Distributed Systems Contracts in Manchester

Distributed Systems
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 87 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +24
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% 0.59% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.13% 2.15% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £540 - £428
25th Percentile £544 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £489
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +7.42% -19.38%
75th Percentile £577 £650 £518
90th Percentile £592 £665 £521
North West median daily rate £544 £525 £515
% change year-on-year +3.62% +1.94% -18.25%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Distributed Systems 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 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Manchester

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Manchester

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle