Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Distributed Computing
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 155 183
Rank change year-on-year -44 +28 +57
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 5 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.11% 0.20% 0.086%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.61% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £417 - £520
25th Percentile £430 £464 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £485 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -19.17% +16.79%
75th Percentile £525 £502 £625
90th Percentile £555 £519 £640
England median daily rate £500 £575 £638
% change year-on-year -13.04% -9.80% -1.92%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Distributed Computing 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,675 1,148 1,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 36.13% 32.06% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 637 921
10th Percentile £214 £203 £258
25th Percentile £363 £356 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £681 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 49 60
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.03 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.24
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +31.90% +12.00%
75th Percentile £56.69 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.91 £61.90 £55.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.25 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.83% -15.02% +25.24%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in the North of England

Distributed Computing
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 Computing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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 - 4 £433 -
Yorkshire -47 1 £575 +18.56%
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Log4j
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) PowerMock
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Science
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (80.00%) MLOps
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks