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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 686 640 838
Rank change year-on-year -46 +198 -31
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 54 33 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.074% 0.058%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48 12 41
10th Percentile £53,750 £45,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +4.69% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,300 £99,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -37.50% +33.33%

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 23,508 19,117 36,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.30% 42.98% 33.86%
Number of salaries quoted 14,937 9,027 23,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,530
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% - -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -37 52 £75,000 -16.67% 35
UK excluding London -58 30 £65,000 +30.00% 24
London -28 20 £82,500 -8.33% 25
South East -8 17 £65,000 +62.50% 7
Work from Home +4 11 £57,500 -20.69% 14
South West -45 6 £61,000 +22.00% 8
North of England - 5 £85,000 - 6
North East - 4 £95,000 - 3
West Midlands -19 1 - -
Midlands -20 1 - -
East of England -21 1 - -
North West - 1 £57,500 - 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 10 (18.52%) Apache
2 9 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 9 (16.67%) Confluence
3 8 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (5.56%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.85%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 31 (57.41%) AWS
2 23 (42.59%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Functions
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (7.41%) GCP
5 4 (7.41%) Serverless
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.85%) dbt
7 1 (1.85%) n8n
7 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) Multicast
2 4 (7.41%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (3.70%) DNS
3 2 (3.70%) Firewall
3 2 (3.70%) VLAN
3 2 (3.70%) VPN
3 2 (3.70%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (11.11%) Delta Lake
5 5 (9.26%) Big Data
6 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.56%) Spark SQL
8 2 (3.70%) Metadata
9 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.85%) MySQL
9 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) MLflow
3 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.85%) Claude Code
General
1 19 (35.19%) Finance
2 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Spanish Language
5 3 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.56%) Automotive
6 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Front Office
7 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Python Engineer
2 17 (31.48%) Software Engineer
3 16 (29.63%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (29.63%) AWS Software Engineer
3 16 (29.63%) C# Software Engineer
3 16 (29.63%) C++ Software Engineer
3 16 (29.63%) Python Software Engineer
4 13 (24.07%) Data Engineer
5 10 (18.52%) Analyst
6 9 (16.67%) Business Analyst
6 9 (16.67%) Business Manager
6 9 (16.67%) Product Analyst
6 9 (16.67%) Product Business Analyst
6 9 (16.67%) Product Manager
7 6 (11.11%) Lead
8 5 (9.26%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 5 (9.26%) Python Data Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Transition Analyst
8 5 (9.26%) Transition Manager
9 3 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (14.81%) Kafka
3 6 (11.11%) PySpark
4 4 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (7.41%) NumPy
4 4 (7.41%) Pandas
5 3 (5.56%) Django
5 3 (5.56%) Vue
6 1 (1.85%) Web Services
6 1 (1.85%) XML
6 1 (1.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 9 (16.67%) Equities
1 9 (16.67%) Eurex
1 9 (16.67%) Fixed Income
1 9 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 9 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 7 (12.96%) Reinsurance
3 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.93%) Linux
2 11 (20.37%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (35.19%) Analytics
3 18 (33.33%) Agile
4 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
5 12 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
6 11 (20.37%) Translating Business Requirements
7 10 (18.52%) AI
7 10 (18.52%) Data Ingestion
7 10 (18.52%) Data Modelling
7 10 (18.52%) Epics
7 10 (18.52%) ETL
7 10 (18.52%) Scrum
8 9 (16.67%) Business Analysis
8 9 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
8 9 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
8 9 (16.67%) Finite Element Analysis
8 9 (16.67%) Project Management
8 9 (16.67%) SDLC
8 9 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (75.93%) Python
2 21 (38.89%) SQL
3 18 (33.33%) C++
4 17 (31.48%) C#
5 3 (5.56%) Groovy
5 3 (5.56%) Java
5 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.56%) Julia
5 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.56%) VBA
6 2 (3.70%) Bicep
6 2 (3.70%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.70%) R
7 1 (1.85%) VC++
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) Degree
2 16 (29.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.56%) PhD
5 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 6 (11.11%) Solvency II
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) IFRS
2 2 (3.70%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.85%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Databricks
2 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.52%) Oracle
4 9 (16.67%) Bloomberg
4 9 (16.67%) CQG
4 9 (16.67%) ION Trading
4 9 (16.67%) Patsystems
4 9 (16.67%) Reuters
4 9 (16.67%) Trayport
5 4 (7.41%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.70%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.85%) Foundry
7 1 (1.85%) Google
7 1 (1.85%) Palantir
7 1 (1.85%) Splunk