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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 336 392
Rank change year-on-year +59 +56 -73
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 427 380 432
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.86% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 2.27% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 266 236 321
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £151,250 £137,500 £145,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £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 19,854 16,750 23,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.83% 38.05% 35.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,236 7,936 17,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £28,942
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +39 285 £105,000 +7.69% 206
North of England +3 76 £75,000 +10.29% 41
North West +27 46 £76,250 +10.02% 29
South East -27 43 £70,000 +12.00% 43
Yorkshire -44 29 £75,000 +10.29% 6
East of England +21 14 £82,500 +13.79% 6
Midlands 0 12 £75,000 +8.21% 17
East Midlands -8 8 £100,000 - 5
South West -14 8 £83,750 - 10
West Midlands +7 4 £74,401 +7.35% 12
North East -14 1 £73,801 +6.48% 6
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 35 (8.20%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.28%) OpenStack
3 10 (2.34%) Apache
4 9 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.17%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.17%) IIS
5 5 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.94%) Appian
7 2 (0.47%) Confluence
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 257 (60.19%) AWS
2 155 (36.30%) Azure
3 137 (32.08%) GCP
4 52 (12.18%) Serverless
5 46 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (10.07%) SaaS
7 40 (9.37%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (5.39%) Amazon S3
9 21 (4.92%) GitHub
10 20 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (2.58%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (2.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.68%) Broadband
2 17 (3.98%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.64%) HTTP
4 6 (1.41%) BGP
4 6 (1.41%) VLAN
4 6 (1.41%) VPN
5 4 (0.94%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.47%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.47%) Multicast
7 1 (0.23%) 4G
7 1 (0.23%) 5G
7 1 (0.23%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.23%) DNS
7 1 (0.23%) Firewall
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
7 1 (0.23%) RTP
7 1 (0.23%) SS7
7 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.65%) NoSQL
1 54 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.96%) Relational Database
3 32 (7.49%) MongoDB
4 30 (7.03%) Hadoop
5 29 (6.79%) Big Data
6 26 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (6.09%) Redis
7 23 (5.39%) DynamoDB
7 23 (5.39%) SQL Server
8 21 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (3.98%) RDBMS
11 13 (3.04%) MySQL
12 12 (2.81%) Apache Hive
13 11 (2.58%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (1.87%) DataStage
15 8 (1.87%) Neo4j
15 8 (1.87%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 38 (8.90%) Jenkins
2 34 (7.96%) Git
3 18 (4.22%) GitLab
4 16 (3.75%) JMeter
5 14 (3.28%) JUnit
6 9 (2.11%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.11%) Mockito
7 6 (1.41%) JIRA
8 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.94%) Gatling
8 4 (0.94%) Maven
8 4 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.70%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.70%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.47%) JConsole
10 2 (0.47%) Postman
10 2 (0.47%) Selenium
10 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.47%) VisualVM
General
1 116 (27.17%) Finance
2 89 (20.84%) Social Skills
3 45 (10.54%) Banking
4 39 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.90%) Financial Institution
6 37 (8.67%) Law
7 31 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (6.56%) Public Sector
9 26 (6.09%) Retail
10 24 (5.62%) Telecoms
11 21 (4.92%) Back Office
12 12 (2.81%) Front Office
12 12 (2.81%) Marketing
13 10 (2.34%) Games
14 9 (2.11%) Polish Language
15 7 (1.64%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.94%) Advertising
17 4 (0.94%) Legal
18 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (28.10%) Senior
2 100 (23.42%) Software Engineer
3 96 (22.48%) Developer
4 67 (15.69%) Lead
5 43 (10.07%) Java Developer
6 41 (9.60%) Principal Engineer
7 26 (6.09%) Architect
7 26 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (5.62%) Senior Developer
9 23 (5.39%) Java Engineer
10 22 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.92%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.45%) Lead Developer
13 17 (3.98%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 17 (3.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (3.75%) Backend Developer
14 16 (3.75%) Lead Software Engineer
15 15 (3.51%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (20.84%) Kafka
2 65 (15.22%) REST
3 64 (14.99%) Spring
4 59 (13.82%) Spring Boot
5 49 (11.48%) .NET
6 48 (11.24%) React
7 39 (9.13%) RESTful
8 38 (8.90%) gRPC
9 35 (8.20%) Node.js
10 31 (7.26%) Django
11 24 (5.62%) Web Services
12 19 (4.45%) HTML
13 18 (4.22%) FastAPI
14 17 (3.98%) AngularJS
14 17 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (3.75%) JSON
15 16 (3.75%) OAuth
15 16 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (3.51%) Hibernate
17 13 (3.04%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 124 (29.04%) Cloud Native
2 41 (9.60%) Algorithms
3 36 (8.43%) Data Structures
4 33 (7.73%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.92%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (4.68%) Over-the-Top Content
7 17 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.98%) Public Cloud
8 16 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (3.51%) e-Learning
9 15 (3.51%) Management Information System
10 14 (3.28%) Equities
10 14 (3.28%) Legacy Code
11 13 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (2.81%) AI Agents
13 11 (2.58%) Data Centre
14 10 (2.34%) Client/Server
15 9 (2.11%) Blog
15 9 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (2.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (2.34%) Unix
3 9 (2.11%) Android
4 4 (0.94%) Windows
5 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (46.84%) Microservices
2 198 (46.37%) CI/CD
3 181 (42.39%) Software Engineering
4 136 (31.85%) Agile
5 113 (26.46%) DevOps
6 111 (26.00%) Containerisation
7 99 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (22.25%) Computer Science
9 91 (21.31%) AI
10 88 (20.61%) Mentoring
11 87 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (17.80%) Event-Driven
13 75 (17.56%) Machine Learning
14 72 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
15 68 (15.93%) Roadmaps
16 65 (15.22%) Observability
17 58 (13.58%) Analytics
18 52 (12.18%) Clean Code
18 52 (12.18%) TDD
19 50 (11.71%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 181 (42.39%) Java
2 180 (42.15%) Python
3 91 (21.31%) Go
4 65 (15.22%) C#
5 61 (14.29%) SQL
6 51 (11.94%) C++
7 45 (10.54%) JavaScript
8 43 (10.07%) Scala
9 39 (9.13%) TypeScript
10 36 (8.43%) Rust
11 26 (6.09%) C
12 13 (3.04%) Bash
13 9 (2.11%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.11%) PowerShell
13 9 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.17%) R
15 4 (0.94%) Groovy
16 3 (0.70%) Ruby
17 2 (0.47%) COBOL
17 2 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (19.91%) Degree
2 60 (14.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.85%) Master's Degree
4 24 (5.62%) Security Cleared
5 13 (3.04%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.04%) PhD
5 13 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.17%) MBA
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.15%) QA
2 15 (3.51%) GDPR
3 14 (3.28%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.28%) SOC 2
4 8 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.94%) SLA
8 2 (0.47%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.23%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 131 (30.68%) Docker
2 14 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
3 12 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.11%) KVM
5 8 (1.87%) HDFS
6 5 (1.17%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.47%) Ceph
7 2 (0.47%) Lustre
7 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 142 (33.26%) Kubernetes
2 51 (11.94%) Terraform
3 27 (6.32%) Ansible
4 15 (3.51%) Kibana
5 12 (2.81%) Grafana
6 10 (2.34%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.17%) logstash
8 4 (0.94%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.70%) Rancher
9 3 (0.70%) vRealize
10 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.23%) Argo
11 1 (0.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (5.39%) Google
2 18 (4.22%) Databricks
2 18 (4.22%) Typelevel
3 13 (3.04%) Dynatrace
4 12 (2.81%) Microsoft
4 12 (2.81%) Splunk
4 12 (2.81%) VMware
5 9 (2.11%) Oracle
6 8 (1.87%) Informatica
6 8 (1.87%) Talend
7 6 (1.41%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.17%) BT
8 5 (1.17%) Dell
8 5 (1.17%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.17%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.17%) Nokia
9 4 (0.94%) Pega
9 4 (0.94%) SAP
9 4 (0.94%) Solace
9 4 (0.94%) WSO2