Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Distributed Systems
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.54% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £398 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £515 - -

All Generic Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 173 69 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 24.26% 41.07% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 52 92
10th Percentile £363 £309 £177
25th Percentile £413 £478 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +13.13% -3.41%
75th Percentile £600 £632 £598
90th Percentile £643 £697 £698
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £20.65 £17.64
25th Percentile - £32.13 £20.12
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - +126.15% -
75th Percentile - £61.88 £24.15
90th Percentile - £66.75 £26.66
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £38.25 £26.25
% change year-on-year - +45.71% -38.24%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Milton Keynes

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) Jaeger
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Python Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) RESTful
3 4 (36.36%) Loki
3 4 (36.36%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (36.36%) Security Posture
2 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
3 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) GitOps
4 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 2 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Go
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
1 4 (36.36%) GRC
1 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Grafana
1 4 (36.36%) Istio
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Rancher