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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 302 329
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 -34
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 353 482 373
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.95% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 2.56% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 238 302 282
10th Percentile £64,250 £51,425 £47,075
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 £114,688
90th Percentile £152,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.85% +2.50% -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 18,736 18,793 16,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.15% 37.20% 37.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9,469 9,158 12,274
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 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 21 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 21 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 +12 239 £112,500 +15.38% 69
North of England -19 68 £75,000 +10.29% 22
North West +31 37 £75,000 +8.21% 14
South East +15 35 £68,750 +14.58% 40
Yorkshire -33 30 £75,000 +33.93% 7
Midlands +13 14 £75,000 +8.21% 5
East of England +15 11 £82,500 +13.79% 12
East Midlands -3 8 £70,000 -
West Midlands +22 6 £75,000 +8.21% 5
South West +2 5 £82,500 -13.16% 5
North East +3 1 £73,801 +6.48% 3
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 46 (13.03%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.25%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.83%) Apache
5 5 (1.42%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.42%) Confluence
6 4 (1.13%) Appian
6 4 (1.13%) IIS
7 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.57%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 210 (59.49%) AWS
2 135 (38.24%) Azure
3 101 (28.61%) GCP
4 60 (17.00%) Serverless
5 47 (13.31%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (12.18%) Amazon EKS
7 35 (9.92%) SaaS
8 23 (6.52%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.23%) GitHub
10 20 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
12 17 (4.82%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (3.12%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (3.12%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (3.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.12%) 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 (0.57%) AMQP
4 2 (0.57%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.57%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (18.70%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (16.71%) NoSQL
3 45 (12.75%) Relational Database
4 37 (10.48%) Hadoop
5 36 (10.20%) Big Data
6 30 (8.50%) MongoDB
7 27 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (7.65%) DynamoDB
8 26 (7.37%) RDBMS
9 25 (7.08%) SQL Server
10 21 (5.95%) Redis
11 18 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (4.25%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (4.25%) MySQL
13 14 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (3.68%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (3.12%) DataStage
16 11 (3.12%) Neo4j
16 11 (3.12%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 45 (12.75%) Jenkins
2 38 (10.76%) Git
3 20 (5.67%) JMeter
4 19 (5.38%) JUnit
5 15 (4.25%) GitLab
5 15 (4.25%) Mockito
6 8 (2.27%) JIRA
7 4 (1.13%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.13%) Maven
7 4 (1.13%) Postman
7 4 (1.13%) Selenium
7 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.85%) MLflow
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.57%) JConsole
9 2 (0.57%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 96 (27.20%) Finance
2 83 (23.51%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.92%) Banking
4 35 (9.92%) Financial Institution
5 30 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.80%) Law
7 22 (6.23%) Telecoms
8 18 (5.10%) Front Office
8 18 (5.10%) Retail
9 12 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.40%) Marketing
10 10 (2.83%) Back Office
11 9 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.70%) Games
12 6 (1.70%) Legal
13 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.13%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 107 (30.31%) Developer
2 97 (27.48%) Senior
3 78 (22.10%) Software Engineer
4 69 (19.55%) Lead
5 55 (15.58%) Java Developer
6 30 (8.50%) Principal Engineer
7 27 (7.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (7.08%) Data Engineer
10 23 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 21 (5.95%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 21 (5.95%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (5.95%) Senior Developer
12 19 (5.38%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 18 (5.10%) Lead Developer
13 18 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (4.53%) C# Developer
16 14 (3.97%) Mid-Level Java Developer
17 13 (3.68%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (26.63%) Kafka
2 64 (18.13%) REST
3 63 (17.85%) Spring
4 58 (16.43%) Spring Boot
5 54 (15.30%) React
6 53 (15.01%) .NET
7 37 (10.48%) Node.js
8 34 (9.63%) RESTful
9 30 (8.50%) Web Services
10 26 (7.37%) Django
11 25 (7.08%) HTML
12 22 (6.23%) Hibernate
12 22 (6.23%) JSON
13 20 (5.67%) gRPC
14 19 (5.38%) Apache Camel
14 19 (5.38%) XML
15 18 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (5.10%) FastAPI
16 17 (4.82%) AngularJS
17 16 (4.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 117 (33.14%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.90%) Algorithms
3 37 (10.48%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.93%) Data Structures
5 18 (5.10%) Legacy Code
6 17 (4.82%) Equities
6 17 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.82%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (4.25%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.68%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (3.68%) e-Learning
10 10 (2.83%) AI Agents
11 9 (2.55%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.98%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.13%) Hackathon
13 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.60%) Linux
2 12 (3.40%) Unix
3 9 (2.55%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (47.88%) Microservices
2 168 (47.59%) CI/CD
3 139 (39.38%) Software Engineering
4 133 (37.68%) Agile
5 107 (30.31%) DevOps
6 91 (25.78%) Containerisation
7 81 (22.95%) AI
8 79 (22.38%) Mentoring
9 78 (22.10%) Computer Science
9 78 (22.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 77 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 69 (19.55%) Roadmaps
12 66 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (18.41%) Machine Learning
14 60 (17.00%) Event-Driven
15 58 (16.43%) Low Latency
15 58 (16.43%) TDD
16 53 (15.01%) Analytics
16 53 (15.01%) Observability
17 52 (14.73%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 173 (49.01%) Java
2 158 (44.76%) Python
3 77 (21.81%) SQL
4 69 (19.55%) Go
5 64 (18.13%) C#
6 53 (15.01%) JavaScript
7 41 (11.61%) TypeScript
8 33 (9.35%) C++
9 29 (8.22%) Scala
10 22 (6.23%) Rust
11 20 (5.67%) C
12 16 (4.53%) Shell Script
13 15 (4.25%) Bash
14 10 (2.83%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.27%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.13%) Groovy
16 4 (1.13%) R
17 2 (0.57%) COBOL
18 1 (0.28%) PHP
18 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (20.40%) Degree
2 43 (12.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.65%) Master's Degree
4 26 (7.37%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.95%) PhD
6 10 (2.83%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.13%) MBA
10 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.53%) QA
2 14 (3.97%) GDPR
3 9 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.98%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.13%) SLA
7 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.85%) WCAG
8 2 (0.57%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 114 (32.29%) Docker
2 14 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.97%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.55%) HDFS
4 5 (1.42%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) Ceph
6 2 (0.57%) Lustre
6 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 148 (41.93%) Kubernetes
2 42 (11.90%) Terraform
3 31 (8.78%) Ansible
4 19 (5.38%) Kibana
5 12 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.12%) Grafana
7 5 (1.42%) logstash
8 4 (1.13%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.13%) Rancher
8 4 (1.13%) vRealize
9 3 (0.85%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.57%) Puppet
10 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (5.38%) Dynatrace
2 17 (4.82%) Databricks
2 17 (4.82%) Google
3 16 (4.53%) Splunk
4 13 (3.68%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.68%) Oracle
5 11 (3.12%) Informatica
5 11 (3.12%) Talend
6 6 (1.70%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.42%) Dell
7 5 (1.42%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.42%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.42%) Nokia
7 5 (1.42%) SAP
8 4 (1.13%) BT
8 4 (1.13%) Pega
8 4 (1.13%) VMware
8 4 (1.13%) WSO2
9 3 (0.85%) Solace
10 2 (0.57%) Confluent