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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 309 413
Rank change year-on-year +37 +104 -81
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 476 352 449
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.96% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 2.47% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 268 234 318
10th Percentile £60,875 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,509 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £120,938
90th Percentile £145,750 £139,250 £145,750
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 21,235 14,256 27,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.56% 38.77% 35.55%
Number of salaries quoted 11,005 8,127 20,195
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,114 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £99,350
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 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 29 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 +32 313 £100,000 +5.26% 164
North of England -42 76 £75,000 - 56
South East -32 53 £70,000 +12.00% 49
North West -1 50 £75,000 -1.64% 34
Yorkshire -61 24 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Midlands -17 15 £74,401 +4.93% 7
South West -29 15 £83,750 - 8
East of England -16 13 £82,500 +13.79% 8
East Midlands - 12 £100,000 - 3
West Midlands -17 3 £73,801 +4.09% 4
North East -29 2 £60,651 -12.59% 10
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 25 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.94%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.05%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.05%) IIS
5 4 (0.84%) Appian
6 3 (0.63%) Apache
6 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Confluence
7 1 (0.21%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.21%) Solana
7 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 291 (61.13%) AWS
2 170 (35.71%) GCP
3 160 (33.61%) Azure
4 45 (9.45%) Serverless
5 43 (9.03%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (8.82%) SaaS
7 29 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (4.62%) Amazon S3
9 21 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (3.78%) GitHub
11 13 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (2.31%) Amazon ECR
13 11 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (2.31%) Datadog
14 9 (1.89%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.68%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.71%) Broadband
2 17 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.31%) HTTP
4 6 (1.26%) BGP
4 6 (1.26%) VLAN
4 6 (1.26%) VPN
5 5 (1.05%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.63%) DNS
6 3 (0.63%) Firewall
7 2 (0.42%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.42%) Multicast
8 1 (0.21%) 4G
8 1 (0.21%) 5G
8 1 (0.21%) DHCP
8 1 (0.21%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.21%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
8 1 (0.21%) RTP
8 1 (0.21%) SS7
8 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (10.08%) NoSQL
3 29 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
4 28 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 26 (5.46%) Redis
6 24 (5.04%) MongoDB
7 23 (4.83%) Hadoop
7 23 (4.83%) SQL Server
8 22 (4.62%) Big Data
9 18 (3.78%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (2.94%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.94%) MySQL
12 12 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (2.10%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.89%) Apache Hive
15 6 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (1.26%) Couchbase
16 5 (1.05%) Neo4j
16 5 (1.05%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (8.40%) Git
2 39 (8.19%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.36%) JMeter
4 14 (2.94%) GitLab
5 10 (2.10%) JUnit
6 9 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.89%) Gatling
7 8 (1.68%) LoadRunner
8 6 (1.26%) JIRA
9 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.05%) Maven
9 5 (1.05%) Mockito
10 4 (0.84%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.63%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.42%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.42%) Selenium
12 2 (0.42%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.42%) WinDbg
13 1 (0.21%) Locust
General
1 120 (25.21%) Finance
2 94 (19.75%) Social Skills
3 46 (9.66%) Banking
4 38 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (7.77%) Law
6 33 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (6.93%) Financial Institution
7 27 (5.67%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.67%) Retail
8 25 (5.25%) Telecoms
9 24 (5.04%) Back Office
10 12 (2.52%) Front Office
11 11 (2.31%) Marketing
11 11 (2.31%) Polish Language
12 10 (2.10%) Games
13 7 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.26%) Advertising
14 6 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.05%) Electronics
15 5 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 125 (26.26%) Senior
2 120 (25.21%) Software Engineer
3 97 (20.38%) Developer
4 59 (12.39%) Lead
5 37 (7.77%) Principal Engineer
6 36 (7.56%) Java Developer
7 31 (6.51%) Architect
7 31 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 30 (6.30%) Scala Engineer
9 24 (5.04%) Data Engineer
10 23 (4.83%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.62%) Java Engineer
12 21 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (4.20%) Backend Developer
14 16 (3.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (3.36%) Lead Developer
15 15 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.15%) Scala Software Engineer
15 15 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.55%) Kafka
2 63 (13.24%) REST
3 62 (13.03%) gRPC
4 56 (11.76%) Spring
5 54 (11.34%) .NET
6 50 (10.50%) Spring Boot
7 48 (10.08%) React
8 37 (7.77%) RESTful
9 36 (7.56%) Node.js
10 34 (7.14%) Django
11 21 (4.41%) Web Services
12 17 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (3.57%) OAuth
13 15 (3.15%) AngularJS
13 15 (3.15%) HTML
13 15 (3.15%) OAuth2
14 14 (2.94%) FastAPI
15 12 (2.52%) JSON
16 11 (2.31%) .NET Core
16 11 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 120 (25.21%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.87%) Algorithms
2 47 (9.87%) Over-the-Top Content
2 47 (9.87%) Video\Live Streaming
3 42 (8.82%) Data Structures
4 26 (5.46%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.36%) Equities
7 15 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.94%) Client/Server
8 14 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.73%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.52%) Public Cloud
11 11 (2.31%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.31%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.89%) Blog
12 9 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.68%) Legacy Code
13 8 (1.68%) Sports Betting
13 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.87%) Linux
2 11 (2.31%) Unix
3 9 (1.89%) Android
4 8 (1.68%) Windows
5 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (48.74%) CI/CD
2 222 (46.64%) Software Engineering
3 221 (46.43%) Microservices
4 142 (29.83%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (28.99%) Agile
6 135 (28.36%) Containerisation
7 113 (23.74%) DevOps
8 107 (22.48%) Machine Learning
9 99 (20.80%) Computer Science
10 95 (19.96%) AI
10 95 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (18.07%) Clean Code
12 81 (17.02%) Observability
13 78 (16.39%) Event-Driven
14 76 (15.97%) Mentoring
14 76 (15.97%) Roadmaps
15 70 (14.71%) Data Science
16 69 (14.50%) Coaching
17 64 (13.45%) Full-Stack Development
18 56 (11.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 211 (44.33%) Python
2 167 (35.08%) Java
3 116 (24.37%) Go
4 70 (14.71%) C#
5 63 (13.24%) Scala
6 60 (12.61%) C++
7 56 (11.76%) SQL
8 43 (9.03%) JavaScript
8 43 (9.03%) Rust
9 36 (7.56%) TypeScript
10 24 (5.04%) C
11 11 (2.31%) Bash
12 9 (1.89%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.26%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.05%) R
14 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.84%) Groovy
16 3 (0.63%) Ruby
17 2 (0.42%) COBOL
17 2 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 90 (18.91%) Degree
2 66 (13.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.46%) Master's Degree
4 22 (4.62%) Security Cleared
5 14 (2.94%) PhD
5 14 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.05%) MBA
9 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.21%) ISEB
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.46%) QA
2 14 (2.94%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.52%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.10%) GDPR
5 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.84%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 161 (33.82%) Docker
2 14 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.73%) KVM
4 12 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (1.47%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.63%) HDFS
8 2 (0.42%) Ceph
8 2 (0.42%) Lustre
8 2 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 139 (29.20%) Kubernetes
2 57 (11.97%) Terraform
3 32 (6.72%) Ansible
4 14 (2.94%) Grafana
5 11 (2.31%) Kibana
6 9 (1.89%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.84%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.42%) Argo
9 1 (0.21%) Graylog
9 1 (0.21%) logstash
9 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (9.45%) Typelevel
2 23 (4.83%) Google
3 14 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 14 (2.94%) VMware
4 13 (2.73%) Databricks
5 9 (1.89%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.68%) Splunk
7 6 (1.26%) Dell
7 6 (1.26%) Oracle
8 5 (1.05%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.05%) BT
8 5 (1.05%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.05%) Informatica
8 5 (1.05%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.05%) Nokia
8 5 (1.05%) Pega
8 5 (1.05%) Talend
8 5 (1.05%) WSO2
9 4 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.63%) Solace