Distributed Systems Contracts in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 102 118
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 -15
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 4 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.49% 0.62% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.72% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £430 £550 £444
25th Percentile £475 £688 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £538
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +39.53% +34.38%
75th Percentile £634 £775 £597
90th Percentile £644 £781 £621
Scotland median daily rate £440 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -41.33% +66.67% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Distributed Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 270 466 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 33.37% 35.87% 35.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 327 484
10th Percentile £331 £242 £313
25th Percentile £420 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% -4.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £575
90th Percentile £668 £625 £650
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 9
10th Percentile £14.88 £21.34 £19.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.47 £40.25
Median hourly rate £20.57 £21.67 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -54.38% +4.40%
75th Percentile £60.19 £37.71 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £47.33 £54.15
Scotland median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -5.49%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Process Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 8583