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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 330 360
Rank change year-on-year +24 +30 -57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 360 405 395
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.85% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 2.26% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 234 263 305
10th Percentile £63,625 £55,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -4.35%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +8.82% +3.03% -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 18,758 17,888 20,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.43% 37.38% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,546 8,386 15,043
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,819 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +1.37% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £103,995
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +21 240 £110,000 +12.82% 167
North of England +7 66 £75,000 +10.29% 79
North West +45 38 £75,000 +8.21% 39
South East +6 38 £70,000 +12.00% 177
Yorkshire -43 27 £75,000 +10.29% 29
East of England +26 13 £82,500 +13.79% 64
Midlands +16 11 £76,250 +10.02% 42
South West +9 6 £83,750 - 51
East Midlands +2 6 £77,500 - 26
West Midlands +22 5 £75,000 +8.21% 14
North East +2 1 £73,801 +6.48% 12
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 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.17%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.78%) Apache
5 5 (1.39%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.39%) IIS
6 4 (1.11%) Appian
7 3 (0.83%) Confluence
7 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 213 (59.17%) AWS
2 142 (39.44%) Azure
3 107 (29.72%) GCP
4 53 (14.72%) Serverless
5 41 (11.39%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (10.83%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (9.17%) SaaS
8 22 (6.11%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.00%) GitHub
10 17 (4.72%) Amazon Kinesis
11 16 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.06%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (3.06%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.11%) HTTP
2 4 (1.11%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.83%) BGP
3 3 (0.83%) VLAN
3 3 (0.83%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) Broadband
4 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.56%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) 4G
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) AMQP
5 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
5 1 (0.28%) RTP
5 1 (0.28%) SS7
5 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (16.11%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.56%) Relational Database
4 37 (10.28%) Hadoop
5 36 (10.00%) Big Data
6 31 (8.61%) MongoDB
7 26 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (6.67%) DynamoDB
8 24 (6.67%) Redis
8 24 (6.67%) SQL Server
9 21 (5.83%) RDBMS
10 19 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (3.89%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (3.89%) MySQL
13 13 (3.61%) Apache Hive
14 12 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.78%) BigQuery
15 10 (2.78%) Neo4j
15 10 (2.78%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 41 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 35 (9.72%) Git
3 17 (4.72%) JMeter
4 16 (4.44%) JUnit
5 15 (4.17%) GitLab
6 11 (3.06%) Mockito
7 7 (1.94%) JIRA
8 5 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.11%) Maven
9 4 (1.11%) Postman
9 4 (1.11%) Selenium
9 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.56%) JConsole
11 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.56%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
General
1 102 (28.33%) Finance
2 82 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.00%) Banking
5 34 (9.44%) Financial Institution
6 28 (7.78%) Law
7 27 (7.50%) Public Sector
8 23 (6.39%) Telecoms
9 19 (5.28%) Retail
10 16 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (4.17%) Front Office
12 13 (3.61%) Marketing
13 11 (3.06%) Back Office
14 9 (2.50%) Games
15 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.39%) Legal
15 5 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.39%) Polish Language
15 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 109 (30.28%) Senior
2 97 (26.94%) Developer
3 84 (23.33%) Software Engineer
4 64 (17.78%) Lead
5 49 (13.61%) Java Developer
6 33 (9.17%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 24 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (6.11%) Senior Developer
10 20 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (5.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 19 (5.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 19 (5.28%) Lead Developer
12 17 (4.72%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 17 (4.72%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (4.44%) Architect
14 15 (4.17%) Java Engineer
15 14 (3.89%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (24.44%) Kafka
2 60 (16.67%) REST
2 60 (16.67%) Spring
3 55 (15.28%) Spring Boot
4 51 (14.17%) .NET
4 51 (14.17%) React
5 36 (10.00%) RESTful
6 35 (9.72%) Node.js
7 28 (7.78%) Django
8 26 (7.22%) Web Services
9 22 (6.11%) HTML
10 21 (5.83%) gRPC
11 18 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (5.00%) FastAPI
11 18 (5.00%) Hibernate
12 17 (4.72%) AngularJS
12 17 (4.72%) JSON
13 16 (4.44%) OAuth
14 15 (4.17%) Apache Camel
15 14 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 113 (31.39%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.83%) Algorithms
3 36 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.78%) Data Structures
5 16 (4.44%) Equities
5 16 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.44%) Legacy Code
5 16 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.89%) e-Learning
6 14 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.89%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.06%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.78%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.22%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.39%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.00%) Linux
2 12 (3.33%) Unix
3 9 (2.50%) Android
4 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (48.06%) Microservices
2 166 (46.11%) CI/CD
3 141 (39.17%) Software Engineering
4 131 (36.39%) Agile
5 102 (28.33%) DevOps
6 90 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 82 (22.78%) Computer Science
8 79 (21.94%) AI
8 79 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 78 (21.67%) Mentoring
10 72 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 67 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (18.06%) Event-Driven
13 64 (17.78%) Roadmaps
14 63 (17.50%) Machine Learning
15 57 (15.83%) Analytics
15 57 (15.83%) Observability
16 55 (15.28%) TDD
17 50 (13.89%) Low Latency
18 48 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 175 (48.61%) Java
2 151 (41.94%) Python
3 70 (19.44%) Go
4 67 (18.61%) SQL
5 64 (17.78%) C#
6 47 (13.06%) JavaScript
7 40 (11.11%) C++
7 40 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 32 (8.89%) Scala
9 26 (7.22%) Rust
10 23 (6.39%) C
11 13 (3.61%) Bash
12 11 (3.06%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.50%) Kotlin
14 8 (2.22%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.39%) R
16 4 (1.11%) Groovy
17 3 (0.83%) Ruby
18 2 (0.56%) COBOL
19 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (21.11%) Degree
2 47 (13.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.22%) Master's Degree
5 18 (5.00%) PhD
6 14 (3.89%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.39%) MBA
10 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.56%) QA
2 14 (3.89%) GDPR
3 8 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.22%) SOC 2
4 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.11%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.83%) WCAG
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 110 (30.56%) Docker
2 14 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.89%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.50%) HDFS
4 8 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.11%) KVM
7 2 (0.56%) Ceph
7 2 (0.56%) Lustre
7 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 140 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.39%) Terraform
3 31 (8.61%) Ansible
4 15 (4.17%) Kibana
5 12 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.06%) Grafana
7 5 (1.39%) logstash
8 4 (1.11%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.11%) Rancher
8 4 (1.11%) vRealize
9 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (5.56%) Google
2 18 (5.00%) Databricks
3 15 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.61%) Splunk
5 12 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.06%) Oracle
7 10 (2.78%) Informatica
7 10 (2.78%) Talend
8 8 (2.22%) VMware
9 6 (1.67%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.39%) BT
10 5 (1.39%) Dell
10 5 (1.39%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.39%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.39%) Nokia
10 5 (1.39%) SAP
11 4 (1.11%) Pega
11 4 (1.11%) WSO2
12 3 (0.83%) Solace
13 2 (0.56%) Confluent