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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 339 400
Rank change year-on-year +59 +61 -28
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 514 327 480
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.85% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 2.09% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 285 204 328
10th Percentile £56,750 £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 £107,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,474 £148,250
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 22,811 15,630 29,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.38% 40.67% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11,967 8,371 20,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £82,500 £75,214
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
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 4 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 4 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 +66 328 £100,000 +8.11% 181
North of England -41 87 £80,000 +3.23% 51
South East -20 68 £70,000 +9.80% 58
North West +5 60 £95,000 +18.75% 30
Yorkshire -67 24 £75,000 -3.23% 9
South West -42 14 £83,750 -16.25% 30
Midlands -29 13 £79,750 +8.14% 19
East of England -7 11 £80,000 - 19
East Midlands -35 11 £86,000 +12.79% 12
North East -40 3 £60,000 -13.52% 12
West Midlands -16 2 £75,000 +3.45% 7
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 (2.92%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.33%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.36%) IIS
5 5 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.78%) Appian
7 3 (0.58%) Apache
7 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.58%) JBoss
7 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) Solana
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 311 (60.51%) AWS
2 165 (32.10%) Azure
3 158 (30.74%) GCP
4 58 (11.28%) Serverless
5 43 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (7.59%) SaaS
7 31 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (5.25%) Amazon S3
8 27 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (5.25%) GitHub
9 23 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.70%) Datadog
12 18 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
17 7 (1.36%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.06%) Broadband
2 12 (2.33%) HTTP
3 8 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.78%) BGP
4 4 (0.78%) DNS
4 4 (0.78%) Firewall
4 4 (0.78%) VLAN
4 4 (0.78%) VPN
5 2 (0.39%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.19%) LTE
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.19%) RTP
6 1 (0.19%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) SS7
6 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.12%) NoSQL
2 44 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.03%) MongoDB
3 31 (6.03%) Relational Database
4 27 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (4.28%) DynamoDB
6 21 (4.09%) SQL Server
7 18 (3.50%) BigQuery
8 17 (3.31%) Redis
9 16 (3.11%) MySQL
10 15 (2.92%) Hadoop
11 13 (2.53%) Big Data
12 12 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.75%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.17%) Tableau
16 5 (0.97%) ClickHouse
16 5 (0.97%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.97%) Pinecone
16 5 (0.97%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 52 (10.12%) Git
2 49 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.25%) GitLab
4 17 (3.31%) Cucumber
5 15 (2.92%) JIRA
6 14 (2.72%) JMeter
7 10 (1.95%) Gatling
8 9 (1.75%) JUnit
8 9 (1.75%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.56%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.97%) Maven
11 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.58%) Mockito
12 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.58%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.39%) Selenium
13 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 129 (25.10%) Finance
2 94 (18.29%) Social Skills
3 42 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (7.98%) Banking
5 34 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.42%) Law
7 25 (4.86%) Financial Institution
7 25 (4.86%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.47%) Retail
9 21 (4.09%) Telecoms
10 20 (3.89%) Back Office
11 15 (2.92%) Games
12 12 (2.33%) Front Office
13 10 (1.95%) Marketing
14 9 (1.75%) Advertising
14 9 (1.75%) Polish Language
15 7 (1.36%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.36%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 128 (24.90%) Senior
2 108 (21.01%) Developer
2 108 (21.01%) Software Engineer
3 52 (10.12%) Lead
4 47 (9.14%) Architect
5 43 (8.37%) Principal Engineer
6 35 (6.81%) Java Engineer
7 32 (6.23%) Senior Developer
8 30 (5.84%) Scala Engineer
9 28 (5.45%) Backend Developer
10 27 (5.25%) Java Developer
11 24 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (3.89%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.70%) Python Engineer
14 18 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (2.92%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.92%) Scala Developer
16 15 (2.92%) Scala Software Engineer
17 14 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.37%) Kafka
2 73 (14.20%) REST
3 64 (12.45%) .NET
4 60 (11.67%) gRPC
5 58 (11.28%) Spring
6 53 (10.31%) React
7 51 (9.92%) RESTful
7 51 (9.92%) Spring Boot
8 45 (8.75%) Node.js
9 27 (5.25%) Django
10 26 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (4.28%) Web Services
12 19 (3.70%) JSON
12 19 (3.70%) OAuth
13 18 (3.50%) AngularJS
14 16 (3.11%) OAuth2
15 13 (2.53%) FastAPI
16 12 (2.33%) GraphQL
16 12 (2.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (26.26%) Cloud Native
2 54 (10.51%) Video\Live Streaming
3 51 (9.92%) Algorithms
4 47 (9.14%) Over-the-Top Content
5 46 (8.95%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.67%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.50%) Equities
8 16 (3.11%) Client/Server
8 16 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (3.11%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.33%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.95%) Blog
13 9 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.56%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.56%) Sports Betting
14 8 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (9.14%) Linux
2 14 (2.72%) Windows
3 8 (1.56%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (53.31%) CI/CD
2 243 (47.28%) Microservices
3 237 (46.11%) Software Engineering
4 149 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
5 147 (28.60%) Containerisation
6 144 (28.02%) Agile
7 128 (24.90%) DevOps
8 119 (23.15%) AI
9 117 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 110 (21.40%) Machine Learning
11 107 (20.82%) Observability
12 100 (19.46%) Computer Science
13 96 (18.68%) Event-Driven
14 94 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 86 (16.73%) Clean Code
16 80 (15.56%) Test Automation
17 77 (14.98%) Mentoring
18 74 (14.40%) Roadmaps
19 72 (14.01%) Data Science
20 66 (12.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 240 (46.69%) Python
2 162 (31.52%) Java
3 112 (21.79%) Go
4 77 (14.98%) C#
5 75 (14.59%) SQL
6 57 (11.09%) Scala
7 55 (10.70%) C++
8 54 (10.51%) JavaScript
9 52 (10.12%) TypeScript
10 36 (7.00%) Rust
11 14 (2.72%) C
12 13 (2.53%) Bash
13 9 (1.75%) Groovy
13 9 (1.75%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.97%) R
15 4 (0.78%) Bicep
15 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.78%) Ruby
15 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (17.70%) Degree
2 66 (12.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.25%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.47%) Master's Degree
4 23 (4.47%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.33%) PhD
8 5 (0.97%) MBA
9 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.19%) ISEB
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.37%) QA
2 13 (2.53%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.95%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.36%) GDPR
5 5 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 169 (32.88%) Docker
2 15 (2.92%) Hyper-V
2 15 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.53%) KVM
4 8 (1.56%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 142 (27.63%) Kubernetes
2 77 (14.98%) Terraform
3 33 (6.42%) Ansible
4 14 (2.72%) Grafana
5 11 (2.14%) Kibana
6 10 (1.95%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.78%) Packer
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.58%) SCCM
9 2 (0.39%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.75%) Typelevel
2 31 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.28%) Google
4 15 (2.92%) VMware
5 14 (2.72%) Oracle
6 13 (2.53%) AppDynamics
7 12 (2.33%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.75%) Databricks
9 8 (1.56%) IBM
10 6 (1.17%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.17%) Solace
11 5 (0.97%) BT
11 5 (0.97%) Informatica
11 5 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.97%) Splunk
11 5 (0.97%) Talend
12 4 (0.78%) Ericsson
12 4 (0.78%) Mavenir
12 4 (0.78%) Nokia
13 2 (0.39%) Pega