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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 321 379
Rank change year-on-year +35 +58 -68
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 406 383 429
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.86% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 2.26% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 256 239 333
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -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 19,351 16,925 23,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.22% 37.82% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,916 7,953 17,804
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,619 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.61% -14.62%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,571
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.57% -14.51%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +36 273 £107,500 +10.26% 144
North of England -5 74 £75,000 +10.29% 34
North West +47 44 £75,000 +8.21% 23
South East -10 38 £72,500 +16.00% 51
Yorkshire -41 29 £75,000 +10.29% 7
East of England +23 14 £82,500 +13.79% 8
Midlands +15 12 £75,000 +8.21% 16
East Midlands -7 8 £100,000 - 3
South West -15 6 £83,750 - 7
West Midlands +9 4 £75,000 +8.21% 13
North East -11 1 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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 42 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.69%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.46%) Apache
5 5 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.23%) IIS
5 5 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.99%) Appian
7 2 (0.49%) Confluence
7 2 (0.49%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 246 (60.59%) AWS
2 150 (36.95%) Azure
3 126 (31.03%) GCP
4 53 (13.05%) Serverless
5 45 (11.08%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (10.34%) SaaS
7 39 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (6.40%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.17%) GitHub
10 19 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (3.94%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 15 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.71%) Amazon ECR
16 10 (2.46%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.96%) Broadband
3 6 (1.48%) BGP
3 6 (1.48%) HTTP
3 6 (1.48%) VLAN
3 6 (1.48%) VPN
4 4 (0.99%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.49%) InfiniBand
5 2 (0.49%) Multicast
6 1 (0.25%) 4G
6 1 (0.25%) 5G
6 1 (0.25%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) RTP
6 1 (0.25%) SS7
6 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (14.04%) NoSQL
3 37 (9.11%) Relational Database
4 35 (8.62%) Hadoop
5 34 (8.37%) Big Data
6 33 (8.13%) MongoDB
7 26 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (6.16%) DynamoDB
8 25 (6.16%) Redis
8 25 (6.16%) SQL Server
9 23 (5.67%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (4.68%) RDBMS
12 15 (3.69%) MySQL
13 14 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (3.20%) Apache Hive
15 10 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.46%) BigQuery
15 10 (2.46%) Neo4j
15 10 (2.46%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 38 (9.36%) Jenkins
2 33 (8.13%) Git
3 18 (4.43%) GitLab
4 15 (3.69%) JMeter
5 14 (3.45%) JUnit
6 9 (2.22%) Mockito
7 8 (1.97%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.48%) JIRA
9 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.99%) Maven
9 4 (0.99%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.74%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.74%) Gatling
11 2 (0.49%) JConsole
11 2 (0.49%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.49%) Postman
11 2 (0.49%) Selenium
11 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.49%) VisualVM
General
1 117 (28.82%) Finance
2 88 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.84%) Banking
4 41 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.61%) Financial Institution
6 36 (8.87%) Law
7 27 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (6.40%) Public Sector
9 25 (6.16%) Retail
10 22 (5.42%) Telecoms
11 19 (4.68%) Back Office
12 13 (3.20%) Front Office
13 12 (2.96%) Marketing
14 10 (2.46%) Games
15 8 (1.97%) Polish Language
16 6 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 5 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.99%) Advertising
18 4 (0.99%) Legal
19 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (28.08%) Senior
2 94 (23.15%) Developer
2 94 (23.15%) Software Engineer
3 69 (17.00%) Lead
4 45 (11.08%) Java Developer
5 40 (9.85%) Principal Engineer
6 26 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (6.40%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.67%) Architect
9 22 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (5.42%) Java Engineer
10 21 (5.17%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.93%) Lead Developer
12 19 (4.68%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 17 (4.19%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 17 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 17 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
14 14 (3.45%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (22.41%) Kafka
2 63 (15.52%) REST
2 63 (15.52%) Spring
3 58 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 49 (12.07%) .NET
5 48 (11.82%) React
6 39 (9.61%) RESTful
7 35 (8.62%) Node.js
8 30 (7.39%) Django
8 30 (7.39%) gRPC
9 24 (5.91%) Web Services
10 19 (4.68%) HTML
11 18 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (4.43%) FastAPI
12 17 (4.19%) AngularJS
12 17 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (3.94%) Hibernate
13 16 (3.94%) JSON
13 16 (3.94%) OAuth
14 13 (3.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 122 (30.05%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.10%) Algorithms
3 35 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 34 (8.37%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.94%) Legacy Code
6 16 (3.94%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.94%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.69%) e-Learning
8 14 (3.45%) Equities
9 13 (3.20%) Video\Live Streaming
10 12 (2.96%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.96%) Over-the-Top Content
11 10 (2.46%) Data Centre
11 10 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.97%) Blog
12 8 (1.97%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.48%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.29%) Linux
2 12 (2.96%) Unix
3 9 (2.22%) Android
4 4 (0.99%) Windows
5 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (46.55%) CI/CD
2 188 (46.31%) Microservices
3 169 (41.63%) Software Engineering
4 135 (33.25%) Agile
5 112 (27.59%) DevOps
6 101 (24.88%) Containerisation
7 91 (22.41%) Computer Science
8 87 (21.43%) AI
8 87 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (20.94%) Mentoring
10 81 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (17.73%) Event-Driven
12 70 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 70 (17.24%) Machine Learning
13 69 (17.00%) Roadmaps
14 64 (15.76%) Observability
15 61 (15.02%) Analytics
16 53 (13.05%) TDD
17 47 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
18 46 (11.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 183 (45.07%) Java
2 168 (41.38%) Python
3 86 (21.18%) Go
4 65 (16.01%) C#
4 65 (16.01%) SQL
5 48 (11.82%) C++
6 45 (11.08%) JavaScript
7 40 (9.85%) Scala
7 40 (9.85%) TypeScript
8 33 (8.13%) Rust
9 24 (5.91%) C
10 12 (2.96%) Bash
11 9 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.22%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.97%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.23%) R
14 4 (0.99%) Groovy
15 3 (0.74%) Ruby
16 2 (0.49%) COBOL
16 2 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (20.20%) Degree
2 55 (13.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (6.65%) Master's Degree
4 24 (5.91%) Security Cleared
5 15 (3.69%) PhD
6 13 (3.20%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.96%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.23%) MBA
10 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.17%) QA
2 15 (3.69%) GDPR
3 13 (3.20%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.20%) SOC 2
4 7 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.99%) SLA
7 2 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (30.05%) Docker
2 14 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.22%) HDFS
4 8 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.23%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.23%) KVM
6 2 (0.49%) Ceph
6 2 (0.49%) Lustre
6 2 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 141 (34.73%) Kubernetes
2 50 (12.32%) Terraform
3 30 (7.39%) Ansible
4 14 (3.45%) Kibana
5 11 (2.71%) Grafana
5 11 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.23%) logstash
7 4 (0.99%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.74%) Rancher
8 3 (0.74%) vRealize
9 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.49%) Puppet
9 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (5.42%) Google
2 19 (4.68%) Databricks
3 12 (2.96%) Dynatrace
3 12 (2.96%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.71%) Oracle
4 11 (2.71%) Splunk
5 10 (2.46%) Informatica
5 10 (2.46%) Talend
5 10 (2.46%) Typelevel
6 8 (1.97%) VMware
7 6 (1.48%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.23%) BT
8 5 (1.23%) Dell
8 5 (1.23%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.23%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.23%) Nokia
9 4 (0.99%) Pega
9 4 (0.99%) SAP
9 4 (0.99%) Solace
9 4 (0.99%) WSO2