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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 322 403
Rank change year-on-year +49 +81 -82
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 461 344 446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.88% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 2.25% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 270 224 324
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £139,250 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +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 20,608 15,296 26,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.43% 39.09% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10,640 8,001 19,631
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +10.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +50 308 £100,000 +2.56% 144
North of England -28 76 £75,000 +8.09% 45
North West +16 49 £75,000 +3.45% 24
South East -17 48 £72,500 +16.00% 34
Yorkshire -44 25 £75,000 - 12
Midlands -12 14 £74,401 +7.35% 7
East of England +13 12 £82,500 +13.79% 5
South West -23 12 £83,750 - 7
East Midlands -22 11 £100,000 - 2
West Midlands +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
North East -24 2 £60,651 -12.54% 9
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 28 (6.07%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.04%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.30%) Apache
5 5 (1.08%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.08%) IIS
6 4 (0.87%) Appian
7 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Confluence
8 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.22%) Solana
8 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 276 (59.87%) AWS
2 159 (34.49%) GCP
3 156 (33.84%) Azure
4 44 (9.54%) Serverless
5 43 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (8.89%) SaaS
7 32 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (4.77%) Amazon S3
9 21 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (4.12%) GitHub
11 14 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.39%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (1.95%) Datadog
16 9 (1.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.68%) Broadband
2 18 (3.90%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.17%) HTTP
4 6 (1.30%) BGP
4 6 (1.30%) VLAN
4 6 (1.30%) VPN
5 5 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.43%) DNS
6 2 (0.43%) Firewall
6 2 (0.43%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.43%) Multicast
7 1 (0.22%) 4G
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.22%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.22%) RTP
7 1 (0.22%) SS7
7 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.85%) NoSQL
1 50 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (6.51%) Relational Database
4 27 (5.86%) Redis
5 26 (5.64%) MongoDB
6 24 (5.21%) Hadoop
6 24 (5.21%) SQL Server
7 23 (4.99%) Big Data
8 19 (4.12%) DynamoDB
9 15 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.04%) MySQL
11 13 (2.82%) BigQuery
11 13 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.60%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.95%) Apache Hive
14 7 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (1.30%) Couchbase
15 6 (1.30%) Neo4j
15 6 (1.30%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 38 (8.24%) Git
2 36 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.47%) JMeter
4 14 (3.04%) GitLab
5 11 (2.39%) JUnit
6 9 (1.95%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.74%) Gatling
8 7 (1.52%) LoadRunner
9 6 (1.30%) Mockito
10 5 (1.08%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.08%) JIRA
10 5 (1.08%) Maven
11 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.65%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.43%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.43%) Selenium
13 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.43%) WinDbg
14 1 (0.22%) Gradle
General
1 119 (25.81%) Finance
2 93 (20.17%) Social Skills
3 45 (9.76%) Banking
4 37 (8.03%) Law
5 36 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (6.94%) Financial Institution
8 28 (6.07%) Public Sector
9 25 (5.42%) Retail
10 24 (5.21%) Telecoms
11 22 (4.77%) Back Office
12 13 (2.82%) Front Office
13 11 (2.39%) Marketing
14 10 (2.17%) Games
14 10 (2.17%) Polish Language
15 8 (1.74%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.08%) Advertising
16 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.87%) Legal
18 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (26.90%) Senior
2 115 (24.95%) Software Engineer
3 97 (21.04%) Developer
4 60 (13.02%) Lead
5 39 (8.46%) Java Developer
6 38 (8.24%) Principal Engineer
7 30 (6.51%) Architect
7 30 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (5.21%) Scala Engineer
8 24 (5.21%) Senior Developer
9 23 (4.99%) Java Engineer
10 22 (4.77%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (4.77%) Data Engineer
11 21 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (4.12%) Backend Developer
13 18 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (3.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (3.47%) Lead Developer
15 14 (3.04%) C# Developer
15 14 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (16.27%) Kafka
2 62 (13.45%) REST
3 60 (13.02%) Spring
4 54 (11.71%) gRPC
4 54 (11.71%) Spring Boot
5 52 (11.28%) .NET
6 46 (9.98%) React
7 36 (7.81%) Node.js
7 36 (7.81%) RESTful
8 33 (7.16%) Django
9 22 (4.77%) Web Services
10 19 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (3.47%) FastAPI
11 16 (3.47%) OAuth
12 15 (3.25%) HTML
13 14 (3.04%) AngularJS
13 14 (3.04%) OAuth2
14 13 (2.82%) Hibernate
14 13 (2.82%) JSON
15 12 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 119 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.54%) Algorithms
3 41 (8.89%) Data Structures
4 38 (8.24%) Over-the-Top Content
4 38 (8.24%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (6.29%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (3.25%) Equities
8 14 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.82%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.60%) Client/Server
10 12 (2.60%) Legacy Code
11 11 (2.39%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.39%) e-Learning
11 11 (2.39%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.95%) Blog
12 9 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.95%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.74%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.53%) Linux
2 11 (2.39%) Unix
3 9 (1.95%) Android
4 6 (1.30%) Windows
5 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (47.72%) CI/CD
2 215 (46.64%) Microservices
3 210 (45.55%) Software Engineering
4 139 (30.15%) Agile
5 127 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (26.46%) Containerisation
7 112 (24.30%) DevOps
8 97 (21.04%) Computer Science
8 97 (21.04%) Machine Learning
9 95 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 91 (19.74%) AI
11 77 (16.70%) Event-Driven
12 76 (16.49%) Clean Code
12 76 (16.49%) Observability
13 75 (16.27%) Roadmaps
14 74 (16.05%) Mentoring
15 65 (14.10%) Full-Stack Development
16 62 (13.45%) Data Science
17 61 (13.23%) Coaching
18 55 (11.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 195 (42.30%) Python
2 174 (37.74%) Java
3 109 (23.64%) Go
4 71 (15.40%) C#
5 61 (13.23%) C++
6 60 (13.02%) SQL
7 54 (11.71%) Scala
8 45 (9.76%) Rust
9 42 (9.11%) JavaScript
10 34 (7.38%) TypeScript
11 26 (5.64%) C
12 10 (2.17%) Bash
13 9 (1.95%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.08%) R
16 4 (0.87%) Groovy
17 3 (0.65%) Ruby
18 2 (0.43%) COBOL
18 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 88 (19.09%) Degree
2 64 (13.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.64%) Master's Degree
4 23 (4.99%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.04%) PhD
5 14 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.08%) MBA
9 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.65%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.22%) ISEB
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.21%) QA
2 12 (2.60%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.60%) SOC 2
3 10 (2.17%) GDPR
4 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 150 (32.54%) Docker
2 14 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (2.39%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.39%) KVM
4 11 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.65%) HDFS
7 2 (0.43%) Ceph
7 2 (0.43%) Lustre
7 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 139 (30.15%) Kubernetes
2 51 (11.06%) Terraform
3 28 (6.07%) Ansible
4 15 (3.25%) Grafana
5 14 (3.04%) Kibana
6 11 (2.39%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.87%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.87%) logstash
8 2 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.22%) Graylog
9 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (7.81%) Typelevel
2 23 (4.99%) Google
3 14 (3.04%) Dynatrace
4 13 (2.82%) Databricks
5 11 (2.39%) VMware
6 9 (1.95%) Splunk
7 8 (1.74%) Microsoft
8 7 (1.52%) Oracle
9 6 (1.30%) Dell
9 6 (1.30%) Informatica
9 6 (1.30%) Talend
10 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.08%) BT
10 5 (1.08%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.08%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.08%) Nokia
10 5 (1.08%) Pega
10 5 (1.08%) WSO2
11 4 (0.87%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.87%) Solace