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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 623 695 713
Rank change year-on-year +72 +18 +31
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 43 47 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.069% 0.045%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38 25 19
10th Percentile £63,500 £32,750 £62,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £118,375 £118,000 £148,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -9.38% +6.67%

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 18,810 22,098 20,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.09% 32.47% 38.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,624 10,729 15,507
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,188 £45,750 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,600 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +0.22%

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 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Top 11 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 7 November 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 +103 41 £72,500 - 88
London +57 22 £70,000 -39.13% 46
UK excluding London +47 13 £72,500 - 65
Work from Home +46 9 £70,000 -6.67% 47
Midlands +51 4 £72,500 +26.09%
West Midlands +47 4 £72,500 +26.09%
South East +30 4 £72,500 +104.23% 33
North of England +10 4 £77,500 +14.81% 13
Yorkshire +18 2 £70,000 +3.70% 1
North West - 2 £85,000 - 12
Scotland - 1 £85,000 -

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 11 (25.58%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (23.26%) Apache
2 10 (23.26%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) AWS
2 19 (44.19%) Azure
3 17 (39.53%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (18.60%) GCP
5 7 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (16.28%) Amazon S3
5 7 (16.28%) AWS KMS
5 7 (16.28%) Route 53
6 6 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (13.95%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (13.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (9.30%) GitHub
7 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 4 (9.30%) Multicast
3 3 (6.98%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (4.65%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (16.28%) DynamoDB
1 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.98%) Big Data
3 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) JIRA
2 9 (20.93%) Jenkins
3 8 (18.60%) Git
4 7 (16.28%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (16.28%) DbUnit
4 7 (16.28%) jMock
4 7 (16.28%) JUnit
4 7 (16.28%) Maven
4 7 (16.28%) Mockito
4 7 (16.28%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.33%) GCC
5 1 (2.33%) GDB
5 1 (2.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Spanish Language
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Front Office
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Developer
2 10 (23.26%) Backend Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Analyst
3 9 (20.93%) Lead
4 7 (16.28%) Java Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Lead Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Lead Java Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Principal Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) C# Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (41.86%) RESTful
2 17 (39.53%) Hibernate
2 17 (39.53%) JPA
2 17 (39.53%) Spring
2 17 (39.53%) Spring Boot
3 13 (30.23%) Kafka
4 10 (23.26%) AngularJS
4 10 (23.26%) Pandas
5 7 (16.28%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (16.28%) Bootstrap
5 7 (16.28%) PowerMock
5 7 (16.28%) SOAP
5 7 (16.28%) Spring Batch
5 7 (16.28%) Spring Integration
5 7 (16.28%) Web Services
6 5 (11.63%) .NET
7 4 (9.30%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (9.30%) React
8 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (6.98%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (41.86%) Cloud Native
2 11 (25.58%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.98%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (6.98%) Equities
5 3 (6.98%) Eurex
5 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
5 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) Windows
3 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) Microservices
2 23 (53.49%) CI/CD
3 19 (44.19%) DevOps
3 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
5 17 (39.53%) Agile
6 14 (32.56%) Event-Driven
7 13 (30.23%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (27.91%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (27.91%) Migration
9 11 (25.58%) Fintech
10 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
10 10 (23.26%) Data Transformation
10 10 (23.26%) Insurtech
10 10 (23.26%) Scrum
11 9 (20.93%) Open Source
12 8 (18.60%) Computer Science
12 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
12 8 (18.60%) TDD
12 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Java
2 19 (44.19%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.63%) C#
5 4 (9.30%) Go
6 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) PHP
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
7 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
1 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) Azure Certification
2 6 (13.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (48.84%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.60%) Grafana
2 8 (18.60%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Atlassian
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) SolarWinds
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle
4 3 (6.98%) Bloomberg
4 3 (6.98%) CQG
4 3 (6.98%) ION Trading
4 3 (6.98%) Patsystems
4 3 (6.98%) Reuters
4 3 (6.98%) Trayport
5 2 (4.65%) Dell
6 1 (2.33%) Databricks