Distributed Architecture Job Trends in Manchester

Distributed Architecture
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 155 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.069% 0.075% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.21% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £59,168 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,779 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.40% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £66,389 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £85,000 £62,779 -
% change year-on-year +35.40% - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Distributed Architecture 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,091 960 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.59% 36.19% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 505 441 737
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,409
90th Percentile £88,250 £86,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Manchester

Distributed Architecture
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Distributed Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mob Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft