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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 702 616 715
Rank change year-on-year -86 +99 +4
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 101 41 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.083% 0.056%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 58 37 23
10th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £78,125 £67,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% - -9.38%
75th Percentile £118,438 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £97,000 £119,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% - +7.41%

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 32,271 19,951 22,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.17% 40.55% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 19,765 10,181 11,357
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £53,400
% change year-on-year +14.44% -15.73% -2.91%

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 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Top 13 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 15 October 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 -87 96 £92,500 +32.14% 34
London -18 76 £98,750 +41.07% 27
Work from Home -15 43 £95,000 +35.71% 18
UK excluding London -161 19 £80,000 +10.34% 8
North of England -62 12 £80,000 +14.29% 3
North East - 7 £46,500 -
North West -26 4 £80,000 -5.88% 3
South West - 4 £85,000 - 3
Scotland +14 1 - -
Yorkshire -37 1 - -
Midlands -47 1 £97,500 +34.48%
South East -58 1 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £97,500 -

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 10 (9.90%) Confluence
2 4 (3.96%) Apache
2 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.99%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 50 (49.50%) AWS
2 49 (48.51%) Azure
3 27 (26.73%) GCP
4 6 (5.94%) Collibra
4 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.97%) SaaS
7 2 (1.98%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.98%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.98%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.98%) Serverless
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) Multicast
2 8 (7.92%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.99%) DNS
3 1 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.99%) VPN
3 1 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.94%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.96%) Big Data
4 3 (2.97%) MySQL
4 3 (2.97%) Redis
5 2 (1.98%) KDB
5 2 (1.98%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.98%) Metadata
5 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.98%) Power BI
6 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) JIRA
2 2 (1.98%) Claude Code
2 2 (1.98%) GitLab
3 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.99%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) JMeter
General
1 64 (63.37%) Finance
2 19 (18.81%) Banking
3 10 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Spanish Language
5 8 (7.92%) Social Skills
6 6 (5.94%) Front Office
7 2 (1.98%) iGaming
7 2 (1.98%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.99%) Games
8 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (49.50%) Software Engineer
2 17 (16.83%) Senior
3 9 (8.91%) Analyst
3 9 (8.91%) Business Analyst
3 9 (8.91%) Business Manager
3 9 (8.91%) Product Analyst
3 9 (8.91%) Product Business Analyst
3 9 (8.91%) Product Manager
3 9 (8.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Architect
4 8 (7.92%) Developer
5 7 (6.93%) Lead
5 7 (6.93%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Data Architect
6 6 (5.94%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Backend Developer
8 4 (3.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.84%) RESTful
2 15 (14.85%) Kafka
3 12 (11.88%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (5.94%) .NET
5 4 (3.96%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.96%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.96%) JPA
5 4 (3.96%) Node.js
5 4 (3.96%) Pandas
5 4 (3.96%) Spring
5 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.97%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.97%) Entity Framework
6 3 (2.97%) React
6 3 (2.97%) SignalR
6 3 (2.97%) Terraform
7 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.98%) NestJS
7 2 (1.98%) Next.js
7 2 (1.98%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (34.65%) Cloud Native
2 24 (23.76%) Product Ownership
3 19 (18.81%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (12.87%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (11.88%) Equities
5 12 (11.88%) Onboarding
6 11 (10.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (10.89%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (9.90%) Fixed Income
8 9 (8.91%) Eurex
9 5 (4.95%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.97%) Culture of Ownership
10 3 (2.97%) Sports Betting
11 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.99%) IoT
12 1 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.86%) Linux
2 9 (8.91%) Windows
3 2 (1.98%) Unix
4 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (55.45%) Software Engineering
2 34 (33.66%) Roadmaps
3 33 (32.67%) Technical Leadership
4 28 (27.72%) CI/CD
5 27 (26.73%) IT Strategy
5 27 (26.73%) Technology Strategy
6 25 (24.75%) Community of Practice
7 24 (23.76%) SDLC
7 24 (23.76%) Technical Debt
8 22 (21.78%) Low Latency
8 22 (21.78%) Microservices
9 21 (20.79%) Agile
10 19 (18.81%) AI
10 19 (18.81%) Fintech
10 19 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (16.83%) DevOps
11 17 (16.83%) Observability
12 16 (15.84%) Event-Driven
13 14 (13.86%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (40.59%) Java
2 40 (39.60%) Python
3 18 (17.82%) SQL
4 9 (8.91%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.93%) C++
6 6 (5.94%) C#
7 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.96%) PHP
8 4 (3.96%) Scala
9 3 (2.97%) Go
10 1 (0.99%) Bash
10 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.90%) Degree
2 6 (5.94%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.98%) PhD
5 1 (0.99%) CSPO
5 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.99%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.96%) QA
System Software
1 14 (13.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.93%) Grafana
3 2 (1.98%) Ansible
4 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.91%) Bloomberg
2 9 (8.91%) CQG
2 9 (8.91%) ION Trading
2 9 (8.91%) Oracle
2 9 (8.91%) Patsystems
2 9 (8.91%) Reuters
2 9 (8.91%) Trayport
3 7 (6.93%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.94%) Informatica
5 1 (0.99%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.99%) Workday
5 1 (0.99%) YouTube