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 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 676 644 770
Rank change year-on-year -32 +126 +6
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 96 43 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.087% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 60 17 39
10th Percentile £54,875 £48,000 £41,732
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% -1.54%
75th Percentile £90,188 £90,000 £118,125
90th Percentile £117,500 £149,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -6.25% -14.29%

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 26,213 20,324 29,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.93% 41.22% 33.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,641 10,179 18,395
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +3.64% -14.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,470 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -35 95 £77,500 -13.89% 59
London -8 54 £85,000 -5.56% 46
UK excluding London -50 40 £65,000 +15.56% 19
South East -12 19 £65,000 +62.50% 7
Work from Home -24 13 £60,000 -14.29% 13
North of England - 11 £85,000 - 8
North East - 11 £85,000 - 6
South West -58 8 £60,000 +20.00% 2
East of England -17 1 - - 1
West Midlands -21 1 - -
Midlands -36 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 13 (13.54%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (11.46%) Apache Spark
3 10 (10.42%) Apache
4 7 (7.29%) Confluence
5 3 (3.13%) Jupyter
6 1 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 69 (71.88%) AWS
2 32 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 28 (29.17%) Azure
4 17 (17.71%) Amazon EMR
5 13 (13.54%) Amazon S3
5 13 (13.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (10.42%) GCP
7 7 (7.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudSearch
8 4 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.17%) Serverless
9 3 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (3.13%) n8n
10 2 (2.08%) GitHub
10 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.29%) Multicast
2 5 (5.21%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (2.08%) DNS
3 2 (2.08%) Firewall
3 2 (2.08%) VLAN
3 2 (2.08%) VPN
3 2 (2.08%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.92%) Big Data
1 22 (22.92%) Data Lake
2 20 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (17.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (17.71%) SQL Server
4 15 (15.63%) Metadata
5 12 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (8.33%) MySQL
7 7 (7.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (7.29%) DynamoDB
8 6 (6.25%) Delta Lake
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
9 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.13%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.04%) Flink
11 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) JIRA
2 5 (5.21%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.08%) MLflow
4 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (20.83%) Finance
2 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (7.29%) Spanish Language
6 5 (5.21%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.17%) Automotive
8 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.04%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 28 (29.17%) Python Engineer
2 26 (27.08%) Consultant
2 26 (27.08%) Professional Services Consultant
3 19 (19.79%) Data Engineer
3 19 (19.79%) Software Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) AWS Software Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) C# Software Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) C++ Software Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) Python Software Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) Senior
5 14 (14.58%) Senior Consultant
5 14 (14.58%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
6 13 (13.54%) Data Consultant
6 13 (13.54%) Migration Consultant
7 10 (10.42%) Python Data Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) Analyst
8 8 (8.33%) Lead
9 7 (7.29%) Business Analyst
9 7 (7.29%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.42%) Kafka
2 7 (7.29%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (6.25%) PySpark
4 4 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (4.17%) Django
4 4 (4.17%) NumPy
4 4 (4.17%) Pandas
4 4 (4.17%) Vue
5 1 (1.04%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.04%) Flask
5 1 (1.04%) Gradio
5 1 (1.04%) OpenMP
5 1 (1.04%) Streamlit
5 1 (1.04%) Web Services
5 1 (1.04%) XML
5 1 (1.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (38.54%) Onboarding
2 20 (20.83%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (19.79%) Data Centre
4 16 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (13.54%) Mainframe
6 8 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 8 (8.33%) Equities
6 8 (8.33%) Fixed Income
6 8 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (7.29%) Eurex
7 7 (7.29%) Reinsurance
8 5 (5.21%) Algorithms
8 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
8 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
9 4 (4.17%) IoT
10 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (2.08%) Legacy Code
12 1 (1.04%) CUDA
12 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.63%) Linux
2 10 (10.42%) Windows
3 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.04%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Analytics
2 31 (32.29%) AI
3 30 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 27 (28.13%) Migration
5 26 (27.08%) Project Delivery
6 25 (26.04%) Data Modelling
7 24 (25.00%) ETL
7 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (22.92%) Agile
9 21 (21.88%) Project Management
10 20 (20.83%) Database Migration
11 19 (19.79%) Data Strategy
12 18 (18.75%) Software Engineering
13 16 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (15.63%) Metadata Management
15 14 (14.58%) CI/CD
15 14 (14.58%) Configuration Management
15 14 (14.58%) Data Engineering
15 14 (14.58%) Data Security
15 14 (14.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 53 (55.21%) Python
2 28 (29.17%) SQL
3 21 (21.88%) C++
4 19 (19.79%) C#
5 4 (4.17%) Java
5 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.13%) Bicep
6 3 (3.13%) Groovy
6 3 (3.13%) Julia
6 3 (3.13%) VBA
7 2 (2.08%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.08%) R
8 1 (1.04%) Bash
8 1 (1.04%) C
8 1 (1.04%) Fortran
8 1 (1.04%) Rust
8 1 (1.04%) Scala
8 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.04%) VC++
Qualifications
1 33 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.92%) Degree
3 19 (19.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.17%) PhD
6 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.25%) Solvency II
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) IFRS
3 2 (2.08%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.04%) EMIR
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (14.58%) Puppet
2 13 (13.54%) Progress Chef
3 11 (11.46%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.17%) Terraform
5 2 (2.08%) Podman
6 1 (1.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) Databricks
2 15 (15.63%) Oracle
3 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.29%) Bloomberg
4 7 (7.29%) CQG
4 7 (7.29%) ION Trading
4 7 (7.29%) Patsystems
4 7 (7.29%) Reuters
4 7 (7.29%) Trayport
5 5 (5.21%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.17%) SAP
7 3 (3.13%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.04%) Foundry
8 1 (1.04%) Palantir
8 1 (1.04%) Splunk