Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends 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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 115 144
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 +32
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 11 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.29% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.06% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile £393 £440 -
25th Percentile £510 £463 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £638 £495 £675
90th Percentile £703 £521 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%

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 741 660 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.93% 27.49% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 365 541
10th Percentile £311 £294 £256
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.56%
75th Percentile £567 £588 £593
90th Percentile £650 £713 £659
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 40
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.58 £16.23
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.44 £20.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £23.50 £40.80
Median % change year-on-year +78.47% -42.39% +102.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £86.90 £70.38
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the North West

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 19 September 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 -5 4 £550 +13.99% 13
Merseyside - 4 £510 - 2
Cheshire -21 3 £675 +50.00% 1
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 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
2 1 (9.09%) Mule
2 1 (9.09%) Mule ESB
2 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure AKS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JUnit
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Postman
3 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
4 2 (18.18%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
5 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Architect
4 3 (27.27%) Software Architect
5 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) RESTful
1 5 (45.45%) Spring
1 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) jQuery
2 4 (36.36%) POJO
2 4 (36.36%) React
2 4 (36.36%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) J2EE
3 1 (9.09%) Middleware
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Unit Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) API Development
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) MVC
5 4 (36.36%) User Research
6 3 (27.27%) FMEA
6 3 (27.27%) UML
7 2 (18.18%) Agile
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) Requirements Management
8 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
8 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) C
2 3 (27.27%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
2 3 (27.27%) IEC 61508
2 3 (27.27%) IEC 62304
2 3 (27.27%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Atlassian
2 2 (18.18%) AppDynamics
2 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 1 (9.09%) SAP