Distributed Systems Contracts in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Scotland > Edinburgh

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 71 106
Rank change year-on-year +10 +35 +26
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 7 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.09% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.79% 1.34% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £245 £430 -
25th Percentile £274 £475 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% -20.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £371 £634 £778
90th Percentile £401 £644 £784
Scotland median daily rate £467 £440 £750
% change year-on-year +6.14% -41.33% +64.38%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 251 298 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.04% 34.45% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 162 283
10th Percentile £199 £206 £164
25th Percentile £344 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £535 £599 £538
90th Percentile £600 £656 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £459 £484
% change year-on-year -1.91% -5.17% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 5
10th Percentile - £12.85 -
25th Percentile - £13.93 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.07 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -15.03% -54.08%
75th Percentile £18.73 £18.70 £21.67
90th Percentile £34.10 £42.73 £40.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £18.00 £19.18
% change year-on-year +10.56% -6.15% -57.21%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Edinburgh

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (28.57%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (42.86%) Legacy Code
2 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) CMDB
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) API Design
3 3 (42.86%) API Development
3 3 (42.86%) Black-Box Testing
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Perl
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Go
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow