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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 141 174
Rank change year-on-year +23 +33 -17
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 5 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.21% 0.035% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 0.12% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £433 - £459
25th Percentile £444 £625 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% -21.26%
75th Percentile £491 £675 £605
90th Percentile £494 - £634
England median daily rate £613 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +2.08% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £90.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% +6.81%

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 663 836 1,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.65% 29.20% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 549 954
10th Percentile £294 £256 £227
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £713 £660 £671
England median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 39 50
10th Percentile £15.58 £16.20 £13.88
25th Percentile £17.44 £19.25 £16.40
Median hourly rate £23.50 £40.59 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -42.10% +101.64% +16.63%
75th Percentile £60.25 £54.38 £27.67
90th Percentile £91.90 £70.75 £70.08
England median hourly rate £57.35 £45.41 £26.00
% change year-on-year +26.29% +74.65% +4.00%

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
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 20 September 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 3 £483 -25.77% 9
Cheshire - 2 £450 - 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) npm
1 3 (60.00%) Yarn
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jasmine
1 3 (60.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 3 (60.00%) Mocha
1 3 (60.00%) webpack
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 3 (60.00%) Memory Management
2 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) SOLID
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef