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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 321 411
Rank change year-on-year +41 +90 -36
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 515 330 482
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.87% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 2.16% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 287 206 328
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,313 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £117,813
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,338 £148,250
UK median annual salary £92,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% +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 22,847 15,257 29,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.53% 40.37% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,978 8,332 20,849
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,950
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +58 330 £100,000 +6.67% 183
North of England -40 88 £80,000 +3.23% 48
South East -12 67 £70,000 +9.80% 54
North West +12 61 £95,000 +18.75% 32
Yorkshire -71 24 £75,000 -3.23% 6
South West -44 14 £83,750 -16.25% 23
Midlands -26 13 £72,000 -2.37% 14
East Midlands -32 12 £86,000 +12.79% 8
East of England -8 11 £80,000 - 13
North East -42 3 £60,000 -13.52% 10
West Midlands -25 1 £62,500 -13.79% 6
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 15 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.33%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.36%) IIS
5 5 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.78%) Appian
7 3 (0.58%) Apache
7 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.58%) JBoss
7 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) Solana
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 309 (60.00%) AWS
2 163 (31.65%) Azure
3 160 (31.07%) GCP
4 58 (11.26%) Serverless
5 43 (8.35%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (7.57%) SaaS
7 31 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (5.24%) GitHub
9 26 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 22 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.69%) Datadog
13 18 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 7 (1.36%) Amazon EventBridge
18 7 (1.36%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 61 (11.84%) Broadband
2 12 (2.33%) HTTP
3 9 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.78%) BGP
4 4 (0.78%) DNS
4 4 (0.78%) Firewall
4 4 (0.78%) VLAN
4 4 (0.78%) VPN
5 2 (0.39%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.19%) LTE
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.19%) RTP
6 1 (0.19%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) SS7
6 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.49%) NoSQL
2 43 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.02%) Relational Database
4 28 (5.44%) MongoDB
5 27 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (4.27%) DynamoDB
6 22 (4.27%) SQL Server
7 18 (3.50%) BigQuery
8 17 (3.30%) Redis
9 16 (3.11%) MySQL
10 15 (2.91%) Hadoop
11 13 (2.52%) Big Data
12 11 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.75%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.17%) Tableau
16 5 (0.97%) ClickHouse
16 5 (0.97%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.97%) Pinecone
16 5 (0.97%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 53 (10.29%) Git
2 49 (9.51%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.05%) GitLab
4 17 (3.30%) Cucumber
5 15 (2.91%) JIRA
6 14 (2.72%) JMeter
7 10 (1.94%) Gatling
8 9 (1.75%) JUnit
8 9 (1.75%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.97%) Maven
11 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.58%) Mockito
12 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.58%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.39%) Selenium
13 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (25.44%) Finance
2 95 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 41 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (7.96%) Banking
4 34 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.41%) Law
6 25 (4.85%) Financial Institution
6 25 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.47%) Retail
8 21 (4.08%) Telecoms
9 20 (3.88%) Back Office
10 14 (2.72%) Games
11 13 (2.52%) Front Office
12 10 (1.94%) Marketing
13 9 (1.75%) Advertising
13 9 (1.75%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.36%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.97%) Electronics
15 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 130 (25.24%) Senior
2 113 (21.94%) Software Engineer
3 109 (21.17%) Developer
4 54 (10.49%) Lead
5 46 (8.93%) Architect
6 40 (7.77%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (6.80%) Java Engineer
8 32 (6.21%) Senior Developer
9 30 (5.83%) Scala Engineer
10 29 (5.63%) Java Developer
11 28 (5.44%) Backend Developer
12 27 (5.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (3.88%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.69%) Python Engineer
14 19 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (2.91%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.91%) Scala Developer
16 15 (2.91%) Scala Software Engineer
17 14 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (14.76%) Kafka
2 71 (13.79%) REST
3 63 (12.23%) .NET
4 60 (11.65%) gRPC
5 58 (11.26%) Spring
6 53 (10.29%) React
7 51 (9.90%) Spring Boot
8 48 (9.32%) RESTful
9 45 (8.74%) Node.js
10 27 (5.24%) Django
11 25 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (4.47%) Web Services
13 22 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (3.50%) AngularJS
14 18 (3.50%) JSON
14 18 (3.50%) OAuth
15 15 (2.91%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.52%) FastAPI
16 13 (2.52%) HTML
17 12 (2.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 137 (26.60%) Cloud Native
2 53 (10.29%) Video\Live Streaming
3 51 (9.90%) Algorithms
4 47 (9.13%) Over-the-Top Content
5 46 (8.93%) Data Structures
6 23 (4.47%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.50%) Equities
8 16 (3.11%) Client/Server
8 16 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (3.11%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.33%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.94%) Blog
12 9 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.55%) Sports Betting
13 8 (1.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (9.51%) Linux
2 13 (2.52%) Windows
3 8 (1.55%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (52.23%) CI/CD
2 241 (46.80%) Microservices
3 238 (46.21%) Software Engineering
4 149 (28.93%) Containerisation
4 149 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (27.57%) Agile
6 125 (24.27%) DevOps
7 114 (22.14%) AI
7 114 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 109 (21.17%) Machine Learning
9 103 (20.00%) Observability
10 99 (19.22%) Computer Science
11 97 (18.83%) Event-Driven
12 90 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 87 (16.89%) Clean Code
14 78 (15.15%) Test Automation
15 76 (14.76%) Mentoring
16 74 (14.37%) Roadmaps
17 71 (13.79%) Data Science
18 66 (12.82%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 237 (46.02%) Python
2 166 (32.23%) Java
3 114 (22.14%) Go
4 77 (14.95%) C#
5 76 (14.76%) SQL
6 57 (11.07%) C++
6 57 (11.07%) Scala
7 52 (10.10%) JavaScript
8 51 (9.90%) TypeScript
9 38 (7.38%) Rust
10 17 (3.30%) C
11 12 (2.33%) Bash
12 9 (1.75%) Groovy
12 9 (1.75%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.97%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.97%) R
14 4 (0.78%) Bicep
14 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.78%) Ruby
14 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (17.48%) Degree
2 65 (12.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.47%) Master's Degree
5 22 (4.27%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.91%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.33%) PhD
9 5 (0.97%) MBA
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) ISEB
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.35%) QA
2 13 (2.52%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.36%) GDPR
5 5 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 170 (33.01%) Docker
2 15 (2.91%) Hyper-V
2 15 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.52%) KVM
4 7 (1.36%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 143 (27.77%) Kubernetes
2 74 (14.37%) Terraform
3 32 (6.21%) Ansible
4 14 (2.72%) Grafana
5 11 (2.14%) Kibana
6 10 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.78%) Packer
8 2 (0.39%) Argo
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.39%) SCCM
9 1 (0.19%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.74%) Typelevel
2 28 (5.44%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.27%) Google
4 15 (2.91%) VMware
5 14 (2.72%) Oracle
6 13 (2.52%) AppDynamics
7 12 (2.33%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.75%) Databricks
9 8 (1.55%) IBM
10 6 (1.17%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.17%) Solace
11 5 (0.97%) BT
11 5 (0.97%) Informatica
11 5 (0.97%) Splunk
11 5 (0.97%) Talend
12 4 (0.78%) Ericsson
12 4 (0.78%) Mavenir
12 4 (0.78%) Nokia
12 4 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.39%) Pega