Distributed Computing Contracts in England

Distributed Computing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing 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 427 504 586
Rank change year-on-year +77 +82 +106
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 58 38 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 57
10th Percentile £412 £558 £516
25th Percentile £434 £656 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £763 £881 £750
90th Percentile £838 £900 £760
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -23.33% +7.14% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
England

Distributed Computing 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in England.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the England 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
London +51 46 £750 -6.25% 126
East Midlands - 4 £363 - 8
Midlands - 4 £363 - 19
East of England - 4 £430 - 20
North of England +17 2 £538 -2.27% 21
South East - 2 £500 - 31
Yorkshire +5 1 £600 +9.09% 7
North West - 1 £475 - 12
Distributed Computing
UK

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 38 (65.52%) Apache Spark
2 14 (24.14%) Apache
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) AWS
2 8 (13.79%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.72%) Kong
6 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) LAN
1 4 (6.90%) NAS
1 4 (6.90%) SAN
1 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
1 4 (6.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (50.00%) Big Data
2 21 (36.21%) Hadoop
3 7 (12.07%) Apache Hive
3 7 (12.07%) Data Mining
3 7 (12.07%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.34%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.17%) HBase
5 3 (5.17%) Impala
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.45%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.72%) DB2
7 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.72%) Power BI
7 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Git
2 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.90%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.45%) MLflow
General
1 27 (46.55%) Finance
2 16 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Financial Institution
5 4 (6.90%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Publishing
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.79%) Apache Spark Developer
4 8 (13.79%) Big Data Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Data Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Senior
7 5 (8.62%) Architect
7 5 (8.62%) Java Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Administrator
8 4 (6.90%) Data Scientist
8 4 (6.90%) DevOps Administrator
8 4 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Lead
9 3 (5.17%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) PySpark
1 9 (15.52%) Spark Streaming
2 7 (12.07%) Ray
2 7 (12.07%) TensorFlow
3 5 (8.62%) scikit-learn
4 4 (6.90%) Kafka
4 4 (6.90%) LDAP
5 3 (5.17%) Pandas
6 2 (3.45%) NumPy
6 2 (3.45%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (1.72%) Guice
7 1 (1.72%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.72%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.72%) Prophet
7 1 (1.72%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (1.72%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Market Risk
2 9 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (13.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (8.62%) Derivative
5 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.90%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (6.90%) Tandem
6 3 (5.17%) Credit Risk
7 2 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (3.45%) Equities
7 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Clustering
8 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.72%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
3 4 (6.90%) Ubuntu
3 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Machine Learning
2 21 (36.21%) CI/CD
3 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (31.03%) Analytics
4 18 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (27.59%) Computer Science
5 16 (27.59%) Deep Learning
6 15 (25.86%) Mathematics
6 15 (25.86%) Risk Management
7 14 (24.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (22.41%) Code Quality
9 12 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (18.97%) Data Science
10 11 (18.97%) Low Latency
11 10 (17.24%) Parallel Computing
12 9 (15.52%) Memory Management
12 9 (15.52%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (15.52%) Risk Analytics
12 9 (15.52%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (13.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (67.24%) Python
2 31 (53.45%) Java
3 21 (36.21%) C++
4 13 (22.41%) C
4 13 (22.41%) Shell Script
5 10 (17.24%) SQL
6 3 (5.17%) Scala
7 2 (3.45%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Degree
2 17 (29.31%) Master's Degree
3 14 (24.14%) PhD
4 4 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.72%) Puppet
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.90%) Google
1 4 (6.90%) NetApp
1 4 (6.90%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.72%) Cloudera
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle
3 1 (1.72%) Refinitiv
3 1 (1.72%) Solace