Distributed Applications Jobs

Distributed Applications
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 796 861
Rank change year-on-year +110 +65 -150
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Applications 25 98 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.098% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.28% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 52
10th Percentile £62,000 £30,000 £58,875
25th Percentile £70,250 £41,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,773 £42,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +188.88% -42.37% -7.81%
75th Percentile £140,677 £76,250 £91,822
90th Percentile - £107,500 £134,374
UK excluding London median annual salary £122,773 £42,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +188.88% -43.33% -11.76%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,265 35,245 42,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.12% 35.22% 43.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,299 22,992 23,014
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,066 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,125 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £109,960
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Applications over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. 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 +163 22 £122,773 +188.88% 170
London +102 13 - - 29
UK excluding London +123 11 £122,773 +188.88% 167
Work from Home +113 9 £122,773 +165.45% 164
South West - 7 £122,773 - 19
Scotland +58 2 £71,000 - 14
Yorkshire +62 1 £70,000 +64.71% 17
North of England +37 1 £70,000 +100.00% 35
South East - 1 £105,000 - 39

Distributed Applications
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 5 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) GCP
3 11 (44.00%) Amazon S3
4 10 (40.00%) AWS
5 6 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (24.00%) npm
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (20.00%) CloudFront
6 5 (20.00%) GitHub
6 5 (20.00%) Route 53
6 5 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.00%) VoIP
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 5 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 5 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (20.00%) DocumentDB
3 5 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (20.00%) Redis
3 5 (20.00%) Sqoop
4 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) CircleCI
2 6 (24.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (24.00%) Cypress.io
2 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (24.00%) webpack
3 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (80.00%) Finance
2 18 (72.00%) Banking
3 13 (52.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (20.00%) Retail Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Law
5 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Marketing
7 1 (4.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Senior
2 10 (40.00%) Lead
3 8 (32.00%) Developer
4 7 (28.00%) Java Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) Lead Java Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) Senior Developer
5 6 (24.00%) .NET Developer
5 6 (24.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
6 5 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Java Software Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Lead Software Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Software Manager
8 1 (4.00%) Technical Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (64.00%) RESTful
2 9 (36.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (32.00%) Kafka
4 7 (28.00%) .NET
4 7 (28.00%) Web Services
5 6 (24.00%) Jest
6 5 (20.00%) GraphQL
6 5 (20.00%) OAuth
6 5 (20.00%) PySpark
6 5 (20.00%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (12.00%) Spring
8 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
8 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
8 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (4.00%) CSS
8 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (4.00%) jQuery
8 1 (4.00%) JSON
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (44.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (24.00%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (24.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (20.00%) Algorithms
4 5 (20.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Signage
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
1 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Agile
2 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (64.00%) Event-Driven
3 12 (48.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
4 11 (44.00%) SDLC
5 10 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (36.00%) Microservices
7 8 (32.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (28.00%) Change Management
8 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
9 6 (24.00%) API Design
9 6 (24.00%) Architectural Design
9 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
9 6 (24.00%) Micro Frontends
9 6 (24.00%) Release Automation
9 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
10 5 (20.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) C#
4 5 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) Apache Flume
3 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Oozie
3 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) Argo
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 5 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) VMware