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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 645 839
Rank change year-on-year -15 +194 -27
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 99 37 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.100% 0.075% 0.030%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.18% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 65 30 25
10th Percentile £55,000 £64,125 £75,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £66,563 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £117,500 £73,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £83,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -27.50% +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 25,710 20,142 33,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.88% 41.08% 33.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16,406 10,000 20,929
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -27 96 £95,000 +35.71% 33
London +35 74 £115,000 +64.29% 25
Work from Home +39 55 £100,000 +42.86% 8
UK excluding London -71 21 £80,000 +10.34% 10
North of England -41 12 £80,000 +14.29% 4
South West - 6 £85,000 - 1
North West +5 5 £80,000 +72.04% 1
North East - 4 £46,500 - 2
South East -26 3 £72,500 - 3
Yorkshire -33 3 - - 1
Scotland +13 1 - -
Midlands -35 1 £97,500 +34.48% 2
East Midlands - 1 £97,500 - 2

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 9 (9.09%) Confluence
2 6 (6.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.01%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.48%) Azure
2 40 (40.40%) AWS
3 24 (24.24%) GCP
4 6 (6.06%) Collibra
4 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (4.04%) SaaS
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.03%) Serverless
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.02%) GitHub
7 2 (2.02%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.02%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) Multicast
2 6 (6.06%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (2.02%) HTTP
3 2 (2.02%) WAN
4 1 (1.01%) Firewall
4 1 (1.01%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.01%) LAN
4 1 (1.01%) Network Security
4 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.01%) SNMP
4 1 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.01%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.01%) VPN
4 1 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.06%) Big Data
2 6 (6.06%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.03%) Redis
3 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.02%) Power BI
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.01%) Trino
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) JIRA
2 4 (4.04%) Git
3 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.02%) GitLab
3 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.01%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.01%) Gatling
4 1 (1.01%) JMeter
4 1 (1.01%) LoadRunner
General
1 53 (53.54%) Finance
2 14 (14.14%) Banking
3 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (7.07%) Spanish Language
4 4 (4.04%) Front Office
4 4 (4.04%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.01%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (46.46%) Software Engineer
2 16 (16.16%) Lead
3 8 (8.08%) Senior
4 7 (7.07%) Analyst
4 7 (7.07%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.07%) Business Manager
4 7 (7.07%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (7.07%) Data Engineer
4 7 (7.07%) Product Analyst
4 7 (7.07%) Product Business Analyst
4 7 (7.07%) Product Manager
5 6 (6.06%) Python Engineer
5 6 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Architect
7 4 (4.04%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.14%) RESTful
2 8 (8.08%) .NET
2 8 (8.08%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (6.06%) Kafka
3 6 (6.06%) REST
4 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.04%) Node.js
5 3 (3.03%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.03%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.03%) JPA
5 3 (3.03%) SignalR
5 3 (3.03%) Spring
5 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.02%) Java EE
6 2 (2.02%) JMS
6 2 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.02%) React
6 2 (2.02%) Web Services
7 1 (1.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.24%) Product Ownership
2 20 (20.20%) Cloud Native
3 17 (17.17%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (10.10%) Equities
5 9 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (8.08%) Fixed Income
6 8 (8.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (7.07%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (7.07%) Eurex
7 7 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (3.03%) AI Agents
10 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
11 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (1.01%) IoT
11 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Linux
2 7 (7.07%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (62.63%) Software Engineering
2 33 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 29 (29.29%) Technical Leadership
4 24 (24.24%) IT Strategy
4 24 (24.24%) Technology Strategy
5 23 (23.23%) Microservices
5 23 (23.23%) Technical Debt
6 22 (22.22%) Community of Practice
7 20 (20.20%) SDLC
8 19 (19.19%) Agile
9 18 (18.18%) CI/CD
9 18 (18.18%) Computer Science
9 18 (18.18%) Low Latency
10 17 (17.17%) Mentoring
11 16 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (15.15%) Fintech
13 13 (13.13%) Observability
14 12 (12.12%) Decision-Making
15 11 (11.11%) DevOps
15 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.41%) Python
2 39 (39.39%) Java
3 17 (17.17%) SQL
4 10 (10.10%) TypeScript
5 9 (9.09%) C++
6 6 (6.06%) C#
6 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.01%) PHP
8 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.02%) PhD
5 1 (1.01%) CCIE
5 1 (1.01%) CCNP
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.10%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.07%) Grafana
3 3 (3.03%) Ansible
3 3 (3.03%) Terraform
4 2 (2.02%) Kibana
5 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.01%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.10%) Oracle
3 7 (7.07%) Bloomberg
3 7 (7.07%) CQG
3 7 (7.07%) ION Trading
3 7 (7.07%) Patsystems
3 7 (7.07%) Reuters
3 7 (7.07%) Trayport
4 6 (6.06%) Informatica
5 5 (5.05%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.03%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.02%) Google
7 2 (2.02%) IBM
8 1 (1.01%) Cisco
8 1 (1.01%) Dell
8 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.01%) SAP