Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Distributed Architecture
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.24% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £417 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - -
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile £496 - -
North West median daily rate £444 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Distributed Architecture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 528 265 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 31.71% 28.43% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 188 286
10th Percentile £309 £203 £300
25th Percentile £374 £391 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £572 £614 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £725
North West median daily rate £459 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 14 29
10th Percentile £19.75 £20.75 £12.90
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £32.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +115.38% +28.71% -27.86%
75th Percentile £95.00 £56.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £76.00 £59.78
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £29.52 £25.25
% change year-on-year +54.02% +16.89% -19.82%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Manchester

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus