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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 836 819
Rank change year-on-year +147 -17 -60
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 39 69 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.064% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15 42 58
10th Percentile £47,000 £41,732 £47,825
25th Percentile £65,625 £55,000 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,001 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% -13.89%
75th Percentile £90,000 £116,875 £119,375
90th Percentile £109,000 £150,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £80,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -29.69% +28.00% -24.01%

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 21,637 35,940 38,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.54% 33.45% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,305 22,858 21,844
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,240 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -14.10% +2.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 10 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 4 July 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 +124 36 £90,000 +12.50% 384
London +108 31 £90,000 -34.55% 250
Work from Home +125 13 £70,000 -6.67% 144
UK excluding London +160 7 £56,250 -29.69% 142
Midlands +88 2 £76,250 +3.39% 21
Scotland +82 2 £60,000 - 13
West Midlands +60 2 £76,250 +3.39% 14
South West +98 1 £50,000 -50.00% 18
South East +69 1 £40,000 -9.27% 25
East of England +25 1 - - 34

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 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Luigi
2 1 (2.56%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.56%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 26 (66.67%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 13 (33.33%) GCP
4 12 (30.77%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.69%) Serverless
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (5.13%) IaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) Google App Engine
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Multicast
2 2 (5.13%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (2.56%) DHCP
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Internet
3 1 (2.56%) SSH
3 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) Unicast
3 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Big Data
1 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 3 (7.69%) Metadata
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.56%) Azkaban
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Flink
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Presto
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) GitLab
1 9 (23.08%) SonarQube
1 9 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 27 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 23 (58.97%) Finance
3 18 (46.15%) Banking
4 11 (28.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (20.51%) Marketing
6 5 (12.82%) Front Office
6 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
7 4 (10.26%) Electronics
7 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
7 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
7 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
8 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (5.13%) Spanish Language
9 1 (2.56%) Advertising
9 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Senior
2 10 (25.64%) Architect
2 10 (25.64%) Python Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Senior Architect
2 10 (25.64%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 10 (25.64%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Data Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Support Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Auditor
6 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Auditor
7 3 (7.69%) Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 1 (2.56%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (5.13%) PyTorch
2 2 (5.13%) scikit-learn
2 2 (5.13%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.56%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.56%) Kafka
3 1 (2.56%) Pandas
3 1 (2.56%) React
3 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (5.13%) Equities
2 2 (5.13%) Eurex
2 2 (5.13%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.13%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Machine Learning
2 15 (38.46%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 11 (28.21%) Coaching
4 11 (28.21%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Architecture Governance
5 10 (25.64%) Asset Management
5 10 (25.64%) Business Development
5 10 (25.64%) Customer Experience
5 10 (25.64%) Customer-Centricity
5 10 (25.64%) Event-Driven
5 10 (25.64%) Software Delivery
5 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (25.64%) Target Operating Model
6 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.51%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (20.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) Perl
4 1 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) Bicep
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) Go
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.56%) PHP
4 1 (2.56%) R
4 1 (2.56%) Ruby
4 1 (2.56%) Rust
4 1 (2.56%) Scala
4 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) CISA
2 4 (10.26%) CISSP
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.69%) PhD
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
1 10 (25.64%) Terraform
2 9 (23.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Databricks
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
1 4 (10.26%) SAP
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.13%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.13%) CQG
3 2 (5.13%) ION Trading
3 2 (5.13%) Patsystems
3 2 (5.13%) Reuters
3 2 (5.13%) Trayport
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.56%) Vertica