Distributed Systems Contracts in Birmingham

Distributed Systems
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.61% 0.40% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.52% 1.40% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £288 £415 -
25th Percentile £308 £419 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £640
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -29.69% -1.54%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £660
90th Percentile - £560 -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £450 £670
% change year-on-year +2.78% -32.84% +3.08%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 145 215 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.18% 28.98% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 133 186
10th Percentile £160 £263 £350
25th Percentile £315 £356 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -3.61% +6.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £642
90th Percentile £644 £748 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 13
10th Percentile £44.35 £18.88 £15.65
25th Percentile £44.88 £22.33 £20.22
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.77% -5.45% +61.76%
75th Percentile £50.38 £40.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £51.65 £54.80 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £32.84 £23.58 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.28% -14.27% +66.67%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Birmingham

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Birmingham

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Birmingham

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
3 3 (37.50%) Route 53
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Tableau
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Maven
3 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (37.50%) DbUnit
3 3 (37.50%) jMock
3 3 (37.50%) JUnit
3 3 (37.50%) Mockito
3 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Web Services
2 5 (62.50%) REST
2 5 (62.50%) Spring
2 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (50.00%) SOAP
4 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
4 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
4 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
4 3 (37.50%) JPA
4 3 (37.50%) PowerMock
4 3 (37.50%) RESTful
4 3 (37.50%) Spring Batch
4 3 (37.50%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (37.50%) Spring Integration
5 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) Middleware
6 1 (12.50%) ADO
6 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
2 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) Postfix
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Grafana
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft