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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 716 712
Rank change year-on-year +89 -4 +86
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 41 44 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.064% 0.043%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37 24 20
10th Percentile £63,000 £32,750 £64,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,813 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £118,500 £145,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +7.41% +22.73%

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 19,520 22,368 21,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.70% 32.32% 39.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,194 11,063 16,392
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £34,234
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +2.14%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +92 39 £70,000 -3.45% 44
London +59 20 £70,000 -39.13% 29
UK excluding London +56 15 £72,500 - 24
Work from Home +50 8 £70,000 -6.67% 35
South East +36 6 £72,500 +104.23% 17
West Midlands +50 4 £72,500 -
Midlands +39 4 £72,500 -
North of England +3 4 £77,500 +14.81% 4
Yorkshire +11 2 £70,000 +3.70%
North West - 2 £85,000 - 4
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 10 (24.39%) Confluence
2 9 (21.95%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (19.51%) Apache
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 29 (70.73%) AWS
2 18 (43.90%) Azure
3 15 (36.59%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
4 7 (17.07%) AWS KMS
4 7 (17.07%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (17.07%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (17.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (17.07%) Route 53
5 6 (14.63%) GCP
6 4 (9.76%) GitHub
6 4 (9.76%) OpenShift
6 4 (9.76%) SaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (7.32%) Multicast
3 2 (4.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (17.07%) DynamoDB
1 7 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.76%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) Big Data
3 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Git
2 10 (24.39%) JIRA
3 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
4 7 (17.07%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (17.07%) DbUnit
4 7 (17.07%) jMock
4 7 (17.07%) JUnit
4 7 (17.07%) Maven
4 7 (17.07%) Mockito
4 7 (17.07%) SonarQube
5 4 (9.76%) PHPUnit
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Spanish Language
5 2 (4.88%) Legal
5 2 (4.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Lead
4 8 (19.51%) Backend Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (17.07%) Java Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Lead Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Lead Java Developer
6 6 (14.63%) Principal Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Senior
8 4 (9.76%) SaaS Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
9 3 (7.32%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 2 (4.88%) C# Developer
10 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (46.34%) RESTful
2 15 (36.59%) Hibernate
2 15 (36.59%) JPA
2 15 (36.59%) Spring
2 15 (36.59%) Spring Boot
3 11 (26.83%) Kafka
4 10 (24.39%) AngularJS
5 8 (19.51%) Pandas
6 7 (17.07%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (17.07%) Bootstrap
6 7 (17.07%) PowerMock
6 7 (17.07%) React
6 7 (17.07%) SOAP
6 7 (17.07%) Spring Batch
6 7 (17.07%) Spring Integration
6 7 (17.07%) Web Services
7 6 (14.63%) REST
8 5 (12.20%) .NET
9 4 (9.76%) HTML
9 4 (9.76%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Cloud Native
2 12 (29.27%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (26.83%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
5 3 (7.32%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (7.32%) Equities
5 3 (7.32%) Eurex
5 3 (7.32%) Fixed Income
5 3 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Linux
2 10 (24.39%) Windows
3 7 (17.07%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) Microservices
2 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
3 18 (43.90%) DevOps
3 18 (43.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (39.02%) Agile
4 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
5 14 (34.15%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (29.27%) Event-Driven
6 12 (29.27%) Fintech
7 11 (26.83%) TDD
8 10 (24.39%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (24.39%) Migration
8 10 (24.39%) Scrum
9 9 (21.95%) Computer Science
9 9 (21.95%) Open Source
10 8 (19.51%) Data Engineering
10 8 (19.51%) Data Transformation
10 8 (19.51%) Insurtech
11 7 (17.07%) Continuous Deployment
11 7 (17.07%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) Java
2 17 (41.46%) Python
3 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.20%) C#
5 4 (9.76%) Go
5 4 (9.76%) PHP
6 2 (4.88%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (19.51%) Degree
2 7 (17.07%) Azure Certification
2 7 (17.07%) Master's Degree
2 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (53.66%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.95%) Grafana
2 9 (21.95%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.76%) Terraform
4 2 (4.88%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) Atlassian
3 7 (17.07%) SolarWinds
4 4 (9.76%) Oracle
5 3 (7.32%) Bloomberg
5 3 (7.32%) CQG
5 3 (7.32%) ION Trading
5 3 (7.32%) Patsystems
5 3 (7.32%) Reuters
5 3 (7.32%) Trayport
6 2 (4.88%) Dell
7 1 (2.44%) Databricks