Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Distributed Architecture
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - -
South East median daily rate £515 - -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Distributed Architecture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 658 436 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.43% 34.77% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 224 370
10th Percentile £285 £301 £205
25th Percentile £368 £425 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +4.54% -2.43%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £664 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 13 31
10th Percentile £20.79 £25.53 £17.60
25th Percentile £57.31 £46.12 £24.00
Median hourly rate £82.25 £61.50 £55.80
Median % change year-on-year +33.75% +10.21% +1.45%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £62.48
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.41 £63.29
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +69.23% -8.45% -16.47%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Architecture within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Bracknell - 1 - -
Wokingham - 1 £410 - 2
Distributed Architecture
South East

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent
1 1 (50.00%) IBM