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 14 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 365 477
Rank change year-on-year -24 +112 +92
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 21 27 17
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.21% 0.075%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.46% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 12
10th Percentile £74,100 £52,750 -
25th Percentile £80,500 £59,043 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% +36.67%
75th Percentile £101,500 £95,000 £137,188
90th Percentile £106,300 £111,000 £149,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,500 £80,001
% change year-on-year -13.04% +0.62% +10.35%

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 6,904 5,841 9,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.39% 45.19% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,048 3,315 6,693
10th Percentile £39,525 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £136,250 £125,000
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 14 April 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 14 April 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 - 5 £91,000 - 4
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 7 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (23.81%) Apache
2 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (14.29%) Confluence
4 1 (4.76%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (19.05%) Azure Functions
4 4 (19.05%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (19.05%) Serverless
5 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Multicast
2 1 (4.76%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
3 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (19.05%) Delta Lake
4 3 (14.29%) Spark SQL
5 2 (9.52%) Big Data
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
6 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.76%) MySQL
6 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.76%) Power BI
6 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 3 (14.29%) Front Office
4 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Spanish Language
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Games
5 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Business Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Business Manager
5 3 (14.29%) Product Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Product Business Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Product Manager
5 3 (14.29%) Qualitative Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Quantitative Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
6 2 (9.52%) Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Financial Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Financial Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (23.81%) Kafka
1 5 (23.81%) NumPy
1 5 (23.81%) Pandas
1 5 (23.81%) PySpark
2 3 (14.29%) XML
2 3 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Reinsurance
2 5 (23.81%) Equities
2 5 (23.81%) Fixed Income
3 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
4 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Eurex
4 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
5 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (9.52%) Legacy Code
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (47.62%) Analytics
2 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
3 6 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) ETL
4 5 (23.81%) Low Latency
4 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
4 5 (23.81%) Open Source
4 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
4 5 (23.81%) Project Management
4 5 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
4 5 (23.81%) Scrum
4 5 (23.81%) SDLC
4 5 (23.81%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
1 16 (76.19%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) C++
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) R
3 3 (14.29%) VBA
3 3 (14.29%) VC++
4 2 (9.52%) Julia
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.76%) Scala
5 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Solvency II
2 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) EMIR
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle
3 5 (23.81%) Databricks
4 3 (14.29%) Bloomberg
4 3 (14.29%) CQG
4 3 (14.29%) ION Trading
4 3 (14.29%) Patsystems
4 3 (14.29%) Reuters
4 3 (14.29%) Trayport
5 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.76%) Google