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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 368 474
Rank change year-on-year -8 +106 +40
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 48 33 35
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.22% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.58% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 21 9 15
10th Percentile £68,750 £72,250 £69,250
25th Percentile £72,500 - £95,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £130,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -30.77% +48.57%
75th Percentile £90,750 £115,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £200,000 £172,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,001
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% +0.00%

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 7,620 5,679 9,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.38% 45.14% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,656 3,249 6,664
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,025
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +4.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £136,250 £135,000
England median annual salary £59,853 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.09% +4.55% -15.38%

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 10 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 10 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 +3 2 £88,750 +18.33% 7
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 5 (10.42%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) Apache
2 4 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 32 (66.67%) AWS
2 26 (54.17%) Cloud Computing
3 15 (31.25%) Amazon EMR
4 12 (25.00%) Azure
5 11 (22.92%) Amazon S3
5 11 (22.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Functions
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (8.33%) Serverless
8 3 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.25%) n8n
9 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Multicast
2 3 (6.25%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 15 (31.25%) Big Data
1 15 (31.25%) Data Lake
1 15 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (29.17%) SQL Server
3 11 (22.92%) Metadata
4 6 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 6 (12.50%) MySQL
4 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (6.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Claude Code
3 2 (4.17%) Git
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 14 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Spanish Language
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Consultant
1 22 (45.83%) Professional Services Consultant
2 15 (31.25%) Senior
3 12 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
3 12 (25.00%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
4 11 (22.92%) Data Consultant
4 11 (22.92%) Migration Consultant
5 6 (12.50%) Analyst
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Consultant
6 5 (10.42%) Business Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Business Manager
6 5 (10.42%) Product Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Product Business Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Product Manager
7 4 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (8.33%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Head of Analytics
7 4 (8.33%) Head of Data Analytics
7 4 (8.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (8.33%) Kafka
2 4 (8.33%) NumPy
2 4 (8.33%) Pandas
2 4 (8.33%) PySpark
3 1 (2.08%) Web Services
3 1 (2.08%) XML
3 1 (2.08%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (64.58%) Onboarding
2 17 (35.42%) Enterprise Cloud
3 16 (33.33%) Data Centre
4 12 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (22.92%) Mainframe
6 7 (14.58%) Reinsurance
7 6 (12.50%) Equities
7 6 (12.50%) Fixed Income
7 6 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (10.42%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (10.42%) Eurex
9 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
9 4 (8.33%) IoT
9 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
10 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
10 2 (4.17%) Legacy Code
11 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (2.08%) Market Risk
11 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (10.42%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) Analytics
2 26 (54.17%) Mentoring
3 23 (47.92%) Migration
4 21 (43.75%) Project Delivery
5 19 (39.58%) AI
6 17 (35.42%) Database Migration
6 17 (35.42%) Project Management
7 16 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 15 (31.25%) ETL
9 13 (27.08%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (25.00%) Agile
10 12 (25.00%) Configuration Management
10 12 (25.00%) Data Strategy
11 11 (22.92%) Application Discovery
11 11 (22.92%) Cutover Planning
11 11 (22.92%) Data Security
11 11 (22.92%) Metadata Management
12 10 (20.83%) Generative AI
12 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (20.83%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) Python
1 13 (27.08%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) Julia
3 2 (4.17%) C++
3 2 (4.17%) MATLAB
3 2 (4.17%) R
4 1 (2.08%) Bicep
4 1 (2.08%) C#
4 1 (2.08%) VBA
4 1 (2.08%) VC++
Qualifications
1 22 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.33%) Solvency II
3 1 (2.08%) EMIR
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Puppet
2 11 (22.92%) Progress Chef
3 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Oracle
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.42%) Bloomberg
3 5 (10.42%) CQG
3 5 (10.42%) ION Trading
3 5 (10.42%) Patsystems
3 5 (10.42%) Reuters
3 5 (10.42%) Trayport
4 4 (8.33%) Databricks
4 4 (8.33%) SAP
5 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.25%) OpenAI