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 have cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 873 786
Rank change year-on-year +31 -87 +23
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 54 102 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.10% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.24% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 39 50 62
10th Percentile £29,000 £41,175 £61,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £51,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £45,186 £62,500
% change year-on-year +65.98% -27.70% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
UK

Distributed Computing is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,986 42,866 76,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 42.72% 47.73%
Number of salaries quoted 22,999 23,359 34,161
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,367 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing.

Salary trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 13 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 14 May 2024. 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 +36 40 £80,000 +6.67% 36
UK excluding London -10 36 £75,000 +65.98% 12
London +84 17 £112,500 +50.00% 26
Work from Home +64 14 £71,000 -13.94% 29
Scotland -48 13 £60,000 +17.07% 1
East of England +9 10 £80,001 - 2
South East +10 5 £15,000 -65.12% 2
North of England +33 4 £73,000 +22.18% 4
West Midlands +6 2 £73,750 -7.81%
Midlands +5 2 £73,750 -7.81%
North West +4 2 £71,000 +91.89% 4
South West -33 2 £102,500 +126.84% 3
North East - 2 £80,000 -

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (12.96%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.41%) Apache
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.70%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) AWS
2 14 (25.93%) Azure
3 8 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (12.96%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (9.26%) GCP
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.56%) IaaS
6 3 (5.56%) PaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) SaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Serverless
8 1 (1.85%) dbt
8 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.85%) Prefect
8 1 (1.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) DNS
1 4 (7.41%) VPN
2 1 (1.85%) DHCP
2 1 (1.85%) MQTT
2 1 (1.85%) RS-485
2 1 (1.85%) VLAN
2 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.07%) Big Data
2 5 (9.26%) Data Lake
3 4 (7.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.70%) DB2
4 2 (3.70%) Easytrieve
4 2 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.85%) Dremio
5 1 (1.85%) HBase
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
5 1 (1.85%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 12 (22.22%) Marketing
4 11 (20.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (16.67%) Games
6 8 (14.81%) Law
7 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (9.26%) Telecoms
9 3 (5.56%) Banking
9 3 (5.56%) Front Office
9 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Consultant
1 9 (16.67%) Developer
2 8 (14.81%) Python Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Software Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Machine Learning Researcher
3 7 (12.96%) Python Software Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 5 (9.26%) Quantitative Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Big Data Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) IT Support
6 4 (7.41%) Java Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior
7 3 (5.56%) C++ Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.78%) PyTorch
1 15 (27.78%) TensorFlow
2 7 (12.96%) Flask
2 7 (12.96%) Keras
2 7 (12.96%) SpaCy
3 3 (5.56%) Kafka
4 2 (3.70%) Apache Commons
4 2 (3.70%) NumPy
4 2 (3.70%) Pandas
4 2 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (1.85%) Dask
5 1 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.85%) JSON
5 1 (1.85%) Kaldi
5 1 (1.85%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.85%) PySpark
5 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.85%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (44.44%) Algorithms
2 8 (14.81%) Blockchain
2 8 (14.81%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.70%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.70%) IoT
5 2 (3.70%) VSAM
6 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.85%) CUDA
6 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
2 3 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) zOS
4 1 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
2 29 (53.70%) Machine Learning
3 21 (38.89%) Computer Science
4 20 (37.04%) Software Engineering
5 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 14 (25.93%) Deep Learning
7 14 (25.93%) Visualisation
8 13 (24.07%) Agile
9 12 (22.22%) DevOps
10 11 (20.37%) Statistics
11 10 (18.52%) Feature Engineering
12 9 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (16.67%) Probability Theory
12 9 (16.67%) SDLC
13 8 (14.81%) Analytics
13 8 (14.81%) Computer Vision
13 8 (14.81%) ETL
13 8 (14.81%) Mathematics
13 8 (14.81%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) Python
2 14 (25.93%) Java
3 11 (20.37%) C++
4 7 (12.96%) C
4 7 (12.96%) C#
4 7 (12.96%) SQL
5 5 (9.26%) Go
5 5 (9.26%) Rust
6 2 (3.70%) COBOL
6 2 (3.70%) JCL
6 2 (3.70%) REXX
7 1 (1.85%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Degree
2 14 (25.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (20.37%) Master's Degree
4 9 (16.67%) PhD
5 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) RACF
2 2 (3.70%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.67%) Databricks
3 4 (7.41%) Google
4 3 (5.56%) AppDynamics
4 3 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (3.70%) BMC
5 2 (3.70%) IBM