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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 283 377
Rank change year-on-year +12 +94 -8
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 68 106 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.56% 0.52% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 1.79% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 55 68 21
10th Percentile £64,509 - £50,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £48,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £68,000 £67,529
Median % change year-on-year +15.44% +0.70% -12.87%
75th Percentile £101,987 £69,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £140,677 £86,250 £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 3,846 5,923 6,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.62% 29.28% 42.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,513 3,974 2,978
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £32,827
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £80,000 £85,000
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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -18 33 £79,250 -0.94% 150
Yorkshire +37 29 £78,500 +15.44% 96
North East +55 6 £92,192 +22.92% 17
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 4 (5.88%) SAS
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (51.47%) Azure
2 31 (45.59%) GCP
3 30 (44.12%) AWS
4 16 (23.53%) SaaS
5 7 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.29%) GitHub
5 7 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.88%) dbt
7 4 (5.88%) Pulumi
7 4 (5.88%) Sentry
8 3 (4.41%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) HTTP
2 4 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.88%) Redis
5 3 (4.41%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.94%) Big Data
7 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.47%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.82%) Git
2 6 (8.82%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (7.35%) JIRA
4 4 (5.88%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.88%) JUnit
5 2 (2.94%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Gradle
6 1 (1.47%) Maven
General
1 27 (39.71%) Finance
2 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 19 (27.94%) Banking
4 8 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.88%) Retail
6 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (39.71%) Lead
2 26 (38.24%) Software Engineer
3 21 (30.88%) Lead Software Engineer
4 19 (27.94%) Senior
5 12 (17.65%) C# Software Engineer
6 9 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Architect
8 6 (8.82%) Developer
9 5 (7.35%) .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) Site Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Management Architect
10 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) .NET
2 14 (20.59%) Kafka
3 11 (16.18%) React
3 11 (16.18%) RESTful
3 11 (16.18%) Spring Boot
4 9 (13.24%) Spring
5 8 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 7 (10.29%) Node.js
7 6 (8.82%) .NET Core
7 6 (8.82%) Express.js
7 6 (8.82%) gRPC
8 5 (7.35%) CSS
8 5 (7.35%) HTML
9 4 (5.88%) ARM Templates
9 4 (5.88%) Django
9 4 (5.88%) REST
9 4 (5.88%) Spring Batch
10 3 (4.41%) Hibernate
11 2 (2.94%) Redux
12 1 (1.47%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 29 (42.65%) Product Ownership
2 12 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.29%) Public Cloud
4 5 (7.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.88%) Credit Risk
5 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.88%) Market Risk
6 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.41%) Client/Server
6 3 (4.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (4.41%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.41%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.94%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.94%) Replication
8 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.47%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
1 5 (7.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 39 (57.35%) Software Engineering
3 36 (52.94%) Agile
4 29 (42.65%) Microservices
5 27 (39.71%) Containerisation
6 25 (36.76%) DevOps
7 23 (33.82%) Roadmaps
8 20 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 14 (20.59%) SDLC
11 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (14.71%) Technology Roadmap
13 10 (14.71%) Test Automation
14 9 (13.24%) Low Latency
14 9 (13.24%) Open Source
15 8 (11.76%) Analytics
15 8 (11.76%) Clean Code
15 8 (11.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.29%) C#
2 23 (33.82%) SQL
3 20 (29.41%) Python
4 19 (27.94%) Java
4 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 10 (14.71%) Go
7 6 (8.82%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.88%) R
9 2 (2.94%) Bicep
9 2 (2.94%) C++
9 2 (2.94%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) GDPR
2 4 (5.88%) Basel II
2 4 (5.88%) Basel III
2 4 (5.88%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (5.88%) HIPAA
2 4 (5.88%) IFRS
2 4 (5.88%) IFRS 9
2 4 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (38.24%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (27.94%) Terraform
3 4 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (4.41%) Grafana
5 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Google
2 6 (8.82%) Oracle
3 4 (5.88%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.47%) IBM
5 1 (1.47%) New Relic