Distributed Architecture Job Trends in the City of London

Distributed Architecture
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 162 180
Rank change year-on-year +33 +18 +91
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 2 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.072% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.18% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £123,000 -
25th Percentile £103,750 £127,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £135,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +68.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £111,250 £142,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - £147,000 -
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £135,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -48.15% +68.75% -23.81%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Distributed Architecture 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 in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 706 1,117 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 44.29% 40.21% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 587 670 998
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £54,375 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £117,625 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year - +0.67% -3.87%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the City of London

Distributed Architecture
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Distributed Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Stewardship
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle