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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 498 578
Rank change year-on-year +47 +80 +158
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Distributed Computing 60 35 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 40
10th Percentile £405 £360 £425
25th Percentile £438 £549 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £690
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -2.17% +17.90%
75th Percentile £813 £875 £750
90th Percentile £855 £908 £871
UK median daily rate £538 £612 £690
% change year-on-year -12.17% -11.30% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,847 10,180 14,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.67% 30.66% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,223 6,500 10,031
10th Percentile £303 £300 £306
25th Percentile £406 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 503 384
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.60 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.72 £50.00 £45.41
Median % change year-on-year -34.56% +10.11% +74.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.62 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.75 £45.00 £43.38
% change year-on-year -33.89% +3.75% +63.68%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in England over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +52 47 £750 -11.76% 37
Midlands -9 7 £410 -33.01% 2
East Midlands - 7 £410 -
North of England -18 4 £475 -6.22% 4
South East +13 2 £500 +38.89% 9
Yorkshire -10 2 £425 -16.09% 1
North West - 2 £488 - 3
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 43 (71.67%) Apache Spark
2 14 (23.33%) Apache
3 5 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) AWS
2 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 7 (11.67%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.00%) GCP
5 4 (6.67%) GitHub
5 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.67%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.67%) Dagster
7 1 (1.67%) Prefect
7 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) Multicast
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (43.33%) Big Data
1 26 (43.33%) Hadoop
2 14 (23.33%) Apache Hive
3 7 (11.67%) Power BI
3 7 (11.67%) Tableau
4 6 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 5 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (8.33%) GIS
5 5 (8.33%) HBase
5 5 (8.33%) Metadata
5 5 (8.33%) QGIS
6 4 (6.67%) Data Mining
6 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.00%) Spark SQL
8 2 (3.33%) Impala
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.67%) Flink
9 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) Maven
4 2 (3.33%) JIRA
4 2 (3.33%) JUnit
4 2 (3.33%) Mockito
4 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.67%) GitLab
5 1 (1.67%) MLflow
General
1 28 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 28 (46.67%) Finance
2 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 15 (25.00%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Front Office
7 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (23.33%) Java Developer
3 12 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Apache Spark Developer
6 7 (11.67%) Senior
7 6 (10.00%) Python Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Data Scientist
9 4 (6.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Lead
9 4 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Analyst
10 3 (5.00%) Big Data Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Gen AI Specialist
10 3 (5.00%) Hadoop Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Scala Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.33%) PySpark
2 10 (16.67%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (13.33%) Kafka
4 7 (11.67%) TensorFlow
5 5 (8.33%) GeoPandas
5 5 (8.33%) PostGIS
6 4 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (6.67%) scikit-learn
7 3 (5.00%) CSS
7 3 (5.00%) HTML
7 3 (5.00%) MyBatis
7 3 (5.00%) Pandas
8 2 (3.33%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.33%) JMS
8 2 (3.33%) LangChain
8 2 (3.33%) NumPy
8 2 (3.33%) PyTorch
8 2 (3.33%) Ray
8 2 (3.33%) Spring
9 1 (1.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 11 (18.33%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (16.67%) Market Risk
4 8 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (6.67%) Clustering
5 4 (6.67%) Credit Risk
5 4 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.33%) Derivative
7 2 (3.33%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.67%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.67%) Equities
8 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 29 (48.33%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (41.67%) Analytics
4 25 (41.67%) Machine Learning
5 22 (36.67%) Data Science
6 21 (35.00%) Mathematics
7 17 (28.33%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (26.67%) Computer Science
9 15 (25.00%) Risk Management
10 14 (23.33%) Data Engineering
11 13 (21.67%) Agile
11 13 (21.67%) Code Quality
12 12 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (18.33%) Data Modelling
14 10 (16.67%) Low Latency
15 9 (15.00%) Deep Learning
15 9 (15.00%) Memory Management
15 9 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
15 9 (15.00%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 42 (70.00%) Python
2 26 (43.33%) Java
3 18 (30.00%) SQL
4 14 (23.33%) C++
5 8 (13.33%) Scala
6 6 (10.00%) C
7 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.67%) C#
8 1 (1.67%) Fortran
8 1 (1.67%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.67%) R
8 1 (1.67%) VBA
8 1 (1.67%) VC++
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) Degree
2 15 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 11 (18.33%) PhD
4 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) MCP
6 1 (1.67%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) EMIR
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.00%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (5.00%) Oozie
3 3 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Databricks
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Bloomberg
2 4 (6.67%) Refinitiv
2 4 (6.67%) Solace
3 3 (5.00%) Foundry
3 3 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) Palantir
4 2 (3.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.67%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.67%) Teradata