Distributed Systems Contracts in Glasgow

Distributed Systems
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 65 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -13
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 19 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.17% - 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.93% - 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 2
10th Percentile £384 - £423
25th Percentile £400 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 - £435
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.42%
75th Percentile £453 - £443
90th Percentile £460 - £447
Scotland median daily rate £440 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -41.33% +66.67% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 274 373 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 31.24% 40.77% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 238 190
10th Percentile £246 £263 £207
25th Percentile £356 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £484 £454
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +6.61% +6.76%
75th Percentile £538 £610 £525
90th Percentile £675 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 3
10th Percentile £15.42 - -
25th Percentile £15.86 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £10.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.33% -51.68% -8.33%
75th Percentile £28.06 £22.81 £33.25
90th Percentile £57.13 £41.37 £39.40
Scotland median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -5.49%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Glasgow

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Glasgow

Distributed Systems
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (52.63%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (26.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 15 (78.95%) Azure
3 10 (52.63%) Snowflake
4 5 (26.32%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) HBase
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
1 8 (42.11%) Java Developer
1 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Backend Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Java Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) RESTful
2 6 (31.58%) Kafka
3 5 (26.32%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (21.05%) OpenTracing
4 4 (21.05%) Spring
4 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) Computer Science
2 10 (52.63%) Data Engineering
2 10 (52.63%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (52.63%) DataOps
2 10 (52.63%) GitOps
2 10 (52.63%) MLOps
3 9 (47.37%) Microservices
3 9 (47.37%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (42.11%) Agile
4 8 (42.11%) SDLC
5 7 (36.84%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 4 (21.05%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (15.79%) Release Management
8 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (94.74%) Scala
3 11 (57.89%) Python
4 8 (42.11%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.26%) Groovy
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Kubernetes
2 10 (52.63%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
3 4 (21.05%) Zipkin
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk