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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 369 412
Rank change year-on-year +97 +43 -38
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 546 291 478
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.74% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% 1.72% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 303 191 321
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,677 £147,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +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 21,975 16,939 29,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.74% 43.00% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,610 8,290 20,856
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +87 340 £97,500 -2.50% 220
North of England -11 93 £80,000 +3.23% 52
South East +5 75 £70,000 +7.69% 65
North West +34 62 £95,000 +19.87% 37
Yorkshire -51 24 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Midlands -24 17 £87,500 +16.67% 8
South West -53 14 £94,000 -3.59% 21
East of England -8 10 £77,500 - 7
East Midlands -24 9 £86,000 +10.97% 2
West Midlands -31 8 £87,500 +20.69% 6
North East -39 7 £60,000 -13.52% 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 16 (2.93%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.38%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.47%) IIS
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.73%) Apache
5 4 (0.73%) Confluence
5 4 (0.73%) JBoss
6 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.18%) Solana
8 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 326 (59.71%) AWS
2 174 (31.87%) Azure
3 154 (28.21%) GCP
4 64 (11.72%) Serverless
5 45 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (7.33%) SaaS
7 33 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (4.21%) GitHub
12 22 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (3.11%) Datadog
15 14 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
18 9 (1.65%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.00%) Broadband
2 12 (2.20%) HTTP
3 8 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.92%) DNS
4 5 (0.92%) Firewall
5 3 (0.55%) BGP
5 3 (0.55%) DHCP
5 3 (0.55%) VLAN
5 3 (0.55%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.18%) RTP
6 1 (0.18%) SMS
6 1 (0.18%) SS7
6 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (8.97%) NoSQL
3 43 (7.88%) MongoDB
4 33 (6.04%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (3.66%) DynamoDB
7 19 (3.48%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.11%) BigQuery
9 16 (2.93%) MySQL
10 15 (2.75%) Big Data
10 15 (2.75%) Hadoop
11 14 (2.56%) Redis
12 13 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.01%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (1.10%) Tableau
16 5 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.92%) Data Mining
16 5 (0.92%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.92%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 57 (10.44%) Git
2 51 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.41%) GitLab
4 20 (3.66%) Cucumber
5 17 (3.11%) JIRA
6 15 (2.75%) JMeter
7 13 (2.38%) JUnit
8 10 (1.83%) Gatling
9 9 (1.65%) LoadRunner
9 9 (1.65%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.47%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.92%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.92%) Maven
11 5 (0.92%) Mockito
12 4 (0.73%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.55%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.37%) Selenium
14 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 138 (25.27%) Finance
2 93 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 43 (7.88%) Banking
4 41 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (6.41%) Law
7 26 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 25 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 24 (4.40%) Retail
10 23 (4.21%) Games
11 21 (3.85%) Back Office
12 12 (2.20%) Front Office
13 11 (2.01%) Polish Language
14 10 (1.83%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.28%) Advertising
15 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.92%) Marketing
17 5 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 129 (23.63%) Senior
2 125 (22.89%) Developer
3 108 (19.78%) Software Engineer
4 53 (9.71%) Architect
4 53 (9.71%) Principal Engineer
5 51 (9.34%) Lead
6 42 (7.69%) Java Engineer
7 41 (7.51%) Senior Developer
8 32 (5.86%) Java Developer
9 30 (5.49%) Backend Developer
9 30 (5.49%) Scala Engineer
10 23 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (4.03%) Python Engineer
12 19 (3.48%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.48%) Python Developer
13 17 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (2.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 16 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (2.75%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.20%) Kafka
2 74 (13.55%) REST
3 73 (13.37%) Spring
4 69 (12.64%) .NET
5 64 (11.72%) Spring Boot
6 53 (9.71%) gRPC
7 51 (9.34%) RESTful
8 49 (8.97%) React
9 37 (6.78%) Node.js
10 25 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
10 25 (4.58%) Web Services
11 23 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
12 22 (4.03%) Django
13 20 (3.66%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.66%) JSON
14 15 (2.75%) OAuth
15 14 (2.56%) HTML
15 14 (2.56%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.38%) ASP.NET
16 13 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (27.29%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.54%) Video\Live Streaming
3 50 (9.16%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.61%) Over-the-Top Content
5 44 (8.06%) Data Structures
6 23 (4.21%) Product Ownership
7 22 (4.03%) Public Cloud
8 17 (3.11%) AI Agents
8 17 (3.11%) Client/Server
8 17 (3.11%) Equities
8 17 (3.11%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.75%) e-Learning
9 15 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (2.01%) Blog
11 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.83%) Life Science
13 8 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.34%) Linux
2 16 (2.93%) Windows
3 4 (0.73%) Android
4 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (54.40%) CI/CD
2 253 (46.34%) Software Engineering
3 249 (45.60%) Microservices
4 160 (29.30%) Agile
5 148 (27.11%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (25.82%) Containerisation
7 140 (25.64%) AI
8 135 (24.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 134 (24.54%) DevOps
10 120 (21.98%) Observability
11 119 (21.79%) Machine Learning
12 118 (21.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 105 (19.23%) Event-Driven
14 99 (18.13%) Test Automation
15 93 (17.03%) Computer Science
16 89 (16.30%) Clean Code
17 88 (16.12%) Mentoring
18 72 (13.19%) Data Science
18 72 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
19 69 (12.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 262 (47.99%) Python
2 174 (31.87%) Java
3 108 (19.78%) Go
4 82 (15.02%) C#
5 79 (14.47%) SQL
6 70 (12.82%) JavaScript
7 58 (10.62%) Scala
8 56 (10.26%) TypeScript
9 54 (9.89%) C++
10 37 (6.78%) Rust
11 15 (2.75%) Bash
11 15 (2.75%) C
12 11 (2.01%) Groovy
13 10 (1.83%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.28%) Bicep
15 6 (1.10%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.92%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.92%) Perl
16 5 (0.92%) PHP
16 5 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 85 (15.57%) Degree
2 58 (10.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (5.86%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.03%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.20%) PhD
9 5 (0.92%) MBA
10 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.24%) QA
2 13 (2.38%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.92%) GDPR
5 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.37%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 167 (30.59%) Docker
2 17 (3.11%) Hyper-V
2 17 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.56%) KVM
4 10 (1.83%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (26.74%) Kubernetes
2 85 (15.57%) Terraform
3 30 (5.49%) Ansible
4 14 (2.56%) Grafana
5 13 (2.38%) Kibana
6 10 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.73%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.73%) Packer
8 3 (0.55%) Argo
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.55%) SCCM
9 1 (0.18%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.24%) Typelevel
2 43 (7.88%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.85%) Google
4 18 (3.30%) Oracle
5 17 (3.11%) VMware
6 15 (2.75%) AppDynamics
7 14 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.65%) Databricks
8 9 (1.65%) Splunk
9 8 (1.47%) IBM
10 6 (1.10%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.10%) Solace
11 5 (0.92%) BT
11 5 (0.92%) Informatica
11 5 (0.92%) Talend
12 3 (0.55%) Adobe
12 3 (0.55%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.37%) WSO2