Distributed Architecture Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Distributed Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 518 547
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 +20
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 5 45 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.12% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.037% 0.36% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 4 29 1
10th Percentile £58,000 £32,750 -
25th Percentile £73,750 £45,000 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,779 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.40% +10.14% -32.94%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £58,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £62,779 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.49% -19.00% -11.43%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,692 12,468 11,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.53% 34.13% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,314 5,420 8,068
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,000 £29,510
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £38,852
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,152 £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 Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Distributed Architecture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Distributed Architecture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK excluding London

Distributed Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West +22 2 £85,000 +35.40% 2
North of England -1 2 £85,000 +35.40% 2
Scotland - 2 £85,000 - 2
South West - 1 £50,000 - 2
Distributed Architecture
UK

Distributed Architecture
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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Blazor
3 2 (40.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Vue
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Mob Programming
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft