Distributed Systems Jobs 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 414 341
Rank change year-on-year +51 -73 -112
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 353 461 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.57% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 1.64% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 228 324 433
10th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £64,509 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,250 £146,750 £126,250
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +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 15,403 28,180 43,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.91% 35.11% 44.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,477 20,326 22,629
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,100 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £98,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in England.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

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 April 2025. 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 +53 241 £92,500 -1.33% 742
North of England +125 70 £75,000 -3.23% 59
South East +55 58 £62,500 -3.85% 52
Yorkshire +96 33 £77,500 +55.00% 13
North West +43 29 £76,250 -4.69% 42
North East +48 8 £69,384 -7.49% 4
Midlands +23 8 £70,904 +29.74% 10
West Midlands -1 8 £70,904 +29.74% 5
South West +94 7 - - 10
East of England +35 5 £72,500 -39.58% 24
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (7.37%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.12%) JBoss
2 11 (3.12%) Red Hat Fuse
3 8 (2.27%) OpenStack
3 8 (2.27%) SAS
4 6 (1.70%) nginx
5 5 (1.42%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.13%) Confluence
7 3 (0.85%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.28%) Magnolia
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (6.80%) Ripple
1 24 (6.80%) Ripple XRP
2 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 116 (32.86%) AWS
2 83 (23.51%) Azure
3 74 (20.96%) GCP
4 49 (13.88%) Amazon ECS
5 48 (13.60%) Serverless
6 37 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (5.10%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (5.10%) SaaS
9 17 (4.82%) GitHub
10 16 (4.53%) Amazon ECR
10 16 (4.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 16 (4.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 16 (4.53%) AWS CodeBuild
10 16 (4.53%) dbt
10 16 (4.53%) Pulumi
11 14 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (3.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.22%) HTTP
2 19 (5.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (20.11%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (11.33%) Relational Database
3 28 (7.93%) NoSQL
4 22 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (5.95%) Big Data
6 20 (5.67%) MongoDB
7 19 (5.38%) Redis
8 18 (5.10%) RDBMS
9 17 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.40%) MySQL
11 9 (2.55%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.27%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.70%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.85%) Metadata
16 2 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.57%) CouchDB
16 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
17 1 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 59 (16.71%) Jenkins
2 53 (15.01%) Git
3 39 (11.05%) JUnit
4 23 (6.52%) Mockito
5 17 (4.82%) JMeter
6 14 (3.97%) JIRA
7 11 (3.12%) CircleCI
7 11 (3.12%) Gradle
8 9 (2.55%) Maven
8 9 (2.55%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.70%) GitLab
9 6 (1.70%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.42%) DbUnit
10 5 (1.42%) jMock
11 3 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.85%) Postman
12 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.57%) Xcode
12 2 (0.57%) XCTest
General
1 136 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 134 (37.96%) Finance
3 54 (15.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (14.16%) Banking
5 45 (12.75%) Public Sector
6 39 (11.05%) Law
7 31 (8.78%) Advertising
8 30 (8.50%) Games
9 29 (8.22%) Retail
10 26 (7.37%) Financial Institution
11 24 (6.80%) Digital Economy
12 21 (5.95%) Front Office
13 13 (3.68%) Marketing
14 12 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (2.83%) Legal
16 8 (2.27%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.98%) Investment Banking
18 6 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
19 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
20 4 (1.13%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 132 (37.39%) Software Engineer
2 102 (28.90%) Senior
3 86 (24.36%) Developer
4 65 (18.41%) Lead
5 54 (15.30%) Java Developer
6 53 (15.01%) Senior Software Engineer
7 51 (14.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 44 (12.46%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 44 (12.46%) Lead Software Engineer
9 43 (12.18%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 31 (8.78%) Principal Engineer
11 25 (7.08%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 20 (5.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 19 (5.38%) Architect
14 16 (4.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 16 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (4.25%) Senior Developer
16 14 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
17 11 (3.12%) Gen AI Engineer
17 11 (3.12%) Gen AI Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (18.98%) Kafka
2 63 (17.85%) REST
3 47 (13.31%) Spring
4 46 (13.03%) Spring Boot
5 42 (11.90%) RESTful
6 40 (11.33%) Web Services
7 31 (8.78%) React
8 28 (7.93%) Apache Camel
9 27 (7.65%) .NET
10 25 (7.08%) HTML
11 24 (6.80%) AngularJS
12 23 (6.52%) Hibernate
12 23 (6.52%) jQuery
13 21 (5.95%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (5.38%) SOAP
15 17 (4.82%) Django
15 17 (4.82%) Node.js
16 16 (4.53%) WireMock
17 13 (3.68%) gRPC
17 13 (3.68%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 82 (23.23%) Cloud Native
2 47 (13.31%) Algorithms
3 43 (12.18%) Legacy Code
4 41 (11.61%) Public Cloud
5 31 (8.78%) Product Ownership
6 26 (7.37%) Blockchain
7 23 (6.52%) Data Structures
8 16 (4.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.83%) Equities
10 10 (2.83%) Reference Data
10 10 (2.83%) Replication
11 9 (2.55%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.98%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.98%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.98%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.42%) Fixed Income
15 4 (1.13%) Client/Server
15 4 (1.13%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 93 (26.35%) Linux
2 19 (5.38%) Unix
3 4 (1.13%) Windows
4 2 (0.57%) Android
4 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (49.01%) Software Engineering
2 153 (43.34%) CI/CD
3 151 (42.78%) Agile
4 126 (35.69%) Microservices
5 87 (24.65%) DevOps
6 73 (20.68%) TDD
7 67 (18.98%) Containerisation
8 66 (18.70%) SDLC
9 61 (17.28%) Computer Science
10 55 (15.58%) Mentoring
11 54 (15.30%) Open Source
12 53 (15.01%) Roadmaps
13 48 (13.60%) Machine Learning
14 47 (13.31%) BDD
15 46 (13.03%) Observability
15 46 (13.03%) Scrum
16 45 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (11.61%) Full-Stack Development
18 39 (11.05%) Test Automation
19 38 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 134 (37.96%) Python
2 116 (32.86%) Java
3 82 (23.23%) C++
4 70 (19.83%) Rust
5 66 (18.70%) SQL
6 64 (18.13%) Go
7 52 (14.73%) JavaScript
8 50 (14.16%) C
9 48 (13.60%) C#
10 37 (10.48%) Scala
11 23 (6.52%) TypeScript
12 20 (5.67%) Shell Script
13 12 (3.40%) PowerShell
14 11 (3.12%) Clojure
14 11 (3.12%) Elixir
15 7 (1.98%) R
16 6 (1.70%) PL/SQL
17 4 (1.13%) Bicep
17 4 (1.13%) Groovy
17 4 (1.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 65 (18.41%) Degree
2 48 (13.60%) Security Cleared
3 47 (13.31%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.40%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.10%) GDPR
2 13 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.12%) HIPAA
3 11 (3.12%) QA
3 11 (3.12%) SLA
3 11 (3.12%) SOC 2
4 8 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.98%) Basel II
5 7 (1.98%) Basel III
5 7 (1.98%) Dodd-Frank
5 7 (1.98%) IFRS
5 7 (1.98%) IFRS 9
6 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 113 (32.01%) Docker
2 11 (3.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.57%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.28%) Postfix
4 1 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 184 (52.12%) Kubernetes
2 68 (19.26%) Terraform
3 16 (4.53%) Ansible
3 16 (4.53%) AWS Copilot
3 16 (4.53%) Kibana
4 7 (1.98%) Argo
4 7 (1.98%) Grafana
5 5 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.13%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 61 (17.28%) Google
2 32 (9.07%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.08%) Apple
4 18 (5.10%) Splunk
5 17 (4.82%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.27%) Oracle
7 5 (1.42%) IBM
8 4 (1.13%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.85%) SAP
9 3 (0.85%) Sparx
10 2 (0.57%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.57%) NetApp
11 1 (0.28%) Intel
11 1 (0.28%) New Relic
11 1 (0.28%) Reuters
11 1 (0.28%) Syncsort