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 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 361 435
Rank change year-on-year -17 +74 +57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 56 35 36
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.29% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.63% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 24 9 17
10th Percentile £68,750 £72,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £71,563 - £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £90,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -20.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £90,188 £115,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £121,450 £200,000 £187,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% -4.48%

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 7,982 5,549 8,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.42% 45.24% 41.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,830 3,274 5,552
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +1.29% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £136,250 £137,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% -0.87% -11.54%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Computing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend 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 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 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
Central London +1 2 £88,750 +18.33% 5
West London - 1 £82,500 -
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (10.71%) Confluence
2 4 (7.14%) Apache
2 4 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 40 (71.43%) AWS
2 30 (53.57%) Cloud Computing
3 17 (30.36%) Amazon EMR
4 16 (28.57%) Azure
5 14 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 13 (23.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudSearch
8 4 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Functions
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (7.14%) Serverless
9 3 (5.36%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (5.36%) GCP
9 3 (5.36%) n8n
10 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.79%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Multicast
2 4 (7.14%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.36%) Amazon Redshift
1 17 (30.36%) Big Data
1 17 (30.36%) Data Lake
1 17 (30.36%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 13 (23.21%) Metadata
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 7 (12.50%) MySQL
4 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (7.14%) Delta Lake
5 4 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (5.36%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.79%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) JIRA
2 3 (5.36%) Claude Code
3 2 (3.57%) Git
General
1 18 (32.14%) Finance
2 17 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Front Office
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
6 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (46.43%) Consultant
1 26 (46.43%) Professional Services Consultant
2 17 (30.36%) Senior
3 14 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
3 14 (25.00%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
4 13 (23.21%) Data Consultant
4 13 (23.21%) Migration Consultant
5 7 (12.50%) Analyst
5 7 (12.50%) AWS Consultant
6 6 (10.71%) Business Analyst
6 6 (10.71%) Business Manager
6 6 (10.71%) Product Analyst
6 6 (10.71%) Product Business Analyst
6 6 (10.71%) Product Manager
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (7.14%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Head of Analytics
7 4 (7.14%) Head of Data Analytics
7 4 (7.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (7.14%) Kafka
2 4 (7.14%) NumPy
2 4 (7.14%) Pandas
2 4 (7.14%) PySpark
3 2 (3.57%) OpenMP
4 1 (1.79%) CrewAI
4 1 (1.79%) LangChain
4 1 (1.79%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.79%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.79%) Web Services
4 1 (1.79%) XML
4 1 (1.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (64.29%) Onboarding
2 20 (35.71%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (33.93%) Data Centre
4 14 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (23.21%) Mainframe
6 7 (12.50%) Equities
6 7 (12.50%) Fixed Income
6 7 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (12.50%) Reinsurance
7 6 (10.71%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (10.71%) Eurex
8 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
9 4 (7.14%) Algorithms
9 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (7.14%) IoT
9 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
10 2 (3.57%) CUDA
10 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
10 2 (3.57%) Legacy Code
11 1 (1.79%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 7 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Mentoring
2 29 (51.79%) Analytics
3 27 (48.21%) Migration
4 25 (44.64%) Project Delivery
5 24 (42.86%) AI
6 20 (35.71%) Database Migration
6 20 (35.71%) Project Management
7 18 (32.14%) Data Modelling
7 18 (32.14%) Performance Optimisation
8 17 (30.36%) ETL
9 14 (25.00%) Agile
9 14 (25.00%) Configuration Management
9 14 (25.00%) Data Strategy
10 13 (23.21%) Application Discovery
10 13 (23.21%) Cutover Planning
10 13 (23.21%) Data Security
10 13 (23.21%) Generative AI
10 13 (23.21%) Metadata Management
10 13 (23.21%) Open Source
10 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.57%) Python
2 13 (23.21%) SQL
3 4 (7.14%) C++
4 3 (5.36%) Julia
5 2 (3.57%) Bash
5 2 (3.57%) C
5 2 (3.57%) Fortran
5 2 (3.57%) MATLAB
5 2 (3.57%) R
5 2 (3.57%) Rust
5 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.79%) Bicep
6 1 (1.79%) C#
6 1 (1.79%) Java
6 1 (1.79%) VBA
6 1 (1.79%) VC++
Qualifications
1 26 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.43%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) Solvency II
3 1 (1.79%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Puppet
2 13 (23.21%) Progress Chef
3 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Oracle
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) Bloomberg
3 6 (10.71%) CQG
3 6 (10.71%) ION Trading
3 6 (10.71%) Patsystems
3 6 (10.71%) Reuters
3 6 (10.71%) Trayport
4 4 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.14%) Databricks
4 4 (7.14%) OpenAI
4 4 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) Google