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 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 632 776
Rank change year-on-year -10 +144 -46
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 51 49 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.10% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.27% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28 27 26
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,750 £61,125
25th Percentile £56,875 £45,375 £69,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,779 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -21.53% -8.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £66,389 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,125 £78,750 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,779 £100,000
% change year-on-year -20.35% -37.22% +14.29%

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 22,194 18,040 27,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.06% 38.12% 36.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11,239 8,589 19,946
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -9.09%

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 24 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Top 6 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 24 February 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 +9 42 £70,000 +11.50% 15
London +47 32 £72,500 +31.82% 7
Work from Home +46 26 £70,000 +32.08% 11
UK excluding London -36 4 £50,000 -20.35% 12
South West - 2 £50,000 - 1
Scotland - 2 - - 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 11 (21.57%) Apache
1 11 (21.57%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.84%) Confluence
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.92%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (7.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 37 (72.55%) AWS
2 28 (54.90%) Azure
3 18 (35.29%) GCP
4 11 (21.57%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (15.69%) SaaS
6 6 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.96%) Datadog
8 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Multicast
2 4 (7.84%) HTTP
2 4 (7.84%) HTTPS
2 4 (7.84%) SNMP
2 4 (7.84%) WAN
3 2 (3.92%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.96%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) BigQuery
1 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Hive
2 2 (3.92%) Big Data
2 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) CircleCI
2 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) GCC
3 1 (1.96%) GDB
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) JMeter
3 1 (1.96%) LoadRunner
General
1 15 (29.41%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Law
4 4 (7.84%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Front Office
4 4 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Spanish Language
4 4 (7.84%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Developer
2 15 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) Backend Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Principal Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Business Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Network Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Product Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Product Business Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Product Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Transition Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) Kafka
2 11 (21.57%) Hibernate
2 11 (21.57%) JPA
2 11 (21.57%) Pandas
2 11 (21.57%) RESTful
2 11 (21.57%) Spring
2 11 (21.57%) Spring Boot
3 7 (13.73%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (11.76%) Node.js
4 6 (11.76%) React
4 6 (11.76%) React Native
4 6 (11.76%) REST
5 4 (7.84%) NETCONF
5 4 (7.84%) RESTCONF
6 3 (5.88%) .NET
6 3 (5.88%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.92%) CSS
7 2 (3.92%) JDBC
7 2 (3.92%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (43.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 8 (15.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (13.73%) Equities
5 6 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
7 4 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (7.84%) Eurex
7 4 (7.84%) Fixed Income
8 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
8 3 (5.88%) Derivative
8 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
9 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Android
2 6 (11.76%) Apple iOS
3 4 (7.84%) Windows
4 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.98%) Microservices
2 24 (47.06%) Software Engineering
3 18 (35.29%) Event-Driven
4 15 (29.41%) Agile
5 14 (27.45%) CI/CD
6 13 (25.49%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (25.49%) Roadmaps
7 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 12 (23.53%) DevOps
7 12 (23.53%) Fintech
7 12 (23.53%) Migration
7 12 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (21.57%) Data Engineering
8 11 (21.57%) Data Transformation
8 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (21.57%) Insurtech
9 9 (17.65%) Community of Practice
9 9 (17.65%) IT Strategy
9 9 (17.65%) Technical Debt
9 9 (17.65%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 31 (60.78%) Java
2 17 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
3 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) C++
5 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) CCIE
2 4 (7.84%) CCNP
2 4 (7.84%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 21 (41.18%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (49.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Argo
2 6 (11.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.92%) Ansible
4 1 (1.96%) Grafana
4 1 (1.96%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (7.84%) Bloomberg
1 4 (7.84%) Cisco
1 4 (7.84%) CQG
1 4 (7.84%) ION Trading
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle
1 4 (7.84%) Patsystems
1 4 (7.84%) Reuters
1 4 (7.84%) SAP
1 4 (7.84%) Trayport
2 2 (3.92%) Dell
2 2 (3.92%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.96%) Databricks
3 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Splunk