Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Distributed Systems
East of England > Norfolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Norfolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 0.50% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £425 £550 -
% change year-on-year -22.73% - -

All Generic Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 72 14 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 35.64% 35.90% 55.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 6 15
10th Percentile £185 £196 £129
25th Percentile £208 £301 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £293 £372 £307
Median % change year-on-year -21.06% +21.21% +41.57%
75th Percentile £357 £633 £400
90th Percentile £450 £720 £445
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 11
10th Percentile £6.00 - -
25th Percentile £13.50 - £12.86
Median hourly rate £15.79 £15.33 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +2.20% -28.61%
75th Percentile £21.50 - £17.63
90th Percentile £23.75 - £26.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -15.71%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

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

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

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 Norfolk region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Norwich - 1 £425 - 2
Distributed Systems
East of England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes