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 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 300 345
Rank change year-on-year -4 +45 -54
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 355 490 362
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.94% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 2.59% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 243 303 270
10th Percentile £66,250 £48,850 £49,675
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £137,500 £142,625
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -5.88%

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 18,763 18,952 16,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.76% 36.55% 37.87%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 9,338 12,454
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.68% -4.00% -2.34%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 +5 240 £112,500 +15.38% 135
North of England -11 70 £75,000 +11.11% 225
North West +17 37 £75,000 +8.21% 116
South East +8 33 £66,250 +10.42% 267
Yorkshire -44 32 £75,000 +33.93% 96
Midlands +29 15 £74,401 +7.35% 168
East of England +21 11 £82,500 +13.79% 173
East Midlands +9 9 £70,000 - 74
West Midlands +17 6 £75,000 +8.21% 84
South West +7 5 £82,500 -13.16% 122
North East -2 1 £73,801 +6.48% 15
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 45 (12.68%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.94%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.25%) Apache
5 6 (1.69%) Confluence
6 5 (1.41%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.13%) Appian
8 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.56%) IIS
9 2 (0.56%) Luigi
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.28%) CMS
10 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 207 (58.31%) AWS
2 134 (37.75%) Azure
3 98 (27.61%) GCP
4 61 (17.18%) Serverless
5 46 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (12.11%) Amazon EKS
7 35 (9.86%) SaaS
8 21 (5.92%) Amazon S3
8 21 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.92%) GitHub
9 19 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (4.79%) Amazon Kinesis
10 17 (4.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (3.10%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (3.10%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (3.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.10%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.13%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.85%) BGP
3 3 (0.85%) HTTP
3 3 (0.85%) VLAN
3 3 (0.85%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) AMQP
4 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.56%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (18.31%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (16.62%) NoSQL
3 44 (12.39%) Relational Database
4 35 (9.86%) Hadoop
5 34 (9.58%) Big Data
6 30 (8.45%) MongoDB
7 28 (7.89%) DynamoDB
8 27 (7.61%) RDBMS
9 26 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (7.04%) SQL Server
11 22 (6.20%) Redis
12 18 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (4.23%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (4.23%) MySQL
14 14 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (3.66%) Apache Hive
16 12 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (3.10%) DataStage
17 11 (3.10%) Neo4j
17 11 (3.10%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 45 (12.68%) Jenkins
2 39 (10.99%) Git
3 21 (5.92%) JMeter
4 20 (5.63%) JUnit
5 16 (4.51%) GitLab
5 16 (4.51%) Mockito
6 9 (2.54%) JIRA
7 5 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.13%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.13%) Maven
8 4 (1.13%) MLflow
8 4 (1.13%) Postman
8 4 (1.13%) Selenium
8 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.56%) JConsole
10 2 (0.56%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (27.61%) Finance
2 82 (23.10%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.86%) Banking
4 34 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.58%) Financial Institution
5 31 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.48%) Law
7 22 (6.20%) Telecoms
8 19 (5.35%) Retail
9 18 (5.07%) Front Office
10 12 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.38%) Marketing
11 9 (2.54%) Back Office
11 9 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.69%) Games
12 6 (1.69%) Legal
13 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.13%) Polish Language
15 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (29.86%) Developer
2 97 (27.32%) Senior
3 82 (23.10%) Software Engineer
4 71 (20.00%) Lead
5 55 (15.49%) Java Developer
6 33 (9.30%) Principal Engineer
7 27 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (6.76%) Lead Software Engineer
10 23 (6.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 23 (6.48%) Data Engineer
10 23 (6.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 22 (6.20%) Senior Developer
12 21 (5.92%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 19 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (4.79%) C# Developer
15 16 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (4.51%) Lead Developer
16 15 (4.23%) Principal Software Engineer
17 14 (3.94%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (27.04%) Kafka
2 64 (18.03%) Spring
3 63 (17.75%) REST
4 59 (16.62%) Spring Boot
5 55 (15.49%) .NET
6 53 (14.93%) React
7 36 (10.14%) Node.js
8 33 (9.30%) RESTful
9 30 (8.45%) Web Services
10 26 (7.32%) HTML
11 24 (6.76%) Django
12 23 (6.48%) Hibernate
12 23 (6.48%) JSON
13 20 (5.63%) Apache Camel
13 20 (5.63%) gRPC
13 20 (5.63%) XML
14 17 (4.79%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (4.51%) jQuery
15 16 (4.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (33.52%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.55%) Algorithms
3 38 (10.70%) Product Ownership
4 30 (8.45%) Data Structures
5 20 (5.63%) Legacy Code
6 19 (5.35%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (4.79%) Equities
7 17 (4.79%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.79%) Public Cloud
8 15 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (3.66%) e-Learning
10 10 (2.82%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (2.54%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.69%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.13%) Fixed Income
14 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.52%) Linux
2 12 (3.38%) Unix
3 9 (2.54%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (47.89%) CI/CD
1 170 (47.89%) Microservices
2 145 (40.85%) Software Engineering
3 133 (37.46%) Agile
4 106 (29.86%) DevOps
5 90 (25.35%) Containerisation
6 81 (22.82%) Mentoring
7 80 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (22.25%) AI
8 79 (22.25%) Computer Science
9 77 (21.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 72 (20.28%) Roadmaps
11 65 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (17.75%) Machine Learning
13 61 (17.18%) Event-Driven
14 59 (16.62%) Low Latency
14 59 (16.62%) TDD
15 50 (14.08%) Data Pipeline
15 50 (14.08%) Observability
16 49 (13.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 172 (48.45%) Java
2 152 (42.82%) Python
3 78 (21.97%) SQL
4 68 (19.15%) Go
5 67 (18.87%) C#
6 54 (15.21%) JavaScript
7 40 (11.27%) TypeScript
8 35 (9.86%) C++
9 26 (7.32%) Scala
10 24 (6.76%) Rust
11 22 (6.20%) C
12 17 (4.79%) Shell Script
13 14 (3.94%) Bash
14 10 (2.82%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.25%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.13%) COBOL
16 4 (1.13%) Groovy
17 2 (0.56%) R
18 1 (0.28%) PHP
18 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (20.28%) Degree
2 43 (12.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.61%) Master's Degree
4 25 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 23 (6.48%) PhD
6 9 (2.54%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.56%) MBA
10 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.23%) QA
2 14 (3.94%) GDPR
3 8 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.69%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.13%) SLA
6 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.85%) WCAG
7 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.56%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 115 (32.39%) Docker
2 14 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.94%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.54%) HDFS
4 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.56%) Ceph
6 2 (0.56%) Lustre
6 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 151 (42.54%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.70%) Terraform
3 32 (9.01%) Ansible
4 20 (5.63%) Kibana
5 12 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.10%) Grafana
7 5 (1.41%) logstash
8 4 (1.13%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.13%) Kubeflow
8 4 (1.13%) Rancher
8 4 (1.13%) vRealize
9 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (5.63%) Dynatrace
2 17 (4.79%) Splunk
3 15 (4.23%) Google
4 14 (3.94%) Databricks
4 14 (3.94%) Microsoft
5 13 (3.66%) Oracle
6 11 (3.10%) Informatica
6 11 (3.10%) Talend
7 6 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.41%) Dell
8 5 (1.41%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.41%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.41%) Nokia
8 5 (1.41%) SAP
9 4 (1.13%) Pega
9 4 (1.13%) VMware
9 4 (1.13%) WSO2
10 3 (0.85%) Solace
11 2 (0.56%) BT
11 2 (0.56%) Confluent