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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 315 373
Rank change year-on-year +22 +58 -107
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 375 484 355
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.85% 0.80% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 2.41% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 233 307 259
10th Percentile £66,300 £48,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £147,000 £138,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% - -5.88%

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 16,704 20,120 18,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.73% 33.18% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9,610 9,675 13,879
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,700 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.50% -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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +67 273 £110,000 +12.82% 602
North of England -59 57 £75,000 +20.00% 123
South East +30 37 £75,000 +66.73% 491
North West -24 29 £78,500 +25.60% 98
Yorkshire -33 27 £75,000 +33.93% 7
Midlands +65 19 £75,000 +8.21% 10
West Midlands +37 10 £75,000 +8.21% 7
East Midlands +28 9 £77,500 -24.39% 3
East of England +19 8 £81,250 +12.07% 28
South West +19 4 £85,000 -10.53% 20
North East +12 1 £73,801 +6.48% 18
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 51 (13.60%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.13%) Apache
3 8 (2.13%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.60%) Confluence
5 4 (1.07%) JBoss
5 4 (1.07%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.53%) Luigi
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 222 (59.20%) AWS
2 127 (33.87%) Azure
3 95 (25.33%) GCP
4 57 (15.20%) Serverless
5 48 (12.80%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (11.73%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (9.87%) SaaS
8 25 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (5.60%) GitHub
10 20 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.73%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (3.73%) Amazon S3
14 12 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.93%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.67%) OpenShift
17 8 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.07%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.53%) AMQP
3 2 (0.53%) BGP
3 2 (0.53%) HTTP
3 2 (0.53%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.53%) VLAN
3 2 (0.53%) VPN
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) MQTT
4 1 (0.27%) Multicast
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
4 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (16.27%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (13.87%) Relational Database
3 50 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 44 (11.73%) Big Data
5 27 (7.20%) RDBMS
6 26 (6.93%) Hadoop
7 24 (6.40%) MongoDB
8 20 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (5.33%) DynamoDB
9 19 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (4.53%) Redis
10 17 (4.53%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.47%) Apache Hive
12 12 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (2.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (2.93%) MySQL
14 8 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.87%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 47 (12.53%) Jenkins
2 41 (10.93%) Git
3 30 (8.00%) JUnit
4 25 (6.67%) JMeter
5 24 (6.40%) Mockito
6 12 (3.20%) GitLab
7 11 (2.93%) JIRA
8 7 (1.87%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.33%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.33%) Maven
9 5 (1.33%) MLflow
9 5 (1.33%) Postman
10 4 (1.07%) Selenium
10 4 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.07%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.80%) DbUnit
11 3 (0.80%) jMock
11 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 144 (38.40%) Finance
2 92 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 80 (21.33%) Banking
4 69 (18.40%) Law
5 63 (16.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (11.73%) Public Sector
7 37 (9.87%) Financial Institution
8 33 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (5.87%) Front Office
10 15 (4.00%) Marketing
10 15 (4.00%) Retail
11 13 (3.47%) Investment Banking
12 12 (3.20%) Legal
13 9 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.60%) Back Office
16 5 (1.33%) Games
17 4 (1.07%) Publishing
17 4 (1.07%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (33.87%) Software Engineer
2 104 (27.73%) Senior
3 103 (27.47%) Developer
4 101 (26.93%) Lead
5 58 (15.47%) Java Developer
5 58 (15.47%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (10.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 33 (8.80%) Principal Engineer
8 32 (8.53%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 30 (8.00%) Java Engineer
10 26 (6.93%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 25 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (6.67%) Data Engineer
12 24 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (5.87%) Java Software Engineer
14 21 (5.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 19 (5.07%) Senior Developer
16 18 (4.80%) Python Engineer
17 16 (4.27%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (23.47%) Kafka
2 80 (21.33%) Spring
3 67 (17.87%) Spring Boot
4 56 (14.93%) REST
5 53 (14.13%) .NET
5 53 (14.13%) RESTful
6 46 (12.27%) React
7 43 (11.47%) Web Services
8 36 (9.60%) Hibernate
9 30 (8.00%) HTML
10 28 (7.47%) Apache Camel
11 24 (6.40%) ActiveMQ
11 24 (6.40%) JSON
12 22 (5.87%) Node.js
13 21 (5.60%) jQuery
13 21 (5.60%) XML
14 20 (5.33%) WireMock
15 19 (5.07%) AngularJS
16 17 (4.53%) .NET Core
17 15 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 136 (36.27%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.00%) Algorithms
3 41 (10.93%) Product Ownership
4 31 (8.27%) Public Cloud
5 29 (7.73%) Data Structures
6 26 (6.93%) Legacy Code
7 23 (6.13%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (6.13%) Management Information System
8 18 (4.80%) Virtual Team
9 16 (4.27%) Derivative
10 15 (4.00%) Equities
11 12 (3.20%) e-Learning
12 9 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.40%) Mobile Banking
13 8 (2.13%) Equity Derivative
13 8 (2.13%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.60%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.93%) Linux
2 13 (3.47%) Unix
3 2 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (50.67%) Software Engineering
2 174 (46.40%) Microservices
3 168 (44.80%) CI/CD
4 151 (40.27%) Agile
5 100 (26.67%) DevOps
6 83 (22.13%) Mentoring
7 82 (21.87%) Containerisation
8 80 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (19.73%) AI
10 69 (18.40%) SDLC
11 67 (17.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 65 (17.33%) Computer Science
13 63 (16.80%) Roadmaps
14 61 (16.27%) TDD
15 59 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (15.47%) Machine Learning
17 51 (13.60%) Fintech
18 46 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
19 45 (12.00%) Event-Driven
20 44 (11.73%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 202 (53.87%) Java
2 153 (40.80%) Python
3 81 (21.60%) SQL
4 62 (16.53%) C#
5 57 (15.20%) Go
6 49 (13.07%) JavaScript
7 42 (11.20%) C++
8 33 (8.80%) Scala
9 30 (8.00%) Rust
10 28 (7.47%) C
11 25 (6.67%) Kotlin
12 22 (5.87%) Shell Script
13 20 (5.33%) TypeScript
14 10 (2.67%) Bash
15 9 (2.40%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.33%) Groovy
17 3 (0.80%) COBOL
17 3 (0.80%) PHP
18 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.27%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 50 (13.33%) Degree
2 33 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.40%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.60%) PhD
6 15 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CEH
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) GIAC
10 1 (0.27%) OSCP
10 1 (0.27%) SANS
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.80%) GDPR
2 13 (3.47%) QA
3 8 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.60%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.07%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.07%) SLA
7 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.80%) WCAG
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 118 (31.47%) Docker
2 14 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.73%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.40%) HDFS
4 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.53%) Ceph
6 2 (0.53%) Lustre
6 2 (0.53%) Postfix
6 2 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 168 (44.80%) Kubernetes
2 43 (11.47%) Terraform
3 28 (7.47%) Ansible
4 24 (6.40%) Kibana
5 14 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.47%) Grafana
7 5 (1.33%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.33%) logstash
8 4 (1.07%) Rancher
8 4 (1.07%) vRealize
9 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.53%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.40%) Dynatrace
2 22 (5.87%) Splunk
3 17 (4.53%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.20%) Databricks
5 11 (2.93%) Google
6 10 (2.67%) Oracle
7 7 (1.87%) Informatica
7 7 (1.87%) Talend
8 5 (1.33%) Dell
9 4 (1.07%) Foundry
9 4 (1.07%) Palantir
9 4 (1.07%) Pega
9 4 (1.07%) SAP
9 4 (1.07%) Solace
9 4 (1.07%) VMware
9 4 (1.07%) WSO2
10 3 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.80%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.53%) Nokia
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce