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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 364 471
Rank change year-on-year -28 +107 +51
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 32 29 29
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.15% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 0.52% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 13
10th Percentile £68,750 £72,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £90,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -21.74% +35.29%
75th Percentile £88,313 - £150,000
90th Percentile £104,350 £100,000 -
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 7,366 5,533 9,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.87% 45.40% 40.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,100 6,879
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +4.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £121,125 £136,250 £135,000
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 26 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 26 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 -1 2 £88,750 +18.33% 3
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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 4 (12.50%) Apache
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (18.75%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (9.38%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (9.38%) n8n
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Multicast
2 3 (9.38%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 8 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (18.75%) Big Data
4 4 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 4 (12.50%) Metadata
5 3 (9.38%) Spark SQL
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (6.25%) MySQL
6 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) Claude Code
3 2 (6.25%) Git
General
1 17 (53.13%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Spanish Language
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Consultant
1 8 (25.00%) Professional Services Consultant
2 7 (21.88%) Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Business Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Business Manager
3 6 (18.75%) Product Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Product Business Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Product Manager
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Data Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Lead
4 4 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Applications Specialist
5 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 3 (9.38%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Transition Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (12.50%) Kafka
2 4 (12.50%) NumPy
2 4 (12.50%) Pandas
2 4 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
3 1 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (21.88%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (21.88%) Equities
2 7 (21.88%) Fixed Income
2 7 (21.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (21.88%) Reinsurance
3 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
3 6 (18.75%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (18.75%) Eurex
4 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (12.50%) Mainframe
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
6 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
7 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
7 2 (6.25%) IoT
7 2 (6.25%) Legacy Code
8 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
8 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Analytics
2 12 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 12 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 11 (34.38%) AI
3 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (31.25%) Project Management
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Data Modelling
5 9 (28.13%) Migration
6 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.00%) ETL
6 8 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (18.75%) Client Onboarding
7 6 (18.75%) Data Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) Database Migration
7 6 (18.75%) Epics
7 6 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
7 6 (18.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
1 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) Julia
3 2 (6.25%) C++
3 2 (6.25%) MATLAB
3 2 (6.25%) R
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) VBA
4 1 (3.13%) VC++
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.50%) Solvency II
3 1 (3.13%) EMIR
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.50%) Progress Chef
1 4 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Oracle
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Bloomberg
3 6 (18.75%) CQG
3 6 (18.75%) ION Trading
3 6 (18.75%) Patsystems
3 6 (18.75%) Reuters
3 6 (18.75%) Trayport
4 4 (12.50%) Databricks
5 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
5 3 (9.38%) OpenAI
6 2 (6.25%) SAP