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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 662 678
Rank change year-on-year +49 +16 +205
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 38 49 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.089% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 31
10th Percentile - £47,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,032 £65,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +17.59% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £103,125 £91,875
90th Percentile £119,500 £129,375 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £50,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year +22.50% -29.58% +38.29%

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 20,700 20,404 19,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.99% 36.95% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,365 9,748 14,031
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,080 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.45% -0.91% -

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 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 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 +66 35 £70,000 -10.26% 47
London +16 23 £93,000 -2.11% 37
UK excluding London +66 12 £61,250 +22.50% 12
Work from Home +75 9 £77,250 -9.12% 12
North West +27 8 £60,000 +20.00% 1
North of England +26 8 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Midlands - 2 £63,000 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £63,000 - 2
Scotland +9 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £57,500 - 5

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 7 (18.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.53%) Confluence
3 3 (7.89%) Apache
3 3 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.63%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.63%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) AWS
2 14 (36.84%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (18.42%) GCP
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) Multicast
2 2 (5.26%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (2.63%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 4 (10.53%) Metadata
3 4 (10.53%) MySQL
4 3 (7.89%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.89%) Data Mining
4 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.26%) Big Data
5 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.26%) Power BI
6 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 18 (47.37%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Banking
4 6 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Spanish Language
5 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
6 3 (7.89%) Front Office
6 3 (7.89%) Games
7 1 (2.63%) Electronics
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Senior
2 10 (26.32%) Analyst
3 9 (23.68%) Data Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Business Analyst
5 6 (15.79%) Architect
5 6 (15.79%) Senior Architect
5 6 (15.79%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 6 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 6 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Business Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Lead
6 4 (10.53%) Product Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Product Business Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Product Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Financial Business Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Python Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) .NET
2 7 (18.42%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (10.53%) .NET Core
3 4 (10.53%) Kafka
4 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.89%) CSS
4 3 (7.89%) HTML
4 3 (7.89%) Pandas
4 3 (7.89%) Web Services
4 3 (7.89%) XML
5 2 (5.26%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.26%) NumPy
5 2 (5.26%) XSLT
6 1 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.63%) mypy
6 1 (2.63%) PySpark
6 1 (2.63%) PyXLL
6 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (23.68%) Cloud Native
3 7 (18.42%) Equities
3 7 (18.42%) Fixed Income
4 5 (13.16%) Onboarding
5 4 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (10.53%) Eurex
5 4 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (7.89%) Algorithms
7 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
8 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.63%) Market Risk
8 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
3 14 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (28.95%) Containerisation
4 11 (28.95%) Low Latency
4 11 (28.95%) Microservices
5 10 (26.32%) Analytics
5 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.68%) Data Modelling
6 9 (23.68%) ETL
6 9 (23.68%) SDLC
7 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
7 8 (21.05%) TDD
8 7 (18.42%) Coaching
8 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (18.42%) Performance Engineering
8 7 (18.42%) Project Delivery
8 7 (18.42%) Project Management
8 7 (18.42%) Scrum
8 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) SQL
2 17 (44.74%) Python
3 12 (31.58%) C#
4 7 (18.42%) Java
5 6 (15.79%) C++
6 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.53%) Scala
7 3 (7.89%) T-SQL
7 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 2 (5.26%) Bicep
8 2 (5.26%) R
8 2 (5.26%) VBA
8 2 (5.26%) VC++
9 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.63%) Go
9 1 (2.63%) Groovy
9 1 (2.63%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
1 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) PhD
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.63%) MBA
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) EMIR
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Bloomberg
3 4 (10.53%) CQG
3 4 (10.53%) ION Trading
3 4 (10.53%) Patsystems
3 4 (10.53%) Reuters
3 4 (10.53%) Trayport
4 3 (7.89%) Databricks
5 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) SAP