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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 891 862
Rank change year-on-year +201 -29 -100
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 24 20 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.020% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.057% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 55
10th Percentile £50,250 £56,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £79,375 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £87,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £73,750 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £115,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £100,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -27.50% +14.29% +34.62%

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 20,402 35,281 42,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.17% 35.29% 43.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,394 23,007 23,050
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,498
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £109,865
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 22 May 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 22 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 +163 23 £70,000 -20.00% 89
UK excluding London +197 13 £72,500 -27.50% 41
Work from Home +138 10 £70,000 -12.50% 49
London +113 10 £70,000 -12.50% 67
South East +96 5 £72,500 -27.50% 24
West Midlands - 4 £72,500 - 2
Midlands - 4 £72,500 - 3
North of England - 3 £70,000 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £70,000 - 3
North West - 1 £46,500 - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 3

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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (20.83%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) Route 53
4 4 (16.67%) SaaS
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) GitHub
5 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.33%) Azure API Management
6 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) MySQL
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.17%) Power BI
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
2 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) jMock
3 4 (16.67%) JUnit
3 4 (16.67%) Maven
3 4 (16.67%) Mockito
3 4 (16.67%) PHPUnit
3 4 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (4.17%) Gatling
5 1 (4.17%) Jasmine
5 1 (4.17%) JMeter
5 1 (4.17%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (4.17%) Locust
5 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
2 4 (16.67%) SaaS Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) RESTful
2 8 (33.33%) React
3 7 (29.17%) CSS
4 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
4 5 (20.83%) Hibernate
4 5 (20.83%) HTML
4 5 (20.83%) Jest
4 5 (20.83%) JPA
4 5 (20.83%) Spring
4 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
5 4 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (16.67%) Bootstrap
5 4 (16.67%) jQuery
5 4 (16.67%) LAMP
5 4 (16.67%) Laravel
5 4 (16.67%) PowerMock
5 4 (16.67%) REST
5 4 (16.67%) SOAP
5 4 (16.67%) Spring Batch
5 4 (16.67%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.33%) Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (4.17%) NHS
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
1 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Microservices
2 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 12 (50.00%) Agile
3 12 (50.00%) DevOps
4 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (33.33%) TDD
5 6 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 6 (25.00%) Fintech
6 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (20.83%) Kanban
6 5 (20.83%) Scrum
6 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 5 (20.83%) User Experience
7 4 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 4 (16.67%) Data Privacy
7 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 4 (16.67%) Mobile First
7 4 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) C#
4 4 (16.67%) PHP
4 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Azure Certification
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Grafana
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk