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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 339 344
Rank change year-on-year +95 +5 +46
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 772 325 501
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.75% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 1.79% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 462 191 303
10th Percentile £53,750 £66,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £147,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -

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 27,228 18,108 21,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.19% 41.87% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17,684 9,188 10,979
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% -4.00%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +51 464 £95,000 -13.64% 1,296
North of England +13 125 £72,500 -6.45% 162
North West +23 79 £80,000 -7.25% 104
South East -13 78 £62,500 -16.67% 122
South West -37 35 £90,000 -7.69% 72
North East -31 32 £67,500 -41.30% 23
Midlands -37 31 £80,000 +6.67% 70
East of England -20 25 £80,000 - 45
West Midlands -28 24 £82,500 +10.00% 39
Yorkshire -41 14 £75,000 - 35
East Midlands -41 7 £75,000 -3.23% 31
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 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.42%) Apache
3 9 (1.17%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.78%) Camunda
5 5 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.65%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.52%) JBoss
7 3 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 406 (52.59%) AWS
2 247 (31.99%) Azure
3 135 (17.49%) GCP
4 75 (9.72%) Serverless
5 70 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (8.16%) GitHub
7 52 (6.74%) SaaS
8 43 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
8 43 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 33 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (3.11%) Datadog
15 21 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (2.59%) Anthropic Claude
17 19 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
18 18 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.27%) Broadband
2 19 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.81%) HTTP
4 6 (0.78%) Internet
4 6 (0.78%) VPN
5 5 (0.65%) BGP
5 5 (0.65%) Firewall
6 4 (0.52%) DNS
6 4 (0.52%) MQTT
6 4 (0.52%) Network Security
7 3 (0.39%) DHCP
7 3 (0.39%) Multicast
7 3 (0.39%) X.509
8 2 (0.26%) AMQP
8 2 (0.26%) LTE
8 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.26%) VLAN
8 2 (0.26%) VoIP
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (14.38%) NoSQL
2 104 (13.47%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (7.90%) MongoDB
4 41 (5.31%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.76%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.50%) DynamoDB
8 25 (3.24%) Redis
9 23 (2.98%) MySQL
10 21 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.55%) Metadata
12 10 (1.30%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.17%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.17%) Flink
13 9 (1.17%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.04%) Big Data
15 7 (0.91%) Couchbase
16 6 (0.78%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.78%) Pinecone
17 5 (0.65%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (10.10%) GitLab
2 67 (8.68%) Git
3 50 (6.48%) Cucumber
4 40 (5.18%) Jenkins
5 30 (3.89%) JUnit
6 20 (2.59%) JMeter
7 15 (1.94%) Claude Code
7 15 (1.94%) JIRA
8 14 (1.81%) Mockito
9 12 (1.55%) LoadRunner
9 12 (1.55%) Spock
10 11 (1.42%) Gatling
11 8 (1.04%) Maven
12 7 (0.91%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.78%) Selenium
14 4 (0.52%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.52%) MLflow
15 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
16 2 (0.26%) HP UFT
16 2 (0.26%) NUnit
General
1 220 (28.50%) Finance
2 192 (24.87%) Social Skills
3 76 (9.84%) Banking
4 61 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (5.05%) Law
6 39 (5.05%) Retail
7 38 (4.92%) Public Sector
8 37 (4.79%) Financial Institution
9 27 (3.50%) Games
10 20 (2.59%) Front Office
11 19 (2.46%) Back Office
12 13 (1.68%) Marketing
13 12 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Advertising
15 6 (0.78%) Legal
15 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.65%) Polish Language
16 5 (0.65%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 218 (28.24%) Senior
2 168 (21.76%) Developer
3 153 (19.82%) Software Engineer
4 109 (14.12%) Lead
5 87 (11.27%) Principal Engineer
6 86 (11.14%) Java Engineer
7 67 (8.68%) Architect
8 55 (7.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 51 (6.61%) Senior Developer
10 41 (5.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 41 (5.31%) Python Engineer
11 40 (5.18%) Backend Developer
11 40 (5.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 40 (5.18%) Python Developer
12 33 (4.27%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (3.76%) Principal Java Engineer
14 25 (3.24%) Java Developer
15 24 (3.11%) Lead Software Engineer
16 23 (2.98%) Principal Software Engineer
17 22 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (20.08%) Kafka
2 145 (18.78%) .NET
3 143 (18.52%) Terraform
4 137 (17.75%) Spring
5 120 (15.54%) REST
6 115 (14.90%) Spring Boot
7 102 (13.21%) React
7 102 (13.21%) RESTful
8 61 (7.90%) Node.js
9 45 (5.83%) AngularJS
10 37 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
11 25 (3.24%) OAuth
12 24 (3.11%) FastAPI
13 23 (2.98%) Next.js
13 23 (2.98%) OAuth2
14 22 (2.85%) LangChain
14 22 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
15 21 (2.72%) .NET Framework
15 21 (2.72%) ASP.NET
16 18 (2.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 300 (38.86%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.12%) AI Agents
3 53 (6.87%) Public Cloud
4 45 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (5.70%) e-Learning
6 30 (3.89%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.63%) Low-Code
7 28 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 27 (3.50%) Onboarding
8 27 (3.50%) Video\Live Streaming
9 22 (2.85%) Data Structures
9 22 (2.85%) IoT
10 20 (2.59%) Blog
11 19 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
11 19 (2.46%) Robotics
12 17 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (1.94%) Management Information System
14 15 (1.94%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.81%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.61%) Linux
2 13 (1.68%) Unix
3 9 (1.17%) Windows
4 5 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.65%) VMS
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Debian
6 2 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (61.01%) CI/CD
2 388 (50.26%) Software Engineering
3 359 (46.50%) Microservices
4 316 (40.93%) AI
5 270 (34.97%) Observability
6 258 (33.42%) Event-Driven
7 244 (31.61%) Agile
8 241 (31.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 216 (27.98%) DevOps
10 211 (27.33%) Mentoring
11 201 (26.04%) Test Automation
12 174 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 169 (21.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 146 (18.91%) Containerisation
15 139 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
16 132 (17.10%) Full-Stack Development
17 122 (15.80%) Technical Leadership
18 119 (15.41%) Machine Learning
19 103 (13.34%) Roadmaps
20 98 (12.69%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 302 (39.12%) Python
2 269 (34.84%) Java
3 197 (25.52%) SQL
4 133 (17.23%) C#
5 128 (16.58%) TypeScript
6 103 (13.34%) JavaScript
7 100 (12.95%) Go
8 36 (4.66%) C++
9 24 (3.11%) Bash
10 12 (1.55%) Rust
11 9 (1.17%) Bicep
11 9 (1.17%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.17%) Scala
11 9 (1.17%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.04%) PHP
13 7 (0.91%) C
14 6 (0.78%) Groovy
15 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.39%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (8.94%) Degree
1 69 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.99%) AWS Certification
3 44 (5.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 44 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 38 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.42%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.04%) PhD
7 6 (0.78%) CISSP
8 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.39%) CCSP
9 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.39%) CISM
9 3 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (7.38%) QA
2 15 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.04%) GDPR
4 8 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.91%) SOC 2
6 6 (0.78%) NIST
7 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 172 (22.28%) Docker
2 11 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) Firmware
4 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.26%) KVM
5 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 204 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 45 (5.83%) Grafana
3 23 (2.98%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.46%) Kibana
5 17 (2.20%) Ansible
6 10 (1.30%) Argo
7 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.39%) Cilium
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.39%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) Bosun
9 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.99%) Google
3 31 (4.02%) OpenAI
4 22 (2.85%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.72%) Dynatrace
5 21 (2.72%) Splunk
6 18 (2.33%) Oracle
7 8 (1.04%) Databricks
8 6 (0.78%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.65%) Adobe
9 5 (0.65%) Solace
10 4 (0.52%) Facebook
10 4 (0.52%) IBM
10 4 (0.52%) Instagram
10 4 (0.52%) TikTok
10 4 (0.52%) VMware
11 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.39%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.26%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.26%) TIBCO