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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 307 340
Rank change year-on-year +13 +33 -52
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 353 451 373
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.90% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 2.42% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 236 288 279
10th Percentile £64,375 £48,250 £46,350
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £137,500 £144,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £84,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% +5.00% -5.88%

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 18,759 18,609 16,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.60% 37.21% 36.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,490 8,973 12,676
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,050 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 27 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 27 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 +12 240 £112,500 +15.38% 389
North of England -6 67 £75,000 +11.11% 244
North West +27 37 £74,401 +7.35% 132
South East +4 35 £68,750 +14.58% 273
Yorkshire -29 29 £75,000 +33.93% 94
Midlands +29 12 £75,000 +8.21% 172
East of England +27 12 £82,500 +13.79% 160
West Midlands +24 6 £75,000 +8.21% 89
East Midlands +1 6 £77,500 - 70
South West -7 5 £82,500 -12.93% 93
North East +11 1 £73,801 +6.48% 20
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 46 (13.03%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.25%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.83%) Apache
5 5 (1.42%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.42%) Confluence
5 5 (1.42%) IIS
6 4 (1.13%) Appian
7 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.57%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 208 (58.92%) AWS
2 136 (38.53%) Azure
3 101 (28.61%) GCP
4 57 (16.15%) Serverless
5 43 (12.18%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (8.78%) SaaS
8 22 (6.23%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.95%) GitHub
10 19 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 17 (4.82%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (3.12%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (3.12%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (3.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.12%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.13%) HTTP
2 4 (1.13%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.85%) BGP
3 3 (0.85%) VLAN
3 3 (0.85%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) AMQP
4 2 (0.57%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.57%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (18.13%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (17.00%) NoSQL
3 43 (12.18%) Relational Database
4 38 (10.76%) Hadoop
5 37 (10.48%) Big Data
6 32 (9.07%) MongoDB
7 27 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (7.37%) DynamoDB
9 25 (7.08%) SQL Server
10 24 (6.80%) RDBMS
11 22 (6.23%) Redis
12 17 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (4.25%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (4.25%) MySQL
14 13 (3.68%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (3.12%) DataStage
16 11 (3.12%) Neo4j
16 11 (3.12%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 42 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.05%) Git
3 18 (5.10%) JMeter
3 18 (5.10%) JUnit
4 15 (4.25%) GitLab
5 13 (3.68%) Mockito
6 9 (2.55%) JIRA
7 4 (1.13%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.13%) Maven
7 4 (1.13%) Postman
7 4 (1.13%) Selenium
7 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.85%) MLflow
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.57%) JConsole
9 2 (0.57%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 99 (28.05%) Finance
2 84 (23.80%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.20%) Banking
5 35 (9.92%) Financial Institution
6 28 (7.93%) Public Sector
7 25 (7.08%) Law
8 22 (6.23%) Telecoms
9 18 (5.10%) Front Office
9 18 (5.10%) Retail
10 13 (3.68%) Marketing
11 12 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.83%) Back Office
13 8 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.70%) Games
14 6 (1.70%) Legal
15 5 (1.42%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (1.13%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 104 (29.46%) Developer
2 98 (27.76%) Senior
3 78 (22.10%) Software Engineer
4 67 (18.98%) Lead
5 53 (15.01%) Java Developer
6 30 (8.50%) Principal Engineer
7 25 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (7.08%) Data Engineer
7 25 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (5.95%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 21 (5.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 21 (5.95%) Senior Developer
9 19 (5.38%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 19 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (5.10%) Lead Developer
11 17 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.25%) C# Developer
13 13 (3.68%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 13 (3.68%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (26.63%) Kafka
2 63 (17.85%) REST
3 62 (17.56%) Spring
4 57 (16.15%) Spring Boot
5 54 (15.30%) React
6 52 (14.73%) .NET
7 37 (10.48%) Node.js
8 35 (9.92%) RESTful
9 28 (7.93%) Web Services
10 26 (7.37%) Django
11 24 (6.80%) HTML
12 21 (5.95%) gRPC
13 20 (5.67%) Hibernate
13 20 (5.67%) JSON
14 18 (5.10%) AngularJS
14 18 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (5.10%) FastAPI
15 17 (4.82%) Apache Camel
15 17 (4.82%) XML
16 16 (4.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 115 (32.58%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.90%) Algorithms
3 37 (10.48%) Product Ownership
4 27 (7.65%) Data Structures
5 18 (5.10%) Equities
5 18 (5.10%) Legacy Code
6 17 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.82%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.97%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.68%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (3.68%) e-Learning
10 10 (2.83%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.27%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.98%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (1.13%) Hackathon
14 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.60%) Linux
2 12 (3.40%) Unix
3 9 (2.55%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (47.88%) Microservices
2 166 (47.03%) CI/CD
3 137 (38.81%) Software Engineering
4 130 (36.83%) Agile
5 105 (29.75%) DevOps
6 92 (26.06%) Containerisation
7 84 (23.80%) AI
8 79 (22.38%) Mentoring
9 78 (22.10%) Computer Science
10 77 (21.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 74 (20.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 67 (18.98%) Machine Learning
12 67 (18.98%) Roadmaps
13 66 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (17.28%) Event-Driven
15 57 (16.15%) Low Latency
16 56 (15.86%) TDD
17 55 (15.58%) Analytics
18 53 (15.01%) Observability
19 52 (14.73%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 173 (49.01%) Java
2 158 (44.76%) Python
3 73 (20.68%) SQL
4 69 (19.55%) Go
5 62 (17.56%) C#
6 49 (13.88%) JavaScript
7 43 (12.18%) TypeScript
8 33 (9.35%) C++
9 30 (8.50%) Scala
10 22 (6.23%) Rust
11 20 (5.67%) C
12 15 (4.25%) Bash
13 14 (3.97%) Shell Script
14 10 (2.83%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.27%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.42%) R
17 4 (1.13%) Groovy
18 2 (0.57%) COBOL
19 1 (0.28%) Bicep
19 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (20.40%) Degree
2 43 (12.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.65%) Master's Degree
4 25 (7.08%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.67%) PhD
6 10 (2.83%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.42%) MBA
9 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.53%) QA
2 14 (3.97%) GDPR
3 9 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.98%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.13%) SLA
8 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.85%) WCAG
9 2 (0.57%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 111 (31.44%) Docker
2 14 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.97%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.55%) HDFS
4 5 (1.42%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) Ceph
6 2 (0.57%) Lustre
6 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 144 (40.79%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.61%) Terraform
3 31 (8.78%) Ansible
4 17 (4.82%) Kibana
5 12 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.12%) Grafana
7 5 (1.42%) logstash
8 4 (1.13%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.13%) Rancher
8 4 (1.13%) vRealize
9 3 (0.85%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.57%) Puppet
10 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (5.10%) Databricks
1 18 (5.10%) Google
2 17 (4.82%) Dynatrace
3 14 (3.97%) Splunk
4 13 (3.68%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.68%) Oracle
5 11 (3.12%) Informatica
5 11 (3.12%) Talend
6 6 (1.70%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.42%) BT
7 5 (1.42%) Dell
7 5 (1.42%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.42%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.42%) Nokia
7 5 (1.42%) SAP
8 4 (1.13%) Pega
8 4 (1.13%) VMware
8 4 (1.13%) WSO2
9 3 (0.85%) Solace
10 2 (0.57%) Confluent