Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Distributed Systems
North West > Cumbria

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Cumbria. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 1.24% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% +1.94%

All Generic Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 58 30 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 36.02% 14.49% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 7 43
10th Percentile £411 £393 £444
25th Percentile £456 £434 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £613
90th Percentile £594 £643 £647
North West median daily rate £455 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile £26.50 £22.65 -
25th Percentile £28.01 £22.72 -
Median hourly rate £30.52 £28.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% +121.15% -84.58%
75th Percentile £33.04 £34.67 £44.41
90th Percentile £34.54 £55.39 £44.74
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £25.63
% change year-on-year +58.12% +12.20% -26.79%

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Workington - 2 £525 -
Distributed Systems
North West

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes