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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 690 632 732
Rank change year-on-year -58 +100 -33
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 107 33 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.067% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 62 9 42
10th Percentile £50,925 £61,000 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -11.43% +2.94%
75th Percentile £89,375 £137,500 £116,875
90th Percentile £115,125 £200,000 £149,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -17.24%

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 30,603 20,226 24,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.35% 41.18% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 10,152 12,957
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,925 £43,116
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -38 106 £75,000 -4.76% 215
UK excluding London -60 54 £65,000 +4.00% 74
London -48 52 £85,000 -20.93% 172
South East - 27 £65,000 - 21
North of England - 17 £85,000 - 10
North East - 17 £85,000 - 1
Work from Home -38 12 £60,000 -20.00% 51
South West - 8 £60,000 - 11
East of England -36 1 - - 5
West Midlands -48 1 - - 1
Midlands -53 1 - - 2

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 (10.28%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (10.28%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.41%) Confluence
3 6 (5.61%) Apache
4 2 (1.87%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 85 (79.44%) AWS
2 32 (29.91%) Cloud Computing
3 29 (27.10%) Azure
4 17 (15.89%) Amazon EMR
5 15 (14.02%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (12.15%) GCP
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.80%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.80%) GitHub
8 3 (2.80%) n8n
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.87%) dbt
9 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.87%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.87%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) Multicast
2 7 (6.54%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (1.87%) DNS
3 2 (1.87%) Firewall
3 2 (1.87%) VLAN
3 2 (1.87%) VPN
3 2 (1.87%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.63%) Big Data
2 20 (18.69%) Data Lake
3 18 (16.82%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (16.82%) SQL Server
4 17 (15.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (14.02%) Metadata
6 13 (12.15%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (6.54%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (6.54%) DynamoDB
7 7 (6.54%) MySQL
8 4 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.74%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (3.74%) Flink
8 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.87%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.93%) HBase
11 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) JIRA
2 6 (5.61%) Git
3 3 (2.80%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.87%) MLflow
4 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (18.69%) Finance
2 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.28%) Social Skills
5 9 (8.41%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (8.41%) Spanish Language
6 7 (6.54%) Aerospace
7 6 (5.61%) Automotive
8 2 (1.87%) Banking
8 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Law
8 2 (1.87%) Marketing
8 2 (1.87%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 35 (32.71%) Python Engineer
2 29 (27.10%) Software Engineer
3 26 (24.30%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (24.30%) AWS Software Engineer
3 26 (24.30%) C# Software Engineer
3 26 (24.30%) C++ Software Engineer
3 26 (24.30%) Consultant
3 26 (24.30%) Professional Services Consultant
3 26 (24.30%) Python Software Engineer
4 19 (17.76%) Data Engineer
5 17 (15.89%) Senior
6 14 (13.08%) Senior Consultant
6 14 (13.08%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
7 13 (12.15%) Data Consultant
7 13 (12.15%) Migration Consultant
8 10 (9.35%) Databricks Engineer
9 9 (8.41%) Business Manager
9 9 (8.41%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 9 (8.41%) Product Manager
9 9 (8.41%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.35%) Kafka
2 9 (8.41%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (5.61%) Django
3 6 (5.61%) Vue
4 5 (4.67%) Terraform
5 3 (2.80%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.80%) PySpark
6 2 (1.87%) CrewAI
6 2 (1.87%) LangChain
6 2 (1.87%) LangGraph
6 2 (1.87%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.87%) OpenMP
7 1 (0.93%) .NET
7 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.93%) Flask
7 1 (0.93%) Gradio
7 1 (0.93%) NumPy
7 1 (0.93%) Pandas
7 1 (0.93%) Streamlit
7 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (36.45%) Onboarding
2 19 (17.76%) Data Centre
2 19 (17.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 16 (14.95%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (12.15%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (12.15%) Mainframe
5 11 (10.28%) Equities
6 10 (9.35%) Cloud Native
6 10 (9.35%) Fixed Income
6 10 (9.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (8.41%) Eurex
8 5 (4.67%) Algorithms
9 4 (3.74%) IoT
10 2 (1.87%) CUDA
10 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.87%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.69%) Linux
2 12 (11.21%) Windows
3 2 (1.87%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) AI
2 31 (28.97%) Software Engineering
3 29 (27.10%) Analytics
4 28 (26.17%) Agile
4 28 (26.17%) Mentoring
4 28 (26.17%) Project Delivery
5 27 (25.23%) Data Modelling
6 26 (24.30%) Migration
7 24 (22.43%) ETL
8 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (21.50%) Project Management
9 20 (18.69%) Database Migration
9 20 (18.69%) Machine Learning
10 19 (17.76%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
10 19 (17.76%) Finite Element Analysis
11 18 (16.82%) Data Engineering
11 18 (16.82%) Data Strategy
11 18 (16.82%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (14.95%) CI/CD
13 15 (14.02%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (57.94%) Python
2 29 (27.10%) C++
3 27 (25.23%) C#
4 23 (21.50%) SQL
5 9 (8.41%) Java
6 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.61%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.74%) Scala
8 3 (2.80%) Bicep
8 3 (2.80%) Groovy
9 2 (1.87%) Bash
9 2 (1.87%) C
9 2 (1.87%) Fortran
9 2 (1.87%) Rust
9 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.87%) VBA
10 1 (0.93%) Julia
10 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (35.51%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.10%) Degree
3 28 (26.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (11.21%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.61%) Master's Degree
5 6 (5.61%) PhD
6 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.80%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) IFRS
3 2 (1.87%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (13.08%) Kubernetes
1 14 (13.08%) Puppet
2 13 (12.15%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.87%) Podman
4 1 (0.93%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Databricks
1 16 (14.95%) Oracle
2 10 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.41%) Bloomberg
3 9 (8.41%) CQG
3 9 (8.41%) ION Trading
3 9 (8.41%) Patsystems
3 9 (8.41%) Reuters
3 9 (8.41%) Trayport
4 7 (6.54%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.67%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.74%) SAP
7 2 (1.87%) Google
8 1 (0.93%) Splunk