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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 730 707
Rank change year-on-year +91 -23 +80
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 34 62 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.080% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9 40 53
10th Percentile £61,000 £46,923 £57,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £47,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +2.94% -
75th Percentile £137,500 £117,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £200,000 £150,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -31.03% -14.71%

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 20,228 25,017 25,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.05% 32.17% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,126 13,017 18,115
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,080 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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

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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 7 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 16 September 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 +84 33 £78,750 -4.55% 29
London +50 30 £107,500 +3.61% 19
Work from Home +63 5 £75,000 -11.76% 7
UK excluding London +78 2 £62,500 +25.00% 15
Midlands +64 1 £62,500 -16.67%
West Midlands +55 1 £62,500 -16.67%
East of England -3 1 - - 1

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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) AWS
2 20 (58.82%) Azure
3 16 (47.06%) Cloud Computing
3 16 (47.06%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) FIX Connectivity
1 3 (8.82%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Metadata
2 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) Azkaban
4 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Power BI
4 1 (2.94%) Presto
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (64.71%) Finance
2 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
3 19 (55.88%) Banking
4 15 (44.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (17.65%) Marketing
7 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking
8 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (8.82%) Spanish Language
9 2 (5.88%) Electronics
9 2 (5.88%) Front Office
9 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
10 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) Senior
2 15 (44.12%) Architect
2 15 (44.12%) Senior Architect
2 15 (44.12%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 15 (44.12%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Auditor
4 4 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Auditor
5 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Rust Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Rust Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Product Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) .NET
3 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) mypy
3 1 (2.94%) PyXLL
3 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (8.82%) Equities
2 3 (8.82%) Eurex
2 3 (8.82%) Fixed Income
2 3 (8.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Agile
2 16 (47.06%) Coaching
3 15 (44.12%) Architecture Governance
3 15 (44.12%) Asset Management
3 15 (44.12%) Business Development
3 15 (44.12%) Customer Experience
3 15 (44.12%) Customer-Centricity
3 15 (44.12%) Software Delivery
3 15 (44.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (44.12%) Target Operating Model
4 10 (29.41%) SDLC
5 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 7 (20.59%) Analytics
6 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.65%) Low Latency
7 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
8 5 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (14.71%) Data Analytics
8 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
8 5 (14.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) C#
3 2 (5.88%) Go
3 2 (5.88%) Java
3 2 (5.88%) Rust
3 2 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) Bicep
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) CISA
2 4 (11.76%) CISSP
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Ansible
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
2 3 (8.82%) Bloomberg
2 3 (8.82%) CQG
2 3 (8.82%) ION Trading
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
2 3 (8.82%) Patsystems
2 3 (8.82%) Reuters
2 3 (8.82%) Trayport
3 2 (5.88%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) SAP