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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 319 351
Rank change year-on-year +26 +32 -46
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 355 407 377
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.84% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 2.25% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 235 267 285
10th Percentile £66,350 £53,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,625 £60,200
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 £110,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £138,500 £144,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +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 18,582 18,054 17,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.44% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,413 8,499 13,221
10th Percentile £27,787 £34,000 £31,549
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 15 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 15 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 +25 236 £112,500 +15.38% 139
North of England +7 66 £75,000 +10.29% 75
North West +47 37 £75,000 +8.21% 33
South East +2 37 £70,000 +14.29% 171
Yorkshire -38 28 £75,000 +33.93% 31
East of England +33 13 £82,500 +13.79% 64
Midlands +18 11 £76,250 +10.02% 41
South West -5 6 £83,750 -11.84% 47
East Midlands -7 6 £77,500 - 27
West Midlands +12 5 £75,000 +8.21% 14
North East +8 1 £73,801 +6.48% 11
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 42 (11.83%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.23%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.82%) Apache
5 5 (1.41%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.41%) Confluence
5 5 (1.41%) IIS
6 4 (1.13%) Appian
7 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 208 (58.59%) AWS
2 139 (39.15%) Azure
3 104 (29.30%) GCP
4 53 (14.93%) Serverless
5 41 (11.55%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (10.99%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (9.01%) SaaS
8 22 (6.20%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.07%) GitHub
10 17 (4.79%) Amazon Kinesis
11 16 (4.51%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.10%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (3.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.10%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.13%) HTTP
2 4 (1.13%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.85%) BGP
3 3 (0.85%) VLAN
3 3 (0.85%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) AMQP
4 2 (0.56%) Broadband
4 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.56%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) 4G
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
5 1 (0.28%) RTP
5 1 (0.28%) SS7
5 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.62%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (16.34%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.70%) Relational Database
4 37 (10.42%) Hadoop
5 36 (10.14%) Big Data
6 33 (9.30%) MongoDB
7 26 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (6.76%) DynamoDB
8 24 (6.76%) Redis
9 23 (6.48%) SQL Server
10 21 (5.92%) RDBMS
11 19 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (3.94%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (3.94%) MySQL
14 13 (3.66%) Apache Hive
15 12 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (2.82%) BigQuery
16 10 (2.82%) Neo4j
16 10 (2.82%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 41 (11.55%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.42%) Git
3 16 (4.51%) JMeter
3 16 (4.51%) JUnit
4 14 (3.94%) GitLab
5 11 (3.10%) Mockito
6 9 (2.54%) JIRA
7 4 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.13%) Maven
7 4 (1.13%) Postman
7 4 (1.13%) Selenium
7 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.85%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.56%) JConsole
9 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.56%) VisualVM
General
1 99 (27.89%) Finance
2 82 (23.10%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.14%) Banking
5 34 (9.58%) Financial Institution
6 28 (7.89%) Law
7 26 (7.32%) Public Sector
8 23 (6.48%) Telecoms
9 18 (5.07%) Retail
10 16 (4.51%) Front Office
11 15 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (3.66%) Marketing
13 10 (2.82%) Back Office
14 6 (1.69%) Games
14 6 (1.69%) Legal
14 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.13%) Polish Language
17 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 106 (29.86%) Senior
2 97 (27.32%) Developer
3 83 (23.38%) Software Engineer
4 64 (18.03%) Lead
5 49 (13.80%) Java Developer
6 34 (9.58%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (6.76%) Data Engineer
8 23 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (5.92%) Senior Developer
9 21 (5.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (5.35%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 19 (5.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 19 (5.35%) Lead Developer
12 17 (4.79%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 17 (4.79%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (4.51%) Architect
13 16 (4.51%) Principal Software Engineer
14 14 (3.94%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (25.35%) Kafka
2 59 (16.62%) REST
2 59 (16.62%) Spring
3 54 (15.21%) Spring Boot
4 53 (14.93%) React
5 50 (14.08%) .NET
6 37 (10.42%) Node.js
7 36 (10.14%) RESTful
8 28 (7.89%) Django
9 26 (7.32%) Web Services
10 22 (6.20%) HTML
11 21 (5.92%) gRPC
12 18 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (5.07%) FastAPI
13 17 (4.79%) AngularJS
13 17 (4.79%) Hibernate
13 17 (4.79%) JSON
14 16 (4.51%) OAuth
15 15 (4.23%) Apache Camel
16 14 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 115 (32.39%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.55%) Algorithms
3 34 (9.58%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.89%) Data Structures
5 18 (5.07%) Equities
6 16 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (4.51%) Legacy Code
6 16 (4.51%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.66%) e-Learning
7 13 (3.66%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.10%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (2.82%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.25%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.25%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.13%) Hackathon
12 4 (1.13%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 50 (14.08%) Linux
2 12 (3.38%) Unix
3 9 (2.54%) Android
4 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (48.17%) Microservices
2 161 (45.35%) CI/CD
3 140 (39.44%) Software Engineering
4 128 (36.06%) Agile
5 98 (27.61%) DevOps
6 90 (25.35%) Containerisation
7 80 (22.54%) AI
7 80 (22.54%) Computer Science
8 79 (22.25%) Mentoring
9 78 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 67 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (18.03%) Machine Learning
13 62 (17.46%) Event-Driven
13 62 (17.46%) Roadmaps
14 56 (15.77%) TDD
15 55 (15.49%) Analytics
16 54 (15.21%) Observability
17 52 (14.65%) Low Latency
18 48 (13.52%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 173 (48.73%) Java
2 152 (42.82%) Python
3 67 (18.87%) Go
3 67 (18.87%) SQL
4 61 (17.18%) C#
5 47 (13.24%) JavaScript
6 41 (11.55%) TypeScript
7 36 (10.14%) C++
8 32 (9.01%) Scala
9 22 (6.20%) C
9 22 (6.20%) Rust
10 13 (3.66%) Bash
11 11 (3.10%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.54%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.25%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.41%) R
15 4 (1.13%) Groovy
16 3 (0.85%) Ruby
17 2 (0.56%) COBOL
18 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (20.85%) Degree
2 46 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.32%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.04%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.79%) PhD
6 13 (3.66%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.41%) MBA
10 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.35%) QA
2 14 (3.94%) GDPR
3 8 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.25%) SOC 2
4 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.13%) SLA
7 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.85%) WCAG
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 109 (30.70%) Docker
2 14 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.94%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.54%) HDFS
4 7 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.85%) KVM
7 2 (0.56%) Ceph
7 2 (0.56%) Lustre
7 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 141 (39.72%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.55%) Terraform
3 31 (8.73%) Ansible
4 15 (4.23%) Kibana
5 12 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.10%) Grafana
7 5 (1.41%) logstash
8 4 (1.13%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.13%) Rancher
8 4 (1.13%) vRealize
9 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (5.63%) Google
2 18 (5.07%) Databricks
3 15 (4.23%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.38%) Splunk
5 11 (3.10%) Oracle
6 10 (2.82%) Informatica
6 10 (2.82%) Talend
7 7 (1.97%) VMware
8 6 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.41%) BT
9 5 (1.41%) Dell
9 5 (1.41%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.41%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.41%) Nokia
9 5 (1.41%) SAP
10 4 (1.13%) Pega
10 4 (1.13%) WSO2
11 3 (0.85%) Solace
12 2 (0.56%) Confluent