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

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 250 286
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 -8
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 33 40 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.42% 0.39% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 1.27% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 22 22 10
10th Percentile £63,750 £45,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £65,938 £51,563 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,250 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +14.29% -9.68%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 -
90th Percentile £142,295 £182,500 £86,550
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 2,518 3,148 3,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.37% 30.91% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 871 2,282 1,475
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,119 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
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 27 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 27 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 +55 29 £82,500 +10.00% 136
Merseyside - 3 £67,500 - 29
Cheshire +3 1 £80,000 - 64
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 (6.06%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 15 (45.45%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (9.09%) SaaS
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.03%) dbt
7 1 (3.03%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.03%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 5 (15.15%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.09%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.06%) Big Data
5 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 4 (12.12%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) JUnit
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Senior
1 9 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Lead
3 6 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Associate Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineering Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Software Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) Spring Boot
2 7 (21.21%) Kafka
2 7 (21.21%) Spring
3 6 (18.18%) gRPC
4 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
4 5 (15.15%) RESTful
5 4 (12.12%) ARM Templates
5 4 (12.12%) CSS
5 4 (12.12%) HTML
5 4 (12.12%) REST
5 4 (12.12%) Spring Batch
6 2 (6.06%) .NET
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
6 2 (6.06%) Hibernate
6 2 (6.06%) Node.js
6 2 (6.06%) React
7 1 (3.03%) Bootstrap
7 1 (3.03%) Django
7 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 19 (57.58%) Containerisation
3 18 (54.55%) Microservices
4 17 (51.52%) Agile
5 14 (42.42%) Software Engineering
6 13 (39.39%) DevOps
7 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
9 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (21.21%) Unit Testing
10 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
11 5 (15.15%) Observability
11 5 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (15.15%) Scrum
11 5 (15.15%) SDLC
11 5 (15.15%) User Experience
12 4 (12.12%) Analytics
12 4 (12.12%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Java
2 8 (24.24%) Go
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.12%) C#
5 4 (12.12%) SQL
6 3 (9.09%) Bicep
7 2 (6.06%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
1 4 (12.12%) HIPAA
1 4 (12.12%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (42.42%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.03%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Google
2 4 (12.12%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.03%) New Relic