Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Distributed Systems
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 154 165
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +50
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 74 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.22% 0.18% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.72% 0.61% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 6 10
10th Percentile £420 £333 £375
25th Percentile £453 £392 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -2.91%
75th Percentile £576 £548 £625
90th Percentile £650 £577 £653
England median daily rate £521 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -18.27% -1.92% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £69.75 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £55.50 -
% change year-on-year +33.80% - -

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,989 991 1,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.88% 30.48% 27.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,256 645 808
10th Percentile £258 £216 £246
25th Percentile £368 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -5.00% -2.68%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £582
90th Percentile £625 £673 £654
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 49 153
10th Percentile £18.84 £21.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £25.62 £24.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £52.78 £31.76 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year +66.17% +109.36% -24.15%
75th Percentile £70.75 £46.18 £26.66
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £46.18
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.48 £28.38
% change year-on-year +24.62% +28.56% +26.20%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in the North of England

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the North of England

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the North of England

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North West -11 37 £500 -6.89% 25
Yorkshire -22 35 £488 +54.76% 7
North East - 2 £464 - 5
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
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 4 (5.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (51.35%) AWS
2 22 (29.73%) Azure
2 22 (29.73%) GCP
3 10 (13.51%) Serverless
4 6 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.41%) GitHub
5 4 (5.41%) IaaS
5 4 (5.41%) PaaS
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.70%) Cloud Run
7 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.81%) DynamoDB
3 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.05%) DocumentDB
4 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) Firebird
6 1 (1.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) Parquet
6 1 (1.35%) Redis
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (13.51%) Jaeger
2 8 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.46%) GitLab
4 4 (5.41%) JIRA
5 3 (4.05%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.70%) Git
7 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 33 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 27 (36.49%) Finance
3 13 (17.57%) Banking
4 9 (12.16%) Financial Institution
5 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.35%) Advertising
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Architect
2 15 (20.27%) Senior
3 13 (17.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Technical Architect
7 6 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Lead
7 6 (8.11%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (6.76%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.41%) AWS Architect
9 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Product Manager
10 3 (4.05%) Applications Architect
10 3 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Manager
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Product Manager
10 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) Spring Boot
2 15 (20.27%) Kafka
3 13 (17.57%) Middleware
3 13 (17.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (16.22%) RESTful
5 11 (14.86%) Spring
6 9 (12.16%) Node.js
6 9 (12.16%) REST
7 7 (9.46%) .NET
7 7 (9.46%) JWT
7 7 (9.46%) OAuth
7 7 (9.46%) React
8 6 (8.11%) OAuth2
9 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
10 4 (5.41%) OpenID
10 4 (5.41%) SAML
10 4 (5.41%) Vue
11 3 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (4.05%) Hibernate
12 2 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (37.84%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.16%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.46%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (9.46%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.05%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.70%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.70%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.35%) Clustering
8 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.35%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (67.57%) Microservices
2 39 (52.70%) CI/CD
3 31 (41.89%) DevOps
4 28 (37.84%) Observability
5 24 (32.43%) Technical Leadership
6 23 (31.08%) Containerisation
7 22 (29.73%) Agile
7 22 (29.73%) Data Modelling
8 21 (28.38%) Event-Driven
9 19 (25.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 18 (24.32%) API Design
10 18 (24.32%) Mentoring
10 18 (24.32%) Roadmaps
11 17 (22.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (20.27%) Architectural Patterns
13 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
13 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
14 12 (16.22%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (14.86%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.59%) Java
2 23 (31.08%) Python
3 17 (22.97%) SQL
4 10 (13.51%) Go
5 9 (12.16%) Rust
6 6 (8.11%) C#
6 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.70%) Bash
7 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.35%) Ruby
8 1 (1.35%) Scala
8 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) Degree
2 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
3 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.76%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (45.95%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (43.24%) Kubernetes
2 21 (28.38%) Terraform
3 15 (20.27%) Grafana
4 13 (17.57%) Prometheus
5 10 (13.51%) Kiali
6 6 (8.11%) Ansible
7 1 (1.35%) Istio
7 1 (1.35%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.35%) vRealize
7 1 (1.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Splunk
2 7 (9.46%) Google
3 4 (5.41%) Okta
4 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.70%) Ping Identity
4 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.35%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.35%) VMware