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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 646 703
Rank change year-on-year +40 +57 +25
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 44 61 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.11% 0.041%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.30% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 25 33 17
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,750 £62,150
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,779 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.49% -19.00% -11.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £107,750 - £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £62,779 £57,000
% change year-on-year +35.40% +10.14% -32.94%

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 20,536 20,060 19,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 36.98% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,287 9,461 14,329
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £54,063 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.06% -0.80% -0.91%

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 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Top 8 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 5 January 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 +59 39 £72,500 +15.49% 24
London +73 29 £76,250 -25.61% 11
Work from Home +59 18 £77,500 +23.45% 14
UK excluding London +10 5 £85,000 +35.40% 18
North West +19 2 £85,000 +35.40% 2
North of England +3 2 £85,000 +35.40% 2
Scotland - 2 £85,000 - 4
South West - 1 £50,000 - 4

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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (22.73%) Apache
3 5 (11.36%) Confluence
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (2.27%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 34 (77.27%) AWS
2 26 (59.09%) Azure
3 16 (36.36%) GCP
4 10 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (11.36%) SaaS
6 4 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.55%) Serverless
9 1 (2.27%) Datadog
9 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) Multicast
2 2 (4.55%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (4.55%) HTTP
2 2 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 2 (4.55%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.55%) SNMP
2 2 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Big Data
3 3 (6.82%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.27%) GCC
3 1 (2.27%) GDB
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) JMeter
3 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 15 (34.09%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Spanish Language
4 4 (9.09%) Front Office
4 4 (9.09%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Software Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Backend Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Business Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Business Manager
4 5 (11.36%) Principal Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Product Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Product Business Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Product Manager
5 4 (9.09%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Transition Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Transition Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead
7 2 (4.55%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) Kafka
2 10 (22.73%) Hibernate
2 10 (22.73%) JPA
2 10 (22.73%) Pandas
2 10 (22.73%) RESTful
2 10 (22.73%) Spring
2 10 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 8 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (15.91%) React
5 5 (11.36%) .NET
5 5 (11.36%) REST
6 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 4 (9.09%) Node.js
6 4 (9.09%) React Native
7 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.82%) Java Concurrency
8 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.55%) JDBC
8 2 (4.55%) OAuth
8 2 (4.55%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (47.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 11 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (20.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (18.18%) Equities
6 7 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (13.64%) Onboarding
8 5 (11.36%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (11.36%) Eurex
8 5 (11.36%) Fixed Income
9 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
9 3 (6.82%) Derivative
10 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
10 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
11 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Windows
3 4 (9.09%) Android
3 4 (9.09%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Microservices
2 19 (43.18%) Software Engineering
3 18 (40.91%) Event-Driven
4 15 (34.09%) Agile
5 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
6 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 12 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (27.27%) DevOps
6 12 (27.27%) Migration
6 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
7 11 (25.00%) Fintech
7 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (22.73%) Data Engineering
8 10 (22.73%) Data Transformation
8 10 (22.73%) Insurtech
8 10 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (20.45%) Electronic Trading
10 8 (18.18%) IT Strategy
10 8 (18.18%) Low Latency
10 8 (18.18%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 28 (63.64%) Java
2 15 (34.09%) Python
3 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.36%) C#
4 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.27%) C++
5 1 (2.27%) Scala
5 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) CCIE
3 2 (4.55%) CCNP
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.09%) Argo
2 4 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
4 1 (2.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Bloomberg
1 5 (11.36%) CQG
1 5 (11.36%) ION Trading
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle
1 5 (11.36%) Patsystems
1 5 (11.36%) Reuters
1 5 (11.36%) Trayport
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco
3 2 (4.55%) Dell
3 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk