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 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 357 419
Rank change year-on-year -47 +62 +36
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 53 30 40
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.21% 0.25% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 0.54% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 19 6 19
10th Percentile £65,000 £71,875 £66,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +13.16% -11.63%
75th Percentile £90,375 £184,375 £134,375
90th Percentile £131,000 £200,000 £187,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.56% -5.88%

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 8,671 5,577 7,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.23% 46.67% 40.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,167 3,292 4,672
10th Percentile £41,075 £37,652 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,750 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +6 1 £86,500 -17.62% 7
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 8 (15.09%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 44 (83.02%) AWS
2 30 (56.60%) Cloud Computing
3 17 (32.08%) Amazon EMR
4 16 (30.19%) Azure
5 15 (28.30%) Amazon S3
6 13 (24.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (7.55%) GCP
8 3 (5.66%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) n8n
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.77%) Serverless
9 2 (3.77%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.89%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) Multicast
2 6 (11.32%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.08%) Amazon Redshift
1 17 (32.08%) Big Data
1 17 (32.08%) SQL Server
2 16 (30.19%) Data Lake
3 15 (28.30%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (24.53%) Metadata
5 7 (13.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (13.21%) DynamoDB
5 7 (13.21%) MySQL
5 7 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.55%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (7.55%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.77%) Pinecone
7 2 (3.77%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.89%) HBase
8 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.89%) Parquet
8 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) JIRA
2 3 (5.66%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (33.96%) Finance
2 17 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
4 8 (15.09%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Spanish Language
5 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.77%) Law
6 2 (3.77%) Marketing
6 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 26 (49.06%) Consultant
1 26 (49.06%) Professional Services Consultant
2 16 (30.19%) Senior
3 14 (26.42%) Senior Consultant
3 14 (26.42%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
4 13 (24.53%) Data Consultant
4 13 (24.53%) Migration Consultant
5 8 (15.09%) Analyst
5 8 (15.09%) Business Analyst
5 8 (15.09%) Business Manager
5 8 (15.09%) Product Analyst
5 8 (15.09%) Product Business Analyst
5 8 (15.09%) Product Manager
6 7 (13.21%) AWS Consultant
7 4 (7.55%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (7.55%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (7.55%) Head of Analytics
7 4 (7.55%) Head of Data Analytics
8 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 3 (5.66%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (3.77%) CrewAI
2 2 (3.77%) Kafka
2 2 (3.77%) LangChain
2 2 (3.77%) LangGraph
2 2 (3.77%) Model Context Protocol
2 2 (3.77%) OpenMP
2 2 (3.77%) PySpark
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) .NET
3 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.89%) NumPy
3 1 (1.89%) Pandas
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (71.70%) Onboarding
2 19 (35.85%) Data Centre
2 19 (35.85%) Enterprise Cloud
3 14 (26.42%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (24.53%) Mainframe
5 10 (18.87%) Equities
6 9 (16.98%) Fixed Income
6 9 (16.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (15.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (15.09%) Eurex
8 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
9 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (7.55%) IoT
11 3 (5.66%) Algorithms
11 3 (5.66%) Reinsurance
12 2 (3.77%) CUDA
12 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
12 2 (3.77%) Market Risk
12 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
13 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
2 9 (16.98%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) Unix
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) Mentoring
2 27 (50.94%) Project Delivery
3 26 (49.06%) AI
3 26 (49.06%) Migration
4 24 (45.28%) Analytics
5 22 (41.51%) Project Management
6 20 (37.74%) Database Migration
7 18 (33.96%) Performance Optimisation
8 15 (28.30%) Agile
8 15 (28.30%) ETL
9 14 (26.42%) Configuration Management
9 14 (26.42%) Data Modelling
9 14 (26.42%) Generative AI
10 13 (24.53%) Application Discovery
10 13 (24.53%) Cutover Planning
10 13 (24.53%) Data Security
10 13 (24.53%) Data Strategy
10 13 (24.53%) Metadata Management
11 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (20.75%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.75%) Python
2 6 (11.32%) SQL
3 3 (5.66%) C++
4 2 (3.77%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) C
4 2 (3.77%) Fortran
4 2 (3.77%) Java
4 2 (3.77%) Rust
4 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.89%) Bicep
5 1 (1.89%) C#
5 1 (1.89%) Julia
5 1 (1.89%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (49.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (26.42%) Puppet
2 13 (24.53%) Progress Chef
3 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.89%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Oracle
2 8 (15.09%) Bloomberg
2 8 (15.09%) CQG
2 8 (15.09%) ION Trading
2 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Patsystems
2 8 (15.09%) Reuters
2 8 (15.09%) Trayport
3 6 (11.32%) Atlassian
4 5 (9.43%) OpenAI
5 4 (7.55%) SAP
6 3 (5.66%) Databricks
7 2 (3.77%) Google