Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Distributed Systems
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 - -
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 268 241 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.97% 30.13% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 132 165
10th Percentile £273 £263 £213
25th Percentile £358 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -8.00% +9.36%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £588
90th Percentile £644 £624 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £16.16 £13.09 £17.51
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.10 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.35 £16.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% -20.81% +19.59%
75th Percentile £21.92 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the East Midlands

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £429 -
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 -
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Agriculture
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Data Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Express.js
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) MERN Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Server+ Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks