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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 625 865
Rank change year-on-year -12 +240 -7
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 88 33 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.076% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.18% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 48 21 20
10th Percentile £54,557 £45,000 £56,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £46,250 £77,500
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 £66,389 £100,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £70,000 £115,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,249 £62,779 £100,000
% change year-on-year -16.77% -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 25,526 17,877 34,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.92% 40.92% 36.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,341 9,300 23,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £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 £112,500 £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 7 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 7 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 -11 79 £95,000 +51.33% 16
London +44 66 £115,000 +64.29% 10
Work from Home +40 51 £115,000 +83.18% 5
UK excluding London -77 10 £52,249 -16.77% 13
North of England -59 5 £90,000 +43.36% 2
South West - 3 £50,000 -
Scotland -12 2 - - 4
North West -17 2 £90,000 +43.36%
South East -20 2 - - 5
Yorkshire -58 2 - - 2
North East -31 1 £47,500 -

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 (7.95%) Apache
1 7 (7.95%) Confluence
2 6 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.27%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (4.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 45 (51.14%) AWS
2 44 (50.00%) Azure
3 28 (31.82%) GCP
4 8 (9.09%) SaaS
5 6 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (6.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.27%) Collibra
6 2 (2.27%) GitHub
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.27%) Serverless
7 1 (1.14%) Datadog
7 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) HTTP
1 5 (5.68%) Multicast
1 5 (5.68%) WAN
2 4 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.55%) SNMP
3 2 (2.27%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (1.14%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.14%) LAN
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.14%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.82%) BigQuery
2 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.68%) Big Data
4 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (9.09%) JIRA
2 6 (6.82%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.55%) Git
4 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.27%) GitLab
5 2 (2.27%) JMeter
5 2 (2.27%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.14%) Gatling
General
1 39 (44.32%) Finance
2 7 (7.95%) Banking
3 6 (6.82%) Law
4 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Front Office
4 5 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Spanish Language
5 4 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.55%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (42.05%) Software Engineer
2 13 (14.77%) Lead
3 11 (12.50%) Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 6 (6.82%) Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Senior
6 5 (5.68%) Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) Business Manager
6 5 (5.68%) C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Product Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) Product Business Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.68%) Python Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Network Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Transition Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.18%) RESTful
2 14 (15.91%) Kafka
3 10 (11.36%) REST
4 8 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (9.09%) JPA
4 8 (9.09%) React
4 8 (9.09%) Spring
4 8 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 6 (6.82%) Hibernate
5 6 (6.82%) Node.js
5 6 (6.82%) Pandas
5 6 (6.82%) React Native
6 4 (4.55%) .NET
6 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.55%) NETCONF
6 4 (4.55%) RESTCONF
7 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.41%) Java Concurrency
8 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.27%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.41%) Product Ownership
2 21 (23.86%) Cloud Native
3 13 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (11.36%) Equities
5 8 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
8 5 (5.68%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (5.68%) Eurex
8 5 (5.68%) Fixed Income
9 4 (4.55%) Algorithms
10 3 (3.41%) Derivative
10 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
11 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Android
1 6 (6.82%) Apple iOS
1 6 (6.82%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Windows
3 1 (1.14%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.77%) Software Engineering
2 31 (35.23%) Roadmaps
3 30 (34.09%) Microservices
4 26 (29.55%) Technical Leadership
5 21 (23.86%) Community of Practice
5 21 (23.86%) IT Strategy
5 21 (23.86%) Technical Debt
5 21 (23.86%) Technology Strategy
6 20 (22.73%) Computer Science
7 19 (21.59%) Agile
8 18 (20.45%) Mentoring
9 16 (18.18%) Fintech
10 15 (17.05%) Event-Driven
10 15 (17.05%) Low Latency
11 14 (15.91%) SDLC
12 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
13 11 (12.50%) DevOps
14 10 (11.36%) Code Quality
14 10 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
15 9 (10.23%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.73%) Java
2 35 (39.77%) Python
3 9 (10.23%) SQL
4 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.68%) C++
6 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.27%) C#
8 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.55%) CCIE
3 4 (4.55%) CCNP
3 4 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 19 (21.59%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.09%) Terraform
3 6 (6.82%) Argo
4 4 (4.55%) Grafana
5 3 (3.41%) Ansible
5 3 (3.41%) Kibana
6 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) Oracle
2 5 (5.68%) Bloomberg
2 5 (5.68%) CQG
2 5 (5.68%) ION Trading
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Patsystems
2 5 (5.68%) Reuters
2 5 (5.68%) Trayport
3 4 (4.55%) AppDynamics
3 4 (4.55%) Cisco
3 4 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.27%) Google
4 2 (2.27%) IBM
4 2 (2.27%) Informatica
5 1 (1.14%) Dell
5 1 (1.14%) Splunk