Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Distributed Computing
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.32% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £414 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £432 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
North West median daily rate £435 - -

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Distributed Computing 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 230 188 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 36.68% 36.58% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 108 86
10th Percentile £268 £343 £365
25th Percentile £357 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £495 £548
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% -9.68% +10.61%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £592
90th Percentile £636 £618 £628
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £15.50 - £14.89
25th Percentile £15.69 - £19.93
Median hourly rate £22.75 - £33.99
Median % change year-on-year - - +56.06%
75th Percentile £58.31 - £47.50
90th Percentile £67.25 - £58.50
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £23.00 £40.46
% change year-on-year +104.87% -43.15% +93.07%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in Cheshire

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Knutsford - 2 £425 -
Distributed Computing
North West

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Multivariate Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft