Distributed Computing Jobs

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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 781 804 783
Rank change year-on-year +23 -21 +57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 61 83 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.10% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.25% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 39 54 81
10th Percentile £41,732 £55,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £59,063 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -9.72% +20.00%
75th Percentile £118,125 £122,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £135,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -17.65% +74.36%

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 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing.

Salary trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 13 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 26 July 2024. 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 +22 57 £80,000 -4.48% 10
London +67 34 £112,500 +18.42% 5
UK excluding London -30 26 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Work from Home +39 12 £112,500 +30.43% 5
North of England +12 9 £50,000 -27.27% 5
North West - 7 £50,000 - 2
South East +11 6 £44,089 -25.59% 1
East of England -3 3 £80,000 +33.33%
South West -10 3 £100,000 +17.65%
Scotland -42 3 £60,000 -
West Midlands -6 2 £73,750 +18.00%
North East -10 2 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Midlands -23 2 £73,750 +18.00%

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (18.03%) Apache
2 6 (9.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.92%) IIS
3 3 (4.92%) WebSphere
3 3 (4.92%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.64%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) AWS
3 9 (14.75%) IaaS
3 9 (14.75%) PaaS
4 7 (11.48%) GCP
5 4 (6.56%) Nutanix
6 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.92%) SaaS
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.28%) Serverless
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.64%) dbt
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.64%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) DNS
2 8 (13.11%) DHCP
2 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
3 7 (11.48%) LAN
3 7 (11.48%) WAN
4 6 (9.84%) VPN
5 4 (6.56%) VLAN
6 3 (4.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (4.92%) Firewall
6 3 (4.92%) NetScaler
6 3 (4.92%) Network Security
6 3 (4.92%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.64%) MQTT
7 1 (1.64%) RS-485
7 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 12 (19.67%) DynamoDB
2 9 (14.75%) Big Data
3 4 (6.56%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.28%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.64%) HBase
5 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Fiddler
1 3 (4.92%) Git
General
1 32 (52.46%) Finance
2 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (22.95%) Law
4 13 (21.31%) Financial Institution
5 12 (19.67%) Legal
6 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.56%) Banking
7 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.92%) Marketing
9 2 (3.28%) Games
10 1 (1.64%) Front Office
10 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.64%) Retail
10 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Senior
2 21 (34.43%) Software Engineer
3 18 (29.51%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (19.67%) Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.20%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Consultant
6 5 (8.20%) Quantitative Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Big Data Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Web Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Web Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) Kafka
2 3 (4.92%) EDI
2 3 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.28%) Apache Commons
3 2 (3.28%) NumPy
3 2 (3.28%) Pandas
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.64%) Flask
4 1 (1.64%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) Keras
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.64%) PySpark
4 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.64%) SpaCy
4 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.51%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (22.95%) Algorithms
3 9 (14.75%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (6.56%) Clustering
5 3 (4.92%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.28%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.64%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.64%) IoT
7 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.15%) Linux
2 7 (11.48%) Windows
3 5 (8.20%) Unix
4 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) Computer Science
2 25 (40.98%) Software Engineering
3 23 (37.70%) Low Latency
4 18 (29.51%) Microservices
5 17 (27.87%) Agile
6 15 (24.59%) DevOps
7 14 (22.95%) Containerisation
8 13 (21.31%) Data Engineering
8 13 (21.31%) Machine Learning
8 13 (21.31%) SDLC
9 12 (19.67%) Analytics
9 12 (19.67%) Business Development
9 12 (19.67%) Integration Testing
10 10 (16.39%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (16.39%) Mathematics
10 10 (16.39%) OO
10 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (14.75%) Physics
12 8 (13.11%) Statistics
12 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (42.62%) Java
2 24 (39.34%) Python
3 13 (21.31%) Go
3 13 (21.31%) Scala
4 11 (18.03%) C#
5 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.48%) C++
7 3 (4.92%) Bash
8 2 (3.28%) C
8 2 (3.28%) Rust
8 2 (3.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (49.18%) Degree
2 24 (39.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (22.95%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.56%) PhD
5 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.92%) CCNA
5 3 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.92%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.64%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) SLA
3 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
1 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (36.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Ansible
2 4 (6.56%) IBM BigFix
3 3 (4.92%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Kibana
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.56%) VMware
4 3 (4.92%) Databricks
4 3 (4.92%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.92%) F5
4 3 (4.92%) Google
5 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.28%) Splunk
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce