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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 343 340
Rank change year-on-year +95 -3 +45
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 782 326 510
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.75% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 1.80% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 462 187 306
10th Percentile £53,750 £66,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £114,375
90th Percentile £121,125 £146,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.81% +15.63% -

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 27,039 18,071 22,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.14% 41.81% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,613 9,167 11,311
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +55 467 £95,000 -13.64% 1,222
North of England +17 131 £75,000 -3.23% 142
South East +7 85 £64,250 -14.33% 111
North West +29 81 £80,000 -8.57% 89
South West -44 36 £85,000 -12.82% 76
North East -33 31 £67,500 -41.30% 19
Midlands -39 28 £80,000 +6.67% 62
East of England -7 26 £80,000 -11.11% 44
West Midlands -24 23 £83,750 +11.67% 38
Yorkshire -49 19 £75,000 -1.32% 35
East Midlands -34 5 £75,000 -3.23% 24
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 17 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.28%) Apache
3 8 (1.02%) Confluence
4 6 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.77%) Camunda
4 6 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.64%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.51%) JBoss
7 3 (0.38%) IIS
7 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 417 (53.32%) AWS
2 248 (31.71%) Azure
3 141 (18.03%) GCP
4 80 (10.23%) Serverless
5 67 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (7.54%) GitHub
7 51 (6.52%) SaaS
8 47 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
9 46 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 42 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (2.81%) Datadog
16 21 (2.69%) Anthropic Claude
17 20 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
19 18 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.37%) Broadband
2 17 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.79%) HTTP
4 6 (0.77%) Internet
5 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 4 (0.51%) MQTT
5 4 (0.51%) VPN
6 3 (0.38%) BGP
6 3 (0.38%) DHCP
6 3 (0.38%) Firewall
6 3 (0.38%) Multicast
6 3 (0.38%) X.509
7 2 (0.26%) AMQP
7 2 (0.26%) LTE
7 2 (0.26%) Network Security
7 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.26%) VLAN
7 2 (0.26%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (13.68%) NoSQL
2 101 (12.92%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (7.80%) MongoDB
4 43 (5.50%) Relational Database
5 30 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.71%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.32%) DynamoDB
8 25 (3.20%) Redis
9 23 (2.94%) MySQL
10 22 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.41%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.41%) Metadata
12 10 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.15%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.02%) Big Data
14 8 (1.02%) Flink
15 7 (0.90%) Couchbase
16 6 (0.77%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.77%) Pinecone
17 5 (0.64%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 79 (10.10%) GitLab
2 78 (9.97%) Git
3 53 (6.78%) Cucumber
4 50 (6.39%) Jenkins
5 30 (3.84%) JUnit
6 20 (2.56%) JMeter
7 19 (2.43%) JIRA
8 16 (2.05%) Claude Code
9 14 (1.79%) Mockito
10 12 (1.53%) LoadRunner
10 12 (1.53%) Spock
11 11 (1.41%) Gatling
12 8 (1.02%) Maven
13 6 (0.77%) Selenium
14 5 (0.64%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.64%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.51%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.51%) MLflow
16 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 215 (27.49%) Finance
2 187 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 74 (9.46%) Banking
4 59 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.99%) Public Sector
7 38 (4.86%) Law
7 38 (4.86%) Retail
8 34 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 27 (3.45%) Games
10 20 (2.56%) Front Office
11 17 (2.17%) Back Office
12 13 (1.66%) Marketing
13 12 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.15%) Advertising
15 6 (0.77%) Legal
15 6 (0.77%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.64%) Electronics
16 5 (0.64%) Polish Language
16 5 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 218 (27.88%) Senior
2 178 (22.76%) Developer
3 152 (19.44%) Software Engineer
4 105 (13.43%) Lead
5 86 (11.00%) Java Engineer
5 86 (11.00%) Principal Engineer
6 64 (8.18%) Architect
7 51 (6.52%) Senior Developer
7 51 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (5.75%) Backend Developer
9 40 (5.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 40 (5.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 40 (5.12%) Python Developer
9 40 (5.12%) Python Engineer
10 33 (4.22%) Senior Java Engineer
11 30 (3.84%) Java Developer
12 28 (3.58%) Principal Java Engineer
13 23 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
13 23 (2.94%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (19.69%) Kafka
2 146 (18.67%) Terraform
3 140 (17.90%) Spring
4 139 (17.77%) .NET
5 125 (15.98%) REST
6 117 (14.96%) Spring Boot
7 103 (13.17%) React
8 102 (13.04%) RESTful
9 62 (7.93%) Node.js
10 48 (6.14%) AngularJS
11 44 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.07%) OAuth
13 23 (2.94%) LangChain
13 23 (2.94%) Next.js
14 22 (2.81%) FastAPI
14 22 (2.81%) OAuth2
15 21 (2.69%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.69%) JSON
15 21 (2.69%) OpenTelemetry
16 20 (2.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 293 (37.47%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.65%) AI Agents
3 50 (6.39%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.37%) e-Learning
4 42 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (4.60%) Video\Live Streaming
6 32 (4.09%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.58%) Low-Code
8 27 (3.45%) Onboarding
9 25 (3.20%) Product Ownership
10 24 (3.07%) Data Structures
11 22 (2.81%) IoT
12 21 (2.69%) Distributed Architecture
13 17 (2.17%) Blog
13 17 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 17 (2.17%) Robotics
14 16 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.92%) Equities
15 15 (1.92%) Private Cloud
16 14 (1.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 56 (7.16%) Linux
2 13 (1.66%) Unix
3 11 (1.41%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.64%) VMS
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Debian
6 2 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (60.74%) CI/CD
2 393 (50.26%) Software Engineering
3 367 (46.93%) Microservices
4 312 (39.90%) AI
5 264 (33.76%) Observability
6 250 (31.97%) Event-Driven
7 247 (31.59%) Agile
8 239 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 220 (28.13%) DevOps
10 205 (26.21%) Mentoring
11 198 (25.32%) Test Automation
12 172 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (20.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 152 (19.44%) Containerisation
15 143 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
16 130 (16.62%) Full-Stack Development
17 128 (16.37%) Machine Learning
18 115 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
19 101 (12.92%) Roadmaps
20 96 (12.28%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 315 (40.28%) Python
2 274 (35.04%) Java
3 192 (24.55%) SQL
4 128 (16.37%) C#
5 126 (16.11%) TypeScript
6 110 (14.07%) Go
7 104 (13.30%) JavaScript
8 37 (4.73%) C++
9 24 (3.07%) Bash
10 17 (2.17%) Scala
11 12 (1.53%) Rust
12 11 (1.41%) Groovy
13 10 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.15%) Bicep
14 9 (1.15%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.02%) PHP
16 7 (0.90%) C
17 5 (0.64%) Perl
18 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 69 (8.82%) Degree
3 52 (6.65%) AWS Certification
4 49 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 42 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.02%) PhD
9 4 (0.51%) CISSP
9 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CSPO
12 1 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.06%) QA
2 13 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.02%) GDPR
5 6 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.77%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.51%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.51%) NIST
7 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.13%) GRC
7 1 (0.13%) PSD2
7 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (22.89%) Docker
2 11 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.26%) KVM
5 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 209 (26.73%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.12%) Grafana
3 27 (3.45%) Ansible
4 22 (2.81%) Kibana
4 22 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.28%) Argo
6 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.51%) Packer
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.38%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) Bosun
9 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Cilium
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.65%) Google
3 30 (3.84%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.71%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.69%) Dynatrace
5 21 (2.69%) Oracle
5 21 (2.69%) Splunk
6 11 (1.41%) IBM
7 9 (1.15%) Typelevel
8 8 (1.02%) Databricks
9 6 (0.77%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.77%) Solace
10 5 (0.64%) Adobe
11 4 (0.51%) Facebook
11 4 (0.51%) Instagram
11 4 (0.51%) TikTok
11 4 (0.51%) VMware
12 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.38%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.26%) Reuters