Distributed Cache Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Distributed Caching
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Distributed Cache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 183 -
Rank change year-on-year -64 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Cache 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.028% 0.026% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.029% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £490 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.66% - -
75th Percentile £510 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £488 £675
% change year-on-year +12.82% -27.78% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Distributed Cache falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,061 3,426 3,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.80% 88.71% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,620 2,186 2,242
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £466 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -6.38% -0.54%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £582
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 202 295
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.22
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.45 £13.41
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.63 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.85% +0.58% -18.18%
75th Percentile £71.91 £44.61 £46.84
90th Percentile £83.65 £72.40 £67.14
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

Distributed Cache
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Distributed Cache job vacancy trend in the North of England

Distributed Cache
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Cache.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Cache

Distributed Cache
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Cache within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
North West -44 1 £500 +39.66% 3
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Distributed Cache
England

Distributed Cache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle