Distributed Systems Contracts

Distributed Systems
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 368 432
Rank change year-on-year -10 +64 -107
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 227 395 505
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.66% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 1.98% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 286 348
10th Percentile £375 £489 £462
25th Percentile £450 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £775
90th Percentile £838 £850 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -14.56% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 13
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile - £79.89 -
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.15% +3.45%
75th Percentile - £88.30 £65.54
90th Percentile - £89.32 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.40%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +3 187 £650 +4.00% 150
London -17 143 £675 +4.77% 99
Work from Home +56 85 £630 +0.80% 83
UK excluding London +70 72 £440 -14.56% 68
Scotland +48 23 £440 -41.33% 17
South East +7 23 £285 -43.84% 12
North of England +48 19 £500 -2.91% 17
North West +24 11 £525 +1.94% 7
Yorkshire +27 8 £400 - 9
West Midlands +27 3 £450 -32.84% 3
Midlands +20 3 £450 -32.84% 4
South West +21 2 £800 +33.33% 5
East of England +14 2 £600 +20.00% 10

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.52%) Apache
3 8 (3.52%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.20%) Confluence
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.88%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 15 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.08%) ION MarketView
2 5 (2.20%) Endur
3 4 (1.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.88%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.88%) Shopify
5 1 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.44%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 72 (31.72%) AWS
2 62 (27.31%) Azure
3 26 (11.45%) GCP
4 19 (8.37%) Serverless
5 13 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (4.85%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.85%) Snowflake
7 10 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (3.96%) NuGet
9 8 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (3.08%) GitHub
11 6 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.64%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.20%) npm
12 5 (2.20%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.41%) SAN
2 9 (3.96%) HTTP
3 6 (2.64%) DNS
4 4 (1.76%) Internet
5 3 (1.32%) Firewall
6 2 (0.88%) DHCP
7 1 (0.44%) DSL
7 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.54%) Relational Database
2 25 (11.01%) MongoDB
3 23 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (10.13%) SQL Server
4 17 (7.49%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.73%) KDB
6 9 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.52%) Redis
8 6 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.20%) Big Data
9 5 (2.20%) Bigtable
9 5 (2.20%) MySQL
10 4 (1.76%) Cloud Spanner
10 4 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.76%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.88%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.88%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (16.30%) Git
2 23 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.52%) GitLab
4 7 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.64%) JIRA
5 6 (2.64%) JUnit
5 6 (2.64%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (2.20%) Pylint
6 5 (2.20%) webpack
7 4 (1.76%) ClearCase
7 4 (1.76%) ClearQuest
7 4 (1.76%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.76%) Mocha
7 4 (1.76%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.88%) Gradle
8 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.88%) Maven
8 2 (0.88%) Mockito
8 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.45%) Finance
3 22 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.81%) Banking
5 19 (8.37%) Front Office
6 12 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.64%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.64%) Public Speaking
10 4 (1.76%) Electronics
11 3 (1.32%) Marketing
12 2 (0.88%) Retail
13 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (44.49%) Developer
2 57 (25.11%) Senior
3 38 (16.74%) Java Developer
4 28 (12.33%) Senior Developer
5 22 (9.69%) Software Engineer
6 21 (9.25%) Architect
7 20 (8.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (8.37%) Site Engineer
9 17 (7.49%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.49%) Python Engineer
10 16 (7.05%) Backend Developer
11 14 (6.17%) C# Developer
11 14 (6.17%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.41%) Front Office Developer
15 10 (4.41%) Scala Developer
16 9 (3.96%) Full Stack Developer
16 9 (3.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.59%) Kafka
2 40 (17.62%) RESTful
3 35 (15.42%) REST
4 24 (10.57%) Node.js
4 24 (10.57%) React
4 24 (10.57%) Spring
5 23 (10.13%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (8.81%) Web Services
7 17 (7.49%) Spring Boot
8 16 (7.05%) .NET
9 14 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (5.73%) .NET Core
10 13 (5.73%) HTML
11 12 (5.29%) AngularJS
11 12 (5.29%) SOAP
12 10 (4.41%) GraphQL
12 10 (4.41%) YAML
13 8 (3.52%) Akka
13 8 (3.52%) WebSockets
14 7 (3.08%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.74%) Data Structures
2 31 (13.66%) Algorithms
3 17 (7.49%) Cloud Native
4 15 (6.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (6.61%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.73%) Derivative
6 11 (4.85%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.85%) Equity Derivative
6 11 (4.85%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.41%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (2.64%) Fixed Income
11 6 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.64%) Product Ownership
12 5 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (2.20%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.47%) Linux
2 22 (9.69%) Unix
3 3 (1.32%) Windows
4 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.44%) CentOS
5 1 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.93%) Agile
2 78 (34.36%) DevOps
3 71 (31.28%) CI/CD
4 68 (29.96%) Software Engineering
5 64 (28.19%) Microservices
6 46 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (17.18%) E-Commerce
7 39 (17.18%) Scrum
7 39 (17.18%) SDLC
8 37 (16.30%) OO
9 35 (15.42%) Computer Science
10 33 (14.54%) Test Automation
11 32 (14.10%) Multithreading
12 30 (13.22%) Analytics
13 29 (12.78%) Design Patterns
13 29 (12.78%) TDD
14 27 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (10.57%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (10.57%) Full Stack Development
15 24 (10.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 135 (59.47%) Java
2 103 (45.37%) Python
3 47 (20.70%) C#
4 45 (19.82%) JavaScript
5 44 (19.38%) SQL
6 41 (18.06%) Scala
7 25 (11.01%) Go
8 24 (10.57%) C++
8 24 (10.57%) PowerShell
9 14 (6.17%) Shell Script
9 14 (6.17%) TypeScript
10 12 (5.29%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.08%) Bicep
11 7 (3.08%) C
12 6 (2.64%) Perl
13 3 (1.32%) Groovy
13 3 (1.32%) Rust
14 2 (0.88%) Clojure
14 2 (0.88%) Haskell
14 2 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (13.66%) Degree
2 21 (9.25%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Server+ Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.44%) PhD
8 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.17%) PCI DSS
2 11 (4.85%) SLA
3 6 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.20%) QA
5 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 49 (21.59%) Docker
2 13 (5.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 74 (32.60%) Kubernetes
2 43 (18.94%) Terraform
3 17 (7.49%) Prometheus
4 16 (7.05%) Grafana
5 11 (4.85%) Consul
6 10 (4.41%) Ansible
7 5 (2.20%) Opsgenie
8 4 (1.76%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.76%) Zipkin
9 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.88%) Argo
10 2 (0.88%) Istio
10 2 (0.88%) Kibana
10 2 (0.88%) Puppet
11 1 (0.44%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.44%) logstash
11 1 (0.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.61%) Google
3 12 (5.29%) Databricks
4 11 (4.85%) HP
4 11 (4.85%) SaltStack
5 10 (4.41%) Splunk
6 9 (3.96%) ION Trading
6 9 (3.96%) New Relic
7 8 (3.52%) Oracle
7 8 (3.52%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.08%) Dell
8 7 (3.08%) PagerDuty
9 6 (2.64%) Adobe
9 6 (2.64%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.64%) SAP
10 4 (1.76%) Okta
10 4 (1.76%) Roku
10 4 (1.76%) Sparx
11 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.32%) Tradeweb