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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 702 686
Rank change year-on-year +82 -16 +54
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 43 52 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.077% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 37 29 19
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,750 £66,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £126,250
90th Percentile £120,750 £116,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,139 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.30% -18.58% +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 19,890 22,220 20,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.55% 32.69% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 10,756 10,761 15,210
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,289
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 14 November 2025.

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 14 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 +95 40 £72,500 +3.57% 52
London +72 24 £70,000 -39.13% 42
UK excluding London +67 10 £72,500 +11.30% 14
Work from Home +54 8 £70,000 +11.50% 29
Midlands +57 3 £72,500 +26.09%
West Midlands +40 3 £72,500 +26.09%
North of England +25 3 £85,000 +35.40% 1
North West +47 2 £85,000 +35.40% 1
South East +29 2 £72,500 +104.23% 5
Yorkshire +5 1 £70,000 +11.50%
Scotland - 1 £85,000 - 2
South West - 1 £50,000 - 5

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 13 (30.23%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (27.91%) Apache
3 8 (18.60%) Confluence
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (2.33%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 19 (44.19%) Azure
3 17 (39.53%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (16.28%) GCP
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.63%) AWS KMS
5 5 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (11.63%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (11.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (11.63%) Route 53
6 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Firewall
2 4 (9.30%) Multicast
3 3 (6.98%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (4.65%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.33%) HTTP
5 1 (2.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.33%) SNMP
5 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (11.63%) DynamoDB
1 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.98%) Big Data
3 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (11.63%) DbUnit
3 5 (11.63%) Git
3 5 (11.63%) jMock
3 5 (11.63%) JUnit
3 5 (11.63%) Maven
3 5 (11.63%) Mockito
3 5 (11.63%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.33%) GCC
4 1 (2.33%) GDB
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Front Office
4 3 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Spanish Language
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) Backend Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Analyst
3 8 (18.60%) Principal Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Lead
5 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Lead Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Lead Java Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior
7 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) C# Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (39.53%) Hibernate
1 17 (39.53%) JPA
1 17 (39.53%) RESTful
1 17 (39.53%) Spring
1 17 (39.53%) Spring Boot
2 16 (37.21%) Kafka
3 12 (27.91%) Pandas
4 9 (20.93%) AngularJS
5 6 (13.95%) .NET
6 5 (11.63%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (11.63%) Bootstrap
6 5 (11.63%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (11.63%) PowerMock
6 5 (11.63%) SOAP
6 5 (11.63%) Spring Batch
6 5 (11.63%) Spring Integration
6 5 (11.63%) Web Services
7 4 (9.30%) REST
8 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (6.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (51.16%) Cloud Native
2 12 (27.91%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (11.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
5 4 (9.30%) Equities
5 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
6 3 (6.98%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (6.98%) Eurex
6 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
6 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
8 1 (2.33%) Derivative
8 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Linux
2 8 (18.60%) Windows
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (74.42%) Microservices
2 23 (53.49%) CI/CD
3 19 (44.19%) DevOps
3 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
5 16 (37.21%) Agile
5 16 (37.21%) Event-Driven
6 14 (32.56%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (32.56%) Migration
7 12 (27.91%) Data Engineering
7 12 (27.91%) Data Transformation
7 12 (27.91%) Fintech
7 12 (27.91%) Insurtech
8 10 (23.26%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (20.93%) Clean Code
9 9 (20.93%) Code Quality
9 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
10 8 (18.60%) Architectural Design
10 8 (18.60%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Java
2 20 (46.51%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) C#
4 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) Go
6 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
7 1 (2.33%) SQL
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Degree
2 7 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.95%) Master's Degree
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
4 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) CCIE
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (48.84%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.28%) Grafana
2 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.98%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.60%) Atlassian
3 5 (11.63%) SolarWinds
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle
5 3 (6.98%) Bloomberg
5 3 (6.98%) CQG
5 3 (6.98%) ION Trading
5 3 (6.98%) Patsystems
5 3 (6.98%) Reuters
5 3 (6.98%) Trayport
6 2 (4.65%) Dell
7 1 (2.33%) Cisco
7 1 (2.33%) Databricks
7 1 (2.33%) SAP