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 in the North West. 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 116 126 154
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 +15
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 4 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.40% 0.094%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% 1.48% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £412 £450 £437
25th Percentile £492 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% +1.94% -18.25%
75th Percentile £564 £650 £523
90th Percentile £587 £660 -
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +11 3 £551 +4.95% 44
Cheshire 0 1 £358 -18.17% 3
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 1 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Struts
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) IBM