Distributed Systems Contracts in Devon

Distributed Systems
South West > Devon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Devon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 1.87% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
South West median daily rate £513 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -35.94% +33.33% -

All Generic Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30 66 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 28.04% 24.00% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 48 56
10th Percentile £145 £319 £306
25th Percentile £310 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -22.73% +41.94%
75th Percentile £500 £454 £600
90th Percentile £528 £505 £719
South West median daily rate £535 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £27.91 £10.42 -
25th Percentile £28.32 £17.02 -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.28 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% +40.42% -62.11%
75th Percentile £43.88 £42.50 -
90th Percentile £52.80 - -
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Devon

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Devon.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Devon

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Plymouth - 2 £513 - 9
Distributed Systems
South West

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ESRI
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk