Hybrid/Remote Distributed Computing Job Trends

Distributed Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 448 467
Rank change year-on-year +84 +19 +184
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 8 10 12
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.052% 0.057% 0.060%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 10
10th Percentile £61,450 £59,043 £63,950
25th Percentile £61,750 £60,698 £68,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,000 £85,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% +19.72% -11.25%
75th Percentile £107,500 £118,750 £74,000
90th Percentile £125,500 £125,125 £74,600
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year -17.89% +0.29% +6.25%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,302 6,850 7,748
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.75% 38.74% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,444 3,934 6,040
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,063 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.68% -4.00% -2.34%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Computing and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Distributed Computing
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Distributed Computing salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (25.00%) Front Office
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (25.00%) XML
1 2 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Low Latency
3 3 (37.50%) Neural Network
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Collateral Management
4 2 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) MLOps
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (50.00%) Scala
4 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 2 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) VBA
4 2 (25.00%) VC++
5 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) EMIR
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Google