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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 325 374
Rank change year-on-year +26 +49 -63
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 383 395 430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.84% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 2.26% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 237 249 334
10th Percentile £64,750 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% +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 19,004 17,491 22,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.86% 37.36% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,663 8,160 16,888
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,981 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -11.54%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +23 258 £110,000 +12.82% 180
North of England -3 68 £75,000 +10.29% 35
North West +43 41 £75,000 +8.21% 24
South East +4 38 £70,000 +12.00% 71
Yorkshire -32 26 £75,000 +10.29% 7
East of England +33 14 £82,500 +13.79% 15
Midlands +12 11 £75,000 +8.21% 12
East Midlands 0 6 - - 5
South West 0 6 £83,750 - 14
West Midlands +17 5 £75,000 +8.21% 7
North East -3 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 (10.97%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.92%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.61%) Apache
5 5 (1.31%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.31%) IIS
5 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.04%) Appian
7 3 (0.78%) Confluence
8 2 (0.52%) Luigi
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.26%) CMS
9 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 232 (60.57%) AWS
2 145 (37.86%) Azure
3 119 (31.07%) GCP
4 54 (14.10%) Serverless
5 43 (11.23%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (10.70%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (10.44%) SaaS
8 25 (6.53%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.70%) GitHub
10 17 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
11 16 (4.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.87%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.18%) TCP/IP
2 11 (2.87%) Broadband
3 6 (1.57%) BGP
3 6 (1.57%) VLAN
3 6 (1.57%) VPN
4 4 (1.04%) HTTP
4 4 (1.04%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.52%) InfiniBand
5 2 (0.52%) Multicast
6 1 (0.26%) 4G
6 1 (0.26%) 5G
6 1 (0.26%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.26%) MQTT
6 1 (0.26%) RTP
6 1 (0.26%) SS7
6 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (15.40%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (15.14%) NoSQL
3 37 (9.66%) Relational Database
4 36 (9.40%) Hadoop
5 35 (9.14%) Big Data
6 32 (8.36%) MongoDB
7 26 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (6.53%) Redis
8 25 (6.53%) SQL Server
9 24 (6.27%) DynamoDB
10 21 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (5.22%) RDBMS
12 15 (3.92%) MySQL
13 14 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (3.39%) Apache Hive
15 11 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (2.61%) BigQuery
16 10 (2.61%) Neo4j
16 10 (2.61%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 39 (10.18%) Jenkins
2 34 (8.88%) Git
3 17 (4.44%) GitLab
4 15 (3.92%) JMeter
4 15 (3.92%) JUnit
5 10 (2.61%) Mockito
6 7 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.83%) JIRA
7 4 (1.04%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.04%) Maven
7 4 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.78%) Postman
8 3 (0.78%) Selenium
9 2 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.52%) JConsole
9 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.52%) VisualVM
General
1 112 (29.24%) Finance
2 88 (22.98%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.23%) Banking
4 39 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.18%) Financial Institution
5 35 (9.14%) Law
6 26 (6.79%) Public Sector
7 25 (6.53%) Retail
8 23 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (6.01%) Telecoms
9 18 (4.70%) Back Office
10 14 (3.66%) Front Office
11 13 (3.39%) Marketing
12 10 (2.61%) Games
13 7 (1.83%) Polish Language
14 6 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.04%) Legal
16 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 109 (28.46%) Senior
2 96 (25.07%) Developer
3 86 (22.45%) Software Engineer
4 64 (16.71%) Lead
5 47 (12.27%) Java Developer
6 35 (9.14%) Principal Engineer
7 25 (6.53%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (6.53%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 23 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (5.48%) Architect
11 21 (5.48%) Senior Developer
12 20 (5.22%) Lead Developer
13 19 (4.96%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 18 (4.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 17 (4.44%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 17 (4.44%) Java Engineer
16 16 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
17 14 (3.66%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (22.98%) Kafka
2 62 (16.19%) REST
3 60 (15.67%) Spring
4 55 (14.36%) Spring Boot
5 50 (13.05%) .NET
6 49 (12.79%) React
7 39 (10.18%) RESTful
8 35 (9.14%) Node.js
9 30 (7.83%) gRPC
10 29 (7.57%) Django
11 25 (6.53%) Web Services
12 21 (5.48%) HTML
13 18 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (4.70%) FastAPI
14 17 (4.44%) AngularJS
14 17 (4.44%) Hibernate
14 17 (4.44%) JSON
15 16 (4.18%) OAuth
16 14 (3.66%) Apache Camel
16 14 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 118 (30.81%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.92%) Algorithms
3 35 (9.14%) Product Ownership
4 29 (7.57%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.18%) Legacy Code
7 16 (4.18%) Public Cloud
8 15 (3.92%) e-Learning
8 15 (3.92%) Equities
8 15 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
10 11 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.87%) Over-the-Top Content
11 10 (2.61%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.61%) Data Centre
12 8 (2.09%) Blog
12 8 (2.09%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.62%) Linux
2 12 (3.13%) Unix
3 9 (2.35%) Android
4 3 (0.78%) Windows
5 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (47.78%) Microservices
2 180 (47.00%) CI/CD
3 152 (39.69%) Software Engineering
4 130 (33.94%) Agile
5 104 (27.15%) DevOps
6 99 (25.85%) Containerisation
7 85 (22.19%) Computer Science
8 82 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
9 81 (21.15%) AI
9 81 (21.15%) Mentoring
10 79 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 71 (18.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 71 (18.54%) Machine Learning
12 68 (17.75%) Event-Driven
13 67 (17.49%) Roadmaps
14 62 (16.19%) Observability
15 60 (15.67%) Analytics
16 53 (13.84%) TDD
17 47 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
17 47 (12.27%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 179 (46.74%) Java
2 161 (42.04%) Python
3 83 (21.67%) Go
4 66 (17.23%) SQL
5 64 (16.71%) C#
6 45 (11.75%) JavaScript
7 41 (10.70%) C++
8 40 (10.44%) Scala
8 40 (10.44%) TypeScript
9 27 (7.05%) Rust
10 23 (6.01%) C
11 13 (3.39%) Bash
12 10 (2.61%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.35%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.35%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.31%) R
15 4 (1.04%) Groovy
16 3 (0.78%) Ruby
17 2 (0.52%) COBOL
17 2 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (20.37%) Degree
2 51 (13.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (6.79%) Master's Degree
3 26 (6.79%) Security Cleared
4 16 (4.18%) PhD
5 14 (3.66%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.31%) MBA
9 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.48%) QA
2 15 (3.92%) GDPR
3 13 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.39%) SOC 2
4 8 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.04%) SLA
8 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) GRC
8 2 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 117 (30.55%) Docker
2 14 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.66%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.35%) HDFS
4 8 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.31%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.04%) KVM
7 2 (0.52%) Ceph
7 2 (0.52%) Lustre
7 2 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 138 (36.03%) Kubernetes
2 46 (12.01%) Terraform
3 31 (8.09%) Ansible
4 14 (3.66%) Kibana
5 12 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.87%) Grafana
7 5 (1.31%) logstash
8 4 (1.04%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.04%) Rancher
8 4 (1.04%) vRealize
9 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.52%) Puppet
9 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (5.48%) Google
2 19 (4.96%) Databricks
3 13 (3.39%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.13%) Splunk
5 11 (2.87%) Oracle
6 10 (2.61%) Informatica
6 10 (2.61%) Talend
7 9 (2.35%) Typelevel
8 8 (2.09%) VMware
9 6 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.31%) BT
10 5 (1.31%) Dell
10 5 (1.31%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.31%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.31%) Nokia
10 5 (1.31%) SAP
11 4 (1.04%) Pega
11 4 (1.04%) WSO2
12 3 (0.78%) Solace