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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 340 411
Rank change year-on-year +66 +71 -34
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 531 328 480
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 0.84% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 2.05% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 293 205 328
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,677 £148,250
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +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 23,040 16,034 29,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.30% 41.00% 35.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,151 8,392 20,891
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,688 £42,000 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 7 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 7 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 +59 336 £100,000 +8.11% 190
North of England -25 93 £80,000 +3.23% 58
South East -6 70 £70,000 +9.80% 74
North West +21 64 £95,000 +18.75% 30
Yorkshire -64 24 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Midlands -19 13 £79,750 +10.00% 24
South West -47 13 £85,000 -15.00% 33
East of England -5 11 £80,000 - 25
East Midlands -23 11 £86,000 +12.79% 16
North East -29 5 £60,000 -13.52% 13
West Midlands -26 2 £75,000 +3.45% 8
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 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.32%) IIS
5 5 (0.94%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.75%) Appian
7 3 (0.56%) Apache
7 3 (0.56%) Confluence
7 3 (0.56%) JBoss
7 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.38%) 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
1 323 (60.83%) AWS
2 171 (32.20%) Azure
3 161 (30.32%) GCP
4 58 (10.92%) Serverless
5 42 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (7.34%) SaaS
7 32 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (5.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (4.71%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.71%) GitHub
10 21 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.58%) Datadog
13 17 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (1.51%) Anthropic Claude
17 8 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.62%) Broadband
2 12 (2.26%) HTTP
3 8 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.94%) DNS
4 5 (0.94%) Firewall
5 4 (0.75%) BGP
5 4 (0.75%) VLAN
5 4 (0.75%) VPN
6 3 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.19%) 4G
7 1 (0.19%) 5G
7 1 (0.19%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.19%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) Multicast
7 1 (0.19%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.19%) RTP
7 1 (0.19%) SMS
7 1 (0.19%) SS7
7 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.79%) NoSQL
2 51 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (6.40%) MongoDB
4 32 (6.03%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.27%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 20 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 19 (3.58%) BigQuery
9 17 (3.20%) Redis
10 16 (3.01%) MySQL
11 15 (2.82%) Hadoop
12 13 (2.45%) Big Data
13 12 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.88%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.13%) Tableau
16 5 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.94%) Data Mining
16 5 (0.94%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.94%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 55 (10.36%) Git
2 50 (9.42%) Jenkins
3 30 (5.65%) GitLab
4 18 (3.39%) Cucumber
5 16 (3.01%) JIRA
6 14 (2.64%) JMeter
7 11 (2.07%) JUnit
8 10 (1.88%) Gatling
9 9 (1.69%) LoadRunner
9 9 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.51%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.94%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.94%) Maven
12 4 (0.75%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.75%) Mockito
13 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.56%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.38%) Selenium
14 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 132 (24.86%) Finance
2 94 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 42 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (7.72%) Banking
5 34 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.21%) Law
7 25 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.52%) Financial Institution
9 23 (4.33%) Retail
10 20 (3.77%) Back Office
10 20 (3.77%) Games
10 20 (3.77%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.26%) Front Office
12 9 (1.69%) Marketing
12 9 (1.69%) Polish Language
13 7 (1.32%) Advertising
13 7 (1.32%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (25.42%) Senior
2 117 (22.03%) Developer
3 108 (20.34%) Software Engineer
4 54 (10.17%) Lead
5 49 (9.23%) Architect
6 44 (8.29%) Principal Engineer
7 37 (6.97%) Senior Developer
8 36 (6.78%) Java Engineer
9 30 (5.65%) Backend Developer
9 30 (5.65%) Scala Engineer
10 29 (5.46%) Java Developer
11 23 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (3.77%) Data Engineer
12 20 (3.77%) Python Engineer
13 18 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (3.20%) Lead Developer
15 15 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 15 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (2.82%) Scala Developer
15 15 (2.82%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (15.07%) Kafka
2 75 (14.12%) REST
3 67 (12.62%) .NET
4 62 (11.68%) Spring
5 60 (11.30%) gRPC
6 56 (10.55%) RESTful
7 54 (10.17%) React
7 54 (10.17%) Spring Boot
8 42 (7.91%) Node.js
9 28 (5.27%) Django
10 25 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (4.33%) Web Services
12 22 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (3.77%) JSON
14 19 (3.58%) AngularJS
15 18 (3.39%) OAuth
16 17 (3.20%) OAuth2
17 14 (2.64%) HTML
18 13 (2.45%) FastAPI
19 12 (2.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 142 (26.74%) Cloud Native
2 59 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
3 53 (9.98%) Algorithms
4 48 (9.04%) Data Structures
5 47 (8.85%) Over-the-Top Content
6 24 (4.52%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.39%) Equities
7 18 (3.39%) Public Cloud
8 17 (3.20%) AI Agents
9 16 (3.01%) Client/Server
9 16 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (2.45%) e-Learning
12 13 (2.45%) Low-Code
13 11 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
14 10 (1.88%) Blog
15 9 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.69%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.04%) Linux
2 15 (2.82%) Windows
3 8 (1.51%) Android
4 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (53.67%) CI/CD
2 246 (46.33%) Microservices
2 246 (46.33%) Software Engineering
3 151 (28.44%) Containerisation
4 150 (28.25%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (28.06%) Agile
6 131 (24.67%) DevOps
7 129 (24.29%) AI
8 126 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 118 (22.22%) Machine Learning
10 112 (21.09%) Observability
11 102 (19.21%) Computer Science
12 100 (18.83%) Event-Driven
12 100 (18.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 89 (16.76%) Test Automation
14 88 (16.57%) Clean Code
15 79 (14.88%) Mentoring
16 75 (14.12%) Roadmaps
17 72 (13.56%) Data Science
18 69 (12.99%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 252 (47.46%) Python
2 166 (31.26%) Java
3 117 (22.03%) Go
4 78 (14.69%) C#
4 78 (14.69%) SQL
5 59 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 57 (10.73%) Scala
7 55 (10.36%) C++
8 53 (9.98%) TypeScript
9 36 (6.78%) Rust
10 14 (2.64%) Bash
10 14 (2.64%) C
11 10 (1.88%) Groovy
11 10 (1.88%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.94%) Bicep
12 5 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.94%) R
12 5 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.75%) Perl
13 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (17.70%) Degree
2 68 (12.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.08%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.33%) Master's Degree
4 23 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.26%) PhD
8 5 (0.94%) MBA
9 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.19%) ISEB
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.47%) QA
2 14 (2.64%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.32%) GDPR
5 5 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 172 (32.39%) Docker
2 16 (3.01%) Hyper-V
2 16 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.45%) KVM
4 9 (1.69%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 145 (27.31%) Kubernetes
2 77 (14.50%) Terraform
3 32 (6.03%) Ansible
4 15 (2.82%) Grafana
5 12 (2.26%) Kibana
6 11 (2.07%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.75%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.75%) Packer
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.56%) SCCM
9 2 (0.38%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.47%) Typelevel
2 33 (6.21%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.14%) Google
4 16 (3.01%) VMware
5 15 (2.82%) Oracle
6 14 (2.64%) AppDynamics
7 13 (2.45%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.69%) Databricks
9 8 (1.51%) IBM
10 7 (1.32%) Splunk
11 6 (1.13%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.13%) Solace
12 5 (0.94%) BT
12 5 (0.94%) Informatica
12 5 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.94%) Talend
13 4 (0.75%) Ericsson
13 4 (0.75%) Mavenir
13 4 (0.75%) Nokia
14 2 (0.38%) Confluent