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 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 598 819
Rank change year-on-year -72 +221 +42
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 43 34 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.083% 0.061%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 32 21 43
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £101,500 £105,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £50,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +27.00% -31.03% +61.11%

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 24,399 15,879 33,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.28% 38.81% 36.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12,535 9,065 22,695
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,500 £38,303
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,099 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,650 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 10 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 10 April 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 -58 41 £70,000 -13.04% 20
London -17 21 £85,000 -5.56% 8
UK excluding London -75 18 £63,500 +27.00% 16
Work from Home +2 9 £75,000 +14.82% 12
North West - 9 £60,000 - 1
North of England - 9 £60,000 - 1
South East -24 6 £65,000 +62.50% 7
South West -46 2 £61,000 +22.00% 1
West Midlands -16 1 £63,500 -29.44% 3
Midlands -50 1 £63,500 -29.44% 3

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 9 (20.93%) Apache
1 9 (20.93%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (9.30%) Confluence
4 2 (4.65%) Jupyter
5 1 (2.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) AWS
2 12 (27.91%) Azure
3 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Functions
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
6 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.33%) Dagster
8 1 (2.33%) dbt
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Multicast
2 1 (2.33%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (2.33%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) NoSQL
2 7 (16.28%) Data Lake
2 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (11.63%) MySQL
4 4 (9.30%) Delta Lake
4 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.98%) Big Data
5 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.98%) Spark SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.33%) Power BI
7 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) JIRA
General
1 16 (37.21%) Finance
2 12 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Spanish Language
5 3 (6.98%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.98%) Front Office
5 3 (6.98%) Games
5 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Automotive
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Data Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Senior
2 10 (23.26%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Business Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Lead
3 7 (16.28%) Python Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Software Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Business Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Product Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Product Business Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Product Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Quantitative Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Kafka
2 8 (18.60%) .NET
3 7 (16.28%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (13.95%) Pandas
5 5 (11.63%) NumPy
5 5 (11.63%) PySpark
6 4 (9.30%) .NET Core
6 4 (9.30%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (6.98%) .NET Framework
7 3 (6.98%) CSS
7 3 (6.98%) HTML
7 3 (6.98%) Web Services
7 3 (6.98%) XML
7 3 (6.98%) XSLT
8 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.33%) Django
8 1 (2.33%) REST
8 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Cloud Native
1 10 (23.26%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (16.28%) Equities
2 7 (16.28%) Fixed Income
3 6 (13.95%) Reinsurance
4 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
5 4 (9.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (9.30%) Eurex
5 4 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
6 3 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
6 3 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (4.65%) Legacy Code
8 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
8 1 (2.33%) Credit Risk
8 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Data Pipeline
2 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
3 17 (39.53%) Analytics
4 15 (34.88%) Agile
5 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
5 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (25.58%) Data Modelling
6 11 (25.58%) Microservices
7 10 (23.26%) Data Ingestion
7 10 (23.26%) ETL
8 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
8 8 (18.60%) Scrum
8 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
8 8 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (16.28%) AI
9 7 (16.28%) Low Latency
9 7 (16.28%) Performance Engineering
9 7 (16.28%) Project Management
9 7 (16.28%) SDLC
9 7 (16.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Python
1 28 (65.12%) SQL
2 16 (37.21%) C#
3 11 (25.58%) C++
4 8 (18.60%) Java
5 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.30%) R
5 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.98%) Groovy
6 3 (6.98%) VBA
6 3 (6.98%) VC++
7 2 (4.65%) Julia
7 2 (4.65%) MATLAB
7 2 (4.65%) Scala
7 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.33%) Bicep
8 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) PhD
5 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
1 4 (9.30%) Solvency II
2 3 (6.98%) EMIR
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) Databricks
2 7 (16.28%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Bloomberg
3 4 (9.30%) CQG
3 4 (9.30%) ION Trading
3 4 (9.30%) Patsystems
3 4 (9.30%) Reuters
3 4 (9.30%) Trayport
4 2 (4.65%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) Foundry
5 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.33%) Palantir
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk