Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Distributed Systems
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 72 109
Rank change year-on-year -18 +37 +24
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 12 16 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.78% 1.24% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.37% 4.07% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £503 £300 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £363 £495
Median % change year-on-year +39.31% -26.77% -1.00%
75th Percentile £508 £550 £518
90th Percentile - £605 -
England median daily rate £525 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £71.25 -
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 506 393 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.81% 30.51% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 175 325
10th Percentile £189 £261 £200
25th Percentile £338 £329 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.53%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 53 85
10th Percentile £12.88 £23.65 £20.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +26.46%
75th Percentile £67.38 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £42.88 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.37% -3.64% +27.14%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in the East of England

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 November 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
Hertfordshire -2 9 - - 1
Suffolk -1 2 - - 2
Essex - 1 £505 -
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (75.00%) npm
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Artifactory
1 9 (75.00%) GitLab
1 9 (75.00%) JIRA
1 9 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Agriculture
2 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Development Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Node.js
1 10 (83.33%) React
2 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 9 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 9 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (75.00%) CSS
2 9 (75.00%) HTML
2 9 (75.00%) Svelte
2 9 (75.00%) Vue
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Express.js
3 1 (8.33%) MERN Stack
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (75.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (91.67%) Microservices
2 10 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 9 (75.00%) Agile
3 9 (75.00%) Design Patterns
3 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (75.00%) OOP
3 9 (75.00%) SDLC
3 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 9 (75.00%) TDD
4 8 (66.67%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (8.33%) Data Science
7 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Micro Frontends
7 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 7 (58.33%) C++
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Consul
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft