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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 323 342
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 -31
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 348 419 363
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.86% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 2.31% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 232 276 271
10th Percentile £62,875 £49,750 £46,350
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £61,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -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 18,516 18,164 17,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.55% 37.29% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,329 8,586 12,817
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £83,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +21 236 £112,500 +15.38% 207
North of England +11 64 £75,000 +10.29% 188
North West +39 35 £73,801 +6.48% 82
South East -8 34 £68,750 +14.58% 288
Yorkshire -35 28 £75,000 +33.93% 92
East of England +31 13 £82,500 +13.79% 163
Midlands +21 12 £75,000 +8.21% 171
West Midlands +18 6 £75,000 +8.21% 87
East Midlands 0 6 £77,500 - 72
South West +2 5 £82,500 -12.93% 100
North East +5 1 £73,801 +6.48% 14
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 46 (13.22%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.31%) OpenStack
3 10 (2.87%) Apache
4 5 (1.44%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.44%) Confluence
4 5 (1.44%) IIS
5 4 (1.15%) Appian
6 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.57%) Luigi
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 203 (58.33%) AWS
2 137 (39.37%) Azure
3 102 (29.31%) GCP
4 56 (16.09%) Serverless
5 42 (12.07%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (8.33%) SaaS
8 22 (6.32%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.46%) GitHub
10 17 (4.89%) Amazon Kinesis
10 17 (4.89%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.16%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (3.16%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.15%) HTTP
2 4 (1.15%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.86%) BGP
3 3 (0.86%) VLAN
3 3 (0.86%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) AMQP
4 2 (0.57%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.57%) Multicast
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.53%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (17.24%) NoSQL
3 40 (11.49%) Relational Database
4 38 (10.92%) Hadoop
5 37 (10.63%) Big Data
6 33 (9.48%) MongoDB
7 27 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (7.47%) DynamoDB
9 25 (7.18%) SQL Server
10 23 (6.61%) RDBMS
10 23 (6.61%) Redis
11 17 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (4.31%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (4.31%) MySQL
13 13 (3.74%) Apache Hive
14 12 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (3.16%) DataStage
15 11 (3.16%) Neo4j
15 11 (3.16%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 41 (11.78%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.21%) Git
3 17 (4.89%) JMeter
3 17 (4.89%) JUnit
4 15 (4.31%) GitLab
5 12 (3.45%) Mockito
6 9 (2.59%) JIRA
7 4 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.15%) Maven
7 4 (1.15%) Postman
7 4 (1.15%) Selenium
7 4 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.86%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.86%) MLflow
8 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.57%) JConsole
9 2 (0.57%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (28.16%) Finance
2 84 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.34%) Banking
5 34 (9.77%) Financial Institution
6 26 (7.47%) Law
6 26 (7.47%) Public Sector
7 22 (6.32%) Telecoms
8 18 (5.17%) Retail
9 17 (4.89%) Front Office
10 13 (3.74%) Marketing
11 12 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.87%) Back Office
13 7 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.72%) Games
14 6 (1.72%) Legal
15 5 (1.44%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.15%) Polish Language
17 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (28.74%) Developer
2 99 (28.45%) Senior
3 78 (22.41%) Software Engineer
4 64 (18.39%) Lead
5 52 (14.94%) Java Developer
6 32 (9.20%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 24 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (6.03%) Senior Developer
10 20 (5.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 19 (5.46%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 19 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (5.17%) Lead Developer
13 17 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (4.89%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 17 (4.89%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (4.31%) Principal Software Engineer
15 14 (4.02%) Architect
16 13 (3.74%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (26.72%) Kafka
2 61 (17.53%) REST
3 60 (17.24%) Spring
4 55 (15.80%) Spring Boot
5 52 (14.94%) React
6 49 (14.08%) .NET
7 37 (10.63%) Node.js
8 35 (10.06%) RESTful
9 27 (7.76%) Django
9 27 (7.76%) Web Services
10 23 (6.61%) HTML
11 21 (6.03%) gRPC
12 18 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (5.17%) FastAPI
12 18 (5.17%) Hibernate
12 18 (5.17%) JSON
13 17 (4.89%) AngularJS
14 16 (4.60%) Apache Camel
14 16 (4.60%) OAuth
15 15 (4.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (32.18%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.36%) Algorithms
3 35 (10.06%) Product Ownership
4 28 (8.05%) Data Structures
5 19 (5.46%) Equities
6 17 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.89%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (4.60%) Legacy Code
8 13 (3.74%) e-Learning
8 13 (3.74%) Public Cloud
9 12 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (2.87%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.01%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.15%) Hackathon
13 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.22%) Linux
2 12 (3.45%) Unix
3 9 (2.59%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (48.28%) Microservices
2 163 (46.84%) CI/CD
3 135 (38.79%) Software Engineering
4 127 (36.49%) Agile
5 101 (29.02%) DevOps
6 92 (26.44%) Containerisation
7 82 (23.56%) AI
8 78 (22.41%) Computer Science
8 78 (22.41%) Mentoring
9 73 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 67 (19.25%) Machine Learning
12 65 (18.68%) Roadmaps
13 64 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
14 62 (17.82%) Event-Driven
15 57 (16.38%) Low Latency
16 56 (16.09%) TDD
17 55 (15.80%) Analytics
18 53 (15.23%) Observability
19 50 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 172 (49.43%) Java
2 155 (44.54%) Python
3 70 (20.11%) SQL
4 67 (19.25%) Go
5 60 (17.24%) C#
6 48 (13.79%) JavaScript
7 42 (12.07%) TypeScript
8 31 (8.91%) C++
8 31 (8.91%) Scala
9 19 (5.46%) Rust
10 18 (5.17%) C
11 15 (4.31%) Bash
12 12 (3.45%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.59%) Kotlin
14 8 (2.30%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.44%) R
16 4 (1.15%) Groovy
17 2 (0.57%) COBOL
17 2 (0.57%) Ruby
18 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 72 (20.69%) Degree
2 43 (12.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.76%) Master's Degree
4 24 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.75%) PhD
6 10 (2.87%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.44%) MBA
9 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.60%) QA
2 14 (4.02%) GDPR
3 9 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.01%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.01%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.15%) SLA
8 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.86%) WCAG
9 2 (0.57%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 109 (31.32%) Docker
2 14 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (4.02%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.59%) HDFS
4 5 (1.44%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) Ceph
6 2 (0.57%) Lustre
6 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 141 (40.52%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.78%) Terraform
3 31 (8.91%) Ansible
4 16 (4.60%) Kibana
5 12 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.16%) Grafana
7 5 (1.44%) logstash
8 4 (1.15%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.15%) Rancher
8 4 (1.15%) vRealize
9 3 (0.86%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.57%) Puppet
10 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (5.46%) Google
2 18 (5.17%) Databricks
3 16 (4.60%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.74%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.74%) Splunk
5 12 (3.45%) Oracle
6 11 (3.16%) Informatica
6 11 (3.16%) Talend
7 6 (1.72%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.44%) BT
8 5 (1.44%) Dell
8 5 (1.44%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.44%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.44%) Nokia
8 5 (1.44%) SAP
9 4 (1.15%) Pega
9 4 (1.15%) VMware
9 4 (1.15%) WSO2
10 3 (0.86%) Solace
11 2 (0.57%) Confluent