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 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 594 644 677
Rank change year-on-year +50 +33 +57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 44 62 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.11% 0.049%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.30% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28 36 19
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,750 £66,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,188 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,779 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.49% -21.53% -8.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £126,250
90th Percentile £118,375 - £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £62,779 £80,000
% change year-on-year +35.40% -21.53% -5.88%

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 20,872 20,645 18,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 36.84% 38.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,504 10,016 13,665
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,162 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 23 December 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 +65 40 £72,500 +15.49% 22
London +66 29 £76,250 -25.61% 12
Work from Home +38 19 £70,000 +11.50% 16
UK excluding London +17 6 £85,000 +35.40% 16
North of England -4 3 £85,000 +35.40% 2
North West +32 2 £85,000 +35.40% 2
Scotland - 2 £85,000 - 3
Yorkshire -12 1 £70,000 +11.50%
South West - 1 £50,000 - 4

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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (22.73%) Apache
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 32 (72.73%) AWS
2 25 (56.82%) Azure
3 17 (38.64%) GCP
4 10 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (11.36%) SaaS
6 4 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.82%) GitHub
7 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (4.55%) Serverless
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.27%) Datadog
9 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Multicast
2 2 (4.55%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (4.55%) HTTP
2 2 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 2 (4.55%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.55%) SNMP
2 2 (4.55%) WAN
3 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.82%) Big Data
2 3 (6.82%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) GCC
3 1 (2.27%) GDB
3 1 (2.27%) JMeter
3 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Front Office
3 4 (9.09%) Law
4 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Legal
4 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Retail
4 2 (4.55%) Spanish Language
4 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Software Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Backend Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Principal Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 3 (6.82%) Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Business Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Lead
6 2 (4.55%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Product Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Product Business Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Product Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) Kafka
2 10 (22.73%) Hibernate
2 10 (22.73%) JPA
2 10 (22.73%) Pandas
2 10 (22.73%) RESTful
2 10 (22.73%) Spring
2 10 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 7 (15.91%) React
4 5 (11.36%) .NET
4 5 (11.36%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (11.36%) Node.js
4 5 (11.36%) REST
5 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.09%) React Native
6 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET
6 3 (6.82%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.55%) JDBC
7 2 (4.55%) LDAP
7 2 (4.55%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 23 (52.27%) Cloud Native
2 12 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 11 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (11.36%) Equities
7 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
7 3 (6.82%) Derivative
7 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
8 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (4.55%) Eurex
8 2 (4.55%) Fixed Income
8 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
9 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Android
2 4 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.82%) Windows
4 2 (4.55%) Unix
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (56.82%) Microservices
2 20 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 18 (40.91%) Event-Driven
4 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
5 14 (31.82%) DevOps
6 13 (29.55%) Agile
6 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 12 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (27.27%) Migration
7 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
8 11 (25.00%) Fintech
9 10 (22.73%) Data Engineering
9 10 (22.73%) Data Transformation
9 10 (22.73%) Insurtech
9 10 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (20.45%) Technology Strategy
11 8 (18.18%) Community of Practice
11 8 (18.18%) IT Strategy
11 8 (18.18%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 29 (65.91%) Java
2 17 (38.64%) Python
3 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.36%) C#
4 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) C++
6 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
6 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.82%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.55%) CCIE
4 2 (4.55%) CCNP
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.27%) PSD2
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) Argo
4 3 (6.82%) Grafana
5 2 (4.55%) Ansible
5 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) Kibana
6 1 (2.27%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.55%) Bloomberg
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco
2 2 (4.55%) CQG
2 2 (4.55%) Dell
2 2 (4.55%) ION Trading
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle
2 2 (4.55%) Patsystems
2 2 (4.55%) Reuters
2 2 (4.55%) SAP
2 2 (4.55%) Trayport
3 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.27%) Splunk