Distributed Systems Jobs in Manchester

Distributed Systems
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 197 231
Rank change year-on-year +76 +34 +1
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 25 22 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.16% 0.43% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.80% 1.26% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 10
10th Percentile £64,315 £45,000 £49,025
25th Percentile £68,750 £60,188 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +17.86% -9.68%
75th Percentile £105,688 £111,250 -
90th Percentile £146,300 £182,500 £86,550
North West median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -9.68%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 892 1,749 2,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 41.43% 34.09% 44.42%
Number of salaries quoted 560 1,265 1,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £35,685
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -4.35% +5.50%
75th Percentile £77,005 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,759 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Manchester

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Manchester.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in Manchester

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in Manchester

Distributed Systems
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport - 2 £80,000 - 1
Salford - 1 £67,626 -
Distributed Systems
North West

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (4.00%) dbt
6 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.00%) Big Data
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.00%) Redis
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) JUnit
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Lead
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Kafka
1 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (20.00%) gRPC
2 5 (20.00%) Spring
3 4 (16.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (16.00%) RESTful
4 3 (12.00%) CSS
4 3 (12.00%) HTML
4 3 (12.00%) Node.js
4 3 (12.00%) React
4 3 (12.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) Spring Batch
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.00%) Django
5 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (8.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (60.00%) Microservices
3 13 (52.00%) Agile
3 13 (52.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (44.00%) DevOps
4 11 (44.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (24.00%) Unit Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 5 (20.00%) Observability
7 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 5 (20.00%) SDLC
8 4 (16.00%) Analytics
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) High Availability
8 4 (16.00%) Log Analytics
8 4 (16.00%) Service-Level Objective
8 4 (16.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) Go
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) GDPR
1 4 (16.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (16.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Grafana
4 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.00%) New Relic