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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 344 423
Rank change year-on-year +72 +79 -22
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 621 341 513
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 0.83% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 1.96% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 376 194 312
10th Percentile £56,000 £60,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £104,063 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £126,875 £140,677 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -8.57%

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 21,881 17,393 30,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.57% 42.33% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14,474 8,529 20,780
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% +4.55% -14.18%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +54 379 £95,000 -13.64% 192
North of England -10 114 £80,000 - 50
North West +49 82 £88,750 +7.58% 29
South East -6 71 £66,250 -5.36% 54
Midlands -32 22 £87,500 +16.67% 8
Yorkshire -43 18 £75,000 -5.36% 10
South West -48 18 £91,250 -6.41% 17
North East -40 14 £63,750 -30.85% 11
West Midlands -20 13 £87,500 +20.69% 5
East of England -7 12 £80,000 - 9
East Midlands -26 9 £72,000 -5.57% 3
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 11 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.81%) Apache
2 5 (0.81%) Confluence
2 5 (0.81%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.64%) JBoss
4 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.48%) IIS
4 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.16%) Camunda
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.16%) Solana
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 360 (57.97%) AWS
2 190 (30.60%) Azure
3 148 (23.83%) GCP
4 74 (11.92%) Serverless
5 50 (8.05%) SaaS
6 44 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (5.64%) Amazon S3
10 33 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (4.99%) GitHub
12 29 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (3.22%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (2.58%) Datadog
16 16 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.25%) Amazon EventBridge
18 14 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.20%) Broadband
2 12 (1.93%) HTTP
3 10 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.81%) DNS
4 5 (0.81%) Firewall
5 3 (0.48%) BGP
5 3 (0.48%) DHCP
5 3 (0.48%) VLAN
5 3 (0.48%) VoIP
5 3 (0.48%) VPN
6 2 (0.32%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.32%) Internet
6 2 (0.32%) RTP
6 2 (0.32%) SS7
7 1 (0.16%) 5G
7 1 (0.16%) DMARC
7 1 (0.16%) MQTT
7 1 (0.16%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.16%) RS-232
7 1 (0.16%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.21%) NoSQL
3 47 (7.57%) MongoDB
4 25 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (4.03%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (3.38%) MySQL
8 20 (3.22%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.74%) Redis
10 14 (2.25%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.61%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.29%) Big Data
13 6 (0.97%) Metadata
14 5 (0.81%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.64%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.48%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 59 (9.50%) Git
2 45 (7.25%) GitLab
3 44 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 32 (5.15%) Cucumber
5 18 (2.90%) JMeter
6 15 (2.42%) JIRA
6 15 (2.42%) JUnit
7 13 (2.09%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.61%) Gatling
8 10 (1.61%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.97%) Mockito
10 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.64%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.64%) Spock
12 3 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.48%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 150 (24.15%) Finance
2 107 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 39 (6.28%) Banking
4 38 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.15%) Games
7 28 (4.51%) Law
8 27 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 26 (4.19%) Retail
10 23 (3.70%) Public Sector
11 19 (3.06%) Back Office
12 11 (1.77%) Front Office
12 11 (1.77%) Polish Language
13 9 (1.45%) Advertising
14 6 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.81%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.64%) Electronics
17 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 146 (23.51%) Senior
2 143 (23.03%) Developer
3 119 (19.16%) Software Engineer
4 70 (11.27%) Principal Engineer
5 66 (10.63%) Lead
6 55 (8.86%) Architect
7 53 (8.53%) Java Engineer
8 47 (7.57%) Senior Developer
9 33 (5.31%) Backend Developer
10 31 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.83%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.67%) Python Developer
12 29 (4.67%) Python Engineer
13 26 (4.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 25 (4.03%) Java Developer
15 21 (3.38%) Principal Java Engineer
16 18 (2.90%) Lead Developer
17 17 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
17 17 (2.74%) Test Engineer
18 16 (2.58%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (14.98%) .NET
2 83 (13.37%) Kafka
3 76 (12.24%) Spring
4 75 (12.08%) REST
5 72 (11.59%) React
6 67 (10.79%) Spring Boot
7 59 (9.50%) RESTful
8 46 (7.41%) gRPC
9 43 (6.92%) Node.js
10 29 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (3.70%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.22%) JSON
13 19 (3.06%) ASP.NET
14 18 (2.90%) Django
14 18 (2.90%) OAuth
14 18 (2.90%) Web Services
15 17 (2.74%) OAuth2
16 16 (2.58%) LangChain
17 15 (2.42%) ASP.NET Core
17 15 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 197 (31.72%) Cloud Native
2 72 (11.59%) Video\Live Streaming
3 48 (7.73%) Algorithms
4 46 (7.41%) Over-the-Top Content
5 45 (7.25%) Data Structures
6 30 (4.83%) Public Cloud
7 27 (4.35%) AI Agents
8 26 (4.19%) Low-Code
9 24 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (3.70%) e-Learning
11 18 (2.90%) Product Ownership
12 17 (2.74%) Client/Server
13 15 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (2.42%) Equities
13 15 (2.42%) Life Science
14 14 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (1.61%) Onboarding
16 9 (1.45%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.34%) Linux
2 16 (2.58%) Windows
3 3 (0.48%) Unix
3 3 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.16%) Debian
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (56.04%) CI/CD
2 314 (50.56%) Software Engineering
3 278 (44.77%) Microservices
4 190 (30.60%) AI
5 175 (28.18%) Agile
6 168 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 167 (26.89%) Observability
8 166 (26.73%) DevOps
9 164 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
10 152 (24.48%) Containerisation
11 150 (24.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 142 (22.87%) Event-Driven
13 139 (22.38%) Test Automation
14 130 (20.93%) Machine Learning
15 127 (20.45%) Mentoring
16 104 (16.75%) Clean Code
17 92 (14.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 87 (14.01%) Full-Stack Development
19 85 (13.69%) Computer Science
20 84 (13.53%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 296 (47.67%) Python
2 171 (27.54%) Java
3 114 (18.36%) Go
4 109 (17.55%) SQL
5 98 (15.78%) C#
6 75 (12.08%) JavaScript
6 75 (12.08%) TypeScript
7 54 (8.70%) C++
8 50 (8.05%) Scala
9 37 (5.96%) Rust
10 16 (2.58%) Bash
10 16 (2.58%) C
11 10 (1.61%) PHP
12 9 (1.45%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.29%) Bicep
14 7 (1.13%) Groovy
15 6 (0.97%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.81%) Perl
17 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 78 (12.56%) Degree
2 51 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (5.96%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 26 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (2.58%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.61%) PhD
9 4 (0.64%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.16%) HND
11 1 (0.16%) ISEB
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.70%) QA
2 11 (1.77%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.45%) GDPR
4 7 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 162 (26.09%) Docker
2 17 (2.74%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.25%) KVM
4 10 (1.61%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 150 (24.15%) Kubernetes
2 104 (16.75%) Terraform
3 27 (4.35%) Ansible
4 20 (3.22%) Grafana
5 15 (2.42%) Kibana
6 14 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.97%) Argo
8 4 (0.64%) Packer
9 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.48%) SCCM
10 1 (0.16%) Graylog
10 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 54 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.25%) Typelevel
3 19 (3.06%) Google
4 17 (2.74%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.74%) Oracle
4 17 (2.74%) VMware
5 14 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.09%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.09%) Splunk
7 8 (1.29%) IBM
8 7 (1.13%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.13%) Solace
9 6 (0.97%) Databricks
10 3 (0.48%) Adobe
11 2 (0.32%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.32%) Pega
11 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.32%) WSO2
12 1 (0.16%) ServiceNow