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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 645 775
Rank change year-on-year -37 +130 -27
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 99 42 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.085% 0.072%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 61 15 40
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,000 £46,923
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% -1.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £166,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -6.25% -14.29%

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 26,998 20,575 27,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.09% 41.45% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 17,065 10,357 16,705
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £56,121 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -2.40% -9.02%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -21 98 £77,500 -13.89% 87
London -16 56 £83,750 -6.94% 67
UK excluding London -38 41 £65,000 +15.56% 26
South East -7 19 £65,000 +62.50% 8
Work from Home -19 13 £60,000 -20.00% 23
North of England - 12 £85,000 - 11
North East - 12 £85,000 - 8
South West -58 8 £60,000 +20.00% 4
East of England -23 1 - - 1
Midlands -30 1 - -
West Midlands -38 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 13 (13.13%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (12.12%) Apache Spark
3 10 (10.10%) Apache
4 7 (7.07%) Confluence
5 3 (3.03%) Jupyter
6 1 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 72 (72.73%) AWS
2 32 (32.32%) Cloud Computing
3 30 (30.30%) Azure
4 17 (17.17%) Amazon EMR
5 14 (14.14%) Amazon S3
6 13 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (12.12%) GCP
8 7 (7.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (4.04%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.04%) Serverless
10 3 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (3.03%) n8n
11 2 (2.02%) GitHub
11 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) Multicast
2 5 (5.05%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (2.02%) DNS
3 2 (2.02%) Firewall
3 2 (2.02%) VLAN
3 2 (2.02%) VPN
3 2 (2.02%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.22%) Big Data
1 22 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 20 (20.20%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (17.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (17.17%) SQL Server
4 15 (15.15%) Metadata
5 12 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (8.08%) MySQL
7 7 (7.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (7.07%) DynamoDB
8 6 (6.06%) Delta Lake
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (4.04%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
9 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.03%) Spark SQL
11 2 (2.02%) Flink
12 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (1.01%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) JIRA
2 6 (6.06%) Git
3 3 (3.03%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.02%) MLflow
4 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (21.21%) Finance
2 20 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 13 (13.13%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Spanish Language
6 5 (5.05%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.04%) Automotive
8 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.01%) Front Office
9 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Law
9 1 (1.01%) Marketing
9 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (28.28%) Python Engineer
2 26 (26.26%) Consultant
2 26 (26.26%) Professional Services Consultant
3 20 (20.20%) Data Engineer
3 20 (20.20%) Software Engineer
4 18 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (18.18%) AWS Software Engineer
4 18 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
4 18 (18.18%) C++ Software Engineer
4 18 (18.18%) Python Software Engineer
4 18 (18.18%) Senior
5 14 (14.14%) Senior Consultant
5 14 (14.14%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
6 13 (13.13%) Data Consultant
6 13 (13.13%) Migration Consultant
7 10 (10.10%) Python Data Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Analyst
8 8 (8.08%) Lead
9 7 (7.07%) Business Analyst
9 7 (7.07%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.11%) Kafka
2 7 (7.07%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (6.06%) PySpark
4 4 (4.04%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (4.04%) Django
4 4 (4.04%) NumPy
4 4 (4.04%) Pandas
4 4 (4.04%) Vue
5 2 (2.02%) OpenMP
6 1 (1.01%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.01%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.01%) Flask
6 1 (1.01%) Gradio
6 1 (1.01%) LangChain
6 1 (1.01%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.01%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.01%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.01%) Web Services
6 1 (1.01%) XML
6 1 (1.01%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (37.37%) Onboarding
2 20 (20.20%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (19.19%) Data Centre
4 16 (16.16%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (13.13%) Mainframe
6 8 (8.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 8 (8.08%) Equities
6 8 (8.08%) Fixed Income
6 8 (8.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (7.07%) Eurex
7 7 (7.07%) Reinsurance
8 6 (6.06%) Algorithms
8 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native
8 6 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
10 4 (4.04%) IoT
11 2 (2.02%) CUDA
11 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 2 (2.02%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.16%) Linux
2 10 (10.10%) Windows
3 2 (2.02%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.02%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.36%) Analytics
2 33 (33.33%) AI
3 30 (30.30%) Mentoring
4 27 (27.27%) Migration
5 26 (26.26%) Data Modelling
5 26 (26.26%) Project Delivery
6 25 (25.25%) ETL
6 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (22.22%) Agile
8 21 (21.21%) Project Management
8 21 (21.21%) Software Engineering
9 20 (20.20%) Database Migration
10 19 (19.19%) Data Strategy
11 18 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (16.16%) CI/CD
12 16 (16.16%) Machine Learning
13 15 (15.15%) Data Engineering
13 15 (15.15%) Metadata Management
14 14 (14.14%) Configuration Management
14 14 (14.14%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 56 (56.57%) Python
2 28 (28.28%) SQL
3 22 (22.22%) C++
4 19 (19.19%) C#
5 6 (6.06%) Java
6 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.03%) Bicep
7 3 (3.03%) Groovy
7 3 (3.03%) Julia
7 3 (3.03%) VBA
8 2 (2.02%) Bash
8 2 (2.02%) C
8 2 (2.02%) Fortran
8 2 (2.02%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.02%) R
8 2 (2.02%) Rust
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.01%) Scala
9 1 (1.01%) VC++
Qualifications
1 34 (34.34%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.23%) Degree
3 20 (20.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (12.12%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.04%) PhD
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.06%) Solvency II
3 2 (2.02%) GDPR
3 2 (2.02%) IFRS
3 2 (2.02%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.01%) EMIR
System Software
1 9 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (14.14%) Puppet
2 13 (13.13%) Progress Chef
3 12 (12.12%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.04%) Terraform
5 2 (2.02%) Podman
6 1 (1.01%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Databricks
2 15 (15.15%) Oracle
3 13 (13.13%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.07%) Bloomberg
4 7 (7.07%) CQG
4 7 (7.07%) ION Trading
4 7 (7.07%) Patsystems
4 7 (7.07%) Reuters
4 7 (7.07%) Trayport
5 5 (5.05%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.04%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.04%) SAP
7 1 (1.01%) Foundry
7 1 (1.01%) Google
7 1 (1.01%) Palantir
7 1 (1.01%) Splunk