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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 314 391
Rank change year-on-year +42 +77 -32
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 69 69 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.59% 0.39% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 1.27% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 56 55 21
10th Percentile £63,690 - £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £48,250 £66,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £100,230 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £87,000 £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 3,922 5,424 6,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.51% 30.68% 39.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,549 4,002 3,061
10th Percentile £28,188 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £70,834 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £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 21 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 21 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
North West -5 33 £80,000 - 84
Yorkshire +62 29 £77,500 +13.97% 36
North East +44 7 £69,384 -7.49% 21
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 5 (7.25%) SAS
2 2 (2.90%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (49.28%) Azure
2 33 (47.83%) GCP
3 31 (44.93%) AWS
4 16 (23.19%) SaaS
5 9 (13.04%) GitHub
5 9 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (5.80%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.80%) dbt
8 4 (5.80%) Pulumi
8 4 (5.80%) Sentry
9 3 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) HTTP
2 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.14%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.80%) Redis
4 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.90%) Big Data
7 1 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.45%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) CircleCI
1 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.70%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) JIRA
2 6 (8.70%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (5.80%) JUnit
4 2 (2.90%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) Gradle
5 1 (1.45%) Maven
General
1 26 (37.68%) Finance
2 24 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 19 (27.54%) Banking
4 9 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Retail
8 1 (1.45%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (40.58%) Lead
2 26 (37.68%) Software Engineer
3 20 (28.99%) Lead Software Engineer
3 20 (28.99%) Senior
4 11 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (13.04%) C# Software Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Architect
7 6 (8.70%) Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Enterprise Management Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Lead Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Site Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.80%) C# Software Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (5.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.74%) .NET
2 14 (20.29%) Kafka
3 13 (18.84%) React
4 11 (15.94%) RESTful
5 10 (14.49%) AngularJS
6 9 (13.04%) Node.js
6 9 (13.04%) Spring Boot
7 7 (10.14%) Spring
8 6 (8.70%) .NET Core
8 6 (8.70%) Express.js
8 6 (8.70%) gRPC
9 5 (7.25%) CSS
9 5 (7.25%) HTML
10 4 (5.80%) ARM Templates
10 4 (5.80%) Django
10 4 (5.80%) REST
10 4 (5.80%) Spring Batch
11 2 (2.90%) AWS CDK
11 2 (2.90%) Redux
12 1 (1.45%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (39.13%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.94%) Public Cloud
3 6 (8.70%) Data Structures
4 5 (7.25%) Credit Risk
4 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.25%) Market Risk
5 4 (5.80%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.80%) Client/Server
5 4 (5.80%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.90%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.90%) Replication
8 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Linux
1 5 (7.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 36 (52.17%) Software Engineering
3 31 (44.93%) Agile
4 30 (43.48%) Containerisation
5 28 (40.58%) Microservices
6 26 (37.68%) DevOps
7 19 (27.54%) Roadmaps
8 17 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (24.64%) Mentoring
9 16 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (23.19%) SDLC
10 12 (17.39%) Test Automation
11 11 (15.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.49%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (13.04%) Analytics
13 9 (13.04%) Low Latency
14 8 (11.59%) Observability
14 8 (11.59%) OOP
14 8 (11.59%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.33%) SQL
2 22 (31.88%) C#
2 22 (31.88%) Python
3 20 (28.99%) JavaScript
4 18 (26.09%) Java
5 13 (18.84%) TypeScript
6 10 (14.49%) Go
7 6 (8.70%) PL/SQL
8 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 5 (7.25%) R
9 3 (4.35%) Bicep
10 2 (2.90%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
1 4 (5.80%) Degree
1 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) GDPR
2 6 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.25%) Basel II
3 5 (7.25%) Basel III
3 5 (7.25%) Dodd-Frank
3 5 (7.25%) IFRS
3 5 (7.25%) IFRS 9
4 4 (5.80%) HIPAA
4 4 (5.80%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (39.13%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (49.28%) Kubernetes
2 23 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (5.80%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (4.35%) Grafana
5 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Google
2 6 (8.70%) Oracle
3 4 (5.80%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.45%) New Relic
4 1 (1.45%) Sparx