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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 209 305
Rank change year-on-year +20 +96 -57
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Systems 71 10 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.85% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 0.61% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15 10 14
10th Percentile £52,000 £49,025 £60,625
25th Percentile £58,125 £52,550 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -16.13% +67.57%
75th Percentile £74,144 £70,000 £151,318
90th Percentile £76,908 £122,750 £155,894
England median annual salary £82,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.88% +13.33%

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 2,300 1,639 3,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 27.61% 36.32% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1,135 2,042
10th Percentile £31,600 £32,092 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,440 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +0.80% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £64,968
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.80% +8.28%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024. 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 +53 65 £69,308 +6.63% 8
Lancashire - 3 £62,500 -
Cumbria - 1 £60,000 -
Merseyside - 1 £67,500 -
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 11 (15.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 66 (92.96%) AWS
2 40 (56.34%) Amazon Kinesis
3 23 (32.39%) Azure
4 19 (26.76%) GCP
5 8 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.63%) GitHub
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (4.23%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.23%) dbt
7 3 (4.23%) PaaS
7 3 (4.23%) Pulumi
8 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.82%) Sentry
9 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Internet
1 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) DSL
2 2 (2.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (63.38%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (57.75%) NoSQL
3 40 (56.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 40 (56.34%) DynamoDB
4 27 (38.03%) Redis
5 8 (11.27%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.41%) Big Data
8 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.41%) Power BI
8 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (32.39%) Gatling
2 11 (15.49%) JIRA
3 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.23%) GitLab
4 2 (2.82%) Git
4 2 (2.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.41%) Jaeger
General
1 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Billing
2 13 (18.31%) Electronics
3 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (56.34%) Software Engineer
2 29 (40.85%) Lead
2 29 (40.85%) Lead Software Engineer
3 28 (39.44%) Senior
4 13 (18.31%) Scala Engineer
4 13 (18.31%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) Technical Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) Technical Leader
6 10 (14.08%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Technical Business Analyst
9 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 1 (1.41%) Developer
9 1 (1.41%) Engineering Manager
9 1 (1.41%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (59.15%) REST
1 42 (59.15%) Web Services
2 40 (56.34%) GraphQL
2 40 (56.34%) http4s
2 40 (56.34%) Scalaz
3 5 (7.04%) AWS CDK
3 5 (7.04%) SAML
4 3 (4.23%) Django
4 3 (4.23%) OAuth
4 3 (4.23%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.82%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.82%) JSON
5 2 (2.82%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.82%) RESTful
5 2 (2.82%) Swagger
6 1 (1.41%) Kafka
6 1 (1.41%) Loki
6 1 (1.41%) Node.js
6 1 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 53 (74.65%) Media Streaming
2 40 (56.34%) Blog
3 30 (42.25%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (11.27%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
1 3 (4.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (88.73%) Agile
2 62 (87.32%) DevOps
3 52 (73.24%) Functional Programming
4 44 (61.97%) Continuous Integration
5 43 (60.56%) Open Source
5 43 (60.56%) Software Engineering
6 40 (56.34%) Integration Testing
6 40 (56.34%) Unit Testing
7 31 (43.66%) Mentoring
8 30 (42.25%) Coaching
9 21 (29.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (26.76%) Roadmaps
11 15 (21.13%) Computer Science
12 13 (18.31%) Analytics
12 13 (18.31%) CI/CD
12 13 (18.31%) Customer Retention
12 13 (18.31%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (18.31%) End-to-End Testing
12 13 (18.31%) Pair Programming
12 13 (18.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (74.65%) Scala
2 14 (19.72%) Python
3 13 (18.31%) Java
3 13 (18.31%) Kotlin
4 11 (15.49%) Go
5 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.63%) SQL
8 1 (1.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Degree
2 14 (19.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (11.27%) PCI DSS
2 7 (9.86%) NIST
3 5 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.82%) QA
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (8.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (36.62%) Terraform
2 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.23%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
4 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Google
2 15 (21.13%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Informatica