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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 362 418
Rank change year-on-year +94 +56 -43
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 548 298 475
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.76% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 1.77% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 300 190 324
10th Percentile £58,625 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,563 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £116,875
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,677 £146,750
UK median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +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 21,809 16,800 29,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.82% 42.90% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,469 8,291 20,820
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £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 £81,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
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 16 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 16 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 +84 344 £100,000 +2.56% 210
North of England 0 96 £80,000 +3.23% 61
South East +1 74 £70,000 +7.69% 63
North West +38 64 £95,000 +18.75% 41
Yorkshire -59 25 £75,000 -3.23% 5
Midlands -17 16 £87,500 +16.67% 8
South West -43 12 £83,750 -14.10% 21
East of England -3 10 £77,500 - 8
East Midlands -21 10 £86,000 +10.97% 1
North East -39 7 £60,000 -13.52% 15
West Midlands -38 6 £87,500 +20.69% 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 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.37%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.46%) IIS
4 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.73%) Confluence
5 4 (0.73%) JBoss
6 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.55%) Apache
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.55%) Appian
6 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.18%) Solana
7 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 328 (59.85%) AWS
2 173 (31.57%) Azure
3 158 (28.83%) GCP
4 61 (11.13%) Serverless
5 45 (8.21%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (7.12%) SaaS
7 33 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (4.74%) Amazon S3
10 23 (4.20%) GitHub
11 22 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (3.28%) Datadog
14 16 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
19 8 (1.46%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 71 (12.96%) Broadband
2 12 (2.19%) HTTP
3 8 (1.46%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.91%) DNS
4 5 (0.91%) Firewall
5 3 (0.55%) BGP
5 3 (0.55%) DHCP
5 3 (0.55%) VLAN
5 3 (0.55%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Multicast
6 1 (0.18%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.18%) RTP
6 1 (0.18%) SMS
6 1 (0.18%) SS7
6 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.76%) NoSQL
3 42 (7.66%) MongoDB
4 33 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (3.65%) DynamoDB
7 19 (3.47%) BigQuery
7 19 (3.47%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.92%) MySQL
9 15 (2.74%) Hadoop
10 14 (2.55%) Redis
11 13 (2.37%) Big Data
12 11 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.01%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.09%) Tableau
15 5 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.91%) Data Mining
15 5 (0.91%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.91%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 55 (10.04%) Git
2 51 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.20%) GitLab
4 20 (3.65%) Cucumber
5 17 (3.10%) JIRA
6 15 (2.74%) JMeter
7 13 (2.37%) JUnit
8 10 (1.82%) Gatling
9 9 (1.64%) LoadRunner
9 9 (1.64%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.46%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.91%) Maven
11 5 (0.91%) Mockito
12 4 (0.73%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.55%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.36%) Selenium
14 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 141 (25.73%) Finance
2 92 (16.79%) Social Skills
3 44 (8.03%) Banking
4 41 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (6.39%) Law
7 26 (4.74%) Financial Institution
8 25 (4.56%) Public Sector
8 25 (4.56%) Retail
9 24 (4.38%) Games
10 21 (3.83%) Back Office
11 13 (2.37%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.19%) Front Office
13 11 (2.01%) Polish Language
14 8 (1.46%) Marketing
15 7 (1.28%) Advertising
15 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (23.91%) Senior
2 123 (22.45%) Developer
3 107 (19.53%) Software Engineer
4 53 (9.67%) Principal Engineer
5 52 (9.49%) Architect
6 50 (9.12%) Lead
7 42 (7.66%) Java Engineer
8 40 (7.30%) Senior Developer
9 32 (5.84%) Java Developer
10 30 (5.47%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.47%) Scala Engineer
11 22 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (3.65%) Python Engineer
13 19 (3.47%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.47%) Python Developer
14 17 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 16 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (2.74%) Principal Java Engineer
16 15 (2.74%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (15.51%) Kafka
2 74 (13.50%) REST
3 72 (13.14%) Spring
4 70 (12.77%) .NET
5 63 (11.50%) Spring Boot
6 55 (10.04%) gRPC
7 53 (9.67%) React
7 53 (9.67%) RESTful
8 42 (7.66%) Node.js
9 25 (4.56%) Django
9 25 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
9 25 (4.56%) Web Services
10 23 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (3.65%) JSON
12 19 (3.47%) AngularJS
13 16 (2.92%) OAuth
14 15 (2.74%) OAuth2
15 14 (2.55%) HTML
16 13 (2.37%) ASP.NET
16 13 (2.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (27.01%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.50%) Video\Live Streaming
3 52 (9.49%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.58%) Over-the-Top Content
5 46 (8.39%) Data Structures
6 23 (4.20%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.65%) Public Cloud
8 18 (3.28%) AI Agents
8 18 (3.28%) Equities
9 17 (3.10%) Low-Code
10 16 (2.92%) Client/Server
10 16 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (2.74%) e-Learning
11 15 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (2.01%) Blog
13 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.82%) Life Science
15 8 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.31%) Linux
2 16 (2.92%) Windows
3 5 (0.91%) Android
4 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (53.65%) CI/CD
2 252 (45.99%) Software Engineering
3 250 (45.62%) Microservices
4 159 (29.01%) Agile
5 149 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
6 145 (26.46%) Containerisation
7 142 (25.91%) AI
8 136 (24.82%) DevOps
9 135 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (22.26%) Machine Learning
11 119 (21.72%) Observability
12 115 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 102 (18.61%) Event-Driven
14 97 (17.70%) Computer Science
14 97 (17.70%) Test Automation
15 88 (16.06%) Clean Code
16 86 (15.69%) Mentoring
17 73 (13.32%) Data Science
18 72 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
18 72 (13.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 263 (47.99%) Python
2 176 (32.12%) Java
3 113 (20.62%) Go
4 81 (14.78%) C#
5 77 (14.05%) SQL
6 69 (12.59%) JavaScript
7 58 (10.58%) TypeScript
8 56 (10.22%) Scala
9 54 (9.85%) C++
10 36 (6.57%) Rust
11 15 (2.74%) Bash
12 14 (2.55%) C
13 11 (2.01%) Groovy
14 10 (1.82%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.09%) Bicep
15 6 (1.09%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.91%) Perl
16 5 (0.91%) PHP
16 5 (0.91%) R
17 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (16.24%) Degree
2 62 (11.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.47%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.01%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.19%) PhD
9 5 (0.91%) MBA
10 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) ISEB
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.21%) QA
2 13 (2.37%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.09%) GDPR
5 5 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.55%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 168 (30.66%) Docker
2 16 (2.92%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.37%) KVM
4 10 (1.82%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (26.82%) Kubernetes
2 85 (15.51%) Terraform
3 31 (5.66%) Ansible
4 14 (2.55%) Grafana
5 13 (2.37%) Kibana
6 10 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.73%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.73%) Packer
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.55%) SCCM
9 2 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
Vendors
1 45 (8.21%) Typelevel
2 41 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.83%) Google
4 18 (3.28%) Oracle
5 16 (2.92%) VMware
6 15 (2.74%) AppDynamics
7 14 (2.55%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.64%) Databricks
8 9 (1.64%) Splunk
9 8 (1.46%) IBM
10 6 (1.09%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.09%) Solace
11 5 (0.91%) BT
11 5 (0.91%) Informatica
11 5 (0.91%) Talend
12 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.55%) Adobe
14 2 (0.36%) Ericsson
14 2 (0.36%) Nokia
14 2 (0.36%) Salesforce