Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Distributed Systems
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.43% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £464 - -

All Generic Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 95 72 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.65% 32.73% 27.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 44 34
10th Percentile £158 £325 £280
25th Percentile £239 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £506 £625 £538
90th Percentile £570 £668 £635
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £525 £454
% change year-on-year -19.05% +15.64% -30.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £61.38 - -
25th Percentile £68.64 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +9.47% -
75th Percentile - - £51.56
90th Percentile - - £56.63
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £52.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +34.62% +9.47% -

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Firebird
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JSF
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Struts
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes