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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 348 344
Rank change year-on-year +101 -4 +45
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 746 318 522
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.98% 1.76% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 441 180 312
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +17.19% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,125
90th Percentile £121,250 £140,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £91,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.59% +17.74% -3.13%

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 25,074 18,118 22,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.55% 41.97% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 16,493 9,194 12,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.56% -4.80%

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 September 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 September 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 +60 445 £95,000 -13.64% 1,035
North of England +17 131 £75,000 -6.25% 132
North West +52 85 £80,000 -8.57% 78
South East -5 78 £63,500 -15.33% 78
South West -49 32 £95,000 -2.56% 83
North East -37 28 £67,500 -41.30% 25
East of England -14 25 £80,000 -20.00% 43
Midlands -33 25 £80,000 +6.67% 32
West Midlands -26 20 £85,000 +13.33% 18
Yorkshire -54 18 £75,000 -2.28% 29
East Midlands -37 5 £76,000 -1.94% 14
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 17 (2.28%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.21%) Apache
3 6 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.80%) Camunda
3 6 (0.80%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.54%) JBoss
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Solana
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 395 (52.95%) AWS
2 232 (31.10%) Azure
3 141 (18.90%) GCP
4 73 (9.79%) Serverless
5 63 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (6.30%) SaaS
7 43 (5.76%) GitHub
8 41 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (5.50%) Amazon S3
9 37 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (2.55%) Datadog
14 19 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (2.28%) Amazon Bedrock
16 17 (2.28%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.37%) Broadband
2 14 (1.88%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.34%) HTTP
4 6 (0.80%) DNS
4 6 (0.80%) Internet
5 4 (0.54%) DHCP
5 4 (0.54%) Firewall
5 4 (0.54%) MQTT
6 3 (0.40%) Multicast
6 3 (0.40%) X.509
7 2 (0.27%) AMQP
7 2 (0.27%) LTE
7 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.27%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) Network Security
8 1 (0.13%) RTP
8 1 (0.13%) RTSP
8 1 (0.13%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (12.47%) NoSQL
2 88 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.77%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.62%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.22%) DynamoDB
6 24 (3.22%) MySQL
7 22 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (2.82%) Redis
9 19 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.34%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.34%) Metadata
11 9 (1.21%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.21%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.07%) Big Data
12 8 (1.07%) Flink
13 6 (0.80%) Couchbase
13 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.80%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.67%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 79 (10.59%) Git
2 70 (9.38%) GitLab
3 52 (6.97%) Jenkins
4 47 (6.30%) Cucumber
5 29 (3.89%) JUnit
6 17 (2.28%) JIRA
7 14 (1.88%) JMeter
8 13 (1.74%) Mockito
9 12 (1.61%) Spock
10 11 (1.47%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.07%) Maven
12 7 (0.94%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.94%) Selenium
13 6 (0.80%) Gatling
14 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.54%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.54%) MLflow
16 2 (0.27%) HP UFT
General
1 195 (26.14%) Finance
2 167 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 61 (8.18%) Banking
4 51 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.69%) Law
7 31 (4.16%) Financial Institution
8 28 (3.75%) Games
9 27 (3.62%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.49%) Retail
11 20 (2.68%) Front Office
12 17 (2.28%) Back Office
13 13 (1.74%) Marketing
14 10 (1.34%) Advertising
15 8 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.07%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.94%) Electronics
17 6 (0.80%) Legal
17 6 (0.80%) Polish Language
18 4 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 206 (27.61%) Senior
2 170 (22.79%) Developer
3 151 (20.24%) Software Engineer
4 97 (13.00%) Lead
5 80 (10.72%) Java Engineer
5 80 (10.72%) Principal Engineer
6 53 (7.10%) Architect
6 53 (7.10%) Senior Developer
7 51 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 41 (5.50%) Backend Developer
8 41 (5.50%) Python Engineer
9 40 (5.36%) Python Developer
10 38 (5.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 37 (4.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 31 (4.16%) Java Developer
13 30 (4.02%) Senior Java Engineer
14 25 (3.35%) Principal Java Engineer
15 21 (2.82%) Principal Software Engineer
16 20 (2.68%) Lead Software Engineer
17 19 (2.55%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (18.77%) Kafka
2 137 (18.36%) Terraform
3 130 (17.43%) Spring
4 129 (17.29%) .NET
5 110 (14.75%) REST
6 107 (14.34%) Spring Boot
7 99 (13.27%) React
8 93 (12.47%) RESTful
9 59 (7.91%) Node.js
10 46 (6.17%) AngularJS
11 41 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.22%) OAuth
13 23 (3.08%) LangChain
14 22 (2.95%) OAuth2
15 21 (2.82%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.82%) gRPC
15 21 (2.82%) JSON
16 20 (2.68%) FastAPI
16 20 (2.68%) Next.js
17 18 (2.41%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 269 (36.06%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.17%) AI Agents
3 44 (5.90%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (5.76%) Public Cloud
5 36 (4.83%) e-Learning
6 35 (4.69%) Algorithms
6 35 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (3.89%) Data Structures
8 28 (3.75%) Low-Code
8 28 (3.75%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 20 (2.68%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 18 (2.41%) Over-the-Top Content
12 17 (2.28%) Equities
12 17 (2.28%) IoT
13 16 (2.14%) Private Cloud
14 15 (2.01%) Life Science
15 13 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.58%) Linux
2 13 (1.74%) Windows
3 12 (1.61%) Unix
4 5 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.67%) VMS
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (60.05%) CI/CD
2 384 (51.47%) Software Engineering
3 345 (46.25%) Microservices
4 284 (38.07%) AI
5 244 (32.71%) Observability
6 232 (31.10%) Agile
7 229 (30.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 222 (29.76%) Event-Driven
9 212 (28.42%) DevOps
10 193 (25.87%) Mentoring
10 193 (25.87%) Test Automation
11 171 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 154 (20.64%) Containerisation
13 149 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
14 145 (19.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 129 (17.29%) Machine Learning
16 121 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
17 101 (13.54%) Clean Code
18 100 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
19 90 (12.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 325 (43.57%) Python
2 255 (34.18%) Java
3 164 (21.98%) SQL
4 120 (16.09%) TypeScript
5 117 (15.68%) C#
6 106 (14.21%) Go
7 101 (13.54%) JavaScript
8 41 (5.50%) C++
9 26 (3.49%) Scala
10 23 (3.08%) Bash
11 18 (2.41%) Rust
12 11 (1.47%) Groovy
12 11 (1.47%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.34%) C
14 9 (1.21%) Bicep
14 9 (1.21%) PHP
14 9 (1.21%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.67%) Perl
16 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (9.92%) Degree
2 68 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 42 (5.63%) AWS Certification
3 42 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.21%) PhD
7 6 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.13%) CSPO
10 1 (0.13%) HND
10 1 (0.13%) ISEB
10 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.58%) QA
2 9 (1.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.94%) GDPR
3 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.13%) PSD2
6 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 175 (23.46%) Docker
2 12 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.67%) KVM
7 3 (0.40%) Firmware
8 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 190 (25.47%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.02%) Ansible
3 23 (3.08%) Grafana
4 16 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.01%) Kibana
6 8 (1.07%) Argo
7 4 (0.54%) Packer
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Graylog
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 82 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.43%) Google
3 27 (3.62%) OpenAI
4 24 (3.22%) AppDynamics
5 20 (2.68%) Oracle
5 20 (2.68%) Splunk
6 18 (2.41%) Typelevel
7 13 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.47%) IBM
9 8 (1.07%) Databricks
9 8 (1.07%) VMware
10 7 (0.94%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.67%) Solace
12 4 (0.54%) Adobe
12 4 (0.54%) Facebook
12 4 (0.54%) Instagram
12 4 (0.54%) TikTok
13 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.27%) Pega
13 2 (0.27%) Salesforce