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 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 688 653 754
Rank change year-on-year -35 +101 +4
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 102 43 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.086% 0.076%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 61 14 41
10th Percentile £53,750 £49,500 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +4.69% -3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £174,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -19.64% -

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 27,611 20,678 27,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.21% 41.44% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 17,360 10,409 16,339
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -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 9 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 11 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 9 August 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 -27 101 £77,500 -13.89% 102
London -30 58 £85,000 -5.56% 83
UK excluding London -46 42 £65,000 +15.56% 28
South East -23 19 £65,000 +62.50% 7
Work from Home -28 13 £60,000 -20.00% 46
North of England - 13 £85,000 - 10
North East - 13 £85,000 - 7
South West -53 8 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Midlands -29 1 - -
East of England -29 1 - - 2
West Midlands -30 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 13 (12.75%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.78%) Apache Spark
3 9 (8.82%) Apache
4 8 (7.84%) Confluence
5 3 (2.94%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (7.84%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 75 (73.53%) AWS
2 32 (31.37%) Azure
2 32 (31.37%) Cloud Computing
3 17 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
4 15 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 13 (12.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (12.75%) GCP
6 7 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.92%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (3.92%) Serverless
8 3 (2.94%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.94%) n8n
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.96%) dbt
9 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) Multicast
2 6 (5.88%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (1.96%) DNS
3 2 (1.96%) Firewall
3 2 (1.96%) VLAN
3 2 (1.96%) VPN
3 2 (1.96%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.57%) Big Data
1 22 (21.57%) Data Lake
2 20 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 17 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (14.71%) Metadata
6 12 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (7.84%) MySQL
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (6.86%) DynamoDB
9 6 (5.88%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (3.92%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (3.92%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.94%) Spark SQL
13 2 (1.96%) Flink
13 2 (1.96%) Pinecone
14 1 (0.98%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (7.84%) JIRA
2 6 (5.88%) Git
3 3 (2.94%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.96%) MLflow
4 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (22.55%) Finance
2 21 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.73%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (7.84%) Spanish Language
5 5 (4.90%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.92%) Automotive
7 2 (1.96%) Banking
7 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Law
7 2 (1.96%) Marketing
7 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.98%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) Python Engineer
2 26 (25.49%) Consultant
2 26 (25.49%) Professional Services Consultant
3 21 (20.59%) Software Engineer
4 20 (19.61%) Data Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) AWS Software Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) C# Software Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) C++ Software Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) Python Software Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) Senior
6 14 (13.73%) Senior Consultant
6 14 (13.73%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
7 13 (12.75%) Data Consultant
7 13 (12.75%) Migration Consultant
8 10 (9.80%) Python Data Engineer
9 9 (8.82%) Analyst
10 8 (7.84%) Business Analyst
10 8 (7.84%) Lead
10 8 (7.84%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.80%) Kafka
2 8 (7.84%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (5.88%) PySpark
4 4 (3.92%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (3.92%) Django
4 4 (3.92%) Vue
5 3 (2.94%) NumPy
5 3 (2.94%) Pandas
6 2 (1.96%) CrewAI
6 2 (1.96%) LangChain
6 2 (1.96%) LangGraph
6 2 (1.96%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.96%) OpenMP
7 1 (0.98%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.98%) Flask
7 1 (0.98%) Gradio
7 1 (0.98%) Streamlit
7 1 (0.98%) Web Services
7 1 (0.98%) XML
7 1 (0.98%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (37.25%) Onboarding
2 20 (19.61%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (18.63%) Data Centre
4 16 (15.69%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (12.75%) Mainframe
6 10 (9.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (8.82%) Equities
7 9 (8.82%) Fixed Income
7 9 (8.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
8 8 (7.84%) Eurex
9 7 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (6.86%) Reinsurance
10 6 (5.88%) Algorithms
11 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
12 4 (3.92%) IoT
13 2 (1.96%) CUDA
13 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
13 2 (1.96%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.67%) Linux
2 11 (10.78%) Windows
3 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.96%) Unix
4 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (35.29%) Analytics
2 35 (34.31%) AI
3 30 (29.41%) Mentoring
4 27 (26.47%) Migration
4 27 (26.47%) Project Delivery
5 26 (25.49%) Data Modelling
6 25 (24.51%) ETL
6 25 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (23.53%) Agile
8 22 (21.57%) Project Management
8 22 (21.57%) Software Engineering
9 20 (19.61%) Database Migration
10 19 (18.63%) Data Strategy
10 19 (18.63%) Performance Optimisation
11 18 (17.65%) Machine Learning
12 17 (16.67%) CI/CD
12 17 (16.67%) Data Engineering
13 15 (14.71%) Metadata Management
14 14 (13.73%) Configuration Management
14 14 (13.73%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 58 (56.86%) Python
2 29 (28.43%) SQL
3 22 (21.57%) C++
4 19 (18.63%) C#
5 7 (6.86%) Java
6 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.94%) Bicep
7 3 (2.94%) Groovy
7 3 (2.94%) Julia
7 3 (2.94%) VBA
8 2 (1.96%) Bash
8 2 (1.96%) C
8 2 (1.96%) Fortran
8 2 (1.96%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.96%) R
8 2 (1.96%) Rust
8 2 (1.96%) Scala
8 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.98%) VC++
Qualifications
1 35 (34.31%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) Degree
3 20 (19.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.92%) PhD
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.88%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) IFRS
3 2 (1.96%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.98%) EMIR
System Software
1 9 (8.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) Puppet
2 13 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.75%) Progress Chef
3 5 (4.90%) Terraform
4 2 (1.96%) Podman
5 1 (0.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (18.63%) Databricks
2 16 (15.69%) Oracle
3 14 (13.73%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.84%) Bloomberg
4 8 (7.84%) CQG
4 8 (7.84%) ION Trading
4 8 (7.84%) Patsystems
4 8 (7.84%) Reuters
4 8 (7.84%) Trayport
5 6 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.90%) OpenAI
7 4 (3.92%) SAP
8 2 (1.96%) Google
9 1 (0.98%) Foundry
9 1 (0.98%) Palantir
9 1 (0.98%) Splunk