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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 333 392
Rank change year-on-year +51 +59 -76
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 443 375 431
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.88% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 2.31% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 272 235 322
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.46% -4.29%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £147,500
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 20,029 16,237 24,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.55% 38.11% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10,284 7,863 18,120
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,199 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 27 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 27 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 +35 299 £105,000 +10.53% 113
North of England -3 75 £75,000 +9.24% 21
North West +21 45 £75,000 +9.54% 15
South East -19 44 £70,000 +12.00% 24
Yorkshire -43 29 £75,000 +10.29% 4
East of England +14 13 £82,500 +13.79% 4
Midlands +2 12 £75,000 +8.21% 10
South West 0 11 £83,750 - 7
East Midlands -18 8 £100,000 - 3
West Midlands +10 4 £74,401 +7.35% 7
North East -11 1 £73,801 +6.42% 2
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 33 (7.45%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.03%) Apache
4 8 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.13%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.13%) IIS
6 4 (0.90%) Appian
6 4 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Confluence
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 266 (60.05%) AWS
2 156 (35.21%) Azure
3 147 (33.18%) GCP
4 47 (10.61%) Serverless
5 45 (10.16%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (9.71%) SaaS
7 37 (8.35%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (5.19%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (4.29%) GitHub
11 16 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (2.93%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (2.71%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (2.48%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
17 10 (2.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.55%) Broadband
2 17 (3.84%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.81%) HTTP
4 6 (1.35%) BGP
4 6 (1.35%) VLAN
4 6 (1.35%) VPN
5 5 (1.13%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.45%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.45%) 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 53 (11.96%) NoSQL
1 53 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.45%) Relational Database
3 31 (7.00%) MongoDB
4 28 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
4 28 (6.32%) Hadoop
4 28 (6.32%) Redis
5 27 (6.09%) Big Data
6 22 (4.97%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.74%) DynamoDB
8 18 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (3.39%) RDBMS
10 12 (2.71%) Apache Hive
10 12 (2.71%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.71%) MySQL
11 9 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.58%) DataStage
12 7 (1.58%) Neo4j
12 7 (1.58%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 35 (7.90%) Git
3 17 (3.84%) GitLab
4 15 (3.39%) JMeter
5 13 (2.93%) JUnit
6 9 (2.03%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.81%) Mockito
8 5 (1.13%) Gatling
8 5 (1.13%) JIRA
9 4 (0.90%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.90%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.90%) Maven
9 4 (0.90%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.68%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.45%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.45%) JConsole
11 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.45%) VisualVM
11 2 (0.45%) WinDbg
General
1 117 (26.41%) Finance
2 91 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.93%) Banking
4 37 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.13%) Financial Institution
5 36 (8.13%) Law
6 33 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (6.77%) Public Sector
8 24 (5.42%) Retail
8 24 (5.42%) Telecoms
9 21 (4.74%) Back Office
10 13 (2.93%) Front Office
11 12 (2.71%) Marketing
12 10 (2.26%) Games
13 9 (2.03%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.58%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.90%) Advertising
16 4 (0.90%) Legal
17 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 123 (27.77%) Senior
2 109 (24.60%) Software Engineer
3 96 (21.67%) Developer
4 70 (15.80%) Lead
5 41 (9.26%) Principal Engineer
6 40 (9.03%) Java Developer
7 27 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 26 (5.87%) Architect
9 25 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.42%) Java Engineer
11 23 (5.19%) Senior Developer
12 22 (4.97%) Data Engineer
13 21 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (4.29%) Lead Developer
15 18 (4.06%) Backend Developer
15 18 (4.06%) Scala Engineer
16 17 (3.84%) Lead Software Engineer
17 16 (3.61%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 16 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (19.64%) Kafka
2 65 (14.67%) REST
3 64 (14.45%) Spring
4 58 (13.09%) Spring Boot
5 48 (10.84%) .NET
6 47 (10.61%) gRPC
7 45 (10.16%) React
8 37 (8.35%) RESTful
9 33 (7.45%) Node.js
10 32 (7.22%) Django
11 23 (5.19%) Web Services
12 18 (4.06%) FastAPI
13 17 (3.84%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (3.84%) OAuth
14 16 (3.61%) HTML
15 15 (3.39%) AngularJS
15 15 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (3.16%) Hibernate
16 14 (3.16%) JSON
16 14 (3.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 121 (27.31%) Cloud Native
2 43 (9.71%) Algorithms
3 40 (9.03%) Data Structures
4 32 (7.22%) Product Ownership
5 30 (6.77%) Video\Live Streaming
6 29 (6.55%) Over-the-Top Content
7 17 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (3.39%) Public Cloud
10 14 (3.16%) e-Learning
10 14 (3.16%) Legacy Code
11 13 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (2.93%) Equities
11 13 (2.93%) Management Information System
12 12 (2.71%) AI Agents
13 11 (2.48%) Data Centre
14 10 (2.26%) Client/Server
15 9 (2.03%) Blog
15 9 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (2.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (14.00%) Linux
2 11 (2.48%) Unix
3 9 (2.03%) Android
4 5 (1.13%) Windows
5 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (47.86%) CI/CD
2 207 (46.73%) Microservices
3 197 (44.47%) Software Engineering
4 136 (30.70%) Agile
5 119 (26.86%) Containerisation
6 112 (25.28%) DevOps
7 110 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (21.67%) Computer Science
9 94 (21.22%) AI
10 89 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (19.19%) Machine Learning
12 82 (18.51%) Mentoring
13 77 (17.38%) Event-Driven
14 69 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 69 (15.58%) Roadmaps
15 66 (14.90%) Observability
16 62 (14.00%) Clean Code
17 57 (12.87%) Data Science
18 56 (12.64%) Analytics
19 55 (12.42%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 188 (42.44%) Python
2 180 (40.63%) Java
3 102 (23.02%) Go
4 68 (15.35%) C#
5 61 (13.77%) SQL
6 57 (12.87%) C++
7 49 (11.06%) Scala
8 43 (9.71%) JavaScript
9 39 (8.80%) Rust
10 38 (8.58%) TypeScript
11 26 (5.87%) C
12 12 (2.71%) Bash
13 9 (2.03%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.81%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.58%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.13%) R
17 4 (0.90%) Groovy
18 3 (0.68%) Ruby
19 2 (0.45%) COBOL
20 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (19.19%) Degree
2 61 (13.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.64%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.19%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.71%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.71%) PhD
7 11 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.13%) MBA
9 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.97%) QA
2 13 (2.93%) PCI DSS
2 13 (2.93%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.71%) GDPR
4 6 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.90%) SLA
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 143 (32.28%) Docker
2 14 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
3 11 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.03%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.03%) KVM
5 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.35%) HDFS
6 2 (0.45%) Ceph
6 2 (0.45%) Lustre
6 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 144 (32.51%) Kubernetes
2 50 (11.29%) Terraform
3 28 (6.32%) Ansible
4 15 (3.39%) Kibana
5 13 (2.93%) Grafana
6 12 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.13%) logstash
8 4 (0.90%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.45%) Rancher
9 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.45%) vRealize
10 1 (0.23%) Argo
10 1 (0.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (6.09%) Typelevel
2 24 (5.42%) Google
3 16 (3.61%) Databricks
4 13 (2.93%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.48%) Splunk
5 11 (2.48%) VMware
6 9 (2.03%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.81%) Oracle
8 7 (1.58%) Informatica
8 7 (1.58%) Talend
9 6 (1.35%) Dell
10 5 (1.13%) BT
10 5 (1.13%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.13%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.13%) Nokia
10 5 (1.13%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.13%) Solace
11 4 (0.90%) Pega
11 4 (0.90%) SAP
11 4 (0.90%) WSO2