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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 344 342
Rank change year-on-year +94 -2 +45
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 780 318 503
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.88% 1.77% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 468 183 305
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 £147,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,250 £93,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.27% +17.19% -

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 27,040 17,959 21,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.10% 41.92% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17,570 9,082 10,977
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,863
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 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -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 29 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 29 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 +55 464 £95,000 -13.64% 984
North of England +13 133 £75,000 -3.23% 128
South East -5 86 £64,250 -14.33% 78
North West +35 82 £80,000 -7.25% 80
South West -51 34 £85,000 -12.82% 69
North East -37 32 £67,500 -41.30% 15
Midlands -42 29 £80,000 +6.67% 49
East of England -10 25 £80,000 -11.11% 34
West Midlands -30 24 £82,500 +10.00% 36
Yorkshire -37 19 £75,000 - 34
East Midlands -46 5 £75,000 -3.23% 13
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 (2.18%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.28%) Apache
3 9 (1.15%) Confluence
4 6 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.77%) Camunda
4 6 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.64%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.51%) JBoss
7 3 (0.38%) IIS
7 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 412 (52.82%) AWS
2 249 (31.92%) Azure
3 133 (17.05%) GCP
4 81 (10.38%) Serverless
5 68 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 60 (7.69%) GitHub
7 51 (6.54%) SaaS
8 47 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
9 46 (5.90%) Amazon S3
10 42 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.82%) Datadog
17 21 (2.69%) Anthropic Claude
18 20 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 19 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
20 18 (2.31%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.23%) Broadband
2 17 (2.18%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.79%) HTTP
4 6 (0.77%) Internet
5 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 4 (0.51%) MQTT
5 4 (0.51%) VPN
6 3 (0.38%) BGP
6 3 (0.38%) DHCP
6 3 (0.38%) Firewall
6 3 (0.38%) Multicast
6 3 (0.38%) X.509
7 2 (0.26%) AMQP
7 2 (0.26%) LTE
7 2 (0.26%) Network Security
7 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.26%) VLAN
7 2 (0.26%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) SMS
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (13.85%) NoSQL
2 103 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (7.82%) MongoDB
4 45 (5.77%) Relational Database
5 31 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.72%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.46%) DynamoDB
8 25 (3.21%) Redis
9 23 (2.95%) MySQL
10 22 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.41%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.41%) Metadata
12 10 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.15%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.03%) Big Data
14 8 (1.03%) Flink
15 7 (0.90%) Couchbase
16 6 (0.77%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.77%) Pinecone
17 5 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 79 (10.13%) GitLab
2 77 (9.87%) Git
3 53 (6.79%) Cucumber
4 49 (6.28%) Jenkins
5 30 (3.85%) JUnit
6 20 (2.56%) JIRA
6 20 (2.56%) JMeter
7 16 (2.05%) Claude Code
8 14 (1.79%) Mockito
9 12 (1.54%) LoadRunner
9 12 (1.54%) Spock
10 11 (1.41%) Gatling
11 8 (1.03%) Maven
12 6 (0.77%) Selenium
13 5 (0.64%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.51%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.51%) MLflow
15 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 218 (27.95%) Finance
2 191 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 75 (9.62%) Banking
4 61 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 39 (5.00%) Law
7 39 (5.00%) Retail
8 34 (4.36%) Financial Institution
9 27 (3.46%) Games
10 21 (2.69%) Front Office
11 17 (2.18%) Back Office
12 13 (1.67%) Marketing
13 12 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.15%) Advertising
15 6 (0.77%) Legal
15 6 (0.77%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.64%) Polish Language
16 5 (0.64%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 220 (28.21%) Senior
2 175 (22.44%) Developer
3 152 (19.49%) Software Engineer
4 108 (13.85%) Lead
5 87 (11.15%) Java Engineer
6 86 (11.03%) Principal Engineer
7 65 (8.33%) Architect
8 54 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 51 (6.54%) Senior Developer
10 44 (5.64%) Backend Developer
11 41 (5.26%) Python Engineer
12 40 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 40 (5.13%) Python Developer
13 39 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 33 (4.23%) Senior Java Engineer
15 30 (3.85%) Java Developer
16 28 (3.59%) Principal Java Engineer
17 23 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.95%) Lead Software Engineer
17 23 (2.95%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (19.74%) Kafka
2 148 (18.97%) Terraform
3 142 (18.21%) .NET
4 140 (17.95%) Spring
5 127 (16.28%) REST
6 117 (15.00%) Spring Boot
7 105 (13.46%) React
8 103 (13.21%) RESTful
9 62 (7.95%) Node.js
10 49 (6.28%) AngularJS
11 44 (5.64%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (3.21%) OAuth
13 23 (2.95%) FastAPI
13 23 (2.95%) Next.js
13 23 (2.95%) OAuth2
14 22 (2.82%) LangChain
14 22 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
15 21 (2.69%) .NET Framework
15 21 (2.69%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 294 (37.69%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.79%) AI Agents
3 50 (6.41%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
5 42 (5.38%) e-Learning
6 32 (4.10%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.59%) Low-Code
8 27 (3.46%) Onboarding
8 27 (3.46%) Product Ownership
8 27 (3.46%) Video\Live Streaming
9 24 (3.08%) Data Structures
10 22 (2.82%) IoT
11 21 (2.69%) Distributed Architecture
12 18 (2.31%) Blog
12 18 (2.31%) Robotics
13 17 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 17 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.92%) Equities
14 15 (1.92%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 55 (7.05%) Linux
2 13 (1.67%) Unix
3 10 (1.28%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.64%) VMS
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Debian
6 2 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (60.38%) CI/CD
2 389 (49.87%) Software Engineering
3 362 (46.41%) Microservices
4 313 (40.13%) AI
5 267 (34.23%) Observability
6 254 (32.56%) Event-Driven
7 251 (32.18%) Agile
8 240 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 224 (28.72%) DevOps
10 207 (26.54%) Mentoring
11 201 (25.77%) Test Automation
12 176 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 167 (21.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 145 (18.59%) Containerisation
15 137 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
16 132 (16.92%) Full-Stack Development
17 120 (15.38%) Machine Learning
18 117 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
19 103 (13.21%) Roadmaps
20 98 (12.56%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 307 (39.36%) Python
2 277 (35.51%) Java
3 194 (24.87%) SQL
4 130 (16.67%) C#
5 127 (16.28%) TypeScript
6 105 (13.46%) JavaScript
7 101 (12.95%) Go
8 37 (4.74%) C++
9 24 (3.08%) Bash
10 12 (1.54%) Rust
11 11 (1.41%) Groovy
12 10 (1.28%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.15%) Bicep
13 9 (1.15%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.03%) PHP
14 8 (1.03%) Scala
15 7 (0.90%) C
16 5 (0.64%) Perl
17 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (9.74%) Security Cleared
2 70 (8.97%) Degree
3 52 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 50 (6.41%) SC Cleared
5 42 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 39 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.03%) PhD
9 4 (0.51%) CISSP
9 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CSPO
12 1 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.08%) QA
2 13 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.03%) GDPR
5 7 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.64%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.51%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.51%) NIST
9 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 172 (22.05%) Docker
2 11 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) 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
1 209 (26.79%) Kubernetes
2 41 (5.26%) Grafana
3 26 (3.33%) Ansible
4 23 (2.95%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.82%) Kibana
6 10 (1.28%) Argo
7 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.51%) Packer
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.38%) SCCM
10 2 (0.26%) Bosun
10 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.13%) Cilium
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.13%) Consul
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 92 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.67%) Google
3 30 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.72%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.69%) Dynatrace
5 21 (2.69%) Oracle
5 21 (2.69%) Splunk
6 11 (1.41%) IBM
7 8 (1.03%) Databricks
8 6 (0.77%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.77%) Solace
9 5 (0.64%) Adobe
10 4 (0.51%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.51%) Facebook
10 4 (0.51%) Instagram
10 4 (0.51%) TikTok
10 4 (0.51%) VMware
11 3 (0.38%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.26%) New Relic
12 2 (0.26%) Okta