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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 310 365
Rank change year-on-year +20 +55 -88
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 389 506 354
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.84% 0.84% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 2.50% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 241 312 260
10th Percentile £66,250 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,500
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 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -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 17,097 20,219 17,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.87% 33.49% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9,700 9,722 13,337
10th Percentile £27,750 £34,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,143 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.76% -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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +36 286 £112,500 +15.38% 428
North of England -27 62 £75,000 +20.00% 66
North West +16 35 £75,000 +20.00% 53
South East +34 34 £75,000 +20.00% 68
Yorkshire -27 26 £75,000 +33.93% 8
Midlands +59 18 £75,000 +8.21% 8
East Midlands +37 10 £73,750 -28.05% 2
East of England +19 9 £82,500 +13.79% 18
West Midlands +41 8 £75,000 +8.21% 6
South West +16 4 £87,500 -7.89% 17
North East +7 1 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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 51 (13.11%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.06%) Apache
3 8 (2.06%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.54%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.77%) JBoss
6 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.51%) Appian
7 2 (0.51%) Luigi
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 230 (59.13%) AWS
2 134 (34.45%) Azure
3 104 (26.74%) GCP
4 57 (14.65%) Serverless
5 48 (12.34%) Amazon EKS
6 43 (11.05%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (9.51%) SaaS
8 23 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (5.66%) GitHub
10 18 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.08%) Amazon S3
15 12 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
16 11 (2.83%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (2.83%) OpenShift
17 8 (2.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.83%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.03%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.77%) BGP
3 3 (0.77%) VLAN
3 3 (0.77%) VPN
4 2 (0.51%) AMQP
4 2 (0.51%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.51%) Multicast
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) MQTT
5 1 (0.26%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (14.65%) NoSQL
3 52 (13.37%) Relational Database
4 44 (11.31%) Big Data
5 27 (6.94%) RDBMS
6 26 (6.68%) Hadoop
7 25 (6.43%) MongoDB
8 21 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (5.14%) Redis
10 19 (4.88%) SQL Server
11 18 (4.63%) DynamoDB
12 17 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (3.34%) Apache Hive
14 12 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (3.08%) MySQL
15 11 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (2.06%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (1.80%) Neo4j
17 7 (1.80%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 43 (11.05%) Jenkins
2 38 (9.77%) Git
3 25 (6.43%) JMeter
3 25 (6.43%) JUnit
4 21 (5.40%) Mockito
5 13 (3.34%) GitLab
6 9 (2.31%) JIRA
7 6 (1.54%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.29%) MLflow
8 5 (1.29%) Postman
9 4 (1.03%) Selenium
9 4 (1.03%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.51%) JConsole
11 2 (0.51%) Maven
11 2 (0.51%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 149 (38.30%) Finance
2 97 (24.94%) Social Skills
3 84 (21.59%) Banking
4 71 (18.25%) Law
5 65 (16.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (10.28%) Financial Institution
6 40 (10.28%) Public Sector
7 32 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (5.66%) Front Office
9 19 (4.88%) Marketing
10 18 (4.63%) Retail
11 17 (4.37%) Telecoms
12 13 (3.34%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.34%) Legal
13 9 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (2.06%) Back Office
15 6 (1.54%) Games
15 6 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (1.03%) Publishing
16 4 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (32.65%) Software Engineer
2 109 (28.02%) Senior
3 104 (26.74%) Lead
4 102 (26.22%) Developer
5 56 (14.40%) Lead Software Engineer
6 54 (13.88%) Java Developer
7 36 (9.25%) Senior Software Engineer
8 35 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (8.48%) Principal Engineer
10 31 (7.97%) Java Engineer
11 30 (7.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 26 (6.68%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (6.68%) Data Engineer
13 24 (6.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 23 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (5.66%) Java Software Engineer
16 21 (5.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 20 (5.14%) Senior Developer
18 18 (4.63%) Python Engineer
19 17 (4.37%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (24.68%) Kafka
2 77 (19.79%) Spring
3 63 (16.20%) Spring Boot
4 59 (15.17%) REST
5 57 (14.65%) .NET
6 53 (13.62%) RESTful
7 49 (12.60%) React
8 41 (10.54%) Web Services
9 33 (8.48%) Hibernate
10 30 (7.71%) HTML
11 29 (7.46%) Node.js
12 27 (6.94%) Apache Camel
13 25 (6.43%) JSON
14 21 (5.40%) ActiveMQ
14 21 (5.40%) XML
15 20 (5.14%) Django
15 20 (5.14%) jQuery
15 20 (5.14%) WireMock
16 17 (4.37%) .NET Core
17 16 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 144 (37.02%) Cloud Native
2 47 (12.08%) Algorithms
3 39 (10.03%) Product Ownership
4 32 (8.23%) Data Structures
5 31 (7.97%) Public Cloud
6 24 (6.17%) Legacy Code
7 23 (5.91%) Management Information System
8 22 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (4.88%) Virtual Team
10 16 (4.11%) Derivative
10 16 (4.11%) Equities
11 13 (3.34%) e-Learning
12 12 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (2.31%) Mobile Banking
15 8 (2.06%) Equity Derivative
15 8 (2.06%) Onboarding
16 7 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
17 6 (1.54%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.37%) Linux
2 13 (3.34%) Unix
3 5 (1.29%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (49.61%) Software Engineering
2 186 (47.81%) Microservices
3 180 (46.27%) CI/CD
4 152 (39.07%) Agile
5 104 (26.74%) DevOps
6 93 (23.91%) Containerisation
7 88 (22.62%) Mentoring
8 86 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (21.85%) AI
10 74 (19.02%) Computer Science
11 70 (17.99%) Roadmaps
11 70 (17.99%) SDLC
12 69 (17.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 66 (16.97%) Machine Learning
14 65 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
15 63 (16.20%) TDD
16 55 (14.14%) Event-Driven
17 51 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
17 51 (13.11%) Fintech
17 51 (13.11%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 202 (51.93%) Java
2 160 (41.13%) Python
3 82 (21.08%) SQL
4 65 (16.71%) C#
4 65 (16.71%) Go
5 50 (12.85%) JavaScript
6 43 (11.05%) C++
7 34 (8.74%) Scala
8 29 (7.46%) TypeScript
9 28 (7.20%) Rust
10 26 (6.68%) C
10 26 (6.68%) Kotlin
11 22 (5.66%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.57%) Bash
13 9 (2.31%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.29%) Groovy
15 4 (1.03%) COBOL
16 2 (0.51%) PHP
17 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.26%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 59 (15.17%) Degree
2 35 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.43%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.40%) PhD
6 11 (2.83%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CEH
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) OSCP
10 1 (0.26%) SANS
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.63%) GDPR
2 12 (3.08%) QA
3 9 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.29%) SLA
7 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.77%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.77%) WCAG
8 2 (0.51%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 124 (31.88%) Docker
2 14 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.31%) HDFS
4 5 (1.29%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.51%) Ceph
6 2 (0.51%) Lustre
6 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 177 (45.50%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.83%) Terraform
3 30 (7.71%) Ansible
4 24 (6.17%) Kibana
5 13 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.08%) Grafana
7 5 (1.29%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.29%) logstash
8 4 (1.03%) Rancher
8 4 (1.03%) vRealize
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
9 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.17%) Dynatrace
2 22 (5.66%) Splunk
3 16 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.08%) Databricks
4 12 (3.08%) Google
5 10 (2.57%) Oracle
6 7 (1.80%) Informatica
6 7 (1.80%) Talend
7 5 (1.29%) Dell
7 5 (1.29%) SAP
8 4 (1.03%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.03%) Foundry
8 4 (1.03%) Mavenir
8 4 (1.03%) Nokia
8 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.03%) Palantir
8 4 (1.03%) Pega
8 4 (1.03%) Solace
8 4 (1.03%) VMware
8 4 (1.03%) WSO2