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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 392 436
Rank change year-on-year +42 +44 +159
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 23 31 18
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.17% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.46% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 15
10th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £74,500 £61,250 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £130,000 £102,500 £93,125
90th Percentile £168,750 £118,750 £119,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -6.45%

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 5,769 6,774 7,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.47% 43.44% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,413 3,546 5,499
10th Percentile £35,750 £43,830 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,375
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £127,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +46 5 £95,000 -45.71% 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 6 (26.09%) Apache Spark
2 4 (17.39%) Confluence
3 3 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (8.70%) Apache
5 1 (4.35%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.35%) Dagster
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Multicast
2 2 (8.70%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Git
General
1 15 (65.22%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (17.39%) Spanish Language
6 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
6 3 (13.04%) Front Office
6 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
7 2 (8.70%) Games
8 1 (4.35%) Electronics
8 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (4.35%) Marketing
8 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
1 9 (39.13%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Business Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Business Manager
4 4 (17.39%) Product Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Product Business Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Product Manager
5 3 (13.04%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Python Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Qualitative Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (13.04%) Kafka
2 3 (13.04%) XML
3 2 (8.70%) NumPy
3 2 (8.70%) Pandas
3 2 (8.70%) XSLT
4 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.35%) mypy
4 1 (4.35%) PySpark
4 1 (4.35%) PyXLL
4 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Equities
1 6 (26.09%) Fixed Income
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Onboarding
3 4 (17.39%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (17.39%) Eurex
3 4 (17.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (4.35%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (39.13%) Low Latency
4 7 (30.43%) SDLC
5 6 (26.09%) Coaching
5 6 (26.09%) Project Delivery
5 6 (26.09%) Project Management
5 6 (26.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (26.09%) Scrum
6 5 (21.74%) Analytics
6 5 (21.74%) Architecture Governance
6 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
6 5 (21.74%) Business Development
6 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 5 (21.74%) Customer Experience
6 5 (21.74%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (21.74%) ETL
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (21.74%) Target Operating Model
6 5 (21.74%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) C++
4 4 (17.39%) Java
5 3 (13.04%) C#
6 2 (8.70%) Scala
6 2 (8.70%) VBA
6 2 (8.70%) VC++
7 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.35%) R
7 1 (4.35%) Rust
7 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) PhD
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) EMIR
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.35%) Puppet
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Bloomberg
2 4 (17.39%) CQG
2 4 (17.39%) ION Trading
2 4 (17.39%) Patsystems
2 4 (17.39%) Reuters
2 4 (17.39%) Trayport
3 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) SAP