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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 386 391
Rank change year-on-year +34 +5 -68
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 203 270 459
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.81% 1.68% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 194 340
10th Percentile £341 £463 £463
25th Percentile £450 £541 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -0.40% +7.67%
75th Percentile £738 £705 £775
90th Percentile £875 £834 £794
UK median daily rate £556 £623 £625
% change year-on-year -10.64% -0.40% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - - £45.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £79.89 £48.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.59% +40.15% -8.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £88.30 £64.13
90th Percentile - £89.32 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.59% +40.15% -8.40%

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 11,191 16,096 24,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.47% 33.72% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,271 11,236 17,266
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +3.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 556 610
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.19 £10.63 £17.29
Median hourly rate £36.27 £22.49 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +61.32% -14.78% +3.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.27 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.31 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +61.36% -18.46% +5.80%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +38 155 £675 +8.00% 122
South East +4 22 £285 -48.18% 14
North of England +44 19 £500 +8.11% 17
North West +20 11 £525 +13.51% 11
Yorkshire +22 8 £400 - 5
Midlands +21 3 £450 -32.84% 3
West Midlands +13 3 £450 -32.84% 3
East of England +2 2 £600 +20.00% 5
South West - 2 £800 - 6
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 6 (2.96%) Apache
2 5 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.46%) Confluence
3 4 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.97%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.99%) CMS
4 2 (0.99%) JBoss
4 2 (0.99%) nginx
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (5.42%) ION MarketView
2 5 (2.46%) Endur
3 4 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.49%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 54 (26.60%) AWS
2 45 (22.17%) Azure
3 31 (15.27%) GCP
4 15 (7.39%) Serverless
5 11 (5.42%) Amazon S3
5 11 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.94%) GitHub
7 8 (3.94%) NuGet
8 6 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.46%) Azure API Management
9 5 (2.46%) npm
9 5 (2.46%) Yarn
10 4 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.97%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.93%) SAN
2 5 (2.46%) DNS
3 3 (1.48%) Firewall
3 3 (1.48%) Internet
4 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 2 (0.99%) Network Security
5 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.82%) Relational Database
2 20 (9.85%) MongoDB
2 20 (9.85%) NoSQL
2 20 (9.85%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.87%) KDB
4 13 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (2.96%) Big Data
5 6 (2.96%) Redis
6 5 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.46%) Bigtable
6 5 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.46%) MySQL
7 4 (1.97%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.97%) Cloud Spanner
7 4 (1.97%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.48%) Couchbase
8 3 (1.48%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (16.75%) Git
2 20 (9.85%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.43%) GitLab
4 6 (2.96%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.96%) Karma Test Runner
5 5 (2.46%) Pylint
5 5 (2.46%) webpack
6 4 (1.97%) ClearCase
6 4 (1.97%) ClearQuest
6 4 (1.97%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.97%) JUnit
6 4 (1.97%) Mocha
6 4 (1.97%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.48%) JIRA
8 2 (0.99%) Gradle
8 2 (0.99%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.99%) JMeter
8 2 (0.99%) Maven
8 2 (0.99%) Mockito
8 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.29%) Finance
3 24 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.87%) Banking
4 18 (8.87%) Front Office
5 10 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.43%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.48%) Public Speaking
10 2 (0.99%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (46.31%) Developer
2 58 (28.57%) Senior
3 35 (17.24%) Java Developer
4 30 (14.78%) Senior Developer
5 20 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (9.36%) Site Engineer
7 16 (7.88%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.39%) Architect
9 14 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (6.90%) Python Engineer
10 11 (5.42%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.93%) Backend Developer
11 10 (4.93%) C# Developer
12 9 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Software Developer
13 8 (3.94%) Data Centre Engineer
13 8 (3.94%) Python Developer
14 7 (3.45%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.66%) Kafka
2 27 (13.30%) REST
2 27 (13.30%) RESTful
3 22 (10.84%) React
4 19 (9.36%) Node.js
5 17 (8.37%) Spring
6 16 (7.88%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (7.39%) .NET
8 14 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (6.90%) Web Services
9 13 (6.40%) .NET Core
10 12 (5.91%) HTML
11 11 (5.42%) Spring Boot
12 10 (4.93%) gRPC
13 9 (4.43%) AngularJS
13 9 (4.43%) YAML
14 8 (3.94%) OAuth
14 8 (3.94%) SOAP
14 8 (3.94%) WebSockets
15 7 (3.45%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.78%) Data Structures
2 29 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 21 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (9.36%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.91%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (5.91%) Management Information System
6 11 (5.42%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (5.42%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.93%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.93%) Derivative
8 8 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.94%) Equity Derivative
8 8 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (3.45%) Virtual Team
10 6 (2.96%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.96%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.97%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.60%) Linux
2 23 (11.33%) Unix
3 3 (1.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.49%) CentOS
5 1 (0.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (43.35%) Agile
2 64 (31.53%) DevOps
3 62 (30.54%) Software Engineering
4 54 (26.60%) CI/CD
5 47 (23.15%) Microservices
5 47 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (17.24%) E-Commerce
6 35 (17.24%) Multithreading
7 34 (16.75%) Test Automation
8 31 (15.27%) OO
9 30 (14.78%) Design Patterns
10 28 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
10 28 (13.79%) SDLC
11 26 (12.81%) Analytics
11 26 (12.81%) Scrum
11 26 (12.81%) TDD
12 22 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (10.34%) Computer Science
14 20 (9.85%) Event-Driven
14 20 (9.85%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 115 (56.65%) Java
2 95 (46.80%) Python
3 50 (24.63%) SQL
4 44 (21.67%) JavaScript
5 42 (20.69%) C#
6 35 (17.24%) Go
7 27 (13.30%) C++
8 22 (10.84%) PowerShell
9 16 (7.88%) Shell Script
10 11 (5.42%) Scala
11 10 (4.93%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.45%) C
13 6 (2.96%) Bicep
14 5 (2.46%) Perl
14 5 (2.46%) Rust
15 3 (1.48%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.48%) Ruby
16 2 (0.99%) Clojure
16 2 (0.99%) Groovy
16 2 (0.99%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 28 (13.79%) Degree
2 15 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.42%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.99%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) PhD
7 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.39%) PCI DSS
2 11 (5.42%) SLA
3 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.99%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) MiFID
5 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 40 (19.70%) Docker
2 13 (6.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 65 (32.02%) Kubernetes
2 33 (16.26%) Terraform
3 16 (7.88%) Grafana
4 14 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.91%) Consul
6 8 (3.94%) Ansible
7 6 (2.96%) Opsgenie
8 4 (1.97%) HP ALM
9 3 (1.48%) Istio
10 2 (0.99%) Argo
10 2 (0.99%) Kibana
11 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (8.37%) Google
2 16 (7.88%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.40%) ION Trading
3 13 (6.40%) Splunk
4 12 (5.91%) SaltStack
5 11 (5.42%) HP
6 9 (4.43%) Oracle
7 8 (3.94%) New Relic
8 7 (3.45%) Dell
8 7 (3.45%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.45%) PagerDuty
8 7 (3.45%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.46%) Adobe
9 5 (2.46%) SAP
10 4 (1.97%) Sparx
10 4 (1.97%) Tradeweb
11 3 (1.48%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.99%) Genesys
12 2 (0.99%) MarketAxess
12 2 (0.99%) TIBCO