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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 625 892
Rank change year-on-year -24 +267 -42
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 90 34 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.077% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.18% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 50 25 19
10th Percentile £55,000 £59,750 £73,200
25th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £70,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% -26.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £117,500 £73,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £75,000 £116,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year - -27.50% +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 23,343 19,092 36,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.21% 43.13% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,822 8,957 23,473
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,211
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,524
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 June 2026.

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 12 June 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 -6 83 £110,000 +57.14% 23
London +28 68 £115,000 +64.29% 12
Work from Home +37 50 £115,000 +64.29% 13
UK excluding London -63 13 £72,500 - 17
North of England -27 8 £80,000 +14.29% 3
North West +17 3 £90,000 +93.55% 2
South East -29 3 £72,500 - 7
Yorkshire -37 3 - -
South West - 3 £54,498 - 2
North East - 2 £47,000 - 1
Scotland +11 1 - - 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 (12.22%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
4 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.11%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.89%) Azure
2 43 (47.78%) AWS
3 27 (30.00%) GCP
4 4 (4.44%) SaaS
5 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.33%) Serverless
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.22%) Collibra
6 2 (2.22%) GitHub
6 2 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.11%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.11%) Datadog
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.00%) Multicast
2 5 (5.56%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (3.33%) HTTP
3 3 (3.33%) WAN
4 2 (2.22%) HTTPS
4 2 (2.22%) SNMP
5 1 (1.11%) Firewall
5 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.11%) LAN
5 1 (1.11%) Network Security
5 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.11%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.67%) Big Data
3 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Redis
5 1 (1.11%) Trino
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (4.44%) Git
3 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.22%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.22%) GitLab
4 2 (2.22%) JMeter
4 2 (2.22%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.11%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.11%) Gatling
General
1 49 (54.44%) Finance
2 12 (13.33%) Banking
3 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (10.00%) Spanish Language
4 4 (4.44%) Front Office
5 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.33%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Law
6 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (45.56%) Software Engineer
2 15 (16.67%) Lead
3 9 (10.00%) Analyst
3 9 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 9 (10.00%) Business Manager
3 9 (10.00%) Product Analyst
3 9 (10.00%) Product Business Analyst
3 9 (10.00%) Product Manager
4 7 (7.78%) Developer
5 6 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Senior
6 5 (5.56%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Transition Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Transition Manager
7 4 (4.44%) Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) RESTful
2 11 (12.22%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (10.00%) Kafka
4 7 (7.78%) REST
5 5 (5.56%) .NET
6 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.44%) JPA
6 4 (4.44%) Node.js
6 4 (4.44%) React
6 4 (4.44%) Spring
6 4 (4.44%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.22%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.22%) Java EE
8 2 (2.22%) JMS
8 2 (2.22%) NETCONF
8 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.22%) React Native
8 2 (2.22%) RESTCONF
8 2 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Product Ownership
2 17 (18.89%) Cloud Native
3 16 (17.78%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (14.44%) Equities
5 11 (12.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (11.11%) Fixed Income
6 10 (11.11%) Onboarding
7 9 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (10.00%) Eurex
8 5 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
11 2 (2.22%) AI Agents
12 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 1 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (1.11%) IoT
12 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Linux
2 9 (10.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.22%) Android
3 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (65.56%) Software Engineering
2 33 (36.67%) Roadmaps
3 29 (32.22%) Technical Leadership
4 24 (26.67%) IT Strategy
4 24 (26.67%) Technology Strategy
5 23 (25.56%) Community of Practice
5 23 (25.56%) Microservices
5 23 (25.56%) Technical Debt
6 20 (22.22%) Low Latency
7 19 (21.11%) Agile
7 19 (21.11%) Computer Science
7 19 (21.11%) SDLC
8 17 (18.89%) Mentoring
9 15 (16.67%) Fintech
10 13 (14.44%) CI/CD
10 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (13.33%) Scrum
12 11 (12.22%) Electronic Trading
12 11 (12.22%) Epics
13 10 (11.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.44%) Java
2 35 (38.89%) Python
3 11 (12.22%) SQL
4 7 (7.78%) C++
4 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (1.11%) PHP
8 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) CCIE
4 2 (2.22%) CCNP
4 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.56%) Terraform
3 4 (4.44%) Grafana
4 3 (3.33%) Ansible
4 3 (3.33%) Kibana
5 2 (2.22%) Argo
6 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Oracle
2 9 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 9 (10.00%) CQG
2 9 (10.00%) ION Trading
2 9 (10.00%) Patsystems
2 9 (10.00%) Reuters
2 9 (10.00%) Trayport
3 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.44%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.44%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.22%) Cisco
5 2 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.22%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) IBM
5 2 (2.22%) Informatica
5 2 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) Dell
6 1 (1.11%) Splunk