Distributed Systems Contracts in the Midlands

Distributed Systems
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 130 161
Rank change year-on-year +27 +31 +38
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 8 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 0.35% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £282 £415 £628
25th Percentile £291 £419 £640
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £450 £670
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -32.84% +5.10%
75th Percentile £413 £528 £690
90th Percentile £465 £560 £696
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the Midlands

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the Midlands

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the Midlands

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the Midlands

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +17 6 £315 -30.00% 10
East Midlands - 2 - - 5
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
2 3 (37.50%) Route 53
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (25.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (25.00%) Flink
3 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (25.00%) Parquet
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket Server
1 3 (37.50%) DbUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) jMock
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
1 3 (37.50%) Mockito
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
2 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
2 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
2 3 (37.50%) JPA
2 3 (37.50%) PowerMock
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Batch
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) JSON
3 2 (25.00%) Kafka
3 2 (25.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Open Source
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Kanban
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) Postfix
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Grafana
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft