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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 341 383
Rank change year-on-year +60 +42 -66
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 402 380 430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.84% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.09% 2.23% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 255 235 334
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -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 19,237 17,020 23,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.22% 37.78% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,841 7,903 17,868
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £56,011
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +11.59% -13.83%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £56,021
% change year-on-year -11.29% +10.67% -13.81%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +39 270 £107,500 +10.26% 174
North of England +2 74 £75,000 +10.29% 36
North West +44 44 £75,000 +8.21% 25
South East -11 37 £70,000 +12.00% 77
Yorkshire -50 29 £75,000 +10.29% 7
East of England +29 14 £82,500 +13.79% 16
Midlands +10 12 £75,000 +8.21% 20
East Midlands -5 8 £100,000 - 8
South West -19 6 £83,750 - 16
West Midlands +10 4 £75,000 +8.21% 12
North East -5 1 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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 42 (10.45%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.73%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.49%) Apache
5 5 (1.24%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.24%) IIS
5 5 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.00%) Appian
7 2 (0.50%) Confluence
7 2 (0.50%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 243 (60.45%) AWS
2 149 (37.06%) Azure
3 124 (30.85%) GCP
4 53 (13.18%) Serverless
5 45 (11.19%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (10.20%) SaaS
7 39 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (6.47%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.22%) GitHub
10 19 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (3.98%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.73%) Amazon Kinesis
13 15 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.74%) Amazon ECR
16 10 (2.49%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.98%) TCP/IP
2 11 (2.74%) Broadband
3 6 (1.49%) BGP
3 6 (1.49%) HTTP
3 6 (1.49%) VLAN
3 6 (1.49%) VPN
4 4 (1.00%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.50%) InfiniBand
5 2 (0.50%) Multicast
6 1 (0.25%) 4G
6 1 (0.25%) 5G
6 1 (0.25%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) RTP
6 1 (0.25%) SS7
6 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (14.18%) NoSQL
3 37 (9.20%) Relational Database
4 35 (8.71%) Hadoop
5 34 (8.46%) Big Data
6 33 (8.21%) MongoDB
7 26 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (6.22%) DynamoDB
8 25 (6.22%) Redis
8 25 (6.22%) SQL Server
9 23 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (4.73%) RDBMS
12 15 (3.73%) MySQL
13 14 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (3.23%) Apache Hive
15 10 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.49%) BigQuery
15 10 (2.49%) Neo4j
15 10 (2.49%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 38 (9.45%) Jenkins
2 33 (8.21%) Git
3 18 (4.48%) GitLab
4 15 (3.73%) JMeter
5 14 (3.48%) JUnit
6 9 (2.24%) Mockito
7 8 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.49%) JIRA
9 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.00%) Maven
9 4 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.75%) Gatling
11 2 (0.50%) JConsole
11 2 (0.50%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.50%) Postman
11 2 (0.50%) Selenium
11 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.50%) VisualVM
General
1 115 (28.61%) Finance
2 88 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.70%) Banking
4 41 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (9.45%) Financial Institution
6 35 (8.71%) Law
7 26 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (6.47%) Public Sector
8 24 (5.97%) Retail
9 22 (5.47%) Telecoms
10 18 (4.48%) Back Office
11 13 (3.23%) Front Office
12 12 (2.99%) Marketing
13 9 (2.24%) Games
14 7 (1.74%) Polish Language
15 6 (1.49%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (1.00%) Advertising
17 4 (1.00%) Legal
18 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (27.86%) Senior
2 93 (23.13%) Developer
3 92 (22.89%) Software Engineer
4 69 (17.16%) Lead
5 45 (11.19%) Java Developer
6 40 (9.95%) Principal Engineer
7 26 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (5.97%) Data Engineer
8 24 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 23 (5.72%) Architect
10 22 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (5.47%) Java Engineer
11 21 (5.22%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.98%) Lead Developer
13 19 (4.73%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 17 (4.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 17 (4.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 17 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
15 14 (3.48%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (22.64%) Kafka
2 63 (15.67%) Spring
3 62 (15.42%) REST
4 58 (14.43%) Spring Boot
5 49 (12.19%) .NET
6 48 (11.94%) React
7 39 (9.70%) RESTful
8 35 (8.71%) Node.js
9 30 (7.46%) Django
10 29 (7.21%) gRPC
11 24 (5.97%) Web Services
12 19 (4.73%) HTML
13 18 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (4.48%) FastAPI
14 17 (4.23%) AngularJS
14 17 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (3.98%) Hibernate
15 16 (3.98%) JSON
15 16 (3.98%) OAuth
16 13 (3.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 122 (30.35%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.20%) Algorithms
3 35 (8.71%) Product Ownership
4 34 (8.46%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.98%) Legacy Code
6 16 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.98%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.73%) e-Learning
8 14 (3.48%) Equities
9 12 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.99%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (2.74%) Over-the-Top Content
11 10 (2.49%) Data Centre
11 10 (2.49%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.99%) Blog
12 8 (1.99%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.93%) Linux
2 12 (2.99%) Unix
3 9 (2.24%) Android
4 4 (1.00%) Windows
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (46.52%) CI/CD
1 187 (46.52%) Microservices
2 166 (41.29%) Software Engineering
3 135 (33.58%) Agile
4 111 (27.61%) DevOps
5 100 (24.88%) Containerisation
6 89 (22.14%) Computer Science
7 87 (21.64%) AI
8 86 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (21.14%) Mentoring
10 80 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 71 (17.66%) Event-Driven
12 70 (17.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 69 (17.16%) Machine Learning
14 68 (16.92%) Roadmaps
15 63 (15.67%) Observability
16 60 (14.93%) Analytics
17 53 (13.18%) TDD
18 47 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
19 46 (11.44%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 182 (45.27%) Java
2 166 (41.29%) Python
3 84 (20.90%) Go
4 65 (16.17%) SQL
5 64 (15.92%) C#
6 46 (11.44%) C++
7 45 (11.19%) JavaScript
8 40 (9.95%) TypeScript
9 39 (9.70%) Scala
10 31 (7.71%) Rust
11 23 (5.72%) C
12 12 (2.99%) Bash
13 9 (2.24%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.24%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.99%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.24%) R
16 4 (1.00%) Groovy
17 3 (0.75%) Ruby
18 2 (0.50%) COBOL
18 2 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (19.90%) Degree
2 54 (13.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (6.47%) Master's Degree
4 24 (5.97%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.48%) PhD
6 13 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.99%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.24%) MBA
10 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.22%) QA
2 15 (3.73%) GDPR
3 13 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.23%) SOC 2
4 7 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 121 (30.10%) Docker
2 14 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.48%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.24%) HDFS
4 7 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.24%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.00%) KVM
7 2 (0.50%) Ceph
7 2 (0.50%) Lustre
7 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 141 (35.07%) Kubernetes
2 50 (12.44%) Terraform
3 30 (7.46%) Ansible
4 14 (3.48%) Kibana
5 11 (2.74%) Grafana
5 11 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.24%) logstash
7 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.75%) Rancher
8 3 (0.75%) vRealize
9 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.50%) Puppet
9 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (5.47%) Google
2 19 (4.73%) Databricks
3 12 (2.99%) Dynatrace
3 12 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.74%) Oracle
4 11 (2.74%) Splunk
5 10 (2.49%) Informatica
5 10 (2.49%) Talend
6 9 (2.24%) Typelevel
7 7 (1.74%) VMware
8 6 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.24%) BT
9 5 (1.24%) Dell
9 5 (1.24%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.24%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.24%) Nokia
10 4 (1.00%) Pega
10 4 (1.00%) SAP
10 4 (1.00%) Solace
10 4 (1.00%) WSO2