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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 703 891 834
Rank change year-on-year +188 -57 -48
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 37 23 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.022% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.064% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 30 22 40
10th Percentile £64,125 £75,000 £64,375
25th Percentile £66,563 £77,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £73,750 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £115,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £100,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -27.50% +14.29% +9.38%

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 21,738 35,776 37,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.52% 33.48% 42.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,342 22,762 21,926
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,880 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -14.10% +2.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £99,750 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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 +170 35 £70,000 -26.32% 185
London +104 19 £70,000 -20.00% 130
UK excluding London +180 15 £72,500 -27.50% 66
Work from Home +118 11 £70,000 -12.50% 71
South East +71 6 £72,500 -27.50% 24
Midlands +92 4 £72,500 - 5
West Midlands +69 4 £72,500 - 3
North of England - 4 £70,000 - 13
Yorkshire - 3 £70,000 - 5
North West - 1 £46,500 - 7
Scotland - 1 - - 4

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 9 (24.32%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) Apache
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Azure
3 11 (29.73%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (24.32%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (21.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (21.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (18.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (18.92%) Amazon S3
6 7 (18.92%) AWS KMS
6 7 (18.92%) Route 53
7 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.81%) GCP
7 4 (10.81%) GitHub
7 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.81%) SaaS
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.70%) Cloudflare
10 1 (2.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (5.41%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.92%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (18.92%) DynamoDB
3 5 (13.51%) MySQL
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.70%) Power BI
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Git
2 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
3 9 (24.32%) JIRA
4 7 (18.92%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (18.92%) DbUnit
4 7 (18.92%) jMock
4 7 (18.92%) JUnit
4 7 (18.92%) Maven
4 7 (18.92%) Mockito
4 7 (18.92%) SonarQube
5 4 (10.81%) PHPUnit
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 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Front Office
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Analyst
3 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (18.92%) Java Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Lead
4 7 (18.92%) Lead Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Lead Java Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior
6 4 (10.81%) Backend Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Principal Developer
6 4 (10.81%) SaaS Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 2 (5.41%) Head of Engineering
8 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) RESTful
2 11 (29.73%) Hibernate
2 11 (29.73%) JPA
2 11 (29.73%) Spring
2 11 (29.73%) Spring Boot
3 8 (21.62%) AngularJS
4 7 (18.92%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (18.92%) Bootstrap
4 7 (18.92%) PowerMock
4 7 (18.92%) SOAP
4 7 (18.92%) Spring Batch
4 7 (18.92%) Spring Integration
4 7 (18.92%) Web Services
5 6 (16.22%) Kafka
5 6 (16.22%) React
6 5 (13.51%) CSS
6 5 (13.51%) HTML
6 5 (13.51%) Jest
7 4 (10.81%) LAMP
7 4 (10.81%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (21.62%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Derivative
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (5.41%) Equities
4 2 (5.41%) Eurex
4 2 (5.41%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 9 (24.32%) Linux
3 8 (21.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) Microservices
2 20 (54.05%) CI/CD
3 18 (48.65%) DevOps
4 16 (43.24%) Agile
4 16 (43.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (40.54%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
6 11 (29.73%) TDD
7 10 (27.03%) Scrum
8 9 (24.32%) Fintech
8 9 (24.32%) Open Source
9 8 (21.62%) Change Management
9 8 (21.62%) Computer Science
9 8 (21.62%) Continuous Deployment
9 8 (21.62%) Customer Service
9 8 (21.62%) Kanban
9 8 (21.62%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (21.62%) Problem Management
9 8 (21.62%) Service Management
9 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Java
2 11 (29.73%) Python
3 10 (27.03%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.51%) Go
5 4 (10.81%) PHP
6 2 (5.41%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) C++
6 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Azure Certification
1 8 (21.62%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
1 8 (21.62%) Master's Degree
1 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) QA
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Grafana
2 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 10 (27.03%) Prometheus
3 6 (16.22%) Terraform
4 2 (5.41%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (24.32%) Atlassian
3 8 (21.62%) SolarWinds
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle
5 2 (5.41%) Bloomberg
5 2 (5.41%) CQG
5 2 (5.41%) ION Trading
5 2 (5.41%) Patsystems
5 2 (5.41%) Reuters
5 2 (5.41%) Trayport
6 1 (2.70%) Google
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk