Distributed Systems Contracts in Scotland

Distributed Systems
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 108 157 163
Rank change year-on-year +49 +6 -23
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 23 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.04% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.19% 0.77% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 4
10th Percentile £385 £550 £422
25th Percentile £400 £688 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +66.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £453 £775 £516
90th Percentile £513 £781 £589
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 721 1,036 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.67% 36.24% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 712 814
10th Percentile £204 £250 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £13.75 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £18.90
Median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £38.25 £28.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.38 £52.55 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 19 £437 - 3
Edinburgh +35 4 £600 -20.00% 13
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (43.48%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (21.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) Azure
3 10 (43.48%) Snowflake
4 6 (26.09%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) HBase
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (13.04%) Banking
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Java Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Backend Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Java Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Kafka
1 8 (34.78%) RESTful
2 6 (26.09%) Spring
3 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (17.39%) OpenTracing
4 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.35%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Computer Science
2 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) Microservices
3 10 (43.48%) Agile
3 10 (43.48%) Data Engineering
3 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (43.48%) DataOps
3 10 (43.48%) GitOps
3 10 (43.48%) MLOps
4 9 (39.13%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) SDLC
6 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
6 7 (30.43%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (21.74%) Scrum
7 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 4 (17.39%) Dependency Injection
9 3 (13.04%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Java
2 18 (78.26%) Scala
3 11 (47.83%) Python
4 8 (34.78%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.70%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Zipkin
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (4.35%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk