Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Distributed Systems
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.36% - 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £550 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 225 140 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 27.37% 41.06% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 64 79
10th Percentile £163 £433 £258
25th Percentile £350 £484 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £661 £600
90th Percentile £681 £684 £677
East of England median daily rate £476 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.75% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 38 60
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.95 £54.00
25th Percentile £18.54 £28.03 £60.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83.00 £82.21 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.47 £68.00 £59.75
% change year-on-year -53.73% +13.81% +11.16%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Watford - 2 £550 -
St Albans - 1 £550 - 1
Distributed Systems
East of England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) CRUD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes