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 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 406 440
Rank change year-on-year +57 +34 +208
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 27 42 27
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.23% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.59% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 24
10th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £67,375
25th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £79,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £184,375 £118,750 £130,938
90th Percentile £200,000 £187,500 £135,000
England median annual salary £78,750 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 5,424 7,151 8,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 46.24% 40.77% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,230 4,146 6,713
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,322 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £137,500 £128,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +42 3 £105,000 -40.00% 8
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 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.70%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) AWS
3 14 (51.85%) GCP
4 13 (48.15%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) FIX Connectivity
1 2 (7.41%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.41%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) Tableau
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 20 (74.07%) Finance
2 18 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 17 (62.96%) Banking
4 13 (48.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (18.52%) Marketing
7 4 (14.81%) Investment Banking
8 2 (7.41%) Front Office
8 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (7.41%) Spanish Language
9 1 (3.70%) Electronics
9 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
9 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Senior
2 13 (48.15%) Architect
2 13 (48.15%) Senior Architect
2 13 (48.15%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 13 (48.15%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Auditor
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Auditor
4 3 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Rust Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Rust Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (7.41%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) mypy
2 1 (3.70%) PyXLL
2 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (7.41%) Equities
2 2 (7.41%) Eurex
2 2 (7.41%) Fixed Income
2 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.41%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Architecture Governance
2 13 (48.15%) Asset Management
2 13 (48.15%) Business Development
2 13 (48.15%) Coaching
2 13 (48.15%) Customer Experience
2 13 (48.15%) Customer-Centricity
2 13 (48.15%) Software Delivery
2 13 (48.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (48.15%) Target Operating Model
3 8 (29.63%) Analytics
4 7 (25.93%) Data Analytics
4 7 (25.93%) SDLC
5 6 (22.22%) Low Latency
6 4 (14.81%) Internal Audit
6 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
7 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) Scrum
7 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Go
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) Rust
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) CISA
2 4 (14.81%) CISSP
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
2 2 (7.41%) CQG
2 2 (7.41%) ION Trading
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Patsystems
2 2 (7.41%) Reuters
2 2 (7.41%) Trayport
3 1 (3.70%) SAP