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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 340 392
Rank change year-on-year -12 +52 -126
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 328 514 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.75% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 2.33% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 186 306 281
10th Percentile £66,375 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,313 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £114,375 £120,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

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 18,040 22,074 22,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.81% 32.13% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9,145 11,748 16,089
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £43,742 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £64,811
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.42% +3.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,950 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +40 231 £110,000 +12.82% 146
North of England -58 55 £78,500 +25.60% 38
South East +46 45 £75,000 +20.00% 66
North West -30 26 £87,500 +40.00% 21
Yorkshire -39 26 £76,750 +37.05% 14
Midlands +52 19 £75,000 +7.68% 26
West Midlands +42 10 £75,000 +8.21% 16
East Midlands +39 9 £77,500 -24.39% 9
South West +59 4 £97,500 +2.90% 16
East of England -10 4 £90,000 +24.14% 16
North East +21 3 £115,000 +65.93% 4
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 37 (11.28%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.44%) JBoss
4 7 (2.13%) Confluence
4 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (1.22%) Apache
5 4 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.61%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 190 (57.93%) AWS
2 93 (28.35%) Azure
3 68 (20.73%) GCP
4 55 (16.77%) Serverless
5 47 (14.33%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (10.98%) SaaS
8 31 (9.45%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (5.79%) GitHub
11 15 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.66%) Amazon S3
13 11 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (2.74%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
17 7 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) HTTP
2 2 (0.61%) AMQP
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) MQTT
3 1 (0.30%) NAS
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) SAN
3 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.99%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (16.16%) Relational Database
3 42 (12.80%) NoSQL
4 33 (10.06%) Big Data
5 31 (9.45%) RDBMS
6 22 (6.71%) MongoDB
7 17 (5.18%) DynamoDB
8 16 (4.88%) Hadoop
9 15 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (4.27%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (3.66%) MySQL
12 10 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (1.83%) DataStage
15 6 (1.83%) Neo4j
15 6 (1.83%) Pentaho
15 6 (1.83%) Redis
16 5 (1.52%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 57 (17.38%) Jenkins
2 49 (14.94%) Git
3 45 (13.72%) JUnit
4 32 (9.76%) Mockito
5 28 (8.54%) JMeter
6 16 (4.88%) JIRA
7 10 (3.05%) GitLab
8 9 (2.74%) Maven
9 7 (2.13%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.13%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.83%) Postman
11 5 (1.52%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.52%) jMock
11 5 (1.52%) MLflow
12 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.22%) PHPUnit
12 4 (1.22%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.91%) Selenium
13 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 131 (39.94%) Finance
2 81 (24.70%) Social Skills
3 74 (22.56%) Banking
4 63 (19.21%) Law
5 58 (17.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (14.94%) Public Sector
7 30 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (7.32%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.57%) Front Office
9 15 (4.57%) Marketing
10 14 (4.27%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.35%) Legal
11 11 (3.35%) Retail
12 8 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.83%) Games
13 6 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Publishing
15 2 (0.61%) Advertising
15 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (36.59%) Software Engineer
2 92 (28.05%) Lead
3 91 (27.74%) Developer
4 77 (23.48%) Senior
5 65 (19.82%) Lead Software Engineer
6 53 (16.16%) Java Developer
7 33 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (9.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (8.54%) Principal Engineer
10 26 (7.93%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 25 (7.62%) Java Engineer
12 22 (6.71%) Java Software Engineer
13 21 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (6.10%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 20 (6.10%) Python Engineer
15 19 (5.79%) C# Software Engineer
15 19 (5.79%) Data Engineer
16 17 (5.18%) Python Software Engineer
16 17 (5.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (25.30%) Spring
2 74 (22.56%) Kafka
3 71 (21.65%) Spring Boot
4 61 (18.60%) REST
5 58 (17.68%) RESTful
6 50 (15.24%) Web Services
7 43 (13.11%) Hibernate
8 42 (12.80%) HTML
9 41 (12.50%) .NET
10 38 (11.59%) React
11 32 (9.76%) Apache Camel
12 31 (9.45%) ActiveMQ
13 29 (8.84%) jQuery
14 25 (7.62%) WireMock
15 23 (7.01%) JSON
16 21 (6.40%) XML
17 20 (6.10%) AngularJS
18 18 (5.49%) .NET Core
19 17 (5.18%) CSS
20 15 (4.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 113 (34.45%) Cloud Native
2 46 (14.02%) Algorithms
3 43 (13.11%) Product Ownership
4 28 (8.54%) Data Structures
4 28 (8.54%) Public Cloud
5 21 (6.40%) Management Information System
6 20 (6.10%) Legacy Code
7 19 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (5.18%) Virtual Team
9 15 (4.57%) Derivative
10 14 (4.27%) Equities
11 9 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (2.74%) Fixed Income
11 9 (2.74%) Mobile Banking
12 8 (2.44%) Equity Derivative
12 8 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.44%) Onboarding
13 7 (2.13%) e-Learning
13 7 (2.13%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.76%) Linux
2 4 (1.22%) Unix
3 3 (0.91%) Windows
4 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (53.66%) Software Engineering
2 152 (46.34%) Microservices
3 151 (46.04%) CI/CD
4 148 (45.12%) Agile
5 87 (26.52%) DevOps
6 76 (23.17%) Mentoring
7 72 (21.95%) Containerisation
8 66 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (20.12%) SDLC
9 65 (19.82%) TDD
10 62 (18.90%) Roadmaps
11 56 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
12 55 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
13 51 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (14.94%) Computer Science
15 45 (13.72%) Machine Learning
16 43 (13.11%) BDD
16 43 (13.11%) Fintech
17 39 (11.89%) Data Pipeline
18 37 (11.28%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 163 (49.70%) Java
2 135 (41.16%) Python
3 83 (25.30%) SQL
4 67 (20.43%) JavaScript
5 53 (16.16%) C#
6 40 (12.20%) Go
7 35 (10.67%) C++
8 28 (8.54%) Scala
8 28 (8.54%) Shell Script
9 25 (7.62%) TypeScript
10 24 (7.32%) Rust
11 20 (6.10%) C
12 19 (5.79%) Kotlin
13 13 (3.96%) PowerShell
14 9 (2.74%) Bash
15 7 (2.13%) PHP
16 6 (1.83%) Groovy
17 2 (0.61%) COBOL
18 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (12.20%) Degree
2 32 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 23 (7.01%) PhD
5 20 (6.10%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) CEH
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) OSCP
10 1 (0.30%) SANS
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.49%) GDPR
2 13 (3.96%) QA
3 8 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
4 7 (2.13%) SLA
4 7 (2.13%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.91%) WCAG
6 2 (0.61%) NIST
6 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 109 (33.23%) Docker
2 6 (1.83%) HDFS
3 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.22%) Postfix
4 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.61%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 150 (45.73%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.06%) Terraform
3 25 (7.62%) Kibana
4 18 (5.49%) Ansible
5 9 (2.74%) Grafana
6 8 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.52%) Kubeflow
8 4 (1.22%) Rancher
8 4 (1.22%) vRealize
9 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) Puppet
10 1 (0.30%) Argo
10 1 (0.30%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (9.15%) Dynatrace
1 30 (9.15%) Splunk
2 20 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.05%) Oracle
4 7 (2.13%) Databricks
5 6 (1.83%) Informatica
5 6 (1.83%) Talend
6 5 (1.52%) Google
7 4 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.22%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.22%) Foundry
7 4 (1.22%) IBM
7 4 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.22%) Palantir
7 4 (1.22%) VMware
8 3 (0.91%) SAP
8 3 (0.91%) Solace
9 2 (0.61%) ESRI
9 2 (0.61%) NetApp
9 2 (0.61%) Salesforce