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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 824 854
Rank change year-on-year +159 +30 -57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 34 54 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.055% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20 40 59
10th Percentile £47,250 £26,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,063 £55,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -1.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,251 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,500 £135,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £73,750 £45,186
% change year-on-year -32.20% +63.21% -27.70%

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 18,309 35,089 45,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.92% 35.61% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,943 23,051 23,983
10th Percentile £31,420 £28,000 £35,380
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 9 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 3 May 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 +180 32 £70,000 -12.50% 214
London +120 29 £75,000 -33.33% 124
Work from Home +165 13 £65,319 -8.00% 41
UK excluding London +173 5 £50,000 -32.20% 114
Scotland +123 2 £60,000 - 14
South West +115 1 £50,000 -50.00% 11
South East +96 1 £40,000 +166.67% 30
Midlands +65 1 £90,000 +24.14% 19
West Midlands +49 1 £90,000 +24.14% 10

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 5 (14.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.94%) Luigi
3 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) AWS
2 12 (35.29%) Azure
3 8 (23.53%) GCP
4 6 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (14.71%) Serverless
6 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.88%) IaaS
7 2 (5.88%) SaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.94%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DHCP
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
1 1 (2.94%) Multicast
1 1 (2.94%) SSH
1 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.94%) Unicast
1 1 (2.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Hadoop
2 4 (11.76%) Metadata
3 3 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
3 3 (8.82%) Power BI
4 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Tableau
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.94%) Azkaban
5 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Flink
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Presto
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) GitLab
1 9 (26.47%) SonarQube
1 9 (26.47%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (8.82%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 20 (58.82%) Finance
2 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (29.41%) Banking
4 7 (20.59%) Telecoms
5 6 (17.65%) Electronics
5 6 (17.65%) Front Office
5 6 (17.65%) Manufacturing
5 6 (17.65%) Marketing
5 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
6 5 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.94%) Advertising
7 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Senior
2 9 (26.47%) Data Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Python Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.82%) XML
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (5.88%) CSS
3 2 (5.88%) CSS3
3 2 (5.88%) Entity Framework
3 2 (5.88%) HTML
3 2 (5.88%) HTML5
3 2 (5.88%) JSON
3 2 (5.88%) OAuth
3 2 (5.88%) OpenID
3 2 (5.88%) PySpark
3 2 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 2 (5.88%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 17 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 15 (44.12%) DevOps
4 12 (35.29%) Event-Driven
5 11 (32.35%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (29.41%) Agile
6 10 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (26.47%) Containerisation
7 9 (26.47%) Data Analysis
7 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (23.53%) Data Engineering
8 8 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (23.53%) ETL
9 7 (20.59%) Data Modelling
10 6 (17.65%) Data Science
10 6 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
10 6 (17.65%) Programme Management
10 6 (17.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) C#
3 2 (5.88%) Delphi
3 2 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.94%) PHP
4 1 (2.94%) R
4 1 (2.94%) Ruby
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.88%) PhD
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (26.47%) Ansible
2 9 (26.47%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Argo
3 2 (5.88%) MIIS
3 2 (5.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) SAP
2 5 (14.71%) Databricks
3 3 (8.82%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Vertica