Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Chelmsford

Distributed Systems
Essex > Chelmsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Chelmsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chelmsford 3.03% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £515 - -

All Generic Skills
Chelmsford

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 Chelmsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chelmsford 39.39% 16.67% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £480 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +20.00% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.25 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £70.00 £12.86
Median % change year-on-year -79.29% +444.32% -35.70%
75th Percentile £16.33 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £18.48 - -
Essex median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -19.44% -59.09% +82.04%

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chelmsford 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL