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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 328 399
Rank change year-on-year +46 +71 -79
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 444 346 439
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.85% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 2.19% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 270 222 330
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,471 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £150,250 £137,500 £147,750
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 20,237 15,812 26,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.75% 38.80% 35.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,399 8,013 19,496
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £28,352
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £61,644 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.34% +12.08% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 8 March 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 8 March 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 +45 296 £105,000 +7.69% 167
North of England -11 75 £75,000 +8.09% 42
South East -17 47 £75,000 +20.00% 51
North West +22 46 £75,000 +3.45% 21
Yorkshire -35 27 £75,000 - 14
Midlands +1 14 £74,401 +7.35% 15
East of England +14 12 £81,250 +12.07% 19
East Midlands -10 11 £100,000 - 6
South West -11 11 £83,750 - 16
West Midlands +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 9
North East -18 2 £60,651 -12.54% 7
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 30 (6.76%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.93%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.80%) Apache
3 8 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.13%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.13%) IIS
5 4 (0.90%) Appian
6 2 (0.45%) 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
1 268 (60.36%) AWS
2 154 (34.68%) Azure
3 150 (33.78%) GCP
4 46 (10.36%) Serverless
5 44 (9.91%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (9.46%) SaaS
7 34 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (4.95%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.83%) GitHub
11 14 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (2.48%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (2.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.53%) Broadband
2 17 (3.83%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.25%) 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%) RTP
7 1 (0.23%) SS7
7 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.49%) NoSQL
2 50 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (6.76%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (6.76%) Relational Database
4 28 (6.31%) Redis
5 27 (6.08%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.63%) Hadoop
7 24 (5.41%) Big Data
8 22 (4.95%) SQL Server
9 19 (4.28%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.93%) RDBMS
13 12 (2.70%) BigQuery
13 12 (2.70%) MySQL
14 10 (2.25%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (1.35%) Couchbase
16 6 (1.35%) Neo4j
16 6 (1.35%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 35 (7.88%) Git
2 34 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.83%) JMeter
4 15 (3.38%) GitLab
5 12 (2.70%) JUnit
6 9 (2.03%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.80%) Gatling
8 7 (1.58%) LoadRunner
8 7 (1.58%) Mockito
9 5 (1.13%) JIRA
9 5 (1.13%) Maven
10 4 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.68%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.45%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.45%) JConsole
12 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.45%) VisualVM
12 2 (0.45%) WinDbg
General
1 118 (26.58%) Finance
2 91 (20.50%) Social Skills
3 46 (10.36%) Banking
4 36 (8.11%) Law
5 35 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (7.43%) Financial Institution
7 29 (6.53%) Public Sector
8 24 (5.41%) Retail
8 24 (5.41%) Telecoms
9 21 (4.73%) Back Office
10 14 (3.15%) Front Office
11 12 (2.70%) Marketing
12 10 (2.25%) Games
13 9 (2.03%) Investment Banking
13 9 (2.03%) Polish Language
14 5 (1.13%) Advertising
14 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.90%) Legal
16 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (27.25%) Senior
2 111 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 93 (20.95%) Developer
4 62 (13.96%) Lead
5 39 (8.78%) Java Developer
5 39 (8.78%) Principal Engineer
6 30 (6.76%) Architect
7 28 (6.31%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (5.63%) Java Engineer
9 23 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (4.95%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.73%) Data Engineer
11 21 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.05%) Scala Engineer
13 17 (3.83%) Backend Developer
14 16 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (3.60%) Lead Developer
15 15 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
15 15 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (18.47%) Kafka
2 62 (13.96%) Spring
3 61 (13.74%) REST
4 56 (12.61%) Spring Boot
5 50 (11.26%) .NET
6 46 (10.36%) gRPC
7 44 (9.91%) React
8 36 (8.11%) RESTful
9 32 (7.21%) Node.js
10 30 (6.76%) Django
11 22 (4.95%) Web Services
12 18 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (3.83%) OAuth
14 16 (3.60%) FastAPI
15 15 (3.38%) HTML
16 14 (3.15%) JSON
16 14 (3.15%) OAuth2
17 13 (2.93%) AngularJS
17 13 (2.93%) Hibernate
17 13 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 119 (26.80%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.91%) Algorithms
3 41 (9.23%) Data Structures
4 30 (6.76%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (6.53%) Over-the-Top Content
5 29 (6.53%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.15%) Equities
7 14 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.93%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.70%) e-Learning
9 12 (2.70%) Legacy Code
10 11 (2.48%) Client/Server
10 11 (2.48%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.48%) Management Information System
11 9 (2.03%) Blog
11 9 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.74%) 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
1 208 (46.85%) CI/CD
2 204 (45.95%) Microservices
3 198 (44.59%) Software Engineering
4 136 (30.63%) Agile
5 115 (25.90%) Containerisation
6 113 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (24.77%) DevOps
8 96 (21.62%) Computer Science
9 90 (20.27%) AI
9 90 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (19.82%) Machine Learning
11 78 (17.57%) Event-Driven
12 75 (16.89%) Mentoring
13 71 (15.99%) Observability
14 69 (15.54%) Roadmaps
15 66 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
16 62 (13.96%) Clean Code
17 56 (12.61%) Analytics
18 54 (12.16%) Coaching
18 54 (12.16%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 183 (41.22%) Python
2 177 (39.86%) Java
3 100 (22.52%) Go
4 69 (15.54%) C#
5 60 (13.51%) SQL
6 58 (13.06%) C++
7 47 (10.59%) Scala
8 43 (9.68%) JavaScript
9 41 (9.23%) Rust
10 36 (8.11%) TypeScript
11 25 (5.63%) C
12 11 (2.48%) Bash
13 9 (2.03%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.35%) 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 (19.14%) Degree
2 62 (13.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (5.41%) Master's Degree
3 24 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.93%) PhD
6 12 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.13%) MBA
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.18%) QA
2 12 (2.70%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.70%) SOC 2
3 9 (2.03%) GDPR
4 6 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.90%) SLA
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 142 (31.98%) Docker
2 12 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
3 11 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.25%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.25%) KVM
5 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.90%) HDFS
7 2 (0.45%) Ceph
7 2 (0.45%) Lustre
7 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 139 (31.31%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.04%) Terraform
3 27 (6.08%) Ansible
4 15 (3.38%) Kibana
5 14 (3.15%) Grafana
6 11 (2.48%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.13%) logstash
8 4 (0.90%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.23%) Argo
10 1 (0.23%) Istio
10 1 (0.23%) Rancher
10 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (6.08%) Typelevel
2 23 (5.18%) Google
3 15 (3.38%) Databricks
3 15 (3.38%) Dynatrace
4 11 (2.48%) VMware
5 10 (2.25%) Splunk
6 8 (1.80%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.58%) Oracle
8 6 (1.35%) Dell
8 6 (1.35%) Informatica
8 6 (1.35%) Talend
9 5 (1.13%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.13%) BT
9 5 (1.13%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.13%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.13%) Nokia
9 5 (1.13%) Solace
10 4 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.90%) Pega
10 4 (0.90%) SAP