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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 361 486
Rank change year-on-year -25 +125 +79
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 19 23 16
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.091% 0.19% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.44% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 10
10th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £56,125
25th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £100,375 - £141,563
90th Percentile £115,750 £100,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -27.78% +12.50% +3.23%

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 7,159 5,281 9,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.20% 44.40% 40.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,364 2,993 6,778
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -1.10%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £136,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -8 3 £91,000 +21.33% 3
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 (31.58%) Confluence
2 4 (21.05%) Apache
2 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (21.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Functions
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Multicast
2 2 (10.53%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) Data Lake
2 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (21.05%) Delta Lake
3 3 (15.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 14 (73.68%) Finance
2 11 (57.89%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 6 (31.58%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (31.58%) Spanish Language
5 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.53%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Business Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Business Manager
2 6 (31.58%) Product Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Product Business Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Product Manager
3 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Transition Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Transition Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Qualitative Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (21.05%) Kafka
2 4 (21.05%) NumPy
2 4 (21.05%) Pandas
2 4 (21.05%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) XML
3 2 (10.53%) XSLT
4 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Reinsurance
2 6 (31.58%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (31.58%) Equities
2 6 (31.58%) Eurex
2 6 (31.58%) Fixed Income
2 6 (31.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (31.58%) Onboarding
3 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
3 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) Legacy Code
4 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
5 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (52.63%) Analytics
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Translating Business Requirements
4 7 (36.84%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Business Analysis
5 6 (31.58%) Client Onboarding
5 6 (31.58%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (31.58%) Epics
5 6 (31.58%) Low Latency
5 6 (31.58%) Project Delivery
5 6 (31.58%) Project Management
5 6 (31.58%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (31.58%) Scrum
5 6 (31.58%) SDLC
5 6 (31.58%) Time Management
5 6 (31.58%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
6 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Python
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) C++
2 3 (15.79%) Julia
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) MATLAB
3 2 (10.53%) R
3 2 (10.53%) VBA
3 2 (10.53%) VC++
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
1 4 (21.05%) Solvency II
2 2 (10.53%) EMIR
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
1 8 (42.11%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Bloomberg
2 6 (31.58%) CQG
2 6 (31.58%) ION Trading
2 6 (31.58%) Patsystems
2 6 (31.58%) Reuters
2 6 (31.58%) Trayport
3 4 (21.05%) Databricks
4 2 (10.53%) Atlassian