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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 318 365
Rank change year-on-year +19 +47 -88
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 360 500 357
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.77% 0.86% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 2.45% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 235 304 270
10th Percentile £66,600 £53,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £151,500 £140,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -3.03% -2.94%

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 16,558 20,391 17,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.19% 35.09% 38.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9,484 9,919 13,036
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,628 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +24 256 £112,500 +15.38% 82
North of England -24 66 £75,000 +11.11% 21
North West +25 36 £75,000 +11.11% 17
South East +26 32 £70,000 +14.29% 41
Yorkshire -27 29 £75,000 +33.93% 4
Midlands +51 16 £74,401 +7.35% 4
East of England +23 10 £82,500 +13.79% 19
West Midlands +48 8 £75,000 +8.21% 4
East Midlands +30 8 £70,000 -
South West +9 4 £87,500 -7.89% 7
North East +11 1 £73,801 +6.48%
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 47 (13.06%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.78%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.22%) Apache
5 6 (1.67%) Confluence
6 4 (1.11%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.83%) Appian
7 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) JBoss
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 209 (58.06%) AWS
2 128 (35.56%) Azure
3 94 (26.11%) GCP
4 58 (16.11%) Serverless
5 45 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (12.22%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (9.44%) SaaS
8 22 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (6.11%) GitHub
9 19 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.72%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (3.06%) OpenShift
15 10 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
16 9 (2.50%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.11%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.83%) BGP
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) VLAN
3 3 (0.83%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) AMQP
4 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.56%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (16.94%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 47 (13.06%) Relational Database
4 37 (10.28%) Big Data
5 28 (7.78%) Hadoop
6 27 (7.50%) RDBMS
7 26 (7.22%) MongoDB
8 23 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (5.83%) DynamoDB
10 19 (5.28%) Redis
10 19 (5.28%) SQL Server
11 17 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (3.61%) Apache Hive
13 12 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (3.33%) MySQL
14 8 (2.22%) DataStage
14 8 (2.22%) Neo4j
14 8 (2.22%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 43 (11.94%) Jenkins
2 38 (10.56%) Git
3 24 (6.67%) JMeter
3 24 (6.67%) JUnit
4 19 (5.28%) Mockito
5 15 (4.17%) GitLab
6 9 (2.50%) JIRA
7 6 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.39%) MLflow
9 4 (1.11%) Postman
9 4 (1.11%) Selenium
10 3 (0.83%) Maven
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.56%) JConsole
11 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.56%) VisualVM
General
1 120 (33.33%) Finance
2 83 (23.06%) Social Skills
3 56 (15.56%) Banking
4 44 (12.22%) Law
5 37 (10.28%) Financial Institution
5 37 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (10.28%) Public Sector
6 31 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (5.28%) Front Office
8 18 (5.00%) Retail
8 18 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.89%) Marketing
10 9 (2.50%) Legal
10 9 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.22%) Back Office
11 8 (2.22%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.67%) Games
12 6 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.11%) Polish Language
13 4 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (28.33%) Developer
1 102 (28.33%) Senior
2 100 (27.78%) Software Engineer
3 84 (23.33%) Lead
4 54 (15.00%) Java Developer
5 38 (10.56%) Lead Software Engineer
6 32 (8.89%) Principal Engineer
7 30 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (7.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 27 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (6.94%) Data Engineer
10 24 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (6.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 22 (6.11%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 22 (6.11%) Java Engineer
13 21 (5.83%) Senior Developer
14 20 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (4.72%) C# Developer
16 16 (4.44%) Lead Developer
17 15 (4.17%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (25.83%) Kafka
2 69 (19.17%) Spring
3 60 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 59 (16.39%) REST
5 53 (14.72%) .NET
6 49 (13.61%) React
7 40 (11.11%) RESTful
8 34 (9.44%) Web Services
9 31 (8.61%) Node.js
10 29 (8.06%) Hibernate
10 29 (8.06%) HTML
11 24 (6.67%) Apache Camel
11 24 (6.67%) JSON
12 22 (6.11%) Django
13 21 (5.83%) XML
14 20 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (5.28%) jQuery
15 19 (5.28%) WireMock
16 16 (4.44%) .NET Core
16 16 (4.44%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 129 (35.83%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.22%) Algorithms
3 37 (10.28%) Product Ownership
4 31 (8.61%) Data Structures
5 24 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 22 (6.11%) Legacy Code
7 20 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (5.00%) Management Information System
9 16 (4.44%) Equities
10 13 (3.61%) e-Learning
10 13 (3.61%) Virtual Team
11 12 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
12 11 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (2.50%) Derivative
15 7 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (1.67%) AI Agents
17 5 (1.39%) Data Centre
17 5 (1.39%) Fixed Income
17 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.89%) Linux
2 12 (3.33%) Unix
3 6 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (48.06%) Microservices
2 172 (47.78%) CI/CD
3 163 (45.28%) Software Engineering
4 137 (38.06%) Agile
5 103 (28.61%) DevOps
6 91 (25.28%) Containerisation
7 82 (22.78%) AI
8 81 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (22.50%) Mentoring
9 71 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (19.44%) Computer Science
11 67 (18.61%) Roadmaps
12 64 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (17.22%) Machine Learning
14 58 (16.11%) TDD
15 55 (15.28%) Event-Driven
16 52 (14.44%) Low Latency
16 52 (14.44%) SDLC
17 50 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
18 47 (13.06%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.83%) Java
2 153 (42.50%) Python
3 75 (20.83%) SQL
4 64 (17.78%) C#
5 63 (17.50%) Go
6 52 (14.44%) JavaScript
7 39 (10.83%) C++
8 34 (9.44%) TypeScript
9 28 (7.78%) Scala
10 26 (7.22%) Rust
11 24 (6.67%) C
12 20 (5.56%) Shell Script
13 17 (4.72%) Kotlin
14 13 (3.61%) Bash
15 9 (2.50%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.11%) COBOL
16 4 (1.11%) Groovy
17 1 (0.28%) Bicep
17 1 (0.28%) PHP
17 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (16.11%) Degree
2 34 (9.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 23 (6.39%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.83%) PhD
6 8 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.22%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CEH
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) GIAC
9 1 (0.28%) OSCP
9 1 (0.28%) SANS
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.17%) GDPR
2 13 (3.61%) QA
3 9 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.39%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.39%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.11%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.83%) WCAG
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 117 (32.50%) Docker
2 14 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.89%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.50%) HDFS
4 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.56%) Ceph
6 2 (0.56%) Lustre
6 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 162 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.39%) Terraform
3 30 (8.33%) Ansible
4 23 (6.39%) Kibana
5 12 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.06%) Grafana
7 5 (1.39%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.39%) logstash
8 4 (1.11%) Rancher
8 4 (1.11%) vRealize
9 2 (0.56%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (6.39%) Dynatrace
2 20 (5.56%) Splunk
3 15 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.61%) Google
5 12 (3.33%) Databricks
6 10 (2.78%) Oracle
7 8 (2.22%) Informatica
7 8 (2.22%) Talend
8 5 (1.39%) Dell
8 5 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.39%) SAP
9 4 (1.11%) Ericsson
9 4 (1.11%) Mavenir
9 4 (1.11%) Nokia
9 4 (1.11%) Pega
9 4 (1.11%) VMware
9 4 (1.11%) WSO2
10 3 (0.83%) Foundry
10 3 (0.83%) Palantir
10 3 (0.83%) Solace