Distributed Computing Job Trends in the North of England

Distributed Computing
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 288 281
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +155
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Computing 2 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.021% 0.072% 0.078%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.062% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £58,500 - £59,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -31.03% -54.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £52,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,500 £57,500 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £92,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -16.22% +8.82% +3.03%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Distributed Computing 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,239 3,410 2,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.78% 27.31% 37.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,669 1,419 2,130
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £31,475
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -5.30% +0.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,987 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.36% -4.00% -0.79%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Computing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Distributed Computing
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
North West +16 2 £65,000 +30.00% 11
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes