Distributed Systems Contracts in England

Distributed Systems
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 355 401
Rank change year-on-year +3 +46 -80
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 187 344 431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.68% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.02% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 256 306
10th Percentile £361 £500 £469
25th Percentile £508 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £775
90th Percentile £860 £856 £803
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
10th Percentile - - £45.88
25th Percentile - £79.89 £49.06
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.15% -8.40%
75th Percentile - £88.30 £63.81
90th Percentile - £89.32 £65.51
UK median hourly rate - £84.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +40.15% +3.45%

All Generic Skills
England

Distributed Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 17,010 24,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 33.65% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,425 11,824 17,120
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 598 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -17 143 £675 +4.77% 98
South East +7 23 £285 -43.84% 12
North of England +48 19 £500 -2.91% 17
North West +24 11 £525 +1.94% 7
Yorkshire +27 8 £400 - 9
West Midlands +27 3 £450 -32.84% 3
Midlands +20 3 £450 -32.84% 4
South West +21 2 £800 +33.33% 4
East of England +14 2 £600 +20.00% 10
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
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 8 (4.28%) Apache
2 7 (3.74%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.67%) Confluence
4 4 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.07%) CMS
6 1 (0.53%) JBoss
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 15 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.74%) ION MarketView
2 5 (2.67%) Endur
3 4 (2.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (1.07%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.53%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 46 (24.60%) AWS
2 45 (24.06%) Azure
3 20 (10.70%) GCP
4 17 (9.09%) Serverless
5 12 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.81%) NuGet
7 8 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (4.28%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.28%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (3.74%) GitHub
9 6 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.21%) Azure API Management
10 5 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.67%) npm
10 5 (2.67%) PaaS
10 5 (2.67%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) SAN
2 6 (3.21%) DNS
3 4 (2.14%) Internet
4 3 (1.60%) Firewall
5 2 (1.07%) DHCP
5 2 (1.07%) HTTP
6 1 (0.53%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.76%) Relational Database
1 22 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.63%) MongoDB
3 17 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 14 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (6.95%) KDB
6 8 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.28%) Redis
7 6 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.67%) Bigtable
8 5 (2.67%) MySQL
9 4 (2.14%) Big Data
9 4 (2.14%) Cloud Spanner
9 4 (2.14%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.07%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.07%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 33 (17.65%) Git
2 21 (11.23%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.28%) GitLab
4 6 (3.21%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.21%) JUnit
4 6 (3.21%) Karma Test Runner
5 5 (2.67%) Pylint
5 5 (2.67%) webpack
6 4 (2.14%) ClearCase
6 4 (2.14%) ClearQuest
6 4 (2.14%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.14%) Mocha
6 4 (2.14%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.60%) JIRA
8 2 (1.07%) Gradle
8 2 (1.07%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.07%) Maven
8 2 (1.07%) Mockito
8 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.83%) Finance
3 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.16%) Front Office
4 17 (9.09%) Banking
5 12 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.21%) Public Speaking
7 5 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.60%) Marketing
9 2 (1.07%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (44.92%) Developer
2 53 (28.34%) Senior
3 30 (16.04%) Java Developer
4 28 (14.97%) Senior Developer
5 19 (10.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 18 (9.63%) Site Engineer
7 17 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.56%) Architect
9 14 (7.49%) C# Developer
9 14 (7.49%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Backend Developer
10 10 (5.35%) Data Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Front Office Developer
11 9 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Data Centre Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (4.28%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (4.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (20.32%) Kafka
2 32 (17.11%) REST
3 25 (13.37%) RESTful
4 23 (12.30%) Node.js
5 22 (11.76%) React
6 17 (9.09%) Spring
6 17 (9.09%) Web Services
7 16 (8.56%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (8.02%) .NET
9 13 (6.95%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.95%) HTML
10 12 (6.42%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.42%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (6.42%) SOAP
10 12 (6.42%) Spring Boot
11 10 (5.35%) YAML
12 8 (4.28%) GraphQL
12 8 (4.28%) WebSockets
13 7 (3.74%) CSS
13 7 (3.74%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.97%) Algorithms
1 28 (14.97%) Data Structures
2 17 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (6.95%) Derivative
5 11 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
5 11 (5.88%) Equity Derivative
5 11 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 10 (5.35%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (3.21%) Fixed Income
9 6 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (3.21%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (2.14%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.67%) Linux
2 20 (10.70%) Unix
3 3 (1.60%) Windows
4 2 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.53%) CentOS
5 1 (0.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (42.25%) Agile
2 66 (35.29%) DevOps
3 56 (29.95%) Software Engineering
4 51 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 41 (21.93%) Microservices
6 35 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.11%) Multithreading
8 31 (16.58%) E-Commerce
8 31 (16.58%) OO
8 31 (16.58%) SDLC
9 30 (16.04%) Scrum
10 29 (15.51%) Analytics
10 29 (15.51%) Design Patterns
10 29 (15.51%) TDD
11 28 (14.97%) Test Automation
12 23 (12.30%) Full Stack Development
13 22 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (9.63%) Computer Science
15 17 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (57.75%) Java
2 91 (48.66%) Python
3 46 (24.60%) C#
4 44 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 43 (22.99%) SQL
6 25 (13.37%) Go
7 24 (12.83%) C++
8 23 (12.30%) PowerShell
9 13 (6.95%) Shell Script
9 13 (6.95%) TypeScript
10 11 (5.88%) Scala
11 7 (3.74%) Bicep
11 7 (3.74%) C
12 4 (2.14%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.14%) Perl
13 3 (1.60%) Rust
14 2 (1.07%) Clojure
14 2 (1.07%) Groovy
14 2 (1.07%) Haskell
14 2 (1.07%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (12.83%) Degree
2 21 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.07%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.07%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) PhD
7 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.49%) PCI DSS
2 11 (5.88%) SLA
3 6 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.07%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) MiFID
5 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 33 (17.65%) Docker
2 12 (6.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 57 (30.48%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.51%) Terraform
3 16 (8.56%) Grafana
4 13 (6.95%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.88%) Consul
6 10 (5.35%) Ansible
7 5 (2.67%) Opsgenie
8 4 (2.14%) HP ALM
9 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.07%) Argo
10 2 (1.07%) Istio
10 2 (1.07%) Puppet
11 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.88%) Google
2 11 (5.88%) HP
2 11 (5.88%) SaltStack
3 9 (4.81%) ION Trading
3 9 (4.81%) New Relic
4 8 (4.28%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.28%) Splunk
5 7 (3.74%) Dell
5 7 (3.74%) Oracle
5 7 (3.74%) PagerDuty
6 6 (3.21%) Adobe
6 6 (3.21%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.21%) SAP
7 4 (2.14%) Sparx
8 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.60%) Tradeweb
9 2 (1.07%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.07%) Genesys
9 2 (1.07%) MarketAxess