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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 348 335
Rank change year-on-year +97 -13 +61
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 776 328 505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.77% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.90% 1.82% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 461 188 306
10th Percentile £53,750 £66,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,908 £75,000 £61,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,125 £114,375
90th Percentile £121,250 £145,750 £137,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.81% +15.63% -

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 26,740 17,985 21,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.01% 42.01% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17,413 9,107 11,271
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,742 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +55 463 £95,000 -13.64% 996
North of England +16 131 £75,000 -3.85% 134
South East -7 85 £64,250 -14.33% 89
North West +26 82 £80,000 -8.57% 84
South West -46 35 £85,000 -12.82% 82
North East -40 31 £67,500 -41.30% 17
Midlands -47 28 £80,000 +6.67% 55
East of England -17 25 £80,000 -11.11% 37
West Midlands -26 23 £83,750 +11.67% 40
Yorkshire -46 18 £75,000 -1.32% 34
East Midlands -37 5 £75,000 -3.23% 15
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 17 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.16%) Apache
3 8 (1.03%) Confluence
4 6 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.77%) Camunda
5 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.64%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.52%) JBoss
7 3 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Endur
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 417 (53.74%) AWS
2 247 (31.83%) Azure
3 140 (18.04%) GCP
4 80 (10.31%) Serverless
5 68 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (7.09%) GitHub
7 50 (6.44%) SaaS
8 47 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
9 45 (5.80%) Amazon S3
10 43 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (2.58%) Anthropic Claude
16 20 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (2.58%) Datadog
17 18 (2.32%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.41%) Broadband
2 17 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.80%) HTTP
4 6 (0.77%) Internet
5 5 (0.64%) DNS
6 4 (0.52%) DHCP
6 4 (0.52%) Firewall
6 4 (0.52%) MQTT
6 4 (0.52%) VPN
7 3 (0.39%) BGP
7 3 (0.39%) Multicast
7 3 (0.39%) X.509
8 2 (0.26%) AMQP
8 2 (0.26%) LTE
8 2 (0.26%) Network Security
8 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.26%) VLAN
8 2 (0.26%) VoIP
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (13.92%) NoSQL
2 99 (12.76%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (7.86%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 31 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.74%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 25 (3.22%) Redis
9 24 (3.09%) MySQL
10 21 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.42%) Metadata
12 10 (1.29%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.29%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.16%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.03%) Big Data
14 8 (1.03%) Flink
15 7 (0.90%) Couchbase
16 6 (0.77%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.77%) Pinecone
17 5 (0.64%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (10.05%) Git
2 77 (9.92%) GitLab
3 53 (6.83%) Cucumber
4 49 (6.31%) Jenkins
5 30 (3.87%) JUnit
6 20 (2.58%) JIRA
6 20 (2.58%) JMeter
7 15 (1.93%) Claude Code
8 14 (1.80%) Mockito
9 12 (1.55%) LoadRunner
9 12 (1.55%) Spock
10 11 (1.42%) Gatling
11 8 (1.03%) Maven
12 6 (0.77%) Selenium
13 5 (0.64%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.52%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.52%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.52%) MLflow
15 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
General
1 213 (27.45%) Finance
2 184 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 73 (9.41%) Banking
4 56 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.90%) Law
7 36 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 35 (4.51%) Retail
9 34 (4.38%) Financial Institution
10 27 (3.48%) Games
11 20 (2.58%) Front Office
12 17 (2.19%) Back Office
13 13 (1.68%) Marketing
14 12 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.29%) Advertising
16 7 (0.90%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.77%) Legal
18 5 (0.64%) Electronics
18 5 (0.64%) Polish Language
18 5 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 217 (27.96%) Senior
2 179 (23.07%) Developer
3 151 (19.46%) Software Engineer
4 106 (13.66%) Lead
5 86 (11.08%) Java Engineer
6 85 (10.95%) Principal Engineer
7 62 (7.99%) Architect
8 52 (6.70%) Senior Developer
9 51 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
10 46 (5.93%) Backend Developer
11 40 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 40 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 40 (5.15%) Python Engineer
12 39 (5.03%) Python Developer
13 33 (4.25%) Senior Java Engineer
14 30 (3.87%) Java Developer
15 28 (3.61%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
17 22 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
17 22 (2.84%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (19.72%) Kafka
2 150 (19.33%) Terraform
3 141 (18.17%) .NET
4 138 (17.78%) Spring
5 120 (15.46%) REST
6 115 (14.82%) Spring Boot
7 102 (13.14%) React
7 102 (13.14%) RESTful
8 60 (7.73%) Node.js
9 49 (6.31%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
11 25 (3.22%) OAuth
12 23 (2.96%) LangChain
12 23 (2.96%) Next.js
12 23 (2.96%) OAuth2
13 22 (2.84%) FastAPI
13 22 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
14 21 (2.71%) ASP.NET
14 21 (2.71%) JSON
15 20 (2.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 292 (37.63%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.70%) AI Agents
3 51 (6.57%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.41%) e-Learning
4 42 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (4.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 33 (4.25%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.61%) Low-Code
8 27 (3.48%) Onboarding
9 25 (3.22%) Data Structures
9 25 (3.22%) Product Ownership
10 22 (2.84%) IoT
11 21 (2.71%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (2.19%) Blog
12 17 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (2.06%) Private Cloud
14 15 (1.93%) Equities
14 15 (1.93%) Life Science
15 14 (1.80%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 56 (7.22%) Linux
2 13 (1.68%) Unix
3 11 (1.42%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.64%) VMS
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Debian
6 2 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (60.57%) CI/CD
2 394 (50.77%) Software Engineering
3 364 (46.91%) Microservices
4 305 (39.30%) AI
5 263 (33.89%) Observability
6 247 (31.83%) Agile
6 247 (31.83%) Event-Driven
7 244 (31.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 220 (28.35%) DevOps
9 205 (26.42%) Mentoring
10 198 (25.52%) Test Automation
11 171 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 161 (20.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 150 (19.33%) Containerisation
14 141 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
16 127 (16.37%) Machine Learning
17 112 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
18 100 (12.89%) Roadmaps
19 95 (12.24%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 314 (40.46%) Python
2 273 (35.18%) Java
3 190 (24.48%) SQL
4 128 (16.49%) C#
5 126 (16.24%) TypeScript
6 110 (14.18%) Go
7 104 (13.40%) JavaScript
8 37 (4.77%) C++
9 25 (3.22%) Bash
10 17 (2.19%) Scala
11 12 (1.55%) Rust
12 11 (1.42%) Groovy
13 10 (1.29%) Bicep
13 10 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.29%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.03%) PHP
15 7 (0.90%) C
16 5 (0.64%) Perl
17 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (9.66%) Security Cleared
2 70 (9.02%) Degree
3 52 (6.70%) AWS Certification
4 49 (6.31%) SC Cleared
5 42 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 39 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.03%) PhD
9 4 (0.52%) CISSP
9 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISM
11 1 (0.13%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.12%) QA
2 13 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.03%) GDPR
5 7 (0.90%) SOC 2
6 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.52%) NIST
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 175 (22.55%) Docker
2 12 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.39%) Firmware
6 2 (0.26%) KVM
6 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 208 (26.80%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.77%) Grafana
3 27 (3.48%) Ansible
4 22 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.71%) Kibana
6 9 (1.16%) Argo
7 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.52%) Packer
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.39%) SCCM
10 2 (0.26%) Bosun
10 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.13%) Cilium
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.13%) Consul
11 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 92 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.57%) Google
3 30 (3.87%) OpenAI
4 28 (3.61%) AppDynamics
5 21 (2.71%) Oracle
5 21 (2.71%) Splunk
6 19 (2.45%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.42%) IBM
8 9 (1.16%) Typelevel
9 8 (1.03%) Databricks
10 7 (0.90%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.77%) Solace
12 5 (0.64%) Adobe
12 5 (0.64%) VMware
13 4 (0.52%) Facebook
13 4 (0.52%) Instagram
13 4 (0.52%) TikTok
14 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.39%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.26%) Salesforce