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 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 650 837
Rank change year-on-year -19 +187 -37
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 70 36 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.078% 0.065%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 54 13 44
10th Percentile £54,125 £46,000 £35,270
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £112,700 £98,000 £148,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -35.48% +24.00%

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 24,585 19,421 35,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.75% 42.00% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 9,391 23,094
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +4.55% -14.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 12 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 28 June 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 -32 69 £77,500 -13.89% 28
London -21 34 £83,750 -6.94% 19
UK excluding London -45 33 £65,000 +30.00% 12
South East -4 18 £65,000 +62.50% 4
Work from Home +5 11 £70,750 -2.41% 10
North of England - 8 £85,000 - 3
North East - 7 £85,000 - 2
South West -62 5 £64,500 +29.00% 3
East of England -10 1 - -
West Midlands -20 1 - -
Midlands -32 1 - -
North West - 1 £57,500 - 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 11 (15.71%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (12.86%) Apache
2 9 (12.86%) Apache Spark
3 7 (10.00%) Confluence
4 3 (4.29%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (65.71%) AWS
2 24 (34.29%) Azure
3 14 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 7 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (10.00%) GCP
5 6 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (5.71%) Serverless
8 3 (4.29%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (4.29%) n8n
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) Multicast
2 4 (5.71%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (2.86%) DNS
3 2 (2.86%) Firewall
3 2 (2.86%) VLAN
3 2 (2.86%) VPN
3 2 (2.86%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 12 (17.14%) Big Data
2 12 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (15.71%) SQL Server
4 7 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (10.00%) Metadata
5 6 (8.57%) Delta Lake
5 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.29%) MySQL
6 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.29%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Git
3 3 (4.29%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.86%) MLflow
4 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (28.57%) Finance
2 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.00%) Spanish Language
5 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.29%) Automotive
6 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (35.71%) Python Engineer
2 18 (25.71%) Software Engineer
3 17 (24.29%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (24.29%) AWS Software Engineer
3 17 (24.29%) C# Software Engineer
3 17 (24.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 17 (24.29%) Python Software Engineer
4 15 (21.43%) Data Engineer
5 10 (14.29%) Consultant
5 10 (14.29%) Professional Services Consultant
6 8 (11.43%) Analyst
6 8 (11.43%) Python Data Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Business Analyst
7 7 (10.00%) Business Manager
7 7 (10.00%) Lead
7 7 (10.00%) Product Analyst
7 7 (10.00%) Product Business Analyst
7 7 (10.00%) Product Manager
7 7 (10.00%) Senior
8 5 (7.14%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (10.00%) Kafka
2 6 (8.57%) PySpark
3 4 (5.71%) NumPy
3 4 (5.71%) Pandas
4 3 (4.29%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (4.29%) Django
4 3 (4.29%) Vue
5 1 (1.43%) Web Services
5 1 (1.43%) XML
5 1 (1.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.14%) Onboarding
2 9 (12.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 8 (11.43%) Equities
3 8 (11.43%) Fixed Income
3 8 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (10.00%) Eurex
4 7 (10.00%) Reinsurance
5 5 (7.14%) Mainframe
6 4 (5.71%) Algorithms
7 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.86%) IoT
8 2 (2.86%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.43%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Linux
2 9 (12.86%) Windows
3 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.14%) Analytics
2 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (28.57%) AI
4 17 (24.29%) Agile
5 15 (21.43%) Project Delivery
6 14 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 14 (20.00%) ETL
6 14 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 14 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 11 (15.71%) CI/CD
7 11 (15.71%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (15.71%) Migration
7 11 (15.71%) Project Management
8 10 (14.29%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
8 10 (14.29%) Finite Element Analysis
8 10 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 9 (12.86%) Data Ingestion
9 9 (12.86%) Translating Business Requirements
10 8 (11.43%) Data Strategy
10 8 (11.43%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 45 (64.29%) Python
2 24 (34.29%) SQL
3 19 (27.14%) C++
4 18 (25.71%) C#
5 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.29%) Julia
5 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.29%) VBA
6 2 (2.86%) Bicep
6 2 (2.86%) Groovy
6 2 (2.86%) Java
6 2 (2.86%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.86%) R
7 1 (1.43%) VC++
Qualifications
1 19 (27.14%) Degree
2 17 (24.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.29%) PhD
6 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.57%) Solvency II
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) IFRS
3 2 (2.86%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.43%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 5 (7.14%) Puppet
3 3 (4.29%) Terraform
4 2 (2.86%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Databricks
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.29%) Oracle
4 7 (10.00%) Bloomberg
4 7 (10.00%) CQG
4 7 (10.00%) ION Trading
4 7 (10.00%) Patsystems
4 7 (10.00%) Reuters
4 7 (10.00%) Trayport
5 4 (5.71%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.71%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.86%) SAP
7 1 (1.43%) Foundry
7 1 (1.43%) Google
7 1 (1.43%) Palantir
7 1 (1.43%) Splunk