Distributed Applications Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications over the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 558 533
Rank change year-on-year +45 -25 +216
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Applications 1 6 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% 0.016% 0.090%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.007% 0.048% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 20
10th Percentile - £60,450 £45,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £70,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £94,637 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -54.83% +26.18% +7.14%
75th Percentile £43,575 £107,500 £96,539
90th Percentile - £127,406 £117,236
UK median annual salary £91,375 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.22% +3.23% +6.90%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Distributed Applications 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,682 12,483 11,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.61% 34.13% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,299 5,424 8,074
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £54,063 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% -0.80% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,115 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Distributed Applications job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Distributed Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Distributed Applications

Distributed Applications
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Applications within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
South West +8 1 £42,750 -60.67%
Distributed Applications
UK

Distributed Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft