Distributed Systems Jobs in the North West

Distributed Systems
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in permanent job vacancies in the North West. 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 228 260 286
Rank change year-on-year +32 +26 -8
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 29 29 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.38% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 0.93% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 14
10th Percentile £63,738 £45,000 £53,375
25th Percentile £64,688 £66,250 £67,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -9.68%
75th Percentile £92,000 £87,188 £86,750
90th Percentile £146,300 £182,500 £99,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,995 3,103 3,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 26.34% 31.93% 42.23%
Number of salaries quoted 953 2,271 1,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £31,752
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,043 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,100 £82,548 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the North West

Distributed Systems
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Distributed Systems in the North West

Distributed Systems
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Distributed Systems in the North West

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the North West 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
Manchester +74 25 £82,500 - 44
Merseyside +42 3 £67,500 - 1
Cheshire +36 1 £80,000 - 3
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.45%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
2 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) JIRA
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) JUnit
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Senior
1 7 (24.14%) Software Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Support Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Technical Support
7 1 (3.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
1 6 (20.69%) Spring Boot
2 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
2 5 (17.24%) gRPC
2 5 (17.24%) Spring
3 4 (13.79%) ARM Templates
3 4 (13.79%) RESTful
4 3 (10.34%) CSS
4 3 (10.34%) HTML
4 3 (10.34%) Node.js
4 3 (10.34%) React
4 3 (10.34%) REST
4 3 (10.34%) Spring Batch
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.45%) Bootstrap
6 1 (3.45%) Django
6 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.90%) Replication
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 17 (58.62%) Containerisation
3 15 (51.72%) Microservices
4 13 (44.83%) Agile
5 12 (41.38%) DevOps
6 11 (37.93%) Software Engineering
7 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
10 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
10 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (17.24%) Observability
10 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
10 5 (17.24%) SDLC
11 4 (13.79%) High Availability
11 4 (13.79%) Log Analytics
11 4 (13.79%) Service-Level Objective
11 4 (13.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Java
2 8 (27.59%) Python
3 7 (24.14%) Go
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.34%) Bicep
6 2 (6.90%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) SQL
7 1 (3.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
1 4 (13.79%) HIPAA
1 4 (13.79%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Kubernetes
2 14 (48.28%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.45%) Ansible
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) New Relic