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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 360 446
Rank change year-on-year -10 +86 +57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 54 34 33
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 23 9 14
10th Percentile £68,750 £72,250 £68,375
25th Percentile £72,500 - £85,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,375 £115,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £124,300 £200,000 £176,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,001
% change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% -1.54%

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 7,729 5,559 8,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.16% 45.18% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,715 3,248 5,861
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,996 £39,000
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 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £136,250 £136,250
England median annual salary £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% +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 24 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 24 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 -2 2 £88,750 +18.33% 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) Apache
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 38 (70.37%) AWS
2 30 (55.56%) Cloud Computing
3 17 (31.48%) Amazon EMR
4 14 (25.93%) Azure
5 13 (24.07%) Amazon S3
5 13 (24.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Functions
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (7.41%) Serverless
8 3 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.56%) n8n
9 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.85%) GCP
10 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Multicast
2 4 (7.41%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) Amazon Redshift
1 17 (31.48%) Big Data
1 17 (31.48%) Data Lake
1 17 (31.48%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (29.63%) SQL Server
3 13 (24.07%) Metadata
4 7 (12.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (12.96%) DynamoDB
4 7 (12.96%) MySQL
4 7 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (7.41%) Delta Lake
5 4 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (7.41%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (5.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) Claude Code
3 2 (3.70%) Git
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
2 16 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 26 (48.15%) Consultant
1 26 (48.15%) Professional Services Consultant
2 17 (31.48%) Senior
3 14 (25.93%) Senior Consultant
3 14 (25.93%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
4 13 (24.07%) Data Consultant
4 13 (24.07%) Migration Consultant
5 7 (12.96%) Analyst
5 7 (12.96%) AWS Consultant
6 6 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 6 (11.11%) Business Manager
6 6 (11.11%) Product Analyst
6 6 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
6 6 (11.11%) Product Manager
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (7.41%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Head of Analytics
7 4 (7.41%) Head of Data Analytics
7 4 (7.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (7.41%) Kafka
2 4 (7.41%) NumPy
2 4 (7.41%) Pandas
2 4 (7.41%) PySpark
3 1 (1.85%) OpenMP
3 1 (1.85%) Web Services
3 1 (1.85%) XML
3 1 (1.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 20 (37.04%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (35.19%) Data Centre
4 14 (25.93%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (24.07%) Mainframe
6 7 (12.96%) Equities
6 7 (12.96%) Fixed Income
6 7 (12.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (12.96%) Reinsurance
7 6 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (11.11%) Eurex
8 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
8 4 (7.41%) IoT
8 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
9 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
10 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (3.70%) Legacy Code
11 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
1 7 (12.96%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 29 (53.70%) Analytics
3 27 (50.00%) Migration
4 25 (46.30%) Project Delivery
5 22 (40.74%) AI
6 20 (37.04%) Database Migration
6 20 (37.04%) Project Management
7 18 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 17 (31.48%) ETL
9 16 (29.63%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (25.93%) Agile
10 14 (25.93%) Configuration Management
10 14 (25.93%) Data Strategy
11 13 (24.07%) Application Discovery
11 13 (24.07%) Cutover Planning
11 13 (24.07%) Data Security
11 13 (24.07%) Metadata Management
12 12 (22.22%) Generative AI
12 12 (22.22%) Open Source
12 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) Python
2 13 (24.07%) SQL
3 3 (5.56%) C++
3 3 (5.56%) Julia
4 2 (3.70%) MATLAB
4 2 (3.70%) R
5 1 (1.85%) Bash
5 1 (1.85%) Bicep
5 1 (1.85%) C
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Fortran
5 1 (1.85%) Rust
5 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.85%) VBA
5 1 (1.85%) VC++
Qualifications
1 26 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (31.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.41%) Solvency II
3 1 (1.85%) EMIR
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Puppet
2 13 (24.07%) Progress Chef
3 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (25.93%) Oracle
2 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) Bloomberg
3 6 (11.11%) CQG
3 6 (11.11%) ION Trading
3 6 (11.11%) Patsystems
3 6 (11.11%) Reuters
3 6 (11.11%) Trayport
4 4 (7.41%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.41%) Databricks
4 4 (7.41%) SAP
5 3 (5.56%) OpenAI