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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 328 402
Rank change year-on-year +45 +74 -26
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 510 337 475
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.89% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 2.21% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 292 209 323
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 £111,563 £115,000 £119,375
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,000 £149,500
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 22,812 15,215 29,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.61% 40.16% 35.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11,941 8,282 20,759
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 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,474
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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +51 326 £100,000 +6.67% 159
North of England -32 90 £78,750 +1.61% 32
South East -24 66 £70,000 +9.80% 43
North West +2 62 £95,000 +18.75% 21
Yorkshire -72 25 £75,000 -3.23% 1
Midlands -25 14 £73,500 +1.38% 5
South West -39 13 £83,750 -16.25% 9
East Midlands -38 12 £86,000 +10.97% 1
East of England -9 10 £80,000 - 8
North East -42 3 £60,000 -13.52% 10
West Midlands -33 2 £68,750 -5.17% 4
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 17 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.35%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.37%) IIS
5 6 (1.18%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.78%) Appian
7 3 (0.59%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) Confluence
7 3 (0.59%) JBoss
7 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Solana
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 306 (60.00%) AWS
2 169 (33.14%) Azure
3 165 (32.35%) GCP
4 59 (11.57%) Serverless
5 43 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (8.04%) SaaS
7 32 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (5.10%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.90%) GitHub
10 23 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.73%) Datadog
13 16 (3.14%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.37%) Apigee
16 7 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (10.20%) Broadband
2 12 (2.35%) HTTP
3 9 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.78%) BGP
4 4 (0.78%) VLAN
4 4 (0.78%) VPN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) Firewall
6 2 (0.39%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.20%) RTP
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) SS7
7 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 39 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.08%) Relational Database
4 28 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (4.51%) MongoDB
6 22 (4.31%) DynamoDB
6 22 (4.31%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.73%) BigQuery
8 18 (3.53%) Redis
9 17 (3.33%) Hadoop
10 16 (3.14%) MySQL
11 15 (2.94%) Big Data
12 12 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.76%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.18%) Tableau
16 5 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.98%) Data Mining
16 5 (0.98%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.98%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 53 (10.39%) Git
2 47 (9.22%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.31%) GitLab
4 15 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 15 (2.94%) JIRA
5 14 (2.75%) JMeter
6 10 (1.96%) Gatling
7 9 (1.76%) JUnit
7 9 (1.76%) LoadRunner
7 9 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.18%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.98%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.98%) Maven
10 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.59%) Mockito
11 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.59%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.39%) Selenium
12 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 129 (25.29%) Finance
2 92 (18.04%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (7.84%) Banking
4 34 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.47%) Law
6 25 (4.90%) Financial Institution
6 25 (4.90%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.71%) Telecoms
8 23 (4.51%) Retail
9 20 (3.92%) Back Office
10 12 (2.35%) Front Office
11 10 (1.96%) Marketing
12 9 (1.76%) Advertising
12 9 (1.76%) Games
12 9 (1.76%) Polish Language
13 7 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.98%) Electronics
15 5 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 130 (25.49%) Senior
2 116 (22.75%) Software Engineer
3 108 (21.18%) Developer
4 54 (10.59%) Lead
5 45 (8.82%) Architect
6 40 (7.84%) Principal Engineer
7 35 (6.86%) Java Engineer
8 30 (5.88%) Scala Engineer
8 30 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 29 (5.69%) Java Developer
10 28 (5.49%) Backend Developer
11 27 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (4.31%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.53%) Python Engineer
15 17 (3.33%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.94%) Scala Developer
16 15 (2.94%) Scala Software Engineer
17 14 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (15.29%) Kafka
2 72 (14.12%) REST
3 65 (12.75%) .NET
4 62 (12.16%) gRPC
5 57 (11.18%) Spring
6 55 (10.78%) React
7 50 (9.80%) Spring Boot
8 46 (9.02%) Node.js
9 44 (8.63%) RESTful
10 28 (5.49%) Django
11 25 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (4.51%) Web Services
13 22 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (4.12%) OAuth
15 18 (3.53%) AngularJS
15 18 (3.53%) JSON
15 18 (3.53%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.55%) FastAPI
16 13 (2.55%) HTML
17 12 (2.35%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 128 (25.10%) Cloud Native
2 51 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 47 (9.22%) Over-the-Top Content
3 47 (9.22%) Video\Live Streaming
4 46 (9.02%) Data Structures
5 25 (4.90%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.53%) Equities
7 17 (3.33%) Client/Server
8 16 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.94%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.75%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.16%) e-Learning
13 10 (1.96%) Blog
13 10 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.57%) Sports Betting
15 7 (1.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.80%) Linux
2 13 (2.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.76%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (50.98%) CI/CD
2 243 (47.65%) Microservices
3 236 (46.27%) Software Engineering
4 151 (29.61%) Containerisation
4 151 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
5 144 (28.24%) Agile
6 127 (24.90%) DevOps
7 113 (22.16%) AI
8 111 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (20.98%) Machine Learning
10 102 (20.00%) Computer Science
11 96 (18.82%) Observability
12 91 (17.84%) Event-Driven
13 89 (17.45%) Clean Code
14 78 (15.29%) Mentoring
15 76 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 76 (14.90%) Roadmaps
16 72 (14.12%) Data Science
17 68 (13.33%) Test Automation
18 67 (13.14%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 230 (45.10%) Python
2 164 (32.16%) Java
3 112 (21.96%) Go
4 74 (14.51%) C#
4 74 (14.51%) SQL
5 58 (11.37%) Scala
6 56 (10.98%) C++
7 52 (10.20%) JavaScript
8 51 (10.00%) TypeScript
9 38 (7.45%) Rust
10 17 (3.33%) C
11 11 (2.16%) Bash
12 9 (1.76%) Groovy
13 8 (1.57%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.98%) R
15 4 (0.78%) Bicep
15 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.78%) Ruby
15 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (18.43%) Degree
2 69 (13.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.10%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.51%) Master's Degree
5 22 (4.31%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.35%) PhD
8 5 (0.98%) MBA
9 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) ISEB
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.45%) QA
2 12 (2.35%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.96%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.76%) GDPR
5 5 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 169 (33.14%) Docker
2 14 (2.75%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.55%) KVM
4 7 (1.37%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 143 (28.04%) Kubernetes
2 71 (13.92%) Terraform
3 32 (6.27%) Ansible
4 14 (2.75%) Grafana
5 11 (2.16%) Kibana
6 10 (1.96%) 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 (0.20%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.82%) Typelevel
2 28 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.51%) Google
4 14 (2.75%) Oracle
4 14 (2.75%) VMware
5 13 (2.55%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.96%) Databricks
8 8 (1.57%) IBM
9 6 (1.18%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.18%) Solace
10 5 (0.98%) BT
10 5 (0.98%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.98%) Informatica
10 5 (0.98%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.98%) Nokia
10 5 (0.98%) Splunk
10 5 (0.98%) Talend
11 4 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.39%) Confluent