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 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 677 636 825
Rank change year-on-year -41 +189 -33
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 79 39 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.081% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 55 15 44
10th Percentile £54,250 £47,000 £41,732
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,001
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £89,125 £90,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £109,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -29.69% +28.00%

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 25,034 19,840 35,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.76% 41.44% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 16,021 9,716 22,759
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,886 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% - -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 5 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 12 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 5 July 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 -16 78 £77,500 -13.89% 45
London -12 43 £85,000 -5.56% 33
UK excluding London -37 33 £65,000 +15.56% 18
South East -18 18 £65,000 +62.50% 2
Work from Home -10 11 £70,750 +1.07% 19
North of England - 8 £85,000 - 5
North East - 7 £85,000 - 3
South West -60 5 £64,500 +29.00% 8
East of England -17 1 - -
West Midlands -18 1 - -
Midlands -23 1 - -
North West - 1 £57,500 - 2

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 11 (13.92%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (11.39%) Apache
2 9 (11.39%) Apache Spark
3 6 (7.59%) Confluence
4 3 (3.80%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 54 (68.35%) AWS
2 24 (30.38%) Azure
3 23 (29.11%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (15.19%) Amazon EMR
5 9 (11.39%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.86%) GCP
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (5.06%) Serverless
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon CloudSearch
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.80%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (3.80%) n8n
9 2 (2.53%) GitHub
9 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) Multicast
2 4 (5.06%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (2.53%) DNS
3 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) VLAN
3 2 (2.53%) VPN
3 2 (2.53%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) Data Lake
2 17 (21.52%) Big Data
3 16 (20.25%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
5 12 (15.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (13.92%) Metadata
7 9 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (7.59%) Delta Lake
8 6 (7.59%) MySQL
9 5 (6.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
10 3 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (3.80%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.80%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Git
3 3 (3.80%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.53%) MLflow
4 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (24.05%) Finance
2 15 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Spanish Language
6 3 (3.80%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.80%) Automotive
7 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (31.65%) Python Engineer
2 18 (22.78%) Consultant
2 18 (22.78%) Professional Services Consultant
2 18 (22.78%) Software Engineer
3 17 (21.52%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (21.52%) AWS Software Engineer
3 17 (21.52%) C# Software Engineer
3 17 (21.52%) C++ Software Engineer
3 17 (21.52%) Python Software Engineer
4 15 (18.99%) Data Engineer
5 14 (17.72%) Senior
6 10 (12.66%) Senior Consultant
6 10 (12.66%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
7 9 (11.39%) Data Consultant
7 9 (11.39%) Migration Consultant
8 8 (10.13%) Python Data Engineer
9 7 (8.86%) Analyst
9 7 (8.86%) Lead
10 6 (7.59%) Business Manager
10 6 (7.59%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) Kafka
2 6 (7.59%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (7.59%) PySpark
3 4 (5.06%) NumPy
3 4 (5.06%) Pandas
4 3 (3.80%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (3.80%) Django
4 3 (3.80%) Vue
5 1 (1.27%) Web Services
5 1 (1.27%) XML
5 1 (1.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (34.18%) Onboarding
2 14 (17.72%) Enterprise Cloud
3 13 (16.46%) Data Centre
4 12 (15.19%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (11.39%) Mainframe
6 7 (8.86%) Equities
6 7 (8.86%) Fixed Income
6 7 (8.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (8.86%) Reinsurance
7 6 (7.59%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (7.59%) Eurex
8 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
8 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
8 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.80%) IoT
10 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (2.53%) Legacy Code
11 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.92%) Linux
2 9 (11.39%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.51%) Analytics
2 23 (29.11%) AI
3 22 (27.85%) Mentoring
4 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (24.05%) Agile
5 19 (24.05%) Migration
5 19 (24.05%) Project Delivery
6 18 (22.78%) Data Modelling
6 18 (22.78%) ETL
7 16 (20.25%) Project Management
8 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
9 14 (17.72%) Database Migration
10 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
10 12 (15.19%) Data Security
10 12 (15.19%) Data Strategy
11 11 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (13.92%) Machine Learning
11 11 (13.92%) Metadata Management
11 11 (13.92%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (12.66%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
Programming Languages
1 45 (56.96%) Python
2 24 (30.38%) SQL
3 19 (24.05%) C++
4 18 (22.78%) C#
5 3 (3.80%) Bicep
5 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.80%) Julia
5 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.80%) VBA
6 2 (2.53%) Groovy
6 2 (2.53%) Java
6 2 (2.53%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.53%) R
7 1 (1.27%) VC++
Qualifications
1 21 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.05%) Degree
3 17 (21.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (10.13%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.80%) PhD
6 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.99%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.59%) Solvency II
3 2 (2.53%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) IFRS
3 2 (2.53%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.27%) EMIR
System Software
1 7 (8.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.66%) Puppet
3 9 (11.39%) Progress Chef
4 4 (5.06%) Terraform
5 2 (2.53%) Podman
6 1 (1.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Databricks
2 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.19%) Oracle
3 6 (7.59%) Bloomberg
3 6 (7.59%) CQG
3 6 (7.59%) ION Trading
3 6 (7.59%) Patsystems
3 6 (7.59%) Reuters
3 6 (7.59%) Trayport
4 4 (5.06%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.06%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.80%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) Foundry
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) Palantir
6 1 (1.27%) Splunk