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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 696 698
Rank change year-on-year +88 +2 +51
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 41 63 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.095% 0.049%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 31 37 19
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,750 £66,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,500 £76,250
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 £111,250 - £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £62,779 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.44% -21.53% +6.67%

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 19,015 22,669 19,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.14% 34.21% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,674 11,106 14,737
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,625 £33,736
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,963 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -4.00% -
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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +83 36 £70,000 +11.50% 49
London +82 25 £71,250 -30.49% 13
Work from Home +67 13 £70,000 +11.50% 14
UK excluding London +46 7 £78,750 +25.44% 51
North of England +33 3 £85,000 +35.40% 11
North West +56 2 £85,000 +35.40% 6
Scotland - 2 £85,000 - 6
West Midlands +51 1 £72,500 +20.55% 4
Midlands +50 1 £72,500 +20.55% 6
Yorkshire -3 1 £70,000 +11.50% 5
South West - 1 £50,000 - 9

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 12 (29.27%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (26.83%) Apache
3 4 (9.76%) Confluence
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
5 1 (2.44%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 29 (70.73%) AWS
2 22 (53.66%) Azure
3 12 (29.27%) Amazon SQS
4 11 (26.83%) GCP
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
5 3 (7.32%) SaaS
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.44%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) Route 53
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Multicast
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (4.88%) HTTP
3 2 (4.88%) HTTPS
3 2 (4.88%) Kerberos
3 2 (4.88%) SNMP
3 2 (4.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) Big Data
2 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Hive
3 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.44%) DbUnit
3 1 (2.44%) GCC
3 1 (2.44%) GDB
3 1 (2.44%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) jMock
3 1 (2.44%) JUnit
3 1 (2.44%) Maven
3 1 (2.44%) Mockito
3 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Front Office
3 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Spanish Language
4 2 (4.88%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Law
4 2 (4.88%) Legal
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Backend Developer
3 9 (21.95%) Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Analyst
4 6 (14.63%) Principal Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Lead
7 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.88%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) Kafka
2 12 (29.27%) Hibernate
2 12 (29.27%) JPA
2 12 (29.27%) RESTful
2 12 (29.27%) Spring
2 12 (29.27%) Spring Boot
3 11 (26.83%) Pandas
4 6 (14.63%) .NET
5 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
5 5 (12.20%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (12.20%) React
5 5 (12.20%) REST
6 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.32%) Node.js
7 2 (4.88%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (4.88%) JDBC
7 2 (4.88%) LDAP
7 2 (4.88%) OAuth
7 2 (4.88%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (51.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (26.83%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (17.07%) Product Ownership
5 5 (12.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (9.76%) Equities
7 3 (7.32%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (7.32%) Eurex
7 3 (7.32%) Fixed Income
7 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
7 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
8 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
9 1 (2.44%) Derivative
9 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.88%) Android
4 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (65.85%) Microservices
2 19 (46.34%) CI/CD
3 17 (41.46%) Event-Driven
4 16 (39.02%) DevOps
4 16 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (34.15%) Agile
5 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
6 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
6 13 (31.71%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (31.71%) Migration
7 11 (26.83%) Data Engineering
7 11 (26.83%) Data Transformation
7 11 (26.83%) Fintech
7 11 (26.83%) Insurtech
8 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
8 8 (19.51%) Roadmaps
9 7 (17.07%) Clean Code
9 7 (17.07%) Code Quality
10 6 (14.63%) Architectural Design
10 6 (14.63%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) Java
2 18 (43.90%) Python
3 6 (14.63%) C#
3 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.88%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.44%) Scala
6 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.88%) CCIE
4 2 (4.88%) CCNP
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (43.90%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (53.66%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Grafana
2 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) Ansible
3 2 (4.88%) Argo
4 1 (2.44%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Atlassian
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Bloomberg
3 3 (7.32%) CQG
3 3 (7.32%) ION Trading
3 3 (7.32%) Patsystems
3 3 (7.32%) Reuters
3 3 (7.32%) SolarWinds
3 3 (7.32%) Trayport
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco
4 2 (4.88%) Dell
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks