Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Distributed Computing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.17% - 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £515
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.20%
75th Percentile - - £613
90th Percentile - - £635
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +12.20%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 221 191 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 37.39% 26.56% 26.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 126 201
10th Percentile £353 £354 £350
25th Percentile £433 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.10% +3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 £12.15 £18.50
Median hourly rate £91.69 £14.63 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +526.94% -31.37% +0.28%
75th Percentile £98.56 £18.27 -
90th Percentile - £26.50 £21.87
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £14.63 £19.00
% change year-on-year +526.94% -23.03% -4.28%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in Leeds

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Log4j
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Cache
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification