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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 311 410
Rank change year-on-year +38 +99 -80
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 486 349 451
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.95% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 2.47% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 271 230 321
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,509 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +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 21,347 14,157 27,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.31% 38.73% 35.53%
Number of salaries quoted 11,053 8,068 20,233
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +38 313 £100,000 +8.11% 164
North of England -39 84 £75,000 - 56
South East -31 60 £77,500 +24.00% 49
North West +3 53 £77,500 +1.64% 34
Yorkshire -55 29 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Midlands -20 15 £74,401 +4.93% 7
South West -28 15 £83,750 - 8
East of England -16 12 £82,500 +13.79% 8
East Midlands - 12 £100,000 - 3
West Midlands -16 3 £73,801 +4.09% 4
North East -32 2 £60,651 -12.59% 10
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 20 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.09%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.03%) IIS
5 4 (0.82%) Appian
6 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.41%) Apache
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Confluence
8 1 (0.21%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.21%) Solana
8 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 298 (61.32%) AWS
2 169 (34.77%) GCP
3 162 (33.33%) Azure
4 53 (10.91%) Serverless
5 46 (9.47%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (8.64%) SaaS
7 37 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 21 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (3.70%) GitHub
12 16 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.26%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (2.26%) Datadog
16 8 (1.65%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (1.65%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.49%) Broadband
2 17 (3.50%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.26%) HTTP
4 6 (1.23%) BGP
4 6 (1.23%) VLAN
4 6 (1.23%) VPN
5 3 (0.62%) DNS
5 3 (0.62%) Firewall
5 3 (0.62%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.41%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.41%) Multicast
7 1 (0.21%) 4G
7 1 (0.21%) 5G
7 1 (0.21%) DHCP
7 1 (0.21%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.21%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
7 1 (0.21%) RTP
7 1 (0.21%) SS7
7 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (9.88%) NoSQL
3 31 (6.38%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (5.35%) Redis
6 24 (4.94%) MongoDB
7 23 (4.73%) SQL Server
8 20 (4.12%) Hadoop
9 18 (3.70%) Big Data
9 18 (3.70%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (3.29%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.88%) MySQL
12 13 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.85%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.23%) Apache Hive
14 6 (1.23%) Couchbase
15 5 (1.03%) Pentaho
15 5 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (10.29%) Git
2 47 (9.67%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.91%) GitLab
4 15 (3.09%) JMeter
5 14 (2.88%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.26%) JIRA
7 9 (1.85%) Gatling
7 9 (1.85%) JUnit
7 9 (1.85%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.65%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.03%) Maven
10 4 (0.82%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.82%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.82%) Mockito
11 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.62%) WinDbg
12 2 (0.41%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.41%) Selenium
12 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 121 (24.90%) Finance
2 96 (19.75%) Social Skills
3 46 (9.47%) Banking
4 37 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (7.61%) Law
5 33 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.79%) Financial Institution
6 29 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.56%) Retail
8 25 (5.14%) Telecoms
9 24 (4.94%) Back Office
10 12 (2.47%) Front Office
11 11 (2.26%) Marketing
11 11 (2.26%) Polish Language
12 10 (2.06%) Games
13 8 (1.65%) Advertising
14 7 (1.44%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.03%) Electronics
16 5 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 129 (26.54%) Senior
2 120 (24.69%) Software Engineer
3 103 (21.19%) Developer
4 57 (11.73%) Lead
5 40 (8.23%) Java Developer
6 37 (7.61%) Principal Engineer
7 31 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 30 (6.17%) Architect
8 30 (6.17%) Scala Engineer
9 24 (4.94%) Backend Developer
9 24 (4.94%) Java Engineer
9 24 (4.94%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.73%) Data Engineer
11 22 (4.53%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.09%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.09%) Scala Developer
13 15 (3.09%) Scala Software Engineer
13 15 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (14.81%) Kafka
2 71 (14.61%) REST
3 62 (12.76%) gRPC
4 59 (12.14%) Spring
5 54 (11.11%) .NET
6 52 (10.70%) Spring Boot
7 51 (10.49%) React
8 39 (8.02%) RESTful
9 37 (7.61%) Node.js
10 35 (7.20%) Django
11 24 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
11 24 (4.94%) Web Services
12 19 (3.91%) AngularJS
13 18 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (3.29%) JSON
15 14 (2.88%) FastAPI
15 14 (2.88%) HTML
15 14 (2.88%) OAuth
16 12 (2.47%) OAuth2
17 11 (2.26%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 118 (24.28%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.88%) Algorithms
3 47 (9.67%) Over-the-Top Content
3 47 (9.67%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (8.85%) Data Structures
5 25 (5.14%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.50%) Equities
8 16 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.88%) Client/Server
9 14 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.67%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.47%) Public Cloud
12 11 (2.26%) Data Centre
12 11 (2.26%) e-Learning
13 9 (1.85%) Blog
13 9 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.65%) Legacy Code
14 8 (1.65%) Sports Betting
14 8 (1.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (13.79%) Linux
2 9 (1.85%) Android
2 9 (1.85%) Windows
3 8 (1.65%) Unix
4 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (49.38%) CI/CD
2 228 (46.91%) Microservices
3 224 (46.09%) Software Engineering
4 146 (30.04%) Agile
5 142 (29.22%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (27.78%) Containerisation
7 123 (25.31%) DevOps
8 105 (21.60%) Machine Learning
9 98 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 96 (19.75%) Computer Science
11 94 (19.34%) AI
12 89 (18.31%) Clean Code
13 80 (16.46%) Observability
14 78 (16.05%) Event-Driven
15 76 (15.64%) Mentoring
16 75 (15.43%) Roadmaps
17 69 (14.20%) Data Science
18 68 (13.99%) Coaching
19 63 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
20 59 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 217 (44.65%) Python
2 172 (35.39%) Java
3 118 (24.28%) Go
4 69 (14.20%) C#
5 63 (12.96%) Scala
6 61 (12.55%) C++
7 60 (12.35%) SQL
8 44 (9.05%) JavaScript
9 43 (8.85%) Rust
10 36 (7.41%) TypeScript
11 24 (4.94%) C
12 11 (2.26%) Bash
13 10 (2.06%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.85%) Groovy
15 6 (1.23%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.03%) R
16 5 (1.03%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.62%) Perl
17 3 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (17.90%) Degree
2 63 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 26 (5.35%) Master's Degree
5 21 (4.32%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.88%) PhD
7 12 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.03%) MBA
10 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.62%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.21%) ISEB
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.58%) QA
2 14 (2.88%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.06%) GDPR
5 6 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.03%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 164 (33.74%) Docker
2 14 (2.88%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.67%) KVM
4 12 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.82%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.62%) HDFS
8 2 (0.41%) Ceph
8 2 (0.41%) Lustre
8 2 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 143 (29.42%) Kubernetes
2 66 (13.58%) Terraform
3 38 (7.82%) Ansible
4 12 (2.47%) Grafana
4 12 (2.47%) Kibana
5 7 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.82%) HP Fortify
6 4 (0.82%) Packer
7 2 (0.41%) Argo
8 1 (0.21%) Graylog
8 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (9.26%) Typelevel
2 24 (4.94%) Google
3 14 (2.88%) VMware
4 13 (2.67%) Dynatrace
5 12 (2.47%) AppDynamics
5 12 (2.47%) Databricks
6 11 (2.26%) Microsoft
7 9 (1.85%) Oracle
8 7 (1.44%) IBM
8 7 (1.44%) Splunk
9 6 (1.23%) Pega
9 6 (1.23%) WSO2
10 5 (1.03%) BT
10 5 (1.03%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.03%) Informatica
10 5 (1.03%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.03%) Nokia
10 5 (1.03%) Talend
11 4 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.82%) Solace