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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 630 861
Rank change year-on-year +5 +231 -14
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 87 33 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.076% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.18% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 47 21 18
10th Percentile £56,500 £45,750 £56,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £51,500 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £62,779 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -21.53% -8.57%
75th Percentile £117,500 £70,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £73,750 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,499 £62,779 £100,000
% change year-on-year +1.15% -37.22% +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 24,108 18,269 34,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.58% 42.07% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,558 9,116 22,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +3 79 £95,000 +51.33% 20
London +42 66 £115,000 +64.29% 11
Work from Home +34 51 £115,000 +83.18% 7
UK excluding London -83 10 £63,499 +1.15% 16
North of England -31 5 £90,000 +43.36% 3
South East -16 3 £72,500 - 6
North West +1 2 £90,000 +43.36% 2
Scotland 0 2 - - 4
Yorkshire -65 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £52,249 -
North East -38 1 £47,500 -2.56%

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 7 (8.05%) Confluence
2 6 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.75%) Apache
4 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 43 (49.43%) AWS
1 43 (49.43%) Azure
2 29 (33.33%) GCP
3 7 (8.05%) SaaS
4 6 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.30%) Collibra
6 2 (2.30%) GitHub
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.30%) Serverless
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.15%) Datadog
7 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) Multicast
2 4 (4.60%) HTTP
2 4 (4.60%) WAN
3 3 (3.45%) HTTPS
3 3 (3.45%) SNMP
4 2 (2.30%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (1.15%) Firewall
5 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.15%) LAN
5 1 (1.15%) Network Security
5 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.15%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.90%) Big Data
2 6 (6.90%) BigQuery
2 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) JIRA
2 6 (6.90%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.60%) Git
4 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.30%) GitLab
5 2 (2.30%) JMeter
5 2 (2.30%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.15%) Gatling
General
1 42 (48.28%) Finance
2 8 (9.20%) Banking
3 6 (6.90%) Law
4 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Spanish Language
5 4 (4.60%) Front Office
6 3 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (47.13%) Software Engineer
2 14 (16.09%) Lead
3 8 (9.20%) Developer
4 6 (6.90%) Backend Developer
4 6 (6.90%) C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Python Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Senior
5 5 (5.75%) Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Architect
5 5 (5.75%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Business Manager
5 5 (5.75%) Product Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Product Business Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Product Manager
6 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (3.45%) Network Architect
6 3 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.45%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.39%) RESTful
2 12 (13.79%) Kafka
3 8 (9.20%) React
3 8 (9.20%) REST
4 7 (8.05%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (6.90%) JPA
5 6 (6.90%) Node.js
5 6 (6.90%) React Native
5 6 (6.90%) Spring
5 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.60%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.60%) Pandas
7 3 (3.45%) .NET
7 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.45%) NETCONF
7 3 (3.45%) RESTCONF
8 2 (2.30%) Java Concurrency
8 2 (2.30%) JMS
8 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.74%) Product Ownership
2 16 (18.39%) Cloud Native
3 14 (16.09%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (10.34%) Equities
5 7 (8.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (6.90%) Onboarding
7 5 (5.75%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (5.75%) Eurex
7 5 (5.75%) Fixed Income
7 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
10 2 (2.30%) Derivative
11 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.15%) IoT
11 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Android
2 6 (6.90%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.75%) Windows
4 1 (1.15%) Unix
4 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.97%) Software Engineering
2 32 (36.78%) Roadmaps
3 29 (33.33%) Microservices
4 27 (31.03%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (25.29%) Community of Practice
5 22 (25.29%) IT Strategy
5 22 (25.29%) Technical Debt
5 22 (25.29%) Technology Strategy
6 20 (22.99%) Computer Science
7 18 (20.69%) Mentoring
8 17 (19.54%) Agile
9 16 (18.39%) Fintech
10 15 (17.24%) Low Latency
10 15 (17.24%) SDLC
11 13 (14.94%) Event-Driven
12 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
13 10 (11.49%) DevOps
14 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (9.20%) Data Pipeline
15 8 (9.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 40 (45.98%) Java
2 36 (41.38%) Python
3 10 (11.49%) SQL
4 8 (9.20%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.20%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.05%) C++
6 3 (3.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.15%) C#
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Degree
2 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.45%) CCIE
3 3 (3.45%) CCNP
3 3 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (22.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 6 (6.90%) Argo
4 4 (4.60%) Grafana
5 3 (3.45%) Ansible
5 3 (3.45%) Kibana
6 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (9.20%) Oracle
2 5 (5.75%) Bloomberg
2 5 (5.75%) CQG
2 5 (5.75%) ION Trading
2 5 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.75%) Patsystems
2 5 (5.75%) Reuters
2 5 (5.75%) Trayport
3 4 (4.60%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.45%) Cisco
4 3 (3.45%) SAP
5 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.30%) Google
5 2 (2.30%) IBM
5 2 (2.30%) Informatica
6 1 (1.15%) Dell
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk