Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Distributed Systems
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.38% 0.22% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.05% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £456 £308 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £315 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.83% - -
75th Percentile £469 £323 -
90th Percentile £473 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £315 -
% change year-on-year +46.83% - -

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 287 141 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.79% 30.72% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 93 116
10th Percentile £313 £263 £278
25th Percentile £450 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £548
90th Percentile £635 £725 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 18
10th Percentile - £33.28 £12.03
25th Percentile - £35.99 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £12.90
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +217.83% -40.00%
75th Percentile £15.29 £69.07 £15.19
90th Percentile £17.60 £85.61 £15.25
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.25 £36.91 £13.50
% change year-on-year -58.68% +173.37% -32.84%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Leeds

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Apigee
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Mustache
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible