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 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 678 628 838
Rank change year-on-year -50 +210 -6
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 50 30 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.069% 0.052%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43 12 38
10th Percentile £53,750 £45,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £49,375 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,200 £99,000 £123,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -37.50% +33.33%

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 25,180 18,780 35,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.04% 42.93% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 14,416 8,856 23,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -41 49 £65,000 -27.78% 15
UK excluding London -35 28 £65,000 +30.00% 8
London -32 19 £83,750 -6.94% 10
South East +7 16 £65,000 +62.50% 4
Work from Home +18 13 £63,500 -12.41% 5
South West -48 6 £61,000 +22.00%
North of England - 3 £58,750 - 4
North West - 3 £58,750 - 1
West Midlands -30 2 £63,500 -29.44%
Midlands -34 2 £63,500 -29.44%
East of England -18 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 10 (20.00%) Apache
1 10 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 7 (14.00%) Confluence
3 4 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (8.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.00%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) AWS
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Functions
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (8.00%) Serverless
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.00%) dbt
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) Multicast
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (4.00%) VLAN
2 2 (4.00%) VPN
2 2 (4.00%) WireGuard
3 1 (2.00%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 9 (18.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (14.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.00%) Delta Lake
5 5 (10.00%) Big Data
5 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.00%) Metadata
7 3 (6.00%) Spark SQL
8 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
9 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (4.00%) MLflow
3 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (36.00%) Finance
2 14 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Spanish Language
5 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.00%) Automotive
6 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.00%) Front Office
6 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Python Engineer
1 16 (32.00%) Software Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Analyst
5 7 (14.00%) Business Analyst
5 7 (14.00%) Business Manager
5 7 (14.00%) Product Analyst
5 7 (14.00%) Product Business Analyst
5 7 (14.00%) Product Manager
6 6 (12.00%) Senior
7 5 (10.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 5 (10.00%) Transition Analyst
7 5 (10.00%) Transition Manager
8 4 (8.00%) Lead
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Kafka
2 7 (14.00%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (12.00%) PySpark
4 5 (10.00%) Pandas
5 4 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (8.00%) NumPy
6 3 (6.00%) Django
6 3 (6.00%) Vue
7 2 (4.00%) .NET
7 2 (4.00%) XML
7 2 (4.00%) XSLT
8 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.00%) REST
8 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (14.00%) Equities
1 7 (14.00%) Eurex
1 7 (14.00%) Fixed Income
1 7 (14.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (14.00%) Onboarding
1 7 (14.00%) Reinsurance
2 5 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Legacy Code
5 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.00%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 9 (18.00%) Windows
3 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Analytics
2 16 (32.00%) Agile
3 15 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (24.00%) Data Modelling
5 12 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 11 (22.00%) ETL
7 10 (20.00%) AI
7 10 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
7 10 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 9 (18.00%) Translating Business Requirements
9 8 (16.00%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
9 8 (16.00%) Epics
9 8 (16.00%) Finite Element Analysis
9 8 (16.00%) Scrum
10 7 (14.00%) Business Analysis
10 7 (14.00%) Electronic Trading
10 7 (14.00%) Time Management
10 7 (14.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) Python
2 21 (42.00%) SQL
3 19 (38.00%) C#
4 18 (36.00%) C++
5 4 (8.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) VBA
6 3 (6.00%) Bicep
6 3 (6.00%) Groovy
6 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.00%) Julia
6 3 (6.00%) MATLAB
6 3 (6.00%) R
6 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) VC++
8 1 (2.00%) Scala
8 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) Degree
2 15 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.00%) PhD
3 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.00%) Solvency II
3 3 (6.00%) GDPR
4 2 (4.00%) EMIR
4 2 (4.00%) IFRS
4 2 (4.00%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.00%) Databricks
3 9 (18.00%) Oracle
4 7 (14.00%) Bloomberg
4 7 (14.00%) CQG
4 7 (14.00%) ION Trading
4 7 (14.00%) Patsystems
4 7 (14.00%) Reuters
4 7 (14.00%) Trayport
5 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.00%) Foundry
6 1 (2.00%) Google
6 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.00%) Palantir
6 1 (2.00%) Splunk