Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Distributed Systems
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.35% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £398 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £397 £383 £285
% change year-on-year +3.66% +34.21% -43.84%

All Generic Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 206 90 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 25.31% 39.47% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 67 104
10th Percentile £318 £293 £180
25th Percentile £413 £424 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £592
90th Percentile £650 £650 £693
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 18
10th Percentile - £18.25 £21.04
25th Percentile - £23.50 £22.53
Median hourly rate - £38.25 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year - +45.71% -38.24%
75th Percentile - £56.56 £28.75
90th Percentile - £63.75 £36.75
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £47.90 £47.50
% change year-on-year +46.13% +0.85% -5.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Buckinghamshire

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Milton Keynes - 11 £515 - 2
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) Jaeger
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Python Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) RESTful
3 4 (36.36%) Loki
3 4 (36.36%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (36.36%) Security Posture
2 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
3 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) GitOps
4 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 2 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Go
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
1 4 (36.36%) GRC
1 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Grafana
1 4 (36.36%) Istio
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Rancher