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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 317 396
Rank change year-on-year +38 +79 -81
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 442 342 442
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.87% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 2.22% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 265 224 332
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £139,250 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £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 20,276 15,378 26,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.42% 39.05% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,404 8,001 19,585
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,110 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +11.11% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,013 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -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 11 March 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 March 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 +47 297 £102,500 +5.13% 136
North of England -20 71 £75,000 +8.09% 40
South East -20 48 £72,500 +16.00% 65
North West +12 44 £75,000 +3.45% 19
Yorkshire -43 25 £75,000 - 14
Midlands -7 14 £74,401 +7.35% 16
South West -10 12 £83,750 - 20
East Midlands -23 11 £100,000 - 7
East of England +3 10 £82,500 +13.79% 26
West Midlands -7 3 £73,801 +6.48% 9
North East -21 2 £60,651 -12.54% 7
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 29 (6.56%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.94%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.58%) Apache
5 5 (1.13%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.13%) IIS
6 4 (0.90%) Appian
7 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 265 (59.95%) AWS
2 151 (34.16%) GCP
3 150 (33.94%) Azure
4 43 (9.73%) Serverless
5 41 (9.28%) Amazon ECS
5 41 (9.28%) SaaS
6 32 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (4.98%) Amazon S3
8 20 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (3.85%) GitHub
10 13 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.49%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.04%) Datadog
13 9 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.79%) Broadband
2 17 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.26%) HTTP
4 6 (1.36%) BGP
4 6 (1.36%) VLAN
4 6 (1.36%) VPN
5 5 (1.13%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.45%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.45%) Multicast
7 1 (0.23%) 4G
7 1 (0.23%) 5G
7 1 (0.23%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.23%) DNS
7 1 (0.23%) Firewall
7 1 (0.23%) RTP
7 1 (0.23%) SS7
7 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.31%) NoSQL
2 48 (10.86%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (7.24%) Elasticsearch
4 29 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 28 (6.33%) Redis
6 27 (6.11%) MongoDB
7 25 (5.66%) Hadoop
8 24 (5.43%) Big Data
9 22 (4.98%) SQL Server
10 19 (4.30%) DynamoDB
11 16 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (2.94%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.94%) MySQL
14 12 (2.71%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.26%) Apache Hive
16 7 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (1.36%) Couchbase
17 6 (1.36%) Neo4j
17 6 (1.36%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 35 (7.92%) Git
2 33 (7.47%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.62%) JMeter
4 13 (2.94%) GitLab
5 11 (2.49%) JUnit
6 9 (2.04%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.81%) Gatling
8 7 (1.58%) LoadRunner
9 6 (1.36%) Mockito
10 5 (1.13%) JIRA
10 5 (1.13%) Maven
11 4 (0.90%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.90%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.68%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.45%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.45%) JConsole
13 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.45%) VisualVM
13 2 (0.45%) WinDbg
General
1 118 (26.70%) Finance
2 89 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 46 (10.41%) Banking
4 37 (8.37%) Law
5 36 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 32 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (6.33%) Public Sector
9 24 (5.43%) Retail
9 24 (5.43%) Telecoms
10 22 (4.98%) Back Office
11 14 (3.17%) Front Office
12 11 (2.49%) Marketing
13 10 (2.26%) Games
13 10 (2.26%) Polish Language
14 9 (2.04%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.13%) Advertising
15 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.90%) Legal
17 3 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (27.38%) Senior
2 111 (25.11%) Software Engineer
3 93 (21.04%) Developer
4 60 (13.57%) Lead
5 37 (8.37%) Java Developer
5 37 (8.37%) Principal Engineer
6 30 (6.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (6.56%) Architect
8 23 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (5.20%) Java Engineer
9 22 (4.98%) Senior Developer
10 21 (4.75%) Data Engineer
11 20 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.07%) Backend Developer
12 18 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.07%) Scala Engineer
13 16 (3.62%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 14 (3.17%) C# Developer
15 14 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.65%) Kafka
2 59 (13.35%) REST
2 59 (13.35%) Spring
3 53 (11.99%) Spring Boot
4 49 (11.09%) .NET
5 47 (10.63%) gRPC
6 41 (9.28%) React
7 35 (7.92%) RESTful
8 32 (7.24%) Node.js
9 31 (7.01%) Django
10 21 (4.75%) Web Services
11 18 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (3.62%) FastAPI
12 16 (3.62%) OAuth
13 14 (3.17%) HTML
13 14 (3.17%) OAuth2
14 13 (2.94%) AngularJS
14 13 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (2.71%) Hibernate
15 12 (2.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 115 (26.02%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.18%) Algorithms
3 42 (9.50%) Data Structures
4 30 (6.79%) Over-the-Top Content
4 30 (6.79%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (6.56%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.17%) Equities
9 13 (2.94%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.71%) Client/Server
10 12 (2.71%) e-Learning
10 12 (2.71%) Legacy Code
11 11 (2.49%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.49%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.04%) Blog
12 9 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (2.04%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.81%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 64 (14.48%) Linux
2 11 (2.49%) Unix
3 9 (2.04%) Android
4 6 (1.36%) Windows
5 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (46.38%) CI/CD
2 201 (45.48%) Microservices
3 200 (45.25%) Software Engineering
4 134 (30.32%) Agile
5 115 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (25.34%) Containerisation
7 107 (24.21%) DevOps
8 97 (21.95%) Computer Science
9 91 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (20.14%) Machine Learning
11 87 (19.68%) AI
12 76 (17.19%) Event-Driven
13 71 (16.06%) Mentoring
13 71 (16.06%) Observability
14 69 (15.61%) Roadmaps
15 64 (14.48%) Clean Code
16 62 (14.03%) Full-Stack Development
17 54 (12.22%) Analytics
17 54 (12.22%) Data Science
18 52 (11.76%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 184 (41.63%) Python
2 173 (39.14%) Java
3 101 (22.85%) Go
4 67 (15.16%) C#
5 60 (13.57%) C++
5 60 (13.57%) SQL
6 47 (10.63%) Scala
7 43 (9.73%) Rust
8 39 (8.82%) JavaScript
9 32 (7.24%) TypeScript
10 26 (5.88%) C
11 10 (2.26%) Bash
12 9 (2.04%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.36%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.13%) R
15 4 (0.90%) Groovy
15 4 (0.90%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.68%) Ruby
17 2 (0.45%) COBOL
18 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (19.68%) Degree
2 63 (14.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.66%) Master's Degree
4 23 (5.20%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.17%) PhD
5 14 (3.17%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.13%) MBA
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.43%) QA
2 12 (2.71%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.71%) SOC 2
3 9 (2.04%) GDPR
4 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.90%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 141 (31.90%) Docker
2 12 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (2.71%) Virtual Servers
3 11 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 11 (2.49%) KVM
3 11 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.36%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.90%) HDFS
6 2 (0.45%) Ceph
6 2 (0.45%) Lustre
6 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 137 (31.00%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.09%) Terraform
3 27 (6.11%) Ansible
4 15 (3.39%) Grafana
5 14 (3.17%) Kibana
6 12 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.13%) logstash
8 4 (0.90%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.45%) Argo
10 1 (0.23%) Graylog
10 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (6.33%) Typelevel
2 24 (5.43%) Google
3 14 (3.17%) Databricks
3 14 (3.17%) Dynatrace
4 11 (2.49%) VMware
5 9 (2.04%) Splunk
6 7 (1.58%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.58%) Oracle
7 6 (1.36%) Dell
7 6 (1.36%) Informatica
7 6 (1.36%) Talend
8 5 (1.13%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.13%) BT
8 5 (1.13%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.13%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.13%) Nokia
8 5 (1.13%) Solace
9 4 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.90%) Pega
9 4 (0.90%) WSO2