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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems 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 297 352 349
Rank change year-on-year +55 -3 +61
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 192 192 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 1.67% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 139 252
10th Percentile £325 £350 £500
25th Percentile £488 £504 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £763 £731 £739
90th Percentile £838 £855 £861
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +2.13% -6.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £45.55 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £79.89
Median hourly rate £55.50 £55.00 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -34.59% +40.15%
75th Percentile £93.75 £57.50 £88.30
90th Percentile - - £89.32
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year +0.91% -34.59% +40.15%

All Generic Skills
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 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 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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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 +37 146 £700 +3.70% 417
South East +33 10 £383 +34.21% 104
Midlands +27 8 £315 -30.00% 19
West Midlands +17 6 £315 -30.00% 10
North of England +5 5 £537 +7.40% 68
North West +10 4 £544 +3.62% 45
East of England +31 3 £550 -8.33% 18
South West +46 2 £513 -35.94% 14
East Midlands - 2 - - 5
Yorkshire +1 1 £315 -21.25% 16
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 11 (5.73%) Apache
1 11 (5.73%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.08%) Confluence
2 4 (2.08%) nginx
2 4 (2.08%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.08%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 2 (1.04%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.52%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.52%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle TCA
1 1 (0.52%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (36.46%) AWS
2 45 (23.44%) Azure
3 19 (9.90%) GCP
4 13 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.77%) GitHub
5 12 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (4.17%) Serverless
8 7 (3.65%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.65%) Azure AKS
8 7 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.08%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.08%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.73%) HTTP
2 9 (4.69%) DNS
3 8 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.65%) FTP
4 7 (3.65%) SMTP
4 7 (3.65%) SSL
5 6 (3.13%) Firewall
6 3 (1.56%) VPN
7 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.52%) LAN
7 1 (0.52%) Multicast
7 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 22 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (9.90%) SQL Server
4 15 (7.81%) Big Data
4 15 (7.81%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.65%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.65%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.60%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.08%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.08%) Data Mining
10 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.08%) Parquet
10 4 (2.08%) Power BI
11 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (16.15%) Git
2 25 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.69%) JIRA
3 9 (4.69%) JUnit
4 8 (4.17%) Mockito
5 6 (3.13%) Maven
5 6 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.60%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (2.08%) DbUnit
7 4 (2.08%) JMeter
7 4 (2.08%) jMock
8 3 (1.56%) MLflow
8 3 (1.56%) Postman
9 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.04%) GitLab
9 2 (1.04%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.04%) XCTest
General
1 44 (22.92%) Finance
2 43 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.38%) Banking
5 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.77%) Front Office
7 12 (6.25%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.56%) Retail
9 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Marketing
9 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (39.06%) Developer
2 39 (20.31%) Senior
3 28 (14.58%) Java Developer
4 15 (7.81%) C# Developer
4 15 (7.81%) Python Engineer
5 13 (6.77%) Senior Developer
5 13 (6.77%) Software Engineer
6 11 (5.73%) Lead
6 11 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (4.69%) Architect
7 9 (4.69%) Front Office Developer
7 9 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (3.65%) Gen AI Engineer
8 7 (3.65%) Site Engineer
9 5 (2.60%) Data Engineer
9 5 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.60%) Software Developer
10 4 (2.08%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (33.33%) Kafka
2 32 (16.67%) gRPC
3 28 (14.58%) REST
4 27 (14.06%) Spring
5 24 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 19 (9.90%) RESTful
7 14 (7.29%) AngularJS
7 14 (7.29%) Web Services
8 12 (6.25%) React
9 11 (5.73%) .NET
9 11 (5.73%) Hibernate
10 10 (5.21%) JSON
10 10 (5.21%) SOAP
11 9 (4.69%) HTML
12 8 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (4.17%) YAML
13 7 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (3.13%) Bootstrap
14 6 (3.13%) Node.js
14 6 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.29%) Derivative
3 13 (6.77%) Algorithms
3 13 (6.77%) Hedge funds
4 11 (5.73%) Data Structures
5 10 (5.21%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.69%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.65%) Equities
7 7 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.60%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.60%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.56%) Grid Computing
9 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.27%) Linux
2 8 (4.17%) Unix
3 5 (2.60%) Windows
4 3 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.52%) Debian
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.31%) CI/CD
2 75 (39.06%) Microservices
3 59 (30.73%) Software Engineering
4 57 (29.69%) DevOps
5 52 (27.08%) Agile
6 38 (19.79%) Open Source
7 37 (19.27%) Containerisation
7 37 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.54%) TDD
9 25 (13.02%) SDLC
10 24 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (12.50%) Scrum
11 23 (11.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 23 (11.98%) Computer Science
12 20 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (9.90%) Algorithmic Trading
13 19 (9.90%) Risk Management
13 19 (9.90%) Test Automation
14 18 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (8.85%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 97 (50.52%) Python
2 73 (38.02%) Java
3 43 (22.40%) Go
4 41 (21.35%) SQL
5 35 (18.23%) C++
6 34 (17.71%) C#
7 19 (9.90%) PowerShell
8 18 (9.38%) Shell Script
9 17 (8.85%) C
10 14 (7.29%) JavaScript
11 13 (6.77%) Rust
11 13 (6.77%) Scala
12 8 (4.17%) Clojure
12 8 (4.17%) TypeScript
13 7 (3.65%) Elixir
13 7 (3.65%) Groovy
14 6 (3.13%) Bash
14 6 (3.13%) Bicep
15 3 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (14.06%) Degree
2 16 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 11 (5.73%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.60%) PhD
7 4 (2.08%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.04%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) GDPR
3 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.04%) NIST
3 2 (1.04%) QA
4 1 (0.52%) DICOM
4 1 (0.52%) HL7
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 79 (41.15%) Docker
2 4 (2.08%) Postfix
3 3 (1.56%) Platform Symphony
4 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.52%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 90 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.42%) Grafana
3 19 (9.90%) Terraform
4 14 (7.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.17%) Ansible
6 6 (3.13%) Kibana
7 3 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.56%) logstash
8 2 (1.04%) Kubeflow
8 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.04%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (9.90%) Oracle
2 16 (8.33%) Splunk
3 11 (5.73%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.21%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.17%) Google
5 8 (4.17%) TIBCO
6 6 (3.13%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.60%) IBM
8 4 (2.08%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.08%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.04%) Adobe
10 2 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.04%) Databricks
11 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.52%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.52%) New Relic
11 1 (0.52%) Rapid7
11 1 (0.52%) Solace
11 1 (0.52%) Virgin Media