Distributed Architecture Jobs

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

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 663 882 865
Rank change year-on-year +219 -17 -100
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 37 20 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.020% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.057% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 24 19 62
10th Percentile £45,225 £56,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £50,188 £77,500 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% -8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £103,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,779 £100,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -37.22% +14.29% +75.00%

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 19,292 35,171 44,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 35.49% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,064 23,063 23,482
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,517 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Distributed Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Architecture.

Salary trend for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Architecture over the 6 months to 10 May 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 10 May 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 +164 36 £62,779 -21.53% 68
UK excluding London +202 29 £62,779 -37.22% 31
Work from Home +164 24 £62,779 -21.53% 40
North of England - 16 £62,779 - 7
London +100 8 £70,000 -12.50% 52
Midlands - 8 £67,639 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £67,639 - 1
Yorkshire - 7 £62,779 - 3
North East - 5 £47,500 -
South East +102 4 £72,500 -27.50% 17
North West - 4 £62,779 - 4
Scotland - 1 - - 2

Distributed Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
4 6 (16.22%) Azure API Management
4 6 (16.22%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (16.22%) PowerApps
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) SaaS
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.11%) Serverless
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 8 (21.62%) Data Lake
3 6 (16.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (13.51%) MySQL
5 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.70%) Power BI
7 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) Visual Studio
2 6 (16.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.81%) PHPUnit
5 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (5.41%) DbUnit
5 2 (5.41%) JIRA
5 2 (5.41%) jMock
5 2 (5.41%) JUnit
5 2 (5.41%) Maven
5 2 (5.41%) Mockito
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.70%) Gatling
6 1 (2.70%) Jasmine
6 1 (2.70%) JMeter
6 1 (2.70%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (2.70%) Locust
6 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Automotive
4 3 (8.11%) Retail
5 2 (5.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Senior
2 11 (29.73%) Architect
2 11 (29.73%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (27.03%) Developer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior Architect
4 8 (21.62%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Designer
5 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.81%) SaaS Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Solutions Designer
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Web Developer
7 2 (5.41%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.41%) CRM Architect
7 2 (5.41%) CRM Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) React
2 11 (29.73%) CSS
3 7 (18.92%) .NET
3 7 (18.92%) ADO
3 7 (18.92%) AngularJS
4 6 (16.22%) Blazor
4 6 (16.22%) RESTful
5 5 (13.51%) .NET Core
5 5 (13.51%) HTML
5 5 (13.51%) Jest
6 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET
6 4 (10.81%) jQuery
6 4 (10.81%) LAMP
6 4 (10.81%) Laravel
6 4 (10.81%) REST
7 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (5.41%) Bootstrap
8 2 (5.41%) JPA
8 2 (5.41%) Spring Batch
8 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Public Cloud
2 7 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.41%) Derivative
6 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.70%) NHS
6 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
1 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Microservices
2 18 (48.65%) Agile
3 17 (45.95%) User Experience
4 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
5 13 (35.14%) DevOps
6 10 (27.03%) Domain-Driven Design
6 10 (27.03%) Mentoring
7 9 (24.32%) Event-Driven
8 8 (21.62%) Analytics
8 8 (21.62%) Architectural Design
8 8 (21.62%) Coaching
8 8 (21.62%) Data Acquisition
8 8 (21.62%) Data Architecture
8 8 (21.62%) Data Strategy
8 8 (21.62%) Digital Strategy
8 8 (21.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (21.62%) Product Roadmap
8 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
8 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
8 8 (21.62%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) JavaScript
2 12 (32.43%) C#
3 11 (29.73%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.51%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) SQL
5 4 (10.81%) PHP
6 2 (5.41%) Bicep
6 2 (5.41%) C++
6 2 (5.41%) Go
6 2 (5.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.41%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk