Distributed Architecture Job Trends in the North West

Distributed Architecture
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 204 -
Rank change year-on-year +27 - -
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Architecture 2 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.032% 0.060% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.071% 0.19% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £59,168 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,779 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.40% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £66,389 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £62,779 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.49% -19.00% -11.43%

All Generic Skills
North West

Distributed Architecture 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 2,804 1,553 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.20% 30.82% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 939 780 1,133
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,670
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the North West

Distributed Architecture
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Distributed Architecture
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 Architecture within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 January 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 +26 2 £85,000 +35.40% 2
Distributed Architecture
England

Distributed Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mob Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft