Distributed Systems Contracts in the North West

Distributed Systems
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 150 176
Rank change year-on-year +24 +26 -54
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 11 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.40% 0.093% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £450 £437 £514
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £630
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -18.25% -0.79%
75th Percentile £650 £523 £655
90th Percentile £660 - £697
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

All Generic Skills
North West

Distributed Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 735 1,087 1,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.60% 33.83% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 727 1,077
10th Percentile £295 £298 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.70%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £588
90th Percentile £672 £675 £673
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 48 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.60 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.17 £12.27
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.84 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +50.49% +3.35%
75th Percentile £42.19 £65.00 £39.14
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.19
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the North West

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the North West

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the North West

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the North West

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +23 9 £525 +7.42% 7
Cheshire +5 1 £438 -15.05%
Lancashire - 1 £650 -
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (36.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) npm
2 4 (36.36%) Yarn
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jasmine
1 4 (36.36%) Karma Test Runner
1 4 (36.36%) Mocha
1 4 (36.36%) webpack
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) React
3 3 (27.27%) .NET
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 2 (18.18%) SAML
5 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (9.09%) Lucene
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js
5 1 (9.09%) Spring
5 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 4 (36.36%) Data Structures
2 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) OO
3 4 (36.36%) Asynchronous Programming
3 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (36.36%) Memory Management
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
3 4 (36.36%) OOP
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) SOLID
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
4 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) Go
2 4 (36.36%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft