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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 328 425
Rank change year-on-year +59 +97 -13
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 614 343 506
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.85% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 1.98% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 370 196 313
10th Percentile £56,200 £61,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £69,063 £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 £104,688 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £127,750 £140,677 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £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 21,629 17,348 30,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.54% 42.99% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 14,280 8,451 20,858
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £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 £59,773 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.95% +4.55% -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 27 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 27 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 +52 374 £95,000 -13.64% 191
North of England +12 114 £80,000 - 53
North West +51 82 £88,750 +10.94% 31
South East -10 70 £67,500 -3.57% 53
Midlands -28 21 £87,500 +16.67% 7
South West -41 18 £91,250 -6.41% 22
Yorkshire -47 18 £75,000 -5.36% 10
North East -33 14 £63,750 -30.85% 12
West Midlands -14 12 £87,500 +20.69% 5
East of England -6 11 £76,250 - 9
East Midlands -23 9 £72,000 -5.57% 2
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 10 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.81%) Apache
2 5 (0.81%) Confluence
2 5 (0.81%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.65%) JBoss
4 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.49%) IIS
4 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.33%) nginx
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 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 356 (57.98%) AWS
2 188 (30.62%) Azure
3 148 (24.10%) GCP
4 71 (11.56%) Serverless
5 49 (7.98%) SaaS
6 44 (7.17%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (5.54%) Amazon S3
10 33 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (4.89%) GitHub
12 28 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (2.61%) Datadog
17 15 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (2.28%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
19 13 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 83 (13.52%) Broadband
2 12 (1.95%) HTTP
3 10 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.81%) DNS
4 5 (0.81%) Firewall
5 3 (0.49%) BGP
5 3 (0.49%) DHCP
5 3 (0.49%) VLAN
5 3 (0.49%) VoIP
5 3 (0.49%) VPN
6 2 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.33%) RTP
6 2 (0.33%) SS7
7 1 (0.16%) 5G
7 1 (0.16%) DMARC
7 1 (0.16%) Internet
7 1 (0.16%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.16%) RS-232
7 1 (0.16%) RS-485
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (7.98%) NoSQL
3 47 (7.65%) MongoDB
4 25 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 24 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (3.75%) SQL Server
7 21 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (3.42%) MySQL
8 20 (3.26%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.77%) Redis
10 14 (2.28%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.63%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.30%) Big Data
13 6 (0.98%) Metadata
14 5 (0.81%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.49%) ClickHouse
16 3 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 59 (9.61%) Git
2 45 (7.33%) Jenkins
3 43 (7.00%) GitLab
4 31 (5.05%) Cucumber
5 18 (2.93%) JMeter
6 15 (2.44%) JIRA
7 14 (2.28%) JUnit
8 13 (2.12%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.63%) Gatling
9 10 (1.63%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.81%) Mockito
10 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.65%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.65%) Spock
11 4 (0.65%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.49%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 148 (24.10%) Finance
2 108 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 39 (6.35%) Banking
4 38 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.21%) Games
7 28 (4.56%) Law
8 27 (4.40%) Financial Institution
9 25 (4.07%) Retail
10 23 (3.75%) Public Sector
11 19 (3.09%) Back Office
12 11 (1.79%) Front Office
12 11 (1.79%) Polish Language
13 9 (1.47%) Advertising
14 6 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.81%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.65%) Electronics
17 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 147 (23.94%) Senior
2 142 (23.13%) Developer
3 118 (19.22%) Software Engineer
4 67 (10.91%) Principal Engineer
5 63 (10.26%) Lead
6 55 (8.96%) Architect
7 52 (8.47%) Java Engineer
8 47 (7.65%) Senior Developer
9 33 (5.37%) Backend Developer
10 31 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.89%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.72%) Python Developer
12 29 (4.72%) Python Engineer
13 26 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 25 (4.07%) Java Developer
15 20 (3.26%) Principal Java Engineer
16 18 (2.93%) Lead Developer
17 17 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
17 17 (2.77%) Test Engineer
18 16 (2.61%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (14.98%) .NET
2 81 (13.19%) Kafka
3 74 (12.05%) REST
3 74 (12.05%) Spring
4 70 (11.40%) React
5 65 (10.59%) Spring Boot
6 59 (9.61%) RESTful
7 46 (7.49%) gRPC
8 42 (6.84%) Node.js
9 29 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (3.75%) AngularJS
11 20 (3.26%) JSON
12 19 (3.09%) ASP.NET
13 18 (2.93%) Django
13 18 (2.93%) Web Services
14 17 (2.77%) OAuth
15 16 (2.61%) LangChain
15 16 (2.61%) OAuth2
16 15 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
16 15 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 193 (31.43%) Cloud Native
2 73 (11.89%) Video\Live Streaming
3 48 (7.82%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.65%) Over-the-Top Content
5 45 (7.33%) Data Structures
6 29 (4.72%) Public Cloud
7 26 (4.23%) AI Agents
7 26 (4.23%) Low-Code
8 23 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (3.58%) e-Learning
10 18 (2.93%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.77%) Client/Server
12 15 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
12 15 (2.44%) Equities
13 14 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (2.28%) Life Science
14 10 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (1.47%) Blog
15 9 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.45%) Linux
2 16 (2.61%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Unix
3 3 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.16%) Debian
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (56.19%) CI/CD
2 311 (50.65%) Software Engineering
3 274 (44.63%) Microservices
4 184 (29.97%) AI
5 173 (28.18%) Agile
6 165 (26.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 163 (26.55%) DevOps
7 163 (26.55%) Observability
7 163 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (24.59%) Containerisation
9 150 (24.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 139 (22.64%) Event-Driven
11 137 (22.31%) Test Automation
12 127 (20.68%) Machine Learning
13 123 (20.03%) Mentoring
14 103 (16.78%) Clean Code
15 90 (14.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 86 (14.01%) Full-Stack Development
17 84 (13.68%) Computer Science
18 83 (13.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 292 (47.56%) Python
2 169 (27.52%) Java
3 114 (18.57%) Go
4 106 (17.26%) SQL
5 97 (15.80%) C#
6 75 (12.21%) JavaScript
7 73 (11.89%) TypeScript
8 54 (8.79%) C++
9 51 (8.31%) Scala
10 37 (6.03%) Rust
11 16 (2.61%) Bash
11 16 (2.61%) C
12 10 (1.63%) PHP
13 9 (1.47%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.30%) Bicep
15 7 (1.14%) Groovy
16 6 (0.98%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.81%) Perl
18 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
19 3 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 77 (12.54%) Degree
2 51 (8.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (5.86%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 23 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (2.61%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.47%) PhD
9 3 (0.49%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.33%) 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 (8.79%) QA
2 11 (1.79%) SOC 2
3 8 (1.30%) GDPR
4 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 163 (26.55%) Docker
2 17 (2.77%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.28%) KVM
4 10 (1.63%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.33%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 150 (24.43%) Kubernetes
2 102 (16.61%) Terraform
3 27 (4.40%) Ansible
4 19 (3.09%) Grafana
5 15 (2.44%) Kibana
6 13 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.81%) Argo
8 4 (0.65%) Packer
9 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.49%) SCCM
10 1 (0.16%) Graylog
10 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 53 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.33%) Typelevel
3 18 (2.93%) Google
4 17 (2.77%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.77%) Oracle
4 17 (2.77%) VMware
5 14 (2.28%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.12%) Splunk
7 10 (1.63%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.30%) IBM
9 7 (1.14%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.14%) Solace
10 6 (0.98%) Databricks
11 3 (0.49%) Adobe
12 2 (0.33%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.33%) Pega
12 2 (0.33%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.33%) WSO2
13 1 (0.16%) ServiceNow