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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 364 487
Rank change year-on-year -33 +123 +37
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 26 28 24
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.12% 0.23% 0.097%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.51% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18 7 11
10th Percentile £68,750 £72,000 -
25th Percentile £74,500 £81,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £90,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -20.00% +32.35%
75th Percentile £89,938 - £146,875
90th Percentile £110,050 £100,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +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 7,261 5,535 9,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.70% 45.43% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,469 3,072 6,941
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -0.84%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £136,250 £131,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 19 June 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 June 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 +3 2 £88,750 +18.33% 2
West London - 1 £82,500 - 2
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 (23.08%) Confluence
2 4 (15.38%) Apache
2 4 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (15.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) AWS
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Functions
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (15.38%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.69%) n8n
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudSearch
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Multicast
2 2 (7.69%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 6 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (15.38%) Delta Lake
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (11.54%) Big Data
4 3 (11.54%) Spark SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Metadata
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.85%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (3.85%) MySQL
6 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Claude Code
2 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Spanish Language
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Business Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Business Manager
2 6 (23.08%) Product Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Product Business Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Product Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Professional Services Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Transition Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Transition Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (15.38%) Kafka
2 4 (15.38%) NumPy
2 4 (15.38%) Pandas
2 4 (15.38%) PySpark
3 1 (3.85%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Onboarding
2 7 (26.92%) Equities
2 7 (26.92%) Fixed Income
2 7 (26.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (26.92%) Reinsurance
3 6 (23.08%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (23.08%) Eurex
4 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
5 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
5 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
6 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (7.69%) Legacy Code
6 2 (7.69%) Mainframe
7 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
7 1 (3.85%) IoT
7 1 (3.85%) Market Risk
7 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Analytics
2 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (34.62%) Project Delivery
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 8 (30.77%) Project Management
4 8 (30.77%) Translating Business Requirements
5 7 (26.92%) AI
5 7 (26.92%) Data Modelling
6 6 (23.08%) Business Analysis
6 6 (23.08%) Client Onboarding
6 6 (23.08%) Electronic Trading
6 6 (23.08%) ETL
6 6 (23.08%) Low Latency
6 6 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (23.08%) Scrum
6 6 (23.08%) SDLC
6 6 (23.08%) Time Management
6 6 (23.08%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
1 13 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Julia
3 2 (7.69%) C++
3 2 (7.69%) MATLAB
3 2 (7.69%) R
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) VBA
4 1 (3.85%) VC++
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 4 (15.38%) Solvency II
3 1 (3.85%) EMIR
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 2 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (23.08%) Bloomberg
3 6 (23.08%) CQG
3 6 (23.08%) ION Trading
3 6 (23.08%) Patsystems
3 6 (23.08%) Reuters
3 6 (23.08%) Trayport
4 4 (15.38%) Databricks
5 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
5 2 (7.69%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.85%) SAP