Distributed Computing Job Trends

Distributed Computing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 627 828
Rank change year-on-year -40 +201 +15
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 45 32 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.073% 0.056%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 36 16 39
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £61,500 £53,750 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £86,063 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £107,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -33.33% +42.60%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,276 18,775 34,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.48% 42.63% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,706 9,185 23,017
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,100 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -9.09%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Computing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in the UK

Distributed Computing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Distributed Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 11 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 May 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
England -45 44 £65,000 -21.21% 22
UK excluding London -30 25 £65,000 +30.00% 9
London -39 17 £85,000 -5.56% 18
South East -5 13 £65,000 +62.50% 1
Work from Home +28 12 £73,750 +1.72% 10
South West -42 5 £64,500 +29.00% 1
North of England - 4 £60,000 - 2
North West - 4 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -28 2 £63,500 -29.44%
Midlands -30 2 £63,500 -29.44%
East of England -22 1 - -

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (20.00%) Apache
1 9 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.11%) Confluence
3 3 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) AWS
2 16 (35.56%) Azure
3 8 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Functions
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (8.89%) Serverless
5 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.22%) dbt
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Multicast
2 2 (4.44%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (4.44%) VLAN
2 2 (4.44%) VPN
2 2 (4.44%) WireGuard
3 1 (2.22%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
3 6 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (13.33%) Delta Lake
3 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (11.11%) Big Data
5 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.67%) Metadata
6 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (6.67%) Spark SQL
7 2 (4.44%) MySQL
7 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.22%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.22%) Power BI
8 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
1 5 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) MLflow
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (35.56%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Spanish Language
5 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.44%) Automotive
5 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.44%) Front Office
5 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Games
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Python Engineer
1 13 (28.89%) Software Engineer
2 12 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (26.67%) AWS Software Engineer
2 12 (26.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 12 (26.67%) C++ Software Engineer
2 12 (26.67%) Python Software Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Senior
6 5 (11.11%) Business Manager
6 5 (11.11%) Lead
6 5 (11.11%) Product Analyst
6 5 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
6 5 (11.11%) Product Manager
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) Transition Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) Kafka
2 6 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (13.33%) PySpark
3 4 (8.89%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (8.89%) Pandas
4 3 (6.67%) .NET
4 3 (6.67%) NumPy
5 2 (4.44%) Django
5 2 (4.44%) Vue
5 2 (4.44%) XML
5 2 (4.44%) XSLT
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.22%) CSS
6 1 (2.22%) HTML
6 1 (2.22%) REST
6 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Equities
1 6 (13.33%) Fixed Income
1 6 (13.33%) Reinsurance
2 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 5 (11.11%) Eurex
2 5 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Code
4 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Linux
2 7 (15.56%) Windows
3 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Analytics
2 17 (37.78%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (31.11%) Agile
3 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 11 (24.44%) ETL
7 10 (22.22%) AI
7 10 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
8 9 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 8 (17.78%) DevOps
10 7 (15.56%) Scrum
10 7 (15.56%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (13.33%) Data Engineering
11 6 (13.33%) Epics
11 6 (13.33%) Low Latency
11 6 (13.33%) Project Management
11 6 (13.33%) SDLC
11 6 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 34 (75.56%) Python
2 20 (44.44%) SQL
3 17 (37.78%) C#
4 15 (33.33%) C++
5 5 (11.11%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) Bicep
6 3 (6.67%) Groovy
6 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.67%) R
6 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.67%) VBA
7 2 (4.44%) Julia
7 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
7 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.44%) VC++
8 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Degree
2 12 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.67%) PhD
5 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 6 (13.33%) Solvency II
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (4.44%) EMIR
3 2 (4.44%) IFRS
3 2 (4.44%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.22%) Databricks
3 7 (15.56%) Oracle
4 5 (11.11%) Bloomberg
4 5 (11.11%) CQG
4 5 (11.11%) ION Trading
4 5 (11.11%) Patsystems
4 5 (11.11%) Reuters
4 5 (11.11%) Trayport
5 2 (4.44%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.22%) Foundry
6 1 (2.22%) Google
6 1 (2.22%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.22%) Palantir
6 1 (2.22%) Splunk