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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 347 385
Rank change year-on-year +100 +38 +13
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 708 342 506
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.79% 0.79% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.11% 1.89% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 432 196 297
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,065 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,875 £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 £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £139,088 £145,000
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 22,787 18,129 26,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.57% 41.90% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,055 9,125 17,121
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,346
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% -14.73%

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 24 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 24 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 +68 427 £95,000 -13.64% 414
North of England +15 120 £75,000 -4.46% 71
North West +46 84 £82,500 -2.94% 39
South East +10 79 £64,250 -14.33% 72
Midlands -24 29 £82,500 +11.86% 23
South West -35 29 £85,000 -12.82% 23
West Midlands -25 19 £85,000 +17.24% 17
Yorkshire -38 19 £75,000 -3.23% 10
East of England +3 17 £76,250 - 12
North East -36 17 £60,000 -34.92% 22
East Midlands -24 10 £76,000 -0.33% 6
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 15 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.71%) Apache
2 5 (0.71%) Apache Pig
2 5 (0.71%) Camunda
2 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.56%) Confluence
3 4 (0.56%) JBoss
4 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.42%) IIS
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.28%) nginx
5 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.14%) Solana
6 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 390 (55.08%) AWS
2 223 (31.50%) Azure
3 156 (22.03%) GCP
4 77 (10.88%) Serverless
5 49 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (6.78%) SaaS
7 43 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (5.37%) GitHub
9 37 (5.23%) Amazon S3
9 37 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (2.82%) Datadog
14 19 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (2.26%) Amazon EventBridge
17 15 (2.12%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 81 (11.44%) Broadband
2 14 (1.98%) HTTP
3 9 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.85%) Internet
5 5 (0.71%) DNS
5 5 (0.71%) Firewall
6 4 (0.56%) MQTT
7 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 2 (0.28%) AMQP
8 2 (0.28%) VoIP
9 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.14%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.14%) LTE
9 1 (0.14%) Network Security
9 1 (0.14%) RTSP
9 1 (0.14%) SCTP
9 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.14%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (10.45%) NoSQL
3 56 (7.91%) MongoDB
4 30 (4.24%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (3.67%) MySQL
6 24 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.25%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.97%) Redis
9 20 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.55%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.41%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.41%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.27%) Metadata
13 8 (1.13%) Big Data
14 6 (0.85%) Apache Hive
15 5 (0.71%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.42%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 67 (9.46%) Git
2 56 (7.91%) GitLab
3 46 (6.50%) Jenkins
4 37 (5.23%) Cucumber
5 23 (3.25%) JUnit
6 18 (2.54%) JMeter
7 16 (2.26%) JIRA
8 11 (1.55%) Claude Code
8 11 (1.55%) LoadRunner
9 10 (1.41%) Gatling
9 10 (1.41%) Mockito
10 8 (1.13%) Spock
11 6 (0.85%) Selenium
12 5 (0.71%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.56%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.42%) MLflow
14 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.42%) WinDbg
15 2 (0.28%) Jaeger
General
1 161 (22.74%) Finance
2 128 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 47 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.93%) Banking
4 42 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (4.10%) Games
6 28 (3.95%) Retail
7 27 (3.81%) Law
8 26 (3.67%) Financial Institution
8 26 (3.67%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.40%) Front Office
10 16 (2.26%) Back Office
11 12 (1.69%) Advertising
12 9 (1.27%) Polish Language
13 7 (0.99%) Electronics
13 7 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.99%) Marketing
14 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 173 (24.44%) Senior
2 162 (22.88%) Developer
3 135 (19.07%) Software Engineer
4 82 (11.58%) Lead
5 75 (10.59%) Principal Engineer
6 68 (9.60%) Java Engineer
7 59 (8.33%) Architect
8 53 (7.49%) Senior Developer
9 40 (5.65%) Backend Developer
9 40 (5.65%) Python Developer
10 38 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (5.23%) Python Engineer
12 30 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 30 (4.24%) Scala Engineer
13 27 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.67%) Java Developer
15 24 (3.39%) Principal Java Engineer
16 19 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (2.68%) Senior Backend Developer
16 19 (2.68%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (15.54%) .NET
2 107 (15.11%) Kafka
3 101 (14.27%) Spring
4 91 (12.85%) React
5 88 (12.43%) REST
6 87 (12.29%) Spring Boot
7 72 (10.17%) RESTful
8 52 (7.34%) Node.js
9 47 (6.64%) gRPC
10 36 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
11 33 (4.66%) AngularJS
12 23 (3.25%) OAuth
13 22 (3.11%) JSON
13 22 (3.11%) OAuth2
14 20 (2.82%) ASP.NET
14 20 (2.82%) LangChain
15 19 (2.68%) Django
15 19 (2.68%) FastAPI
16 17 (2.40%) Web Services
17 16 (2.26%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 230 (32.49%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.03%) Video\Live Streaming
3 48 (6.78%) Algorithms
4 45 (6.36%) Over-the-Top Content
5 43 (6.07%) Data Structures
6 34 (4.80%) AI Agents
6 34 (4.80%) Public Cloud
7 28 (3.95%) Low-Code
8 27 (3.81%) e-Learning
9 26 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (3.11%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (2.40%) Product Ownership
12 16 (2.26%) Equities
13 15 (2.12%) Life Science
14 13 (1.84%) Client/Server
14 13 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.46%) Linux
2 14 (1.98%) Windows
3 7 (0.99%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Debian
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (59.04%) CI/CD
2 353 (49.86%) Software Engineering
3 318 (44.92%) Microservices
4 249 (35.17%) AI
5 208 (29.38%) Observability
6 204 (28.81%) Agile
7 199 (28.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 198 (27.97%) DevOps
9 178 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (23.87%) Containerisation
10 169 (23.87%) Event-Driven
11 161 (22.74%) Test Automation
12 157 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 157 (22.18%) Mentoring
13 148 (20.90%) Machine Learning
14 113 (15.96%) Clean Code
15 112 (15.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 108 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
17 88 (12.43%) Coaching
18 85 (12.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 339 (47.88%) Python
2 208 (29.38%) Java
3 139 (19.63%) SQL
4 116 (16.38%) Go
5 108 (15.25%) C#
6 96 (13.56%) TypeScript
7 91 (12.85%) JavaScript
8 55 (7.77%) C++
9 51 (7.20%) Scala
10 30 (4.24%) Rust
11 20 (2.82%) Bash
12 14 (1.98%) C
13 11 (1.55%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.41%) PHP
15 8 (1.13%) Bicep
15 8 (1.13%) Groovy
16 7 (0.99%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.71%) Perl
18 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (11.30%) Degree
2 46 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 46 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 34 (4.80%) AWS Certification
4 29 (4.10%) SC Cleared
5 27 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.69%) PhD
7 9 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.14%) HND
9 1 (0.14%) ISEB
9 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.05%) QA
2 9 (1.27%) GDPR
3 7 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.99%) SOC 2
4 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 186 (26.27%) Docker
2 14 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.84%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.55%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.55%) KVM
5 6 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (24.15%) Kubernetes
2 120 (16.95%) Terraform
3 30 (4.24%) Ansible
4 22 (3.11%) Grafana
5 16 (2.26%) Kibana
6 15 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.85%) Argo
8 4 (0.56%) Packer
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.42%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) Graylog
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.14%) Podman
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.36%) Typelevel
3 30 (4.24%) Google
4 23 (3.25%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.11%) AppDynamics
6 18 (2.54%) Oracle
7 17 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.40%) Splunk
8 14 (1.98%) VMware
9 11 (1.55%) IBM
10 8 (1.13%) Databricks
10 8 (1.13%) Solace
11 7 (0.99%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.42%) Adobe
12 3 (0.42%) Facebook
12 3 (0.42%) Instagram
12 3 (0.42%) TikTok
13 2 (0.28%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.28%) Pega
13 2 (0.28%) Salesforce