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 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 686 686
Rank change year-on-year +52 0 +161
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 32 65 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.094% 0.094%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.29% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 41 46
10th Percentile £61,125 - £58,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £47,500 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £97,188
90th Percentile £200,000 £150,000 £134,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -31.03% -15.94%

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 19,532 22,401 21,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.66% 32.41% 39.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,207 11,024 16,382
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £34,234
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,188 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +2.14%

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 23 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 8 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 23 October 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 +73 30 £77,500 -13.89% 80
London +57 27 £80,000 -20.00% 57
Work from Home +57 6 £75,000 -14.29% 35
UK excluding London +60 3 £62,500 +25.00% 53
Midlands +45 1 £62,500 -16.67%
West Midlands +43 1 £62,500 -16.67%
Scotland +6 1 - - 8
East of England - 1 - - 1

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 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
3 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.13%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 16 (50.00%) AWS
3 13 (40.63%) GCP
4 12 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.25%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) FIX Connectivity
1 3 (9.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (9.38%) Hadoop
1 3 (9.38%) Metadata
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Tableau
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 19 (59.38%) Finance
2 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 16 (50.00%) Banking
4 12 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (15.63%) Marketing
7 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (9.38%) Spanish Language
9 2 (6.25%) Front Office
10 1 (3.13%) Electronics
10 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
10 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Senior
2 12 (37.50%) Architect
2 12 (37.50%) Senior Architect
2 12 (37.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 12 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Auditor
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Auditor
5 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Rust Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Rust Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.13%) mypy
3 1 (3.13%) NumPy
3 1 (3.13%) Pandas
3 1 (3.13%) PyXLL
3 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (9.38%) Equities
2 3 (9.38%) Eurex
2 3 (9.38%) Fixed Income
2 3 (9.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.25%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Agile
2 12 (37.50%) Architecture Governance
2 12 (37.50%) Asset Management
2 12 (37.50%) Business Development
2 12 (37.50%) Coaching
2 12 (37.50%) Customer Experience
2 12 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
2 12 (37.50%) Software Delivery
2 12 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (37.50%) Target Operating Model
3 11 (34.38%) Analytics
4 9 (28.13%) SDLC
5 8 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 8 (25.00%) Low Latency
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
7 6 (18.75%) ETL
7 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
8 5 (15.63%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) C#
3 2 (6.25%) Go
3 2 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) Rust
3 2 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (3.13%) Bicep
4 1 (3.13%) C++
4 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) CISA
2 4 (12.50%) CISSP
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) PhD
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.13%) Puppet
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
2 3 (9.38%) Bloomberg
2 3 (9.38%) CQG
2 3 (9.38%) ION Trading
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Patsystems
2 3 (9.38%) Reuters
2 3 (9.38%) Trayport
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) SAP