Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Distributed Computing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.14% 0.72% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 2.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 -
Scotland median daily rate - £475 -

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 328 202 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 44.50% 28.94% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 148 184
10th Percentile £296 £305 £343
25th Percentile £383 £374 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -13.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £613
90th Percentile £590 £675 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £15.58 £18.94 £11.52
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.59 £13.16
Median hourly rate £19.97 £24.15 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +66.55% -43.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £24.18 £47.73
90th Percentile £58.50 £36.10 £54.34
Scotland median hourly rate £21.86 £18.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +18.97% -4.20% -51.44%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in Glasgow

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker