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 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 308 368
Rank change year-on-year +19 +60 -94
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 368 508 356
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.80% 0.84% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 2.47% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 237 308 263
10th Percentile £65,750 £50,350 £50,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £140,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -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 16,816 20,582 17,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.41% 33.98% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,592 10,034 13,272
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,453
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,283 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,935 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 +37 268 £112,500 +15.38% 95
North of England -26 60 £75,000 +15.38% 25
North West +25 34 £75,000 +15.38% 21
South East +15 32 £75,000 +20.00% 50
Yorkshire -28 25 £75,000 +33.93% 4
Midlands +69 17 £75,000 +8.21% 5
East Midlands +39 9 £70,000 - 2
East of England +27 9 £82,500 +13.79% 11
West Midlands +52 8 £75,000 +8.21% 3
South West +18 4 £87,500 -7.89% 13
North East +14 1 £73,801 +6.48%
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 48 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.17%) Apache
3 8 (2.17%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.63%) Confluence
5 4 (1.09%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.54%) Appian
6 2 (0.54%) JBoss
6 2 (0.54%) Luigi
6 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 214 (58.15%) AWS
2 128 (34.78%) Azure
3 97 (26.36%) GCP
4 55 (14.95%) Serverless
5 45 (12.23%) Amazon EKS
6 41 (11.14%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (9.51%) SaaS
8 22 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (5.98%) GitHub
9 18 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.26%) Amazon S3
14 12 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (2.99%) OpenShift
16 10 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
17 8 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.09%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.82%) BGP
3 3 (0.82%) VLAN
3 3 (0.82%) VPN
4 2 (0.54%) AMQP
4 2 (0.54%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.54%) Multicast
5 1 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.27%) MQTT
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (14.67%) NoSQL
3 47 (12.77%) Relational Database
4 40 (10.87%) Big Data
5 26 (7.07%) Hadoop
5 26 (7.07%) RDBMS
6 24 (6.52%) MongoDB
7 21 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (5.43%) Redis
9 19 (5.16%) SQL Server
10 18 (4.89%) DynamoDB
11 17 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (3.53%) Apache Hive
13 12 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (3.26%) MySQL
14 11 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.90%) DataStage
15 7 (1.90%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.90%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 41 (11.14%) Jenkins
2 36 (9.78%) Git
3 24 (6.52%) JMeter
4 23 (6.25%) JUnit
5 20 (5.43%) Mockito
6 13 (3.53%) GitLab
7 9 (2.45%) JIRA
8 6 (1.63%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.36%) MLflow
9 5 (1.36%) Postman
10 4 (1.09%) Selenium
11 3 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.54%) JConsole
12 2 (0.54%) Maven
12 2 (0.54%) VisualVM
13 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 134 (36.41%) Finance
2 89 (24.18%) Social Skills
3 72 (19.57%) Banking
4 57 (15.49%) Law
5 51 (13.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (10.60%) Financial Institution
7 37 (10.05%) Public Sector
8 30 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (5.43%) Front Office
10 18 (4.89%) Retail
11 17 (4.62%) Telecoms
12 16 (4.35%) Marketing
13 11 (2.99%) Legal
14 10 (2.72%) Investment Banking
15 9 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (2.17%) Back Office
17 6 (1.63%) Games
17 6 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (1.09%) Polish Language
18 4 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (30.71%) Software Engineer
2 105 (28.53%) Senior
3 100 (27.17%) Developer
4 94 (25.54%) Lead
5 52 (14.13%) Java Developer
6 47 (12.77%) Lead Software Engineer
7 33 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 30 (8.15%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (7.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 26 (7.07%) Java Engineer
12 25 (6.79%) Data Engineer
13 24 (6.52%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 23 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
15 21 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 20 (5.43%) Senior Developer
17 17 (4.62%) C# Developer
17 17 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
18 16 (4.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (25.00%) Kafka
2 68 (18.48%) Spring
3 57 (15.49%) REST
3 57 (15.49%) Spring Boot
4 55 (14.95%) .NET
5 48 (13.04%) React
6 45 (12.23%) RESTful
7 37 (10.05%) Web Services
8 30 (8.15%) Hibernate
9 29 (7.88%) HTML
9 29 (7.88%) Node.js
10 25 (6.79%) Apache Camel
10 25 (6.79%) JSON
11 21 (5.71%) XML
12 20 (5.43%) ActiveMQ
12 20 (5.43%) Django
13 19 (5.16%) jQuery
13 19 (5.16%) WireMock
14 17 (4.62%) .NET Core
15 15 (4.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 134 (36.41%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.23%) Algorithms
3 36 (9.78%) Product Ownership
4 31 (8.42%) Data Structures
5 28 (7.61%) Public Cloud
6 24 (6.52%) Legacy Code
7 21 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (5.71%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.35%) Equities
8 16 (4.35%) Virtual Team
9 13 (3.53%) e-Learning
10 12 (3.26%) Derivative
10 12 (3.26%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.90%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
13 6 (1.63%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.63%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 52 (14.13%) Linux
2 13 (3.53%) Unix
3 5 (1.36%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (48.10%) Software Engineering
2 173 (47.01%) Microservices
3 168 (45.65%) CI/CD
4 140 (38.04%) Agile
5 99 (26.90%) DevOps
6 88 (23.91%) Containerisation
7 85 (23.10%) Mentoring
8 81 (22.01%) AI
9 79 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (19.57%) Computer Science
11 68 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 66 (17.93%) Roadmaps
13 63 (17.12%) Machine Learning
14 62 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
15 61 (16.58%) SDLC
16 59 (16.03%) TDD
17 53 (14.40%) Event-Driven
18 51 (13.86%) Low Latency
19 49 (13.32%) Data Pipeline
20 47 (12.77%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 187 (50.82%) Java
2 152 (41.30%) Python
3 77 (20.92%) SQL
4 64 (17.39%) Go
5 63 (17.12%) C#
6 49 (13.32%) JavaScript
7 42 (11.41%) C++
8 31 (8.42%) Scala
9 29 (7.88%) TypeScript
10 28 (7.61%) Rust
11 26 (7.07%) C
12 21 (5.71%) Kotlin
12 21 (5.71%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.72%) Bash
14 9 (2.45%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.09%) COBOL
15 4 (1.09%) Groovy
16 2 (0.54%) PHP
17 1 (0.27%) Bicep
17 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (15.76%) Degree
2 35 (9.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.34%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.52%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.43%) PhD
6 9 (2.45%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CEH
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) GIAC
10 1 (0.27%) OSCP
10 1 (0.27%) SANS
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.89%) GDPR
2 12 (3.26%) QA
3 9 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.90%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.09%) SLA
8 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.82%) WCAG
9 2 (0.54%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 116 (31.52%) Docker
2 14 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (3.80%) Virtual Servers
3 9 (2.45%) HDFS
4 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.54%) Ceph
6 2 (0.54%) Lustre
6 2 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 166 (45.11%) Kubernetes
2 43 (11.68%) Terraform
3 29 (7.88%) Ansible
4 23 (6.25%) Kibana
5 12 (3.26%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.99%) Grafana
7 5 (1.36%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.36%) logstash
8 4 (1.09%) Rancher
8 4 (1.09%) vRealize
9 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.54%) Puppet
9 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 21 (5.71%) Splunk
3 16 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.26%) Databricks
4 12 (3.26%) Google
5 10 (2.72%) Oracle
6 7 (1.90%) Informatica
6 7 (1.90%) Talend
7 5 (1.36%) Dell
7 5 (1.36%) SAP
8 4 (1.09%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.09%) Mavenir
8 4 (1.09%) Nokia
8 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.09%) Pega
8 4 (1.09%) VMware
8 4 (1.09%) WSO2
9 3 (0.82%) Foundry
9 3 (0.82%) Palantir
9 3 (0.82%) Solace