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 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 348 437
Rank change year-on-year +89 +89 -44
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 599 332 481
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 0.84% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 1.94% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 350 187 309
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £140,677 £148,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 20,716 17,079 31,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.13% 43.43% 33.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13,570 8,136 21,205
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +61 366 £97,500 -7.14% 140
North of England +9 104 £80,000 +1.91% 52
South East -1 77 £67,500 -10.00% 60
North West +59 76 £88,750 +13.06% 31
Midlands -15 21 £87,500 +16.67% 7
South West -50 17 £85,000 -12.82% 27
Yorkshire -49 16 £75,000 -3.23% 9
West Midlands -22 12 £87,500 +20.69% 5
North East -33 12 £60,000 -34.92% 12
East of England -8 10 £72,500 - 9
East Midlands -28 9 £72,000 -8.28% 2
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 13 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.17%) Apache
2 7 (1.17%) IIS
2 7 (1.17%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.67%) Confluence
3 4 (0.67%) JBoss
4 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.17%) Solana
6 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 350 (58.43%) AWS
2 183 (30.55%) Azure
3 153 (25.54%) GCP
4 66 (11.02%) Serverless
5 48 (8.01%) SaaS
6 41 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (5.18%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (5.18%) Amazon S3
9 29 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (4.51%) GitHub
11 25 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (2.67%) Datadog
15 15 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.00%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.69%) Broadband
2 13 (2.17%) HTTP
3 10 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.83%) DNS
4 5 (0.83%) Firewall
5 3 (0.50%) BGP
5 3 (0.50%) DHCP
5 3 (0.50%) VLAN
5 3 (0.50%) VoIP
5 3 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.33%) RTP
6 2 (0.33%) SS7
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) MQTT
7 1 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-485
7 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.02%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (8.35%) MongoDB
2 50 (8.35%) NoSQL
3 27 (4.51%) Relational Database
4 25 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (3.34%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (3.01%) MySQL
7 16 (2.67%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.67%) Redis
8 15 (2.50%) BigQuery
9 13 (2.17%) Big Data
10 9 (1.50%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.34%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.00%) Tableau
13 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.83%) Metadata
14 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.67%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 59 (9.85%) Git
2 44 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 40 (6.68%) GitLab
4 30 (5.01%) Cucumber
5 18 (3.01%) JMeter
6 15 (2.50%) JIRA
7 13 (2.17%) JUnit
8 11 (1.84%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.67%) Gatling
9 10 (1.67%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.83%) Mockito
10 5 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.50%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.33%) Selenium
13 2 (0.33%) Spock
General
1 144 (24.04%) Finance
2 101 (16.86%) Social Skills
3 45 (7.51%) Banking
4 39 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.34%) Games
7 31 (5.18%) Law
8 29 (4.84%) Financial Institution
9 27 (4.51%) Retail
10 24 (4.01%) Public Sector
11 21 (3.51%) Back Office
12 12 (2.00%) Front Office
13 11 (1.84%) Polish Language
14 9 (1.50%) Advertising
14 9 (1.50%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.17%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.67%) Electronics
17 4 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 147 (24.54%) Senior
2 141 (23.54%) Developer
3 117 (19.53%) Software Engineer
4 61 (10.18%) Lead
5 60 (10.02%) Principal Engineer
6 55 (9.18%) Architect
7 52 (8.68%) Java Engineer
8 48 (8.01%) Senior Developer
9 34 (5.68%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.01%) Python Engineer
10 30 (5.01%) Scala Engineer
11 27 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 27 (4.51%) Python Developer
11 27 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 19 (3.17%) Lead Developer
13 19 (3.17%) Principal Java Engineer
14 18 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 18 (3.01%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (14.69%) Kafka
2 82 (13.69%) .NET
3 73 (12.19%) Spring
4 72 (12.02%) REST
5 65 (10.85%) Spring Boot
6 59 (9.85%) React
6 59 (9.85%) RESTful
7 50 (8.35%) gRPC
8 41 (6.84%) Node.js
9 28 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (3.34%) JSON
10 20 (3.34%) Web Services
11 19 (3.17%) AngularJS
11 19 (3.17%) Django
12 17 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (2.67%) ASP.NET
13 16 (2.67%) OAuth
14 15 (2.50%) OAuth2
15 14 (2.34%) LangChain
16 12 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 181 (30.22%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.19%) Video\Live Streaming
3 51 (8.51%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.85%) Over-the-Top Content
5 45 (7.51%) Data Structures
6 28 (4.67%) Public Cloud
7 25 (4.17%) Low-Code
8 24 (4.01%) AI Agents
9 21 (3.51%) e-Learning
10 19 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (3.17%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.84%) Client/Server
11 17 (2.84%) Equities
12 15 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (2.17%) Life Science
15 11 (1.84%) Blog
15 11 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.52%) Linux
2 16 (2.67%) Windows
3 3 (0.50%) Unix
3 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Debian
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (54.26%) CI/CD
2 283 (47.25%) Software Engineering
3 264 (44.07%) Microservices
4 179 (29.88%) AI
5 170 (28.38%) Agile
6 157 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (25.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 151 (25.21%) Observability
9 145 (24.21%) Containerisation
9 145 (24.21%) DevOps
10 144 (24.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (22.20%) Machine Learning
12 128 (21.37%) Event-Driven
12 128 (21.37%) Test Automation
13 110 (18.36%) Mentoring
14 99 (16.53%) Clean Code
15 91 (15.19%) Computer Science
16 80 (13.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 77 (12.85%) Coaching
17 77 (12.85%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 293 (48.91%) Python
2 174 (29.05%) Java
3 118 (19.70%) Go
4 102 (17.03%) SQL
5 91 (15.19%) C#
6 68 (11.35%) JavaScript
7 64 (10.68%) TypeScript
8 57 (9.52%) C++
8 57 (9.52%) Scala
9 37 (6.18%) Rust
10 16 (2.67%) C
11 15 (2.50%) Bash
12 9 (1.50%) PHP
12 9 (1.50%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.34%) Bicep
14 7 (1.17%) Groovy
15 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.83%) Perl
17 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (13.69%) Degree
2 55 (9.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (5.68%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.51%) SC Cleared
5 23 (3.84%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (3.51%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.67%) PhD
9 4 (0.67%) MBA
10 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) HND
12 1 (0.17%) ISEB
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.35%) QA
2 13 (2.17%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.17%) GDPR
5 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 161 (26.88%) Docker
2 17 (2.84%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.34%) KVM
4 10 (1.67%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.33%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 150 (25.04%) Kubernetes
2 97 (16.19%) Terraform
3 25 (4.17%) Ansible
4 18 (3.01%) Grafana
5 15 (2.50%) Kibana
6 12 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.67%) Argo
7 4 (0.67%) Packer
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.50%) SCCM
9 1 (0.17%) Graylog
9 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 48 (8.01%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.51%) Typelevel
3 21 (3.51%) Google
4 17 (2.84%) Oracle
4 17 (2.84%) VMware
5 15 (2.50%) AppDynamics
6 14 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.84%) Splunk
8 10 (1.67%) Databricks
9 8 (1.34%) IBM
10 7 (1.17%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.17%) Solace
11 4 (0.67%) BT
12 3 (0.50%) Adobe
13 2 (0.33%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.33%) Pega
13 2 (0.33%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.33%) WSO2