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 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 678 645 729
Rank change year-on-year -33 +84 +8
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 104 44 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.088% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 61 15 42
10th Percentile £50,750 £51,000 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +9.09% -1.49%
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £116,875
90th Percentile £101,500 £175,000 £149,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -19.64% -

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 27,947 20,627 27,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 41.24% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,526 10,405 15,998
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -34 103 £77,500 -13.89% 19
London -29 57 £85,000 -5.56% 8
UK excluding London -62 45 £65,000 +15.56% 15
South East -24 20 £65,000 +62.50% 3
North of England - 15 £85,000 - 7
North East - 15 £85,000 - 4
Work from Home -28 13 £60,000 -27.27% 9
South West -69 8 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Midlands -27 1 - -
West Midlands -29 1 - -
East of England -30 1 - - 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 9 (8.65%) Apache
3 9 (8.65%) Confluence
4 2 (1.92%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 78 (75.00%) AWS
2 32 (30.77%) Cloud Computing
3 31 (29.81%) Azure
4 17 (16.35%) Amazon EMR
5 15 (14.42%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (12.50%) GCP
7 7 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon CloudSearch
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.85%) Serverless
9 3 (2.88%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.88%) n8n
10 2 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.92%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.65%) Multicast
2 7 (6.73%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (1.92%) DNS
3 2 (1.92%) Firewall
3 2 (1.92%) VLAN
3 2 (1.92%) VPN
3 2 (1.92%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.15%) Big Data
1 22 (21.15%) Data Lake
2 20 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (16.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (16.35%) SQL Server
4 15 (14.42%) Metadata
5 13 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (7.69%) MySQL
7 7 (6.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (6.73%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.77%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.81%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (3.85%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (3.85%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.88%) Flink
11 3 (2.88%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.92%) Pinecone
13 1 (0.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) JIRA
2 5 (4.81%) Git
3 3 (2.88%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.92%) MLflow
4 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (22.12%) Finance
2 20 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Spanish Language
5 6 (5.77%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.81%) Automotive
7 2 (1.92%) Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Law
7 2 (1.92%) Marketing
7 2 (1.92%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.96%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (27.88%) Python Engineer
2 26 (25.00%) Consultant
2 26 (25.00%) Professional Services Consultant
3 22 (21.15%) Software Engineer
4 21 (20.19%) Data Engineer
5 19 (18.27%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (18.27%) AWS Software Engineer
5 19 (18.27%) C# Software Engineer
5 19 (18.27%) C++ Software Engineer
5 19 (18.27%) Python Software Engineer
6 17 (16.35%) Senior
7 14 (13.46%) Senior Consultant
7 14 (13.46%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
8 13 (12.50%) Data Consultant
8 13 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
9 10 (9.62%) Analyst
9 10 (9.62%) Python Data Engineer
10 9 (8.65%) Business Analyst
10 9 (8.65%) Product Analyst
10 9 (8.65%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) Kafka
2 9 (8.65%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (5.77%) PySpark
4 5 (4.81%) Django
4 5 (4.81%) Vue
5 4 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (2.88%) NumPy
6 3 (2.88%) Pandas
7 2 (1.92%) CrewAI
7 2 (1.92%) LangChain
7 2 (1.92%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.92%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.92%) OpenMP
8 1 (0.96%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.96%) Flask
8 1 (0.96%) Gradio
8 1 (0.96%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.96%) Web Services
8 1 (0.96%) XML
8 1 (0.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 39 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 20 (19.23%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (18.27%) Data Centre
4 16 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (12.50%) Mainframe
6 12 (11.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 10 (9.62%) Equities
7 10 (9.62%) Fixed Income
7 10 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
8 9 (8.65%) Eurex
9 8 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (5.77%) Algorithms
11 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
11 5 (4.81%) Reinsurance
12 4 (3.85%) IoT
13 2 (1.92%) CUDA
13 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
14 1 (0.96%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.27%) Linux
2 12 (11.54%) Windows
3 2 (1.92%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.65%) AI
2 34 (32.69%) Analytics
3 30 (28.85%) Mentoring
4 28 (26.92%) Data Modelling
4 28 (26.92%) Project Delivery
5 27 (25.96%) Migration
6 26 (25.00%) Agile
6 26 (25.00%) ETL
6 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (22.12%) Project Management
8 22 (21.15%) Software Engineering
9 20 (19.23%) Database Migration
10 19 (18.27%) CI/CD
10 19 (18.27%) Data Engineering
10 19 (18.27%) Data Strategy
10 19 (18.27%) Machine Learning
10 19 (18.27%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (14.42%) Metadata Management
12 14 (13.46%) Configuration Management
12 14 (13.46%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 59 (56.73%) Python
2 28 (26.92%) SQL
3 23 (22.12%) C++
4 20 (19.23%) C#
5 8 (7.69%) Java
6 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.88%) Bicep
7 3 (2.88%) Groovy
7 3 (2.88%) Scala
7 3 (2.88%) VBA
8 2 (1.92%) Bash
8 2 (1.92%) C
8 2 (1.92%) Fortran
8 2 (1.92%) Rust
8 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.96%) Julia
9 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.96%) VC++
Qualifications
1 37 (35.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.15%) Degree
3 21 (20.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (11.54%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.81%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.81%) PhD
6 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.15%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.77%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.92%) IFRS
3 2 (1.92%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.96%) EMIR
System Software
1 9 (8.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.46%) Kubernetes
1 14 (13.46%) Puppet
2 13 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 5 (4.81%) Terraform
4 2 (1.92%) Podman
5 1 (0.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (18.27%) Databricks
2 17 (16.35%) Oracle
3 13 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.65%) Bloomberg
4 9 (8.65%) CQG
4 9 (8.65%) ION Trading
4 9 (8.65%) Patsystems
4 9 (8.65%) Reuters
4 9 (8.65%) Trayport
5 7 (6.73%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.81%) OpenAI
7 4 (3.85%) SAP
8 2 (1.92%) Google
9 1 (0.96%) Foundry
9 1 (0.96%) Palantir
9 1 (0.96%) Splunk