Distributed Systems Jobs 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 413 414
Rank change year-on-year +34 +1 -188
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 356 529 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.68% 0.57% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 1.71% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 200 321 348
10th Percentile £62,500 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £69,688 £62,500 £68,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £150,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.57% +2.94%

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 19,415 30,851 33,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.30% 33.12% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,261 20,544 19,800
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £35,722
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +5.45% -14.10% +2.45%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in England.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 July 2025. 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 +88 238 £110,000 +10.00% 1,333
North of England -12 71 £80,000 +17.65% 216
South East +20 55 £70,000 +7.69% 109
North West -48 34 £82,500 +4.76% 147
Yorkshire +28 31 £78,500 +15.44% 58
Midlands +75 19 £75,000 +25.00% 47
West Midlands +49 11 £72,500 +20.83% 21
East Midlands +44 8 £76,250 -25.61% 26
South West +90 6 £97,500 +47.17% 49
North East +49 6 £92,192 +22.92% 11
East of England +20 2 - - 62
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.65%) JBoss
3 12 (3.37%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.25%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.40%) SAS
6 3 (0.84%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 162 (45.51%) AWS
2 86 (24.16%) Azure
3 71 (19.94%) GCP
4 49 (13.76%) Amazon ECS
5 45 (12.64%) Serverless
6 44 (12.36%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (9.55%) SaaS
8 26 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.65%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (3.37%) GitHub
12 11 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 8 (2.25%) AWS CodeBuild
14 8 (2.25%) dbt
14 8 (2.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.49%) HTTP
2 8 (2.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.28%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) Multicast
3 1 (0.28%) NAS
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) SAN
3 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.13%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (13.48%) Relational Database
3 36 (10.11%) NoSQL
4 28 (7.87%) Big Data
5 21 (5.90%) MongoDB
6 19 (5.34%) RDBMS
7 15 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.65%) Redis
9 11 (3.09%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.25%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (2.25%) MySQL
11 7 (1.97%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.12%) Flink
13 4 (1.12%) Spark SQL
14 3 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 66 (18.54%) Jenkins
2 57 (16.01%) Git
3 46 (12.92%) JUnit
4 27 (7.58%) Mockito
5 20 (5.62%) JMeter
6 13 (3.65%) JIRA
7 12 (3.37%) Maven
8 10 (2.81%) Gradle
9 9 (2.53%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.97%) GitLab
11 5 (1.40%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.40%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.40%) jMock
11 5 (1.40%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (1.12%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.12%) PHPUnit
12 4 (1.12%) Postman
12 4 (1.12%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.84%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 141 (39.61%) Finance
2 107 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 101 (28.37%) Banking
4 81 (22.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (16.29%) Law
6 48 (13.48%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (4.78%) Retail
9 16 (4.49%) Front Office
9 16 (4.49%) Investment Banking
10 15 (4.21%) Marketing
11 14 (3.93%) Advertising
11 14 (3.93%) Games
12 11 (3.09%) Legal
13 8 (2.25%) Financial Institution
13 8 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 157 (44.10%) Software Engineer
2 97 (27.25%) Lead
3 96 (26.97%) Senior
4 79 (22.19%) Developer
4 79 (22.19%) Lead Software Engineer
5 54 (15.17%) Java Developer
6 49 (13.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 47 (13.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (10.39%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 33 (9.27%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 23 (6.46%) Java Engineer
11 21 (5.90%) Java Software Engineer
11 21 (5.90%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 18 (5.06%) C# Software Engineer
12 18 (5.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 17 (4.78%) Python Engineer
14 16 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (4.49%) Principal Engineer
14 16 (4.49%) Python Software Engineer
15 15 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (21.91%) Kafka
1 78 (21.91%) Spring
2 70 (19.66%) Spring Boot
3 64 (17.98%) REST
4 60 (16.85%) RESTful
5 54 (15.17%) Web Services
6 37 (10.39%) .NET
7 36 (10.11%) Hibernate
8 34 (9.55%) React
9 32 (8.99%) HTML
10 31 (8.71%) Apache Camel
11 25 (7.02%) ActiveMQ
12 24 (6.74%) jQuery
13 22 (6.18%) AngularJS
14 21 (5.90%) SOAP
15 19 (5.34%) WireMock
16 16 (4.49%) JSON
17 15 (4.21%) .NET Core
17 15 (4.21%) J2EE
18 14 (3.93%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 108 (30.34%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.08%) Algorithms
3 42 (11.80%) Product Ownership
4 36 (10.11%) Data Structures
5 35 (9.83%) Public Cloud
6 33 (9.27%) Legacy Code
7 21 (5.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (4.49%) Virtual Team
9 14 (3.93%) Derivative
9 14 (3.93%) Management Information System
10 12 (3.37%) Fixed Income
10 12 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (3.09%) Hedge funds
12 10 (2.81%) Reference Data
12 10 (2.81%) Replication
13 9 (2.53%) Equities
13 9 (2.53%) Mobile Banking
14 8 (2.25%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (2.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 68 (19.10%) Linux
2 12 (3.37%) Unix
3 4 (1.12%) Windows
4 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (57.30%) Software Engineering
2 166 (46.63%) Agile
3 162 (45.51%) CI/CD
4 159 (44.66%) Microservices
5 97 (27.25%) DevOps
6 85 (23.88%) TDD
7 76 (21.35%) SDLC
8 69 (19.38%) Containerisation
9 58 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (15.73%) Roadmaps
11 51 (14.33%) Mentoring
12 50 (14.04%) BDD
13 45 (12.64%) Test Automation
14 44 (12.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 43 (12.08%) Computer Science
16 42 (11.80%) Artificial Intelligence
16 42 (11.80%) Machine Learning
17 39 (10.96%) Scrum
18 38 (10.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 155 (43.54%) Java
2 117 (32.87%) Python
3 86 (24.16%) SQL
4 64 (17.98%) JavaScript
5 59 (16.57%) C#
6 54 (15.17%) C++
7 52 (14.61%) Go
8 43 (12.08%) Rust
9 36 (10.11%) C
10 26 (7.30%) Scala
11 24 (6.74%) Shell Script
12 20 (5.62%) TypeScript
13 19 (5.34%) Kotlin
14 15 (4.21%) PowerShell
15 8 (2.25%) Groovy
16 6 (1.69%) PHP
16 6 (1.69%) PL/SQL
17 4 (1.12%) Bash
17 4 (1.12%) R
18 3 (0.84%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (11.52%) Degree
1 41 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 34 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.53%) PhD
7 5 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CEH
10 1 (0.28%) CISM
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) GIAC
10 1 (0.28%) OSCP
10 1 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.18%) GDPR
2 15 (4.21%) HIPAA
3 13 (3.65%) QA
3 13 (3.65%) SOC 2
4 12 (3.37%) SLA
5 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.12%) Basel II
6 4 (1.12%) Basel III
6 4 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.12%) Dodd-Frank
6 4 (1.12%) IFRS
6 4 (1.12%) IFRS 9
6 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 130 (36.52%) Docker
2 11 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.12%) Postfix
4 3 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.84%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 181 (50.84%) Kubernetes
2 57 (16.01%) Terraform
3 19 (5.34%) Kibana
4 18 (5.06%) Ansible
5 10 (2.81%) Grafana
6 8 (2.25%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (1.69%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.84%) Argo
9 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (8.43%) Google
2 25 (7.02%) Splunk
3 22 (6.18%) Dynatrace
4 21 (5.90%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.09%) Apple
6 10 (2.81%) Oracle
7 5 (1.40%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.40%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.40%) IBM
8 4 (1.12%) Foundry
8 4 (1.12%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.12%) Palantir
9 3 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (0.84%) NetApp
10 2 (0.56%) ESRI
10 2 (0.56%) SAP
11 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.28%) Reuters
11 1 (0.28%) Salesforce