Distributed Applications Job Trends in the North West

Distributed Applications
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 - 254
Rank change year-on-year - - -24
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Applications 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.017% - 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.083% - 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - -
75th Percentile £102,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £110,000 £122,773 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.40% +188.88% -53.89%

All Generic Skills
North West

Distributed Applications 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,413 2,481 2,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.75% 47.91% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,801 892 1,502
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,550 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -6.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,625 £85,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% -0.87% -11.54%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Distributed Applications job vacancy trend in the North West

Distributed Applications
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Distributed Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Distributed Applications

Distributed Applications
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Applications within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 August 2026. 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
Manchester - 2 £95,000 - 3
Distributed Applications
England

Distributed Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Development Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Software Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Online Gambling
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript