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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 409 372
Rank change year-on-year +60 -37 -144
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 347 493 847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.58% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 1.67% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 214 332 404
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,250 £56,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,313 £110,000
90th Percentile £136,750 £149,750 £125,000
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 16,143 29,543 41,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.99% 34.86% 44.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,812 20,809 21,907
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,422
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,100 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 25 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 25 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 +67 239 £95,000 - 838
North of England +80 72 £77,500 +13.97% 74
South East +44 58 £63,750 -1.92% 57
Yorkshire +89 36 £77,500 +31.36% 17
North West +33 29 £80,000 - 50
South West +112 8 £100,000 +60.00% 16
North East +53 7 £69,384 -7.49% 8
Midlands +27 7 £72,500 +25.43% 26
West Midlands +11 6 £72,500 +32.66% 13
East of England +40 2 - - 28
East Midlands +47 1 £77,500 -11.43% 13
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 23 (6.63%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.75%) JBoss
3 12 (3.46%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (2.31%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.31%) SAS
5 5 (1.44%) Confluence
6 3 (0.86%) CMS
7 2 (0.58%) nginx
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.29%) Magnolia
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (6.92%) Ripple
1 24 (6.92%) Ripple XRP
2 3 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 118 (34.01%) AWS
2 77 (22.19%) Azure
3 65 (18.73%) GCP
4 49 (14.12%) Serverless
5 45 (12.97%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (11.53%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (6.34%) SaaS
9 19 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (5.48%) GitHub
10 15 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.46%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.59%) Sentry
14 8 (2.31%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (2.31%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.49%) HTTP
2 10 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) Multicast
3 1 (0.29%) NAS
3 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (18.16%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (12.10%) Relational Database
3 28 (8.07%) NoSQL
4 20 (5.76%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.76%) RDBMS
5 16 (4.61%) Big Data
6 14 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.46%) Redis
8 11 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (2.31%) MySQL
11 5 (1.44%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.15%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.15%) Metadata
13 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.58%) CouchDB
14 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 63 (18.16%) Jenkins
2 52 (14.99%) Git
3 43 (12.39%) JUnit
4 25 (7.20%) Mockito
5 19 (5.48%) JMeter
6 14 (4.03%) JIRA
7 11 (3.17%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.88%) Gradle
9 9 (2.59%) Maven
9 9 (2.59%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.73%) GitLab
10 6 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.44%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.44%) jMock
12 3 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.86%) Postman
13 2 (0.58%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.58%) Subversion
13 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.58%) XCTest
General
1 132 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 126 (36.31%) Finance
3 51 (14.70%) Banking
4 49 (14.12%) Public Sector
5 44 (12.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (10.37%) Law
7 28 (8.07%) Advertising
7 28 (8.07%) Games
8 26 (7.49%) Financial Institution
8 26 (7.49%) Retail
9 24 (6.92%) Digital Economy
10 18 (5.19%) Front Office
11 13 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (3.17%) Marketing
13 9 (2.59%) Legal
13 9 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
14 7 (2.02%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.15%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 130 (37.46%) Software Engineer
2 91 (26.22%) Senior
3 81 (23.34%) Developer
4 63 (18.16%) Lead
5 57 (16.43%) Java Developer
6 46 (13.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 46 (13.26%) Lead Software Engineer
6 46 (13.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 41 (11.82%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 40 (11.53%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 33 (9.51%) Principal Engineer
10 24 (6.92%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 19 (5.48%) Architect
11 19 (5.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 17 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (3.75%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.46%) C# Developer
16 10 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.60%) Kafka
2 64 (18.44%) REST
3 53 (15.27%) Spring
4 52 (14.99%) Spring Boot
5 43 (12.39%) RESTful
5 43 (12.39%) Web Services
6 32 (9.22%) React
7 31 (8.93%) Apache Camel
8 27 (7.78%) .NET
8 27 (7.78%) Hibernate
8 27 (7.78%) HTML
9 23 (6.63%) ActiveMQ
10 22 (6.34%) AngularJS
10 22 (6.34%) jQuery
11 20 (5.76%) SOAP
12 18 (5.19%) Node.js
12 18 (5.19%) WireMock
13 14 (4.03%) J2EE
14 13 (3.75%) gRPC
15 12 (3.46%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 78 (22.48%) Cloud Native
2 51 (14.70%) Algorithms
3 40 (11.53%) Legacy Code
4 39 (11.24%) Public Cloud
5 33 (9.51%) Product Ownership
6 27 (7.78%) Blockchain
7 26 (7.49%) Data Structures
8 18 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (3.75%) Hedge funds
10 11 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.88%) Reference Data
11 10 (2.88%) Replication
12 9 (2.59%) Equities
13 7 (2.02%) Credit Risk
13 7 (2.02%) Fixed Income
13 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
13 7 (2.02%) Market Risk
14 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.44%) Sports Betting
16 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 76 (21.90%) Linux
2 11 (3.17%) Unix
3 4 (1.15%) Windows
4 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) Android
5 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (47.84%) Software Engineering
2 150 (43.23%) Agile
2 150 (43.23%) CI/CD
3 133 (38.33%) Microservices
4 85 (24.50%) DevOps
5 79 (22.77%) TDD
6 62 (17.87%) Containerisation
6 62 (17.87%) SDLC
7 56 (16.14%) Mentoring
7 56 (16.14%) Roadmaps
8 54 (15.56%) Computer Science
9 50 (14.41%) BDD
10 49 (14.12%) Scrum
11 48 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (13.54%) Open Source
13 45 (12.97%) Observability
14 42 (12.10%) Full-Stack Development
14 42 (12.10%) Machine Learning
15 39 (11.24%) Test Automation
16 36 (10.37%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 123 (35.45%) Python
2 117 (33.72%) Java
3 77 (22.19%) C++
4 65 (18.73%) SQL
5 59 (17.00%) Rust
6 58 (16.71%) Go
7 55 (15.85%) JavaScript
8 52 (14.99%) C#
9 47 (13.54%) C
10 32 (9.22%) Scala
11 22 (6.34%) Shell Script
11 22 (6.34%) TypeScript
12 15 (4.32%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.31%) Clojure
13 8 (2.31%) Elixir
14 7 (2.02%) R
15 6 (1.73%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.15%) Bash
16 4 (1.15%) Groovy
16 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 60 (17.29%) Degree
2 43 (12.39%) Security Cleared
3 41 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.86%) PhD
7 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.05%) GDPR
2 13 (3.75%) QA
3 12 (3.46%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.46%) SLA
3 12 (3.46%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.02%) Basel II
6 7 (2.02%) Basel III
6 7 (2.02%) Dodd-Frank
6 7 (2.02%) IFRS
6 7 (2.02%) IFRS 9
6 7 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.15%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.86%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 107 (30.84%) Docker
2 12 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.86%) vSphere
4 2 (0.58%) Postfix
5 1 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 176 (50.72%) Kubernetes
2 59 (17.00%) Terraform
3 18 (5.19%) Ansible
3 18 (5.19%) Kibana
4 9 (2.59%) Grafana
5 8 (2.31%) Argo
5 8 (2.31%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (13.26%) Google
2 29 (8.36%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.63%) Splunk
4 22 (6.34%) Apple
5 19 (5.48%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.59%) Oracle
7 5 (1.44%) IBM
8 4 (1.15%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.15%) SAP
9 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.86%) NetApp
9 3 (0.86%) Sparx
10 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.58%) ESRI
10 2 (0.58%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.29%) Databricks
11 1 (0.29%) New Relic
11 1 (0.29%) Red Hat