Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Bracknell

Distributed Systems
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Bracknell. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bracknell 8.00% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £532 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 - £295
% change year-on-year - - -35.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.10 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.75 - -
90th Percentile £78.30 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £71.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Bracknell

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 Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 65 30 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 52.00% 32.97% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 29
10th Percentile £329 £274 £171
25th Percentile £500 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% +20.02%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £670 £758
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £63.10 £30.40 £26.98
25th Percentile £65.88 £34.38 £37.08
Median hourly rate £71.00 £41.00 £47.19
Median % change year-on-year +73.17% -13.12% +135.96%
75th Percentile £75.75 £41.94 £59.30
90th Percentile £78.30 £42.50 £66.94
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £42.88 £61.65
% change year-on-year +35.26% -30.44% +84.01%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Bracknell

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bracknell

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Distributed Systems in Bracknell over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Bracknell

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bracknell 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) OCI
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (20.00%) Couchbase
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (30.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (30.00%) IT Programme Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Programme Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Strategy Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) JWT
1 4 (40.00%) OAuth
1 4 (40.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (30.00%) Life Science
3 2 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Replication
4 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Dependency Management
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) OWASP
2 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Resilience Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) Security Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Test Management
2 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Confluent
2 2 (20.00%) IBM