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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 310 408
Rank change year-on-year +26 +98 -61
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 504 340 479
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.92% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 2.32% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 283 215 327
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,625 £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 £112,500 £115,000 £119,375
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £150,000
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 22,333 14,648 29,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.22% 39.45% 35.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,594 8,259 20,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,376
UK median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% +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 17 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 17 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 +46 322 £100,000 +5.26% 156
North of England -32 89 £77,500 - 36
South East -32 64 £77,500 +21.57% 48
North West +16 61 £81,250 +1.56% 27
Yorkshire -68 24 £75,000 -3.23% 6
Midlands -40 15 £73,500 +1.38% 6
South West -37 14 £85,000 - 11
East Midlands - 13 £86,000 - 3
East of England -15 11 £82,500 +13.79% 9
North East -40 4 £60,000 -13.52% 3
West Midlands -26 2 £68,750 -5.17% 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 18 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.18%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.19%) IIS
5 5 (0.99%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.79%) Appian
7 3 (0.60%) Apache
7 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.40%) Confluence
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Solana
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 303 (60.12%) AWS
2 169 (33.53%) Azure
3 168 (33.33%) GCP
4 56 (11.11%) Serverless
5 45 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (8.73%) SaaS
7 33 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.76%) GitHub
10 22 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (3.37%) Datadog
13 15 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (1.98%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.12%) Broadband
2 15 (2.98%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.38%) HTTP
4 6 (1.19%) BGP
4 6 (1.19%) VLAN
4 6 (1.19%) VPN
5 3 (0.60%) DNS
5 3 (0.60%) Firewall
6 2 (0.40%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.40%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) RTP
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) SS7
7 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.92%) NoSQL
2 41 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
3 29 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 26 (5.16%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.56%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.56%) Redis
6 22 (4.37%) DynamoDB
7 19 (3.77%) BigQuery
7 19 (3.77%) Hadoop
8 17 (3.37%) Big Data
9 16 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (2.98%) MySQL
11 12 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.79%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.19%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.19%) Tableau
14 5 (0.99%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.99%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 51 (10.12%) Git
2 48 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.97%) GitLab
4 15 (2.98%) JMeter
5 14 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 12 (2.38%) JIRA
7 10 (1.98%) Gatling
8 9 (1.79%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.59%) JUnit
10 6 (1.19%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.99%) Maven
12 4 (0.79%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.60%) Mockito
13 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.60%) WinDbg
14 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.40%) Selenium
14 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 132 (26.19%) Finance
2 97 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 44 (8.73%) Banking
4 39 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (7.54%) Law
6 29 (5.75%) Financial Institution
7 27 (5.36%) Retail
8 25 (4.96%) Public Sector
8 25 (4.96%) Telecoms
9 24 (4.76%) Back Office
10 12 (2.38%) Front Office
11 11 (2.18%) Polish Language
12 10 (1.98%) Games
12 10 (1.98%) Marketing
13 8 (1.59%) Advertising
14 7 (1.39%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.99%) Electronics
16 5 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 136 (26.98%) Senior
2 115 (22.82%) Software Engineer
3 106 (21.03%) Developer
4 52 (10.32%) Lead
5 37 (7.34%) Architect
6 36 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
7 34 (6.75%) Java Developer
8 30 (5.95%) Scala Engineer
9 28 (5.56%) Java Engineer
9 28 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 28 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (4.96%) Backend Developer
11 23 (4.56%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (2.98%) Lead Developer
15 15 (2.98%) Python Engineer
15 15 (2.98%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.88%) Kafka
2 72 (14.29%) REST
3 62 (12.30%) gRPC
4 59 (11.71%) .NET
5 58 (11.51%) Spring
6 51 (10.12%) React
7 49 (9.72%) Spring Boot
8 41 (8.13%) RESTful
9 39 (7.74%) Node.js
10 32 (6.35%) Django
11 21 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (4.17%) Web Services
12 18 (3.57%) OAuth
13 16 (3.17%) AngularJS
13 16 (3.17%) JSON
14 15 (2.98%) OAuth2
15 13 (2.58%) FastAPI
15 13 (2.58%) HTML
16 11 (2.18%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 125 (24.80%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.72%) Algorithms
3 47 (9.33%) Over-the-Top Content
3 47 (9.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 46 (9.13%) Data Structures
5 23 (4.56%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.37%) Client/Server
7 17 (3.37%) Equities
7 17 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.58%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.58%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.18%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.98%) Blog
11 10 (1.98%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.79%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 59 (11.71%) Linux
2 10 (1.98%) Windows
3 9 (1.79%) Android
4 5 (0.99%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (50.20%) CI/CD
2 236 (46.83%) Microservices
3 234 (46.43%) Software Engineering
4 152 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
5 147 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 142 (28.17%) Agile
7 128 (25.40%) DevOps
8 107 (21.23%) Machine Learning
9 106 (21.03%) AI
10 102 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 99 (19.64%) Computer Science
12 90 (17.86%) Observability
13 89 (17.66%) Clean Code
14 83 (16.47%) Event-Driven
15 79 (15.67%) Mentoring
16 74 (14.68%) Roadmaps
17 71 (14.09%) Data Science
18 70 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
19 66 (13.10%) Coaching
20 61 (12.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 228 (45.24%) Python
2 169 (33.53%) Java
3 116 (23.02%) Go
4 71 (14.09%) C#
5 68 (13.49%) SQL
6 61 (12.10%) Scala
7 59 (11.71%) C++
8 47 (9.33%) JavaScript
9 44 (8.73%) TypeScript
10 39 (7.74%) Rust
11 20 (3.97%) C
12 14 (2.78%) Bash
13 9 (1.79%) Groovy
13 9 (1.79%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.99%) R
16 4 (0.79%) Bicep
16 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.79%) Ruby
16 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (18.45%) Degree
2 67 (13.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (5.75%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.96%) Master's Degree
5 23 (4.56%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.38%) PhD
7 11 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.99%) MBA
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ISEB
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.75%) QA
2 14 (2.78%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.79%) GDPR
5 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 164 (32.54%) Docker
2 14 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 14 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.58%) KVM
4 8 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.40%) Ceph
6 2 (0.40%) HDFS
6 2 (0.40%) Lustre
6 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 138 (27.38%) Kubernetes
2 76 (15.08%) Terraform
3 35 (6.94%) Ansible
4 15 (2.98%) Grafana
5 12 (2.38%) Kibana
6 10 (1.98%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.79%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (8.93%) Typelevel
2 25 (4.96%) Google
3 22 (4.37%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.78%) Oracle
4 14 (2.78%) VMware
5 13 (2.58%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.98%) Databricks
8 8 (1.59%) IBM
9 6 (1.19%) Splunk
10 5 (0.99%) BT
10 5 (0.99%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.99%) Informatica
10 5 (0.99%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.99%) Nokia
10 5 (0.99%) Solace
10 5 (0.99%) Talend
11 4 (0.79%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.79%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.60%) SAP