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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 613 841
Rank change year-on-year -54 +228 +20
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 48 34 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.081% 0.058%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 38 20 41
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £61,000 £54,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £86,188 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £101,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -33.33% +66.32%

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 25,210 16,737 34,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.47% 39.75% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,995 9,246 22,960
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 25 April 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 25 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 -47 47 £65,000 -10.65% 11
UK excluding London -48 26 £65,000 +30.00% 11
London -23 19 £85,000 +9.68% 5
Work from Home -9 12 £84,000 +38.53% 25
South East -27 11 £65,000 +62.50% 1
North of England - 9 £60,000 - 1
North West - 9 £60,000 - 1
South West -54 3 £64,500 +29.00% 2
West Midlands -25 2 £63,500 -29.44% 1
Midlands -43 2 £63,500 -29.44% 1
East of England - 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 8 (16.67%) Apache
1 8 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.42%) Confluence
3 3 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.17%) Jupyter
5 1 (2.08%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) AWS
2 14 (29.17%) Azure
3 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (8.33%) Serverless
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) dbt
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Multicast
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (4.17%) VLAN
2 2 (4.17%) VPN
2 2 (4.17%) WireGuard
3 1 (2.08%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) NoSQL
2 8 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.42%) Delta Lake
4 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.33%) MySQL
5 3 (6.25%) Big Data
5 3 (6.25%) Spark SQL
6 2 (4.17%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.17%) Metadata
6 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.08%) Power BI
7 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) MLflow
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Spanish Language
5 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Games
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Python Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) AWS Software Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) C# Software Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) C++ Software Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Data Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Python Software Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) Analyst
5 8 (16.67%) Senior
6 7 (14.58%) Lead
7 6 (12.50%) Business Analyst
8 5 (10.42%) Business Manager
8 5 (10.42%) Product Analyst
8 5 (10.42%) Product Business Analyst
8 5 (10.42%) Product Manager
9 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Transition Analyst
10 3 (6.25%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) .NET
2 7 (14.58%) Kafka
3 6 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (10.42%) PySpark
5 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 4 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (8.33%) Pandas
6 3 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 3 (6.25%) CSS
6 3 (6.25%) HTML
6 3 (6.25%) NumPy
6 3 (6.25%) Web Services
6 3 (6.25%) XML
6 3 (6.25%) XSLT
7 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.08%) Django
7 1 (2.08%) REST
7 1 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 8 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (12.50%) Equities
3 6 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 6 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 6 (12.50%) Reinsurance
4 5 (10.42%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (10.42%) Eurex
4 5 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (4.17%) Legacy Code
7 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Linux
2 7 (14.58%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 17 (35.42%) Analytics
4 14 (29.17%) Agile
5 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (22.92%) Data Modelling
6 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
7 10 (20.83%) AI
7 10 (20.83%) ETL
8 9 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 9 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
8 9 (18.75%) Microservices
9 8 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 8 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (14.58%) DevOps
10 7 (14.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (14.58%) Performance Engineering
10 7 (14.58%) TDD
10 7 (14.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 33 (68.75%) Python
2 26 (54.17%) SQL
3 21 (43.75%) C#
4 14 (29.17%) C++
5 6 (12.50%) Java
6 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) R
6 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.25%) Groovy
7 3 (6.25%) VBA
7 3 (6.25%) VC++
8 2 (4.17%) Bicep
8 2 (4.17%) Julia
8 2 (4.17%) MATLAB
8 2 (4.17%) Scala
8 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Degree
2 10 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) PhD
5 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.42%) Solvency II
2 3 (6.25%) EMIR
3 2 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (2.08%) IFRS
4 1 (2.08%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Databricks
2 8 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (10.42%) Bloomberg
3 5 (10.42%) CQG
3 5 (10.42%) ION Trading
3 5 (10.42%) Patsystems
3 5 (10.42%) Reuters
3 5 (10.42%) Trayport
4 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Foundry
5 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.08%) Palantir
5 1 (2.08%) Splunk