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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 626 685 666
Rank change year-on-year +59 -19 +184
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 40 67 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.099% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 44 42
10th Percentile £57,500 - £58,750
25th Percentile £60,938 £47,500 £66,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £92,500 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +10.45% +4.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £111,250 £95,938
90th Percentile £168,750 £150,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -29.08% -11.32%

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 19,357 22,231 20,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.28% 32.98% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,736 10,765 14,982
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,143 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,625 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 21 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 9 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 21 November 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
England +85 37 £70,000 -22.22% 77
London +36 29 £95,000 -2.56% 49
UK excluding London +65 8 £62,500 +25.00% 31
Work from Home +88 6 £95,000 +11.76% 34
North West +39 6 £65,000 +30.00% 12
North of England +36 6 £65,000 +30.00% 13
Scotland +11 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 3

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 5 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) Azure
3 11 (27.50%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (27.50%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.50%) Dagster
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Multicast
2 3 (7.50%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.00%) MySQL
2 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.50%) Metadata
4 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Power BI
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) JIRA
General
1 21 (52.50%) Finance
2 17 (42.50%) Banking
2 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (12.50%) Marketing
5 4 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.50%) Front Office
6 3 (7.50%) Games
6 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Spanish Language
7 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.50%) Electronics
8 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Senior
2 10 (25.00%) Architect
2 10 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 10 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 10 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (20.00%) Analyst
4 7 (17.50%) Software Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Business Analyst
5 6 (15.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Auditor
6 4 (10.00%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Auditor
7 3 (7.50%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Financial Business Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) .NET
2 6 (15.00%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
3 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (7.50%) CSS
3 3 (7.50%) HTML
3 3 (7.50%) Kafka
3 3 (7.50%) Web Services
4 2 (5.00%) NumPy
4 2 (5.00%) Pandas
4 2 (5.00%) XML
5 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.50%) mypy
5 1 (2.50%) PyXLL
5 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
3 6 (15.00%) Equities
3 6 (15.00%) Fixed Income
4 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (7.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (7.50%) Eurex
5 3 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
7 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Agile
2 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (30.00%) SDLC
3 11 (27.50%) Coaching
3 11 (27.50%) Low Latency
4 10 (25.00%) Analytics
4 10 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
4 10 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 10 (25.00%) Business Development
4 10 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 10 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 10 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 10 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 10 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
5 9 (22.50%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (22.50%) Microservices
6 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (17.50%) Data Analytics
7 7 (17.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Python
1 13 (32.50%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) C#
3 5 (12.50%) C++
3 5 (12.50%) Java
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) Scala
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) Go
6 2 (5.00%) Rust
7 1 (2.50%) Bicep
7 1 (2.50%) R
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.50%) VBA
7 1 (2.50%) VC++
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) CISA
2 4 (10.00%) CISSP
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) PhD
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) EMIR
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.50%) Puppet
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.50%) Bloomberg
3 3 (7.50%) CQG
3 3 (7.50%) ION Trading
3 3 (7.50%) Patsystems
3 3 (7.50%) Reuters
3 3 (7.50%) Trayport
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) SAP