Distributed Architecture Job Trends

Distributed Architecture
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 633 745
Rank change year-on-year -67 +112 -23
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 112 41 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.083% 0.051%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 64 37 22
10th Percentile £55,625 £61,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £119,063 £76,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £87,500 £119,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% +3.70%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31,307 20,184 23,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.53% 40.94% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 19,339 10,096 12,055
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,423 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -12.38% -4.55%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Architecture over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 September 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
England -52 108 £97,500 +39.29% 97
London -1 87 £110,000 +57.14% 69
Work from Home -7 48 £100,000 +42.86% 39
UK excluding London -129 19 £80,000 +10.34% 38
North of England -58 13 £63,250 -9.64% 9
North East - 7 £46,500 -
South West - 4 £85,000 - 7
North West -29 3 £80,000 -5.88% 7
Yorkshire -36 3 - - 2
South East -56 3 £72,500 - 8
Midlands -61 1 £97,500 +34.48% 3
East Midlands - 1 £97,500 - 3

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (8.93%) Confluence
2 7 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.46%) Apache
4 4 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.43%) Azure
2 51 (45.54%) AWS
3 28 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (5.36%) Collibra
4 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.68%) SaaS
6 3 (2.68%) Serverless
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.79%) GitHub
7 2 (1.79%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.04%) Multicast
2 8 (7.14%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.25%) Big Data
3 6 (5.36%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.68%) MySQL
4 3 (2.68%) Redis
5 2 (1.79%) KDB
5 2 (1.79%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.79%) Metadata
5 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.79%) Power BI
5 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) JIRA
2 4 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.79%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.79%) GitLab
3 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 72 (64.29%) Finance
2 19 (16.96%) Banking
3 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (8.04%) Spanish Language
4 6 (5.36%) Front Office
4 6 (5.36%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.79%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (0.89%) Games
7 1 (0.89%) iGaming
7 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (51.79%) Software Engineer
2 16 (14.29%) Senior
3 10 (8.93%) Developer
3 10 (8.93%) Lead
4 9 (8.04%) Analyst
4 9 (8.04%) Business Analyst
4 9 (8.04%) Business Manager
4 9 (8.04%) C++ Software Engineer
4 9 (8.04%) Product Analyst
4 9 (8.04%) Product Business Analyst
4 9 (8.04%) Product Manager
5 8 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Architect
6 7 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Backend Developer
7 6 (5.36%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.36%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (21.43%) RESTful
2 16 (14.29%) Kafka
3 11 (9.82%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (5.36%) .NET
4 6 (5.36%) JPA
4 6 (5.36%) Spring
4 6 (5.36%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.46%) React
5 5 (4.46%) REST
5 5 (4.46%) Terraform
6 4 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.57%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.57%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.57%) Node.js
6 4 (3.57%) Pandas
7 3 (2.68%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.68%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.68%) SignalR
8 2 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 25 (22.32%) Product Ownership
3 21 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (11.61%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (10.71%) Equities
6 11 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (9.82%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (9.82%) Onboarding
7 10 (8.93%) Fixed Income
8 9 (8.04%) Eurex
9 5 (4.46%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.68%) Culture of Ownership
11 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.79%) Sports Betting
11 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.89%) IoT
12 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.61%) Linux
2 9 (8.04%) Windows
3 2 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) Software Engineering
2 38 (33.93%) Roadmaps
3 33 (29.46%) Technical Leadership
4 29 (25.89%) CI/CD
4 29 (25.89%) IT Strategy
4 29 (25.89%) Microservices
4 29 (25.89%) Technology Strategy
5 27 (24.11%) Community of Practice
5 27 (24.11%) SDLC
6 26 (23.21%) Technical Debt
7 25 (22.32%) Low Latency
8 24 (21.43%) Fintech
9 21 (18.75%) Agile
10 19 (16.96%) Computer Science
11 18 (16.07%) DevOps
11 18 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (15.18%) AI
12 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (14.29%) Observability
14 14 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (42.86%) Python
2 43 (38.39%) Java
3 22 (19.64%) SQL
4 11 (9.82%) C++
5 9 (8.04%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.46%) C#
6 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.57%) PHP
7 4 (3.57%) Scala
8 2 (1.79%) Go
8 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.82%) Degree
2 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) PhD
6 1 (0.89%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 14 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (11.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.36%) Grafana
3 4 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (1.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.82%) Oracle
3 9 (8.04%) Bloomberg
3 9 (8.04%) CQG
3 9 (8.04%) ION Trading
3 9 (8.04%) Patsystems
3 9 (8.04%) Reuters
3 9 (8.04%) Trayport
4 7 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.36%) Informatica
6 2 (1.79%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.79%) IBM
7 1 (0.89%) Workday