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 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 626 774
Rank change year-on-year -21 +148 +115
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 38 34 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.078% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 24 24 43
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,375 £28,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,043 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.96% +6.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,625 £100,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £105,700 £108,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -1.41% +57.78%

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 22,782 17,043 30,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.90% 39.03% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11,575 8,794 21,623
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -3 35 £72,500 -19.44% 20
London +10 21 £85,000 -5.56% 11
UK excluding London -20 13 £60,000 -14.29% 13
Work from Home +20 10 £63,500 -2.79% 10
North West - 9 £60,000 - 1
North of England - 9 £60,000 - 2
West Midlands -5 1 £63,500 -29.44%
Scotland -18 1 - - 4
South West -21 1 £57,500 +15.00%
Midlands -21 1 £63,500 -29.44% 1
South East - 1 £57,500 - 6

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 (26.32%) Apache Spark
2 9 (23.68%) Apache
3 5 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (10.53%) Confluence
5 2 (5.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (2.63%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Dagster
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) Multicast
2 1 (2.63%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (2.63%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) NoSQL
2 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
3 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (13.16%) MySQL
4 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
4 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 3 (7.89%) Big Data
5 3 (7.89%) Data Mining
5 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
5 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.26%) Power BI
7 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
2 13 (34.21%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Spanish Language
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.89%) Front Office
5 3 (7.89%) Games
5 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Analyst
1 11 (28.95%) Data Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Business Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Business Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Product Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Product Business Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Product Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Financial Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Qualitative Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Quantitative Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Kafka
2 8 (21.05%) .NET
3 7 (18.42%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (15.79%) Pandas
5 5 (13.16%) NumPy
6 4 (10.53%) .NET Core
6 4 (10.53%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (10.53%) XML
7 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
7 3 (7.89%) CSS
7 3 (7.89%) HTML
7 3 (7.89%) PySpark
7 3 (7.89%) Web Services
7 3 (7.89%) XSLT
8 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (23.68%) Cloud Native
3 7 (18.42%) Equities
3 7 (18.42%) Fixed Income
4 5 (13.16%) Onboarding
4 5 (13.16%) Reinsurance
5 4 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (10.53%) Eurex
5 4 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (7.89%) Algorithms
6 3 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (5.26%) Legacy Code
7 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
8 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.63%) Market Risk
8 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Analytics
1 18 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
2 17 (44.74%) CI/CD
3 14 (36.84%) Agile
4 12 (31.58%) Containerisation
4 12 (31.58%) Data Modelling
4 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (28.95%) ETL
5 11 (28.95%) Microservices
6 10 (26.32%) Data Ingestion
7 9 (23.68%) Low Latency
8 8 (21.05%) Scrum
9 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (18.42%) Performance Engineering
9 7 (18.42%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (18.42%) Project Management
9 7 (18.42%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (18.42%) SDLC
9 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
9 7 (18.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (71.05%) SQL
2 23 (60.53%) Python
3 11 (28.95%) C#
4 8 (21.05%) Java
5 6 (15.79%) C++
6 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.53%) R
7 3 (7.89%) Groovy
7 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.89%) VBA
7 3 (7.89%) VC++
8 2 (5.26%) Julia
8 2 (5.26%) MATLAB
8 2 (5.26%) Scala
8 2 (5.26%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.63%) Bicep
9 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) PhD
2 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.63%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) EMIR
3 2 (5.26%) Solvency II
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Bloomberg
3 4 (10.53%) CQG
3 4 (10.53%) Databricks
3 4 (10.53%) ION Trading
3 4 (10.53%) Patsystems
3 4 (10.53%) Reuters
3 4 (10.53%) Trayport
4 2 (5.26%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) Foundry
5 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.63%) Palantir