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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 323 383
Rank change year-on-year +50 +60 -67
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 439 361 432
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.87% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 2.26% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 268 231 325
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 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
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 20,021 15,993 24,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.29% 38.39% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,250 7,813 18,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,085
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 2 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 2 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 +48 296 £105,000 +7.69% 150
North of England -4 75 £75,000 +8.21% 55
North West +26 46 £75,000 +8.21% 31
South East -23 44 £70,000 +12.00% 104
Yorkshire -43 28 £75,000 +10.29% 18
East of England +9 13 £82,500 +13.79% 39
Midlands 0 13 £75,000 +8.21% 38
South West -10 11 £83,750 - 37
East Midlands -20 9 £100,000 - 15
West Midlands +2 4 £74,401 +7.35% 22
North East -12 1 £73,801 +6.42% 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 32 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.96%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.82%) Apache
3 8 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.14%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.14%) IIS
5 4 (0.91%) Appian
6 3 (0.68%) 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 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 264 (60.14%) AWS
2 154 (35.08%) Azure
3 149 (33.94%) GCP
4 47 (10.71%) Serverless
5 45 (10.25%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (9.79%) SaaS
7 35 (7.97%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (5.01%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (4.33%) GitHub
11 15 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (2.51%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (2.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.61%) Broadband
2 17 (3.87%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.82%) HTTP
4 6 (1.37%) BGP
4 6 (1.37%) VLAN
4 6 (1.37%) VPN
5 5 (1.14%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.46%) 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 53 (12.07%) NoSQL
2 52 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (7.52%) Relational Database
4 29 (6.61%) MongoDB
5 28 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
6 27 (6.15%) Hadoop
6 27 (6.15%) Redis
7 26 (5.92%) Big Data
8 22 (5.01%) SQL Server
9 21 (4.78%) DynamoDB
10 17 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (3.42%) RDBMS
12 12 (2.73%) BigQuery
12 12 (2.73%) MySQL
13 11 (2.51%) Apache Hive
14 9 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (1.59%) DataStage
15 7 (1.59%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 35 (7.97%) Jenkins
2 34 (7.74%) Git
3 15 (3.42%) GitLab
3 15 (3.42%) JMeter
4 13 (2.96%) JUnit
5 9 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.82%) Mockito
7 5 (1.14%) Gatling
7 5 (1.14%) JIRA
8 4 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.91%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.91%) Maven
8 4 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.68%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.46%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.46%) JConsole
10 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.46%) VisualVM
10 2 (0.46%) WinDbg
General
1 116 (26.42%) Finance
2 90 (20.50%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.02%) Banking
4 36 (8.20%) Law
5 35 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (7.74%) Financial Institution
7 33 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (6.83%) Public Sector
9 24 (5.47%) Retail
9 24 (5.47%) Telecoms
10 21 (4.78%) Back Office
11 13 (2.96%) Front Office
12 12 (2.73%) Marketing
13 9 (2.05%) Games
13 9 (2.05%) Polish Language
14 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.91%) Advertising
16 4 (0.91%) Legal
17 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (27.79%) Senior
2 111 (25.28%) Software Engineer
3 94 (21.41%) Developer
4 68 (15.49%) Lead
5 41 (9.34%) Principal Engineer
6 39 (8.88%) Java Developer
7 28 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (6.15%) Architect
9 24 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (5.47%) Java Engineer
10 22 (5.01%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (4.78%) Data Engineer
11 21 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.10%) Backend Developer
12 18 (4.10%) Lead Developer
12 18 (4.10%) Scala Engineer
13 17 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
14 16 (3.64%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 16 (3.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (19.13%) Kafka
2 65 (14.81%) REST
3 63 (14.35%) Spring
4 57 (12.98%) Spring Boot
5 50 (11.39%) .NET
6 47 (10.71%) gRPC
7 45 (10.25%) React
8 37 (8.43%) RESTful
9 33 (7.52%) Node.js
10 32 (7.29%) Django
11 23 (5.24%) Web Services
12 18 (4.10%) FastAPI
13 17 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (3.87%) OAuth
14 16 (3.64%) HTML
15 15 (3.42%) AngularJS
16 14 (3.19%) Hibernate
16 14 (3.19%) JSON
16 14 (3.19%) OAuth2
16 14 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 121 (27.56%) Cloud Native
2 43 (9.79%) Algorithms
3 40 (9.11%) Data Structures
4 32 (7.29%) Product Ownership
5 30 (6.83%) Video\Live Streaming
6 29 (6.61%) Over-the-Top Content
7 17 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.19%) Legacy Code
9 14 (3.19%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.96%) e-Learning
10 13 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.96%) Equities
11 12 (2.73%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.73%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.51%) Data Centre
13 10 (2.28%) Client/Server
14 9 (2.05%) Blog
14 9 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.90%) Linux
2 11 (2.51%) Unix
3 9 (2.05%) Android
4 5 (1.14%) Windows
5 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (47.84%) CI/CD
2 206 (46.92%) Microservices
3 197 (44.87%) Software Engineering
4 136 (30.98%) Agile
5 118 (26.88%) Containerisation
6 110 (25.06%) DevOps
6 110 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (21.41%) Computer Science
8 93 (21.18%) AI
9 89 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (19.36%) Machine Learning
11 78 (17.77%) Mentoring
12 76 (17.31%) Event-Driven
13 69 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
13 69 (15.72%) Roadmaps
14 67 (15.26%) Observability
15 61 (13.90%) Clean Code
16 56 (12.76%) Analytics
16 56 (12.76%) Data Science
17 55 (12.53%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 184 (41.91%) Python
2 179 (40.77%) Java
3 101 (23.01%) Go
4 68 (15.49%) C#
5 61 (13.90%) SQL
6 56 (12.76%) C++
7 48 (10.93%) Scala
8 43 (9.79%) JavaScript
9 39 (8.88%) Rust
10 38 (8.66%) TypeScript
11 26 (5.92%) C
12 11 (2.51%) Bash
13 9 (2.05%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.82%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.37%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.14%) R
17 4 (0.91%) Groovy
18 3 (0.68%) Ruby
19 2 (0.46%) COBOL
20 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (19.13%) Degree
2 61 (13.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.69%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.24%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.73%) PhD
7 11 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.14%) 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 (0.46%) 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 (5.01%) QA
2 13 (2.96%) PCI DSS
2 13 (2.96%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.51%) GDPR
4 6 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.91%) SLA
7 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 142 (32.35%) Docker
2 14 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.19%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.05%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.05%) KVM
5 6 (1.37%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.14%) HDFS
7 2 (0.46%) Ceph
7 2 (0.46%) Lustre
7 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 142 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.16%) Terraform
3 26 (5.92%) Ansible
4 15 (3.42%) Kibana
5 12 (2.73%) Grafana
6 11 (2.51%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.14%) logstash
8 4 (0.91%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.46%) 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 (6.15%) Typelevel
2 23 (5.24%) Google
3 15 (3.42%) Databricks
4 13 (2.96%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.51%) Splunk
6 10 (2.28%) VMware
7 8 (1.82%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.82%) Oracle
8 7 (1.59%) Informatica
8 7 (1.59%) Talend
9 6 (1.37%) Dell
10 5 (1.14%) BT
10 5 (1.14%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.14%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.14%) Nokia
10 5 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.91%) Pega
11 4 (0.91%) SAP
11 4 (0.91%) Solace
11 4 (0.91%) WSO2