Distributed Computing Jobs

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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 849 841 757
Rank change year-on-year -8 -84 +57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 56 105 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.26% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 39 54 69
10th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £122,000 £129,250 £131,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £82,250
% change year-on-year +29.17% -27.05% +53.02%

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 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +18 42 £80,000 - 28
UK excluding London -34 37 £77,500 +29.17% 7
London +64 18 £87,500 +2.94% 20
Work from Home +36 13 £71,000 -21.11% 29
Scotland -60 13 £60,000 -
East of England 0 10 £80,001 - 4
South East -7 6 £15,000 -65.12% 2
North of England +31 3 £75,000 +25.52% 3
South West -39 3 £100,000 +29.03% 1
West Midlands -10 2 £73,750 +18.00%
Midlands -11 2 £73,750 +18.00%
North East - 2 £80,000 -
North West -12 1 £71,000 +91.89% 3

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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.14%) Apache
3 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.79%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) AWS
2 16 (28.57%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
5 6 (10.71%) GCP
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.36%) IaaS
7 3 (5.36%) PaaS
7 3 (5.36%) SaaS
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.57%) Serverless
9 1 (1.79%) dbt
9 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.79%) Prefect
9 1 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) VPN
2 4 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) Firewall
4 1 (1.79%) LAN
4 1 (1.79%) MQTT
4 1 (1.79%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) RS-485
4 1 (1.79%) WAN
4 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) Big Data
2 5 (8.93%) Data Lake
3 4 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.79%) DB2
5 1 (1.79%) Dremio
5 1 (1.79%) Easytrieve
5 1 (1.79%) HBase
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Git
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Finance
3 12 (21.43%) Marketing
4 11 (19.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (17.86%) Law
6 9 (16.07%) Games
7 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
9 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
10 2 (3.57%) Banking
10 2 (3.57%) Front Office
10 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
10 2 (3.57%) Legal
11 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Consultant
1 10 (17.86%) Software Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 7 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Machine Learning Researcher
3 7 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Senior
5 5 (8.93%) Quantitative Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Big Data Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) IT Support
6 4 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.79%) PyTorch
1 15 (26.79%) TensorFlow
2 7 (12.50%) Flask
2 7 (12.50%) Keras
2 7 (12.50%) SpaCy
3 3 (5.36%) Kafka
4 2 (3.57%) Apache Commons
4 2 (3.57%) NumPy
4 2 (3.57%) Pandas
5 1 (1.79%) Dask
5 1 (1.79%) EDI
5 1 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.79%) JSON
5 1 (1.79%) Kaldi
5 1 (1.79%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.79%) PySpark
5 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.79%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (44.64%) Algorithms
2 8 (14.29%) Blockchain
2 8 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.57%) IoT
6 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.79%) CUDA
6 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Unix
2 3 (5.36%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (53.57%) Machine Learning
3 22 (39.29%) Computer Science
3 22 (39.29%) Software Engineering
4 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (26.79%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) CI/CD
6 14 (25.00%) Deep Learning
6 14 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 13 (23.21%) DevOps
8 11 (19.64%) Statistics
9 10 (17.86%) Feature Engineering
9 10 (17.86%) SDLC
10 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (16.07%) ETL
10 9 (16.07%) Probability Theory
11 8 (14.29%) Analytics
11 8 (14.29%) Data Analysis
11 8 (14.29%) Mathematics
11 8 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 35 (62.50%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) Java
3 10 (17.86%) C++
4 8 (14.29%) C#
5 7 (12.50%) C
5 7 (12.50%) Go
6 5 (8.93%) Rust
6 5 (8.93%) SQL
7 3 (5.36%) Scala
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) COBOL
8 1 (1.79%) JCL
8 1 (1.79%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.79%) REXX
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) Degree
2 13 (23.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (17.86%) Master's Degree
4 9 (16.07%) PhD
5 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.79%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) RACF
2 1 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.79%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) MAINVIEW
2 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Databricks
3 4 (7.14%) Google
4 3 (5.36%) AppDynamics
4 3 (5.36%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) BMC
5 1 (1.79%) IBM