Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Distributed Systems
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 69 102
Rank change year-on-year -16 +33 +3
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.074% 0.13% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.41% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% - -27.66%
75th Percentile - £463 £438
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £380 £363 £285
% change year-on-year +4.83% +27.19% -37.36%

All Generic Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 322 242 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 23.73% 31.84% 24.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 160 173
10th Percentile £279 £313 £260
25th Percentile £447 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.10% -6.63%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £631
90th Percentile £725 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £485 £525 £481
% change year-on-year -7.62% +9.15% -6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 31
10th Percentile £13.21 £28.25 £15.71
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.25 £26.75
Median hourly rate £23.75 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -33.33% +31.25%
75th Percentile £33.13 - £60.00
90th Percentile £59.23 £70.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +26.67%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Fleet - 1 £358 -
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) EMV
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk