Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in the North West

Distributed Architecture
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.13% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% - -
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 - -
England median daily rate £515 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -28.97% +20.83% -7.76%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 984 552 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.03% 28.31% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 369 517
10th Percentile £256 £203 £293
25th Percentile £365 £363 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £584 £581
90th Percentile £625 £665 £672
England median daily rate £513 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.65% -0.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 38 75
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.05 £13.00
25th Percentile £35.74 £24.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £29.52 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +54.02% +16.89% -19.82%
75th Percentile £74.26 £33.75 £37.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.75 £46.18
England median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +33.71% +19.30% +26.67%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the North West

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
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 Architecture within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 April 2026. 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 - 4 £444 - 3
Distributed Architecture
England

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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