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 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 648 793
Rank change year-on-year -24 +145 -15
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 112 40 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.080% 0.031%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.19% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 69 34 20
10th Percentile £50,000 £58,875 £66,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £66,563 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% -12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £117,500 £75,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £150,000 £87,500 £120,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% - -17.14%

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 27,731 20,655 27,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 41.48% 33.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,411 10,361 16,265
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,473 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.47% -5.00% -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 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Top 12 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 12 August 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 -9 108 £93,750 +33.93% 113
London +16 83 £112,500 +60.71% 100
Work from Home +24 54 £115,000 +64.29% 48
UK excluding London -93 23 £80,000 +10.34% 19
North of England -41 15 £80,000 +14.29% 8
North East - 7 £46,500 - 4
South West - 6 £85,000 - 1
North West -17 5 £80,000 +21.67% 4
Yorkshire -27 3 - -
South East -34 3 £72,500 - 4
Midlands -23 1 £97,500 +34.48% 1
East Midlands - 1 £97,500 - 1

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 (9.82%) Confluence
2 6 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.46%) Apache
4 4 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.89%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 51 (45.54%) Azure
2 49 (43.75%) AWS
3 28 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (5.36%) Collibra
4 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.57%) SaaS
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.68%) Serverless
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.79%) GitHub
8 2 (1.79%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) Multicast
2 7 (6.25%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.89%) HTTP
3 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.89%) LAN
3 1 (0.89%) Network Security
3 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) WAN
3 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.61%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.36%) Big Data
2 6 (5.36%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.68%) MySQL
3 3 (2.68%) Redis
3 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.79%) Power BI
5 1 (0.89%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.89%) KDB
5 1 (0.89%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.89%) Trino
Development Applications
1 12 (10.71%) JIRA
2 4 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.79%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.79%) GitLab
3 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) Gatling
4 1 (0.89%) JMeter
4 1 (0.89%) LoadRunner
General
1 65 (58.04%) Finance
2 17 (15.18%) Banking
3 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Spanish Language
4 7 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Front Office
6 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.89%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (0.89%) Police
7 1 (0.89%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (47.32%) Software Engineer
2 16 (14.29%) Lead
3 13 (11.61%) Senior
4 9 (8.04%) Developer
5 8 (7.14%) Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) Business Manager
5 8 (7.14%) Product Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) Product Business Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) Product Manager
6 7 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Architect
7 6 (5.36%) Backend Developer
7 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Java Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.86%) RESTful
2 13 (11.61%) Kafka
3 9 (8.04%) .NET
3 9 (8.04%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (5.36%) JPA
4 6 (5.36%) Spring
4 6 (5.36%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.46%) React
5 5 (4.46%) REST
6 4 (3.57%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.57%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.57%) Node.js
6 4 (3.57%) Pandas
7 3 (2.68%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.68%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.68%) SignalR
8 2 (1.79%) Next.js
8 2 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 27 (24.11%) Product Ownership
3 19 (16.96%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (9.82%) Distributed Computing
4 11 (9.82%) Equities
5 10 (8.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (8.93%) Onboarding
6 9 (8.04%) Fixed Income
7 8 (7.14%) Eurex
8 5 (4.46%) AI Agents
8 5 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.68%) Culture of Ownership
10 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.89%) IoT
11 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Linux
2 8 (7.14%) Windows
3 2 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (59.82%) Software Engineering
2 40 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 35 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
4 29 (25.89%) IT Strategy
4 29 (25.89%) Technology Strategy
5 27 (24.11%) CI/CD
5 27 (24.11%) Community of Practice
6 26 (23.21%) Microservices
6 26 (23.21%) Technical Debt
7 24 (21.43%) SDLC
8 23 (20.54%) Agile
9 20 (17.86%) Fintech
9 20 (17.86%) Low Latency
10 18 (16.07%) Mentoring
11 17 (15.18%) Computer Science
11 17 (15.18%) DevOps
11 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (14.29%) Observability
13 15 (13.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.75%) Python
2 44 (39.29%) Java
3 20 (17.86%) SQL
4 10 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 9 (8.04%) C++
6 6 (5.36%) C#
6 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.57%) PHP
8 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.68%) Scala
9 2 (1.79%) Go
10 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.04%) Degree
2 7 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) PhD
6 1 (0.89%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 14 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.25%) Grafana
3 4 (3.57%) Ansible
3 4 (3.57%) Terraform
4 2 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.82%) Oracle
3 8 (7.14%) Bloomberg
3 8 (7.14%) CQG
3 8 (7.14%) ION Trading
3 8 (7.14%) Patsystems
3 8 (7.14%) Reuters
3 8 (7.14%) Trayport
4 6 (5.36%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.36%) Informatica
5 3 (2.68%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.79%) IBM
7 1 (0.89%) Dell
7 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.89%) Workday