Distributed Systems Contracts in Berkshire

Distributed Systems
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 107 101
Rank change year-on-year +20 -6 +27
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 6 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.86% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 2.84% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £345 - £450
25th Percentile £393 £280 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £285 £455
Median % change year-on-year +64.91% -37.36% -9.00%
75th Percentile £500 £290 £458
90th Percentile - £297 £475
South East median daily rate £383 £285 £508
% change year-on-year +34.21% -43.84% +1.50%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Distributed Systems 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 409 599 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.87% 30.19% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 334 393
10th Percentile £307 £205 £313
25th Percentile £424 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 16
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%
75th Percentile £87.28 £62.23 £74.25
90th Percentile £91.05 £67.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Berkshire

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Berkshire

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Berkshire

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in Berkshire

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +28 4 £413 - 15
Windsor - 1 £500 -
Wokingham - 1 £440 -
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) jMock
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) JSON
3 2 (33.33%) WireMock
3 2 (33.33%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) JPA
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
4 1 (16.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Bicep
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Kibana
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft