Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Essex

Distributed Systems
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Essex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.79% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 60 21 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 23.72% 23.86% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 22
10th Percentile £262 £315 £107
25th Percentile £327 £321 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.51% -7.50%
75th Percentile £528 £473 £578
90th Percentile £591 £515 £673
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £459
% change year-on-year -4.45% +8.99% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 19
10th Percentile - £16.12 £12.86
25th Percentile £14.25 £18.05 £13.51
Median hourly rate £16.25 £22.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -59.09% +51.72%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.38 £64.25
90th Percentile £71.00 £64.75 £76.20
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £68.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.88% +13.33% +14.29%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Essex

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
Chelmsford - 1 £525 - 1
Witham - 1 £505 -
Distributed Systems
East of England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft