Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in the North East

Distributed Systems
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the North East. 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 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.36% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% - -
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 - -
England median daily rate £525 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -16.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 115 95 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.83% 29.97% 28.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 58 58
10th Percentile £147 £325 £163
25th Percentile £190 £400 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £530 £465
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +13.99% -19.57%
75th Percentile £528 £625 £549
90th Percentile £568 £658 £683
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.44% -0.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 9
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.06 £15.29
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.35 £16.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £49.09 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +42.60% +6.30% -30.03%
75th Percentile - £53.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £55.91 £51.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.45 £28.25
% change year-on-year +28.26% +25.47% +25.56%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in the North East

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £464 - 9
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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