14 18 (2.84%) Test Engineer
15 16 (2.52%) Data Engineer
15 16 (2.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (15.14%) .NET
2 86 (13.56%) Kafka
3 77 (12.15%) Spring
4 75 (11.83%) React
4 75 (11.83%) REST
5 68 (10.73%) Spring Boot
6 61 (9.62%) RESTful
7 47 (7.41%) gRPC
8 42 (6.62%) Node.js
9 30 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
10 24 (3.79%) AngularJS
11 21 (3.31%) JSON
12 19 (3.00%) ASP.NET
13 18 (2.84%) OAuth
14 17 (2.68%) Django
14 17 (2.68%) LangChain
14 17 (2.68%) OAuth2
14 17 (2.68%) Web Services
15 15 (2.37%) ASP.NET Core
15 15 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 204 (32.18%) Cloud Native
2 72 (11.36%) Video\Live Streaming
3 47 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 46 (7.26%) Over-the-Top Content
5 44 (6.94%) Data Structures
6 30 (4.73%) AI Agents
6 30 (4.73%) Public Cloud
7 26 (4.10%) Low-Code
8 24 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (3.63%) e-Learning
10 19 (3.00%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.68%) Client/Server
12 16 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (2.37%) Life Science
14 14 (2.21%) Equities
14 14 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (1.74%) Onboarding
17 10 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 9 (1.42%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 61 (9.62%) Linux
2 16 (2.52%) Windows
3 3 (0.47%) Unix
3 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.16%) Debian
4 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (56.47%) CI/CD
2 322 (50.79%) Software Engineering
3 282 (44.48%) Microservices
4 198 (31.23%) AI
5 180 (28.39%) Agile
6 172 (27.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 172 (27.13%) Observability
7 171 (26.97%) DevOps
7 171 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (24.29%) Containerisation
9 151 (23.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 146 (23.03%) Test Automation
11 145 (22.87%) Event-Driven
12 133 (20.98%) Machine Learning
13 132 (20.82%) Mentoring
14 104 (16.40%) Clean Code
15 94 (14.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 89 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
17 86 (13.56%) Computer Science
18 84 (13.25%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 303 (47.79%) Python
2 178 (28.08%) Java
3 114 (17.98%) Go
4 113 (17.82%) SQL
5 101 (15.93%) C#
6 79 (12.46%) TypeScript
7 76 (11.99%) JavaScript
8 55 (8.68%) C++
9 50 (7.89%) Scala
10 37 (5.84%) Rust
11 17 (2.68%) Bash
12 16 (2.52%) C
13 10 (1.58%) PHP
14 9 (1.42%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.26%) Bicep
16 7 (1.10%) Groovy
17 6 (0.95%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.79%) Perl
19 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
20 3 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 81 (12.78%) Degree
2 50 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 28 (4.42%) SC Cleared
5 27 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.89%) PhD
9 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.16%) HND
11 1 (0.16%) ISEB
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.83%) QA
2 11 (1.74%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.42%) GDPR
4 7 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.16%) NIST
8 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 166 (26.18%) Docker
2 17 (2.68%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.21%) KVM
4 10 (1.58%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 152 (23.97%) Kubernetes
2 107 (16.88%) Terraform
3 28 (4.42%) Ansible
4 20 (3.15%) Grafana
5 15 (2.37%) Kibana
6 14 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.95%) Argo
8 4 (0.63%) Packer
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.47%) SCCM
10 1 (0.16%) Graylog
10 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 56 (8.83%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.10%) Typelevel
3 19 (3.00%) Google
4 17 (2.68%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.68%) Oracle
4 17 (2.68%) VMware
5 15 (2.37%) Dynatrace
5 15 (2.37%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.05%) Splunk
7 8 (1.26%) IBM
8 7 (1.10%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.10%) Solace
9 6 (0.95%) Databricks
10 3 (0.47%) Adobe
11 2 (0.32%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.32%) Pega
11 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.32%) WSO2
12 1 (0.16%) ServiceNow