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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 339 400
Rank change year-on-year +57 +61 -28
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 520 327 480
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.85% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 2.09% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 289 204 328
10th Percentile £57,250 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,474 £148,250
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +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 22,927 15,630 29,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.32% 40.67% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12,058 8,371 20,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,214
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +63 331 £100,000 +8.11% 186
North of England -42 88 £80,000 +3.23% 51
South East -20 69 £70,000 +9.80% 57
North West +13 61 £95,000 +18.75% 30
Yorkshire -71 24 £75,000 -3.23% 9
South West -41 14 £83,750 -16.25% 33
Midlands -29 13 £79,750 +8.14% 19
East of England -4 11 £80,000 - 19
East Midlands -33 11 £86,000 +12.79% 12
North East -35 3 £60,000 -13.52% 12
West Midlands -27 2 £75,000 +3.45% 7
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 15 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.31%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.35%) IIS
5 5 (0.96%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.77%) Appian
7 3 (0.58%) Apache
7 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.58%) JBoss
7 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) Solana
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 315 (60.58%) AWS
2 168 (32.31%) Azure
3 160 (30.77%) GCP
4 59 (11.35%) Serverless
5 44 (8.46%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (7.50%) SaaS
7 32 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (5.19%) Amazon S3
8 27 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (5.19%) GitHub
9 23 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.65%) Datadog
12 18 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.54%) Anthropic Claude
17 7 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.92%) Broadband
2 12 (2.31%) HTTP
3 8 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.77%) BGP
4 4 (0.77%) DNS
4 4 (0.77%) Firewall
4 4 (0.77%) VLAN
4 4 (0.77%) VPN
5 2 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.19%) LTE
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.19%) RTP
6 1 (0.19%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) SS7
6 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 45 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (6.15%) Relational Database
4 31 (5.96%) MongoDB
5 28 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (4.23%) DynamoDB
7 21 (4.04%) SQL Server
8 19 (3.65%) BigQuery
9 17 (3.27%) Redis
10 16 (3.08%) MySQL
11 15 (2.88%) Hadoop
12 13 (2.50%) Big Data
13 12 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.92%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.15%) Tableau
16 5 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.96%) Data Mining
16 5 (0.96%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.96%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 52 (10.00%) Git
2 50 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.19%) GitLab
4 17 (3.27%) Cucumber
5 16 (3.08%) JIRA
6 15 (2.88%) JMeter
7 10 (1.92%) Gatling
7 10 (1.92%) JUnit
8 9 (1.73%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.73%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.54%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.96%) Maven
11 4 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.77%) Mockito
12 3 (0.58%) Selenium
12 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.58%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 130 (25.00%) Finance
2 95 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 43 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (7.88%) Banking
5 34 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.35%) Law
7 26 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 25 (4.81%) Financial Institution
9 23 (4.42%) Retail
10 21 (4.04%) Telecoms
11 20 (3.85%) Back Office
12 15 (2.88%) Games
13 12 (2.31%) Front Office
14 10 (1.92%) Marketing
15 9 (1.73%) Advertising
15 9 (1.73%) Polish Language
16 7 (1.35%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.96%) Electronics
17 5 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 130 (25.00%) Senior
2 110 (21.15%) Developer
3 109 (20.96%) Software Engineer
4 53 (10.19%) Lead
5 47 (9.04%) Architect
6 43 (8.27%) Principal Engineer
7 36 (6.92%) Java Engineer
8 33 (6.35%) Senior Developer
9 30 (5.77%) Scala Engineer
10 29 (5.58%) Backend Developer
11 28 (5.38%) Java Developer
12 24 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (3.85%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.65%) Python Engineer
15 18 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
17 16 (3.08%) Lead Developer
18 15 (2.88%) Scala Developer
18 15 (2.88%) Scala Software Engineer
18 15 (2.88%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (15.38%) Kafka
2 75 (14.42%) REST
3 65 (12.50%) .NET
4 60 (11.54%) gRPC
4 60 (11.54%) Spring
5 53 (10.19%) React
5 53 (10.19%) Spring Boot
6 52 (10.00%) RESTful
7 45 (8.65%) Node.js
8 28 (5.38%) Django
9 27 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (4.42%) Web Services
11 22 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
12 20 (3.85%) JSON
13 19 (3.65%) OAuth
14 18 (3.46%) AngularJS
15 16 (3.08%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.50%) FastAPI
16 13 (2.50%) HTML
17 12 (2.31%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 136 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 54 (10.38%) Video\Live Streaming
3 53 (10.19%) Algorithms
4 48 (9.23%) Data Structures
5 47 (9.04%) Over-the-Top Content
6 24 (4.62%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.46%) Equities
8 16 (3.08%) Client/Server
8 16 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (3.08%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.88%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.31%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.92%) Blog
12 10 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
13 9 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.54%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.54%) Sports Betting
14 8 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (9.04%) Linux
2 14 (2.69%) Windows
3 8 (1.54%) Android
4 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (53.27%) CI/CD
2 247 (47.50%) Microservices
3 239 (45.96%) Software Engineering
4 151 (29.04%) Problem-Solving
5 148 (28.46%) Containerisation
6 147 (28.27%) Agile
7 130 (25.00%) DevOps
8 120 (23.08%) AI
8 120 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 110 (21.15%) Machine Learning
10 107 (20.58%) Observability
11 101 (19.42%) Computer Science
12 97 (18.65%) Event-Driven
13 94 (18.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 88 (16.92%) Clean Code
15 81 (15.58%) Test Automation
16 77 (14.81%) Mentoring
17 75 (14.42%) Roadmaps
18 72 (13.85%) Data Science
19 66 (12.69%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 243 (46.73%) Python
2 164 (31.54%) Java
3 112 (21.54%) Go
4 77 (14.81%) C#
5 76 (14.62%) SQL
6 57 (10.96%) Scala
7 55 (10.58%) C++
7 55 (10.58%) JavaScript
8 52 (10.00%) TypeScript
9 36 (6.92%) Rust
10 14 (2.69%) C
11 13 (2.50%) Bash
12 9 (1.73%) Groovy
12 9 (1.73%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.96%) R
13 5 (0.96%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.77%) Bicep
14 4 (0.77%) Perl
14 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (17.88%) Degree
2 67 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.42%) Master's Degree
4 23 (4.42%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.31%) PhD
8 5 (0.96%) MBA
9 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.19%) ISEB
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.65%) QA
2 13 (2.50%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.35%) GDPR
5 5 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 171 (32.88%) Docker
2 15 (2.88%) Hyper-V
2 15 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.50%) KVM
4 8 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 144 (27.69%) Kubernetes
2 77 (14.81%) Terraform
3 33 (6.35%) Ansible
4 14 (2.69%) Grafana
5 12 (2.31%) Kibana
6 10 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.77%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.77%) Packer
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.58%) SCCM
9 2 (0.38%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.65%) Typelevel
2 32 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.42%) Google
4 15 (2.88%) VMware
5 14 (2.69%) Oracle
6 13 (2.50%) AppDynamics
6 13 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.73%) Databricks
8 8 (1.54%) IBM
9 6 (1.15%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.15%) Solace
9 6 (1.15%) Splunk
10 5 (0.96%) BT
10 5 (0.96%) Informatica
10 5 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.96%) Talend
11 4 (0.77%) Ericsson
11 4 (0.77%) Mavenir
11 4 (0.77%) Nokia
12 2 (0.38%) Confluent