Distributed Computing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 577 634
Rank change year-on-year +193 +57 +105
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 13 15 39
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.087% 0.044% 0.091%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 10
10th Percentile £48,500 - £52,375
25th Percentile £56,782 £58,750 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,319 £71,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £82,813
90th Percentile £104,500 £109,375 £84,875
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -14.29%

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 5,843 12,025 16,498
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.07% 35.54% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,833 9,250 11,895
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Computing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Distributed Computing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Computing.

Distributed Computing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Distributed Computing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Flink
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
1 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
1 5 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Electronics
4 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 2 (15.38%) Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Advertising
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Python Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
2 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
2 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Reinsurance
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Machine Learning
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Data Science
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (15.38%) Open Source
6 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) R
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Vertica