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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 758 744
Rank change year-on-year +127 -14 +108
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 42 34 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.044% 0.049%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 37 20 19
10th Percentile £61,500 £32,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £99,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £120,250 £148,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £54,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +34.26% -20.00% -25.00%

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 20,228 25,017 25,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.05% 32.17% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,126 13,017 18,115
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,080 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Architecture 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +121 39 £70,000 -3.45% 21
London +69 20 £70,000 -36.36% 11
UK excluding London +97 17 £72,500 +34.26% 15
Work from Home +58 10 £70,000 -6.67% 13
South East +47 6 £72,500 +104.23% 4
North of England +53 5 £70,000 - 5
Midlands +67 4 £72,500 -
West Midlands +58 4 £72,500 -
Yorkshire - 3 £70,000 - 1
North West - 2 £85,000 - 4
Scotland - 2 £85,000 - 1

Distributed Architecture
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 10 (23.81%) Confluence
2 8 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) AWS
2 18 (42.86%) Azure
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (19.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 7 (16.67%) AWS KMS
6 7 (16.67%) Route 53
7 6 (14.29%) GitHub
8 5 (11.90%) GCP
9 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (9.52%) SaaS
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (7.14%) Serverless
11 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (7.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 5 (11.90%) MySQL
4 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.38%) Big Data
6 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.38%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Git
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.81%) JIRA
3 7 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 7 (16.67%) jMock
3 7 (16.67%) JUnit
3 7 (16.67%) Maven
3 7 (16.67%) Mockito
3 7 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 4 (9.52%) PHPUnit
5 1 (2.38%) Gatling
5 1 (2.38%) JMeter
5 1 (2.38%) Locust
5 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Spanish Language
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) Analyst
3 9 (21.43%) Lead
4 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (16.67%) Backend Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Lead Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Principal Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior
7 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (9.52%) SaaS Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Business Analyst
8 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 3 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (42.86%) RESTful
2 14 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 14 (33.33%) JPA
2 14 (33.33%) Spring
2 14 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 10 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 9 (21.43%) Kafka
5 8 (19.05%) React
6 7 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (16.67%) Bootstrap
6 7 (16.67%) Pandas
6 7 (16.67%) PowerMock
6 7 (16.67%) SOAP
6 7 (16.67%) Spring Batch
6 7 (16.67%) Spring Integration
6 7 (16.67%) Web Services
7 6 (14.29%) REST
8 5 (11.90%) .NET
9 4 (9.52%) HTML
9 4 (9.52%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 16 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (26.19%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (7.14%) Equities
4 3 (7.14%) Eurex
4 3 (7.14%) Fixed Income
4 3 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.19%) Linux
1 11 (26.19%) Windows
2 8 (19.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) Microservices
2 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
3 21 (50.00%) DevOps
4 19 (45.24%) Agile
4 19 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 15 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (28.57%) Fintech
7 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven
7 11 (26.19%) Scrum
7 11 (26.19%) TDD
8 9 (21.43%) Migration
8 9 (21.43%) Open Source
9 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
9 8 (19.05%) ITIL
9 8 (19.05%) Kanban
9 8 (19.05%) Problem Management
9 8 (19.05%) Service Management
9 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
9 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) Java
2 15 (35.71%) Python
3 10 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.90%) C#
4 5 (11.90%) Go
5 4 (9.52%) PHP
6 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
7 1 (2.38%) SQL
7 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Azure Certification
1 8 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
1 8 (19.05%) Master's Degree
1 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (23.81%) Grafana
2 10 (23.81%) Prometheus
3 5 (11.90%) Terraform
4 2 (4.76%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.81%) Atlassian
3 8 (19.05%) SolarWinds
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle
5 3 (7.14%) Bloomberg
5 3 (7.14%) CQG
5 3 (7.14%) ION Trading
5 3 (7.14%) Patsystems
5 3 (7.14%) Reuters
5 3 (7.14%) Trayport
6 1 (2.38%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) Splunk