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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 353 343
Rank change year-on-year +103 -10 +51
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 743 329 512
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.76% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.90% 1.81% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 444 187 308
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,125
90th Percentile £121,250 £142,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +16.13% -3.13%

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 25,618 18,128 22,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.59% 41.92% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 16,785 9,173 11,967
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 14 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 14 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 +53 443 £95,000 -13.64% 1,321
North of England +11 127 £75,000 -5.36% 167
South East -2 81 £63,500 -15.33% 94
North West +38 80 £80,000 -8.57% 93
South West -49 32 £95,000 -2.56% 70
North East -35 29 £67,500 -41.30% 28
Midlands -39 27 £80,000 +6.67% 55
East of England -6 24 £80,000 -11.11% 54
West Midlands -24 22 £85,000 +13.33% 30
Yorkshire -38 18 £75,000 -2.28% 46
East Midlands -35 5 £76,000 -1.94% 24
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 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.21%) Apache
3 6 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.81%) Camunda
3 6 (0.81%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.54%) JBoss
5 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Endur
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 394 (53.03%) AWS
2 233 (31.36%) Azure
3 134 (18.03%) GCP
4 74 (9.96%) Serverless
5 64 (8.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (6.33%) SaaS
7 46 (6.19%) GitHub
8 41 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (5.52%) Amazon S3
9 37 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.56%) Datadog
16 18 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (2.29%) Amazon Bedrock
17 17 (2.29%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.92%) Broadband
2 13 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.62%) HTTP
4 6 (0.81%) Internet
5 5 (0.67%) DNS
6 4 (0.54%) DHCP
6 4 (0.54%) MQTT
7 3 (0.40%) Firewall
7 3 (0.40%) Multicast
7 3 (0.40%) X.509
8 2 (0.27%) AMQP
8 2 (0.27%) LTE
8 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.27%) VoIP
9 1 (0.13%) FTP
9 1 (0.13%) Network Security
9 1 (0.13%) RTSP
9 1 (0.13%) SMS
9 1 (0.13%) VPN
9 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (13.46%) NoSQL
2 89 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (8.08%) MongoDB
4 36 (4.85%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 23 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (3.10%) MySQL
8 22 (2.96%) Redis
9 19 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.35%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.35%) Metadata
10 10 (1.35%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.21%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.08%) Big Data
12 8 (1.08%) Flink
13 7 (0.94%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.81%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.67%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 75 (10.09%) Git
2 71 (9.56%) GitLab
3 49 (6.59%) Cucumber
3 49 (6.59%) Jenkins
4 30 (4.04%) JUnit
5 19 (2.56%) JIRA
6 17 (2.29%) JMeter
7 14 (1.88%) Mockito
8 12 (1.62%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.62%) Spock
9 9 (1.21%) LoadRunner
10 8 (1.08%) Gatling
10 8 (1.08%) Maven
11 6 (0.81%) Selenium
12 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.54%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.54%) MLflow
14 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 199 (26.78%) Finance
2 170 (22.88%) Social Skills
3 65 (8.75%) Banking
4 51 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (4.71%) Law
6 31 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 30 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 29 (3.90%) Retail
9 27 (3.63%) Games
10 19 (2.56%) Front Office
11 16 (2.15%) Back Office
12 13 (1.75%) Marketing
13 10 (1.35%) Advertising
13 10 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.81%) Electronics
15 6 (0.81%) Legal
15 6 (0.81%) Polish Language
16 5 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 205 (27.59%) Senior
2 172 (23.15%) Developer
3 148 (19.92%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.46%) Lead
5 83 (11.17%) Principal Engineer
6 82 (11.04%) Java Engineer
7 55 (7.40%) Architect
8 51 (6.86%) Senior Developer
8 51 (6.86%) Senior Software Engineer
9 44 (5.92%) Backend Developer
10 41 (5.52%) Python Engineer
11 39 (5.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 39 (5.25%) Python Developer
12 38 (5.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 31 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
14 30 (4.04%) Java Developer
15 26 (3.50%) Principal Java Engineer
16 22 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (2.96%) Principal Software Engineer
17 19 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (19.52%) Kafka
2 139 (18.71%) Terraform
3 132 (17.77%) Spring
4 131 (17.63%) .NET
5 112 (15.07%) REST
6 109 (14.67%) Spring Boot
7 97 (13.06%) React
8 94 (12.65%) RESTful
9 56 (7.54%) Node.js
10 47 (6.33%) AngularJS
11 42 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.23%) OAuth
13 23 (3.10%) LangChain
14 22 (2.96%) Next.js
14 22 (2.96%) OAuth2
15 21 (2.83%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.83%) JSON
16 20 (2.69%) FastAPI
17 18 (2.42%) .NET Framework
18 17 (2.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 276 (37.15%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.59%) AI Agents
3 46 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 38 (5.11%) e-Learning
5 37 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
7 34 (4.58%) Algorithms
8 28 (3.77%) Low-Code
9 27 (3.63%) Data Structures
9 27 (3.63%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (2.83%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.56%) IoT
12 16 (2.15%) Equities
12 16 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (2.15%) Private Cloud
13 15 (2.02%) Life Science
14 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.75%) Robotics
16 12 (1.62%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.81%) Linux
2 12 (1.62%) Unix
2 12 (1.62%) Windows
3 5 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (0.67%) VMS
4 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Debian
5 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 382 (51.41%) Software Engineering
3 341 (45.90%) Microservices
4 292 (39.30%) AI
5 248 (33.38%) Observability
6 235 (31.63%) Agile
7 230 (30.96%) Event-Driven
7 230 (30.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 209 (28.13%) DevOps
9 196 (26.38%) Mentoring
10 194 (26.11%) Test Automation
11 169 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 151 (20.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 143 (19.25%) Containerisation
14 138 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
15 122 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
16 121 (16.29%) Machine Learning
17 104 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
18 90 (12.11%) Clean Code
19 89 (11.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 310 (41.72%) Python
2 255 (34.32%) Java
3 173 (23.28%) SQL
4 123 (16.55%) TypeScript
5 118 (15.88%) C#
6 101 (13.59%) Go
6 101 (13.59%) JavaScript
7 38 (5.11%) C++
8 23 (3.10%) Bash
9 17 (2.29%) Scala
10 14 (1.88%) Rust
11 11 (1.48%) Groovy
12 10 (1.35%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.35%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.21%) Bicep
13 9 (1.21%) C
14 8 (1.08%) PHP
15 5 (0.67%) Perl
16 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (9.42%) Degree
2 69 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 45 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 43 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 39 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.08%) PhD
9 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) CSPO
11 1 (0.13%) HND
11 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.61%) QA
2 9 (1.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.81%) GDPR
5 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.13%) PSD2
6 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (22.48%) Docker
2 12 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.54%) KVM
5 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.40%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 192 (25.84%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.77%) Ansible
3 27 (3.63%) Grafana
4 19 (2.56%) Kibana
5 17 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.08%) Argo
7 4 (0.54%) Packer
7 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.27%) Bosun
9 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 84 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.46%) Google
3 27 (3.63%) OpenAI
4 26 (3.50%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.83%) Splunk
6 20 (2.69%) Oracle
7 16 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.48%) IBM
9 9 (1.21%) Typelevel
10 8 (1.08%) Databricks
11 7 (0.94%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.94%) VMware
12 5 (0.67%) Solace
13 4 (0.54%) Adobe
13 4 (0.54%) Facebook
13 4 (0.54%) Instagram
13 4 (0.54%) TikTok
14 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.27%) New Relic
15 2 (0.27%) Okta