Distributed Systems Jobs in the North of England

Distributed Systems
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 338 401
Rank change year-on-year +100 +63 -44
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 70 55 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 1.02% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 55 47 21
10th Percentile £58,000 - £56,250
25th Percentile £64,754 £48,250 £66,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% -2.86% -30.79%
75th Percentile £101,987 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £87,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,108 5,398 6,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 28.37% 31.24% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,564 3,993 3,096
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,459 £71,652
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the North of England

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North of England.

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the North of England

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the North of England

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +86 34 £77,500 +13.97% 16
North West +32 29 £80,000 - 46
North East +55 7 £69,384 -7.49% 8
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (10.00%) SAS
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) GCP
2 32 (45.71%) Azure
3 30 (42.86%) AWS
4 13 (18.57%) SaaS
5 10 (14.29%) GitHub
5 10 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (5.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 4 (5.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (5.71%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.71%) dbt
8 4 (5.71%) Pulumi
8 4 (5.71%) Sentry
9 3 (4.29%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) HTTP
1 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.71%) Redis
4 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.29%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.86%) Big Data
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.43%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) CircleCI
2 8 (11.43%) Git
3 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.57%) JIRA
4 6 (8.57%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (4.29%) GitLab
5 3 (4.29%) JUnit
6 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.43%) Gradle
6 1 (1.43%) Maven
6 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 28 (40.00%) Finance
3 23 (32.86%) Banking
4 11 (15.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (38.57%) Lead
2 23 (32.86%) Software Engineer
3 18 (25.71%) Senior
4 16 (22.86%) Lead Software Engineer
5 13 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (14.29%) Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Management Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Lead Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.14%) C# Developer
8 5 (7.14%) C# Software Developer
8 5 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Site Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) .NET
1 13 (18.57%) Kafka
1 13 (18.57%) React
2 12 (17.14%) RESTful
3 10 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 9 (12.86%) AngularJS
4 9 (12.86%) Node.js
5 8 (11.43%) Spring
6 6 (8.57%) .NET Core
6 6 (8.57%) Express.js
7 5 (7.14%) gRPC
8 4 (5.71%) ARM Templates
8 4 (5.71%) CSS
8 4 (5.71%) Django
8 4 (5.71%) HTML
8 4 (5.71%) REST
9 3 (4.29%) Spring Batch
10 2 (2.86%) AWS CDK
10 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 25 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 13 (18.57%) Public Cloud
3 12 (17.14%) Cloud Native
4 7 (10.00%) Credit Risk
4 7 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (10.00%) Market Risk
5 6 (8.57%) Data Structures
6 4 (5.71%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.71%) Client/Server
6 4 (5.71%) Hedge funds
7 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.86%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.86%) Replication
9 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.43%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 5 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (47.14%) Containerisation
2 33 (47.14%) Software Engineering
3 31 (44.29%) Agile
3 31 (44.29%) Microservices
4 30 (42.86%) DevOps
5 19 (27.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (27.14%) Mentoring
6 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (25.71%) Test Automation
7 16 (22.86%) Roadmaps
7 16 (22.86%) SDLC
8 13 (18.57%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (15.71%) Analytics
9 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (12.86%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (12.86%) Low Latency
12 8 (11.43%) Data Protection
12 8 (11.43%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) Python
2 21 (30.00%) SQL
3 19 (27.14%) C#
3 19 (27.14%) Java
4 17 (24.29%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.14%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.43%) Go
7 7 (10.00%) R
8 6 (8.57%) PL/SQL
9 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
10 3 (4.29%) Bicep
11 1 (1.43%) C++
11 1 (1.43%) Groovy
11 1 (1.43%) Perl
11 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) GDPR
2 8 (11.43%) PCI DSS
3 7 (10.00%) Basel II
3 7 (10.00%) Basel III
3 7 (10.00%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (10.00%) IFRS
3 7 (10.00%) IFRS 9
4 4 (5.71%) HIPAA
4 4 (5.71%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.43%) NIST
6 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 29 (41.43%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (54.29%) Kubernetes
2 25 (35.71%) Terraform
3 4 (5.71%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (4.29%) Grafana
5 2 (2.86%) Ansible
5 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Google
2 6 (8.57%) Oracle
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.29%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.86%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.43%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.43%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) New Relic
6 1 (1.43%) Sparx