Distributed Computing Job Trends in London

Distributed Computing
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 425 456
Rank change year-on-year +61 +31 +186
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 30 39 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.50% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 29
10th Percentile £71,875 £65,625 £66,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £85,625 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £103,750 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -13.54% +41.18%
75th Percentile £184,375 £142,188 £135,000
90th Percentile £200,000 £187,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £78,750 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.94% -

All Generic Skills
London

Distributed Computing 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,538 7,763 9,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 46.41% 40.48% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,264 4,663 7,502
10th Percentile £37,705 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,485
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £64,811
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.42% +3.70%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Distributed Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Central London +34 2 £105,000 -40.00% 3
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) AWS
2 18 (60.00%) Azure
3 16 (53.33%) Cloud Computing
3 16 (53.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) FIX Connectivity
1 2 (6.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.67%) Metadata
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Azkaban
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Presto
3 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (73.33%) Finance
2 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 19 (63.33%) Banking
4 15 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (20.00%) Marketing
6 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
7 2 (6.67%) Electronics
7 2 (6.67%) Front Office
7 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.67%) Spanish Language
7 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Senior
2 15 (50.00%) Architect
2 15 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 15 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 15 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Auditor
3 4 (13.33%) Python Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Auditor
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Rust Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Rust Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Head of Engineering
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.33%) mypy
2 1 (3.33%) PyXLL
2 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (6.67%) Equities
2 2 (6.67%) Eurex
2 2 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 2 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Agile
2 16 (53.33%) Coaching
3 15 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
3 15 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 15 (50.00%) Business Development
3 15 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 15 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 15 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 15 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
4 8 (26.67%) SDLC
5 6 (20.00%) Analytics
5 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 5 (16.67%) Low Latency
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.33%) Data Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) Internal Audit
7 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
7 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Go
3 2 (6.67%) Rust
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) C++
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) CISA
2 4 (13.33%) CISSP
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.67%) Bloomberg
2 2 (6.67%) CQG
2 2 (6.67%) ION Trading
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Patsystems
2 2 (6.67%) Reuters
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
2 2 (6.67%) Trayport
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks