Hybrid/Remote Distributed Applications Job Trends

Distributed Applications
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 471 445
Rank change year-on-year +65 -26 +261
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Applications 2 1 53
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.012% 0.005% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% 0.014% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 25
10th Percentile £76,500 - £46,250
25th Percentile £86,250 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -26.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £126,250 - £96,539
90th Percentile £137,500 - £97,290
UK median annual salary £105,000 £56,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +86.67% -29.69% +10.34%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Distributed Applications 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,487 6,988 8,868
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.37% 35.27% 40.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,494 3,919 6,982
10th Percentile £28,575 £36,250 £38,125
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Applications and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Applications job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Distributed Applications
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Applications

Distributed Applications
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Applications over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Distributed Applications salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Distributed Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Celery
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) gRPC
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks