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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 342 437
Rank change year-on-year +76 +95 -30
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 596 328 489
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.83% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 1.91% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 352 184 311
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £69,688 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £101,875 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £140,677 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 21,008 17,180 31,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.21% 43.32% 33.09%
Number of salaries quoted 13,816 8,252 21,315
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +56 360 £97,500 -11.36% 154
North of England +9 110 £80,000 +1.91% 46
North West +58 80 £88,750 +13.06% 26
South East +5 72 £67,500 -10.00% 55
Midlands -21 21 £87,500 +16.67% 6
Yorkshire -45 17 £75,000 -3.85% 8
South West -48 17 £85,000 -12.82% 22
North East -40 13 £60,000 -34.92% 12
West Midlands -16 12 £87,500 +20.69% 4
East of England -6 11 £76,250 - 11
East Midlands -21 9 £72,000 -7.69% 2
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 11 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.01%) Apache
2 6 (1.01%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.67%) Confluence
3 4 (0.67%) IIS
3 4 (0.67%) JBoss
4 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.17%) Solana
6 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 345 (57.89%) AWS
2 182 (30.54%) Azure
3 149 (25.00%) GCP
4 67 (11.24%) Serverless
5 46 (7.72%) SaaS
6 42 (7.05%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (5.20%) Amazon S3
8 31 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (4.70%) GitHub
10 25 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (2.68%) Datadog
14 14 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.01%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.76%) Broadband
2 13 (2.18%) HTTP
3 10 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.84%) DNS
4 5 (0.84%) Firewall
5 3 (0.50%) BGP
5 3 (0.50%) DHCP
5 3 (0.50%) VLAN
5 3 (0.50%) VoIP
5 3 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.34%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.34%) RTP
6 2 (0.34%) SS7
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) FTP
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-485
7 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (8.22%) MongoDB
3 45 (7.55%) NoSQL
4 26 (4.36%) Relational Database
5 25 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (3.52%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.19%) MySQL
8 17 (2.85%) Redis
9 16 (2.68%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.35%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.68%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.51%) Big Data
13 5 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.84%) Metadata
14 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.67%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (9.90%) Git
2 44 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.05%) GitLab
4 30 (5.03%) Cucumber
5 18 (3.02%) JMeter
6 15 (2.52%) JIRA
6 15 (2.52%) JUnit
7 11 (1.85%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.68%) Gatling
8 10 (1.68%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.84%) Mockito
9 5 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.67%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.67%) Spock
10 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.50%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 145 (24.33%) Finance
2 102 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 42 (7.05%) Banking
4 36 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (5.37%) Games
6 29 (4.87%) Law
7 27 (4.53%) Financial Institution
8 25 (4.19%) Retail
9 23 (3.86%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.19%) Back Office
11 11 (1.85%) Front Office
11 11 (1.85%) Polish Language
12 9 (1.51%) Advertising
13 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.67%) Electronics
15 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 142 (23.83%) Senior
2 140 (23.49%) Developer
3 116 (19.46%) Software Engineer
4 62 (10.40%) Principal Engineer
5 60 (10.07%) Lead
6 56 (9.40%) Architect
7 51 (8.56%) Java Engineer
8 47 (7.89%) Senior Developer
9 32 (5.37%) Backend Developer
10 30 (5.03%) Python Engineer
10 30 (5.03%) Scala Engineer
11 28 (4.70%) Python Developer
11 28 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 26 (4.36%) Java Developer
13 24 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 19 (3.19%) Lead Developer
14 19 (3.19%) Principal Java Engineer
15 18 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 17 (2.85%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (14.43%) .NET
2 83 (13.93%) Kafka
3 73 (12.25%) Spring
4 70 (11.74%) REST
5 64 (10.74%) Spring Boot
6 61 (10.23%) React
7 55 (9.23%) RESTful
8 47 (7.89%) gRPC
9 41 (6.88%) Node.js
10 29 (4.87%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (3.52%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.36%) JSON
13 19 (3.19%) Web Services
14 18 (3.02%) Django
15 17 (2.85%) ASP.NET
16 16 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (2.52%) LangChain
17 15 (2.52%) OAuth
18 14 (2.35%) OAuth2
19 13 (2.18%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 180 (30.20%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.25%) Video\Live Streaming
3 48 (8.05%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.89%) Over-the-Top Content
5 44 (7.38%) Data Structures
6 28 (4.70%) Public Cloud
7 25 (4.19%) Low-Code
8 23 (3.86%) AI Agents
9 21 (3.52%) e-Learning
9 21 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (3.02%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.85%) Client/Server
12 16 (2.68%) Equities
13 15 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (2.18%) Life Science
16 10 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 9 (1.51%) Blog
17 9 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.73%) Linux
2 16 (2.68%) Windows
3 3 (0.50%) Unix
3 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.17%) Debian
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (54.87%) CI/CD
2 292 (48.99%) Software Engineering
3 264 (44.30%) Microservices
4 174 (29.19%) AI
5 169 (28.36%) Agile
6 158 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (25.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 154 (25.84%) Observability
8 148 (24.83%) DevOps
9 146 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (23.99%) Containerisation
11 129 (21.64%) Test Automation
12 128 (21.48%) Event-Driven
13 125 (20.97%) Machine Learning
14 113 (18.96%) Mentoring
15 100 (16.78%) Clean Code
16 84 (14.09%) Computer Science
17 82 (13.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 80 (13.42%) Coaching
19 79 (13.26%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 289 (48.49%) Python
2 170 (28.52%) Java
3 114 (19.13%) Go
4 100 (16.78%) SQL
5 93 (15.60%) C#
6 70 (11.74%) JavaScript
7 67 (11.24%) TypeScript
8 55 (9.23%) C++
9 53 (8.89%) Scala
10 37 (6.21%) Rust
11 16 (2.68%) C
12 15 (2.52%) Bash
13 9 (1.51%) PHP
13 9 (1.51%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.34%) Bicep
15 7 (1.17%) Groovy
16 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.84%) Perl
18 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
19 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (12.58%) Degree
2 51 (8.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (5.70%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.36%) SC Cleared
5 23 (3.86%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (2.85%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.51%) PhD
9 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) HND
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) MBA
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.56%) QA
2 11 (1.85%) SOC 2
3 7 (1.17%) GDPR
3 7 (1.17%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 160 (26.85%) Docker
2 17 (2.85%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.35%) KVM
4 10 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.34%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 146 (24.50%) Kubernetes
2 96 (16.11%) Terraform
3 26 (4.36%) Ansible
4 18 (3.02%) Grafana
5 15 (2.52%) Kibana
6 12 (2.01%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.67%) Argo
7 4 (0.67%) Packer
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.50%) SCCM
9 1 (0.17%) Graylog
9 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 49 (8.22%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.55%) Typelevel
3 20 (3.36%) Google
4 17 (2.85%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.85%) Oracle
4 17 (2.85%) VMware
5 14 (2.35%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.18%) Splunk
7 8 (1.34%) IBM
7 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.17%) Databricks
8 7 (1.17%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.17%) Solace
9 3 (0.50%) Adobe
10 2 (0.34%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.34%) Pega
10 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.34%) WSO2
11 1 (0.17%) ServiceNow