Distributed Computing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 722 721
Rank change year-on-year +152 -1 -31
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 6 38 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.054% 0.058%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 29 21
10th Percentile £40,500 £15,000 £34,788
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £75,000 £45,186
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +65.98% -27.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,001 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £85,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -15.49%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,965 24,142 25,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.10% 34.00% 42.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,104 15,240 11,340
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. 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
Scotland +113 2 £60,000 - 8
South West +118 1 £50,000 -51.22% 2
South East +95 1 £40,000 +166.67% 14
Midlands +69 1 £90,000 +24.14% 8
West Midlands +46 1 £90,000 +24.14% 4
East of England +31 1 - - 8
Distributed Computing
UK

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Flink
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Research Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) LLM
3 3 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Deep Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Statistics
4 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (50.00%) PhD
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAI