Distributed Systems Job Trends in Lancashire

Distributed Systems
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.066% - 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% - 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,500 - £60,000
75th Percentile £91,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £81,250 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +21.43% +9.80%

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

Distributed Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 310 745 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 20.60% 65.87% 31.35%
Number of salaries quoted 223 94 212
10th Percentile £30,750 £22,425 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,375 £25,125 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £54,793 £65,603
90th Percentile £74,985 £66,000 £74,700
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,954
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.58% -7.91%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Distributed Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Preston - 1 £88,500 -
Distributed Systems
North West

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google