Distributed Systems Contracts 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 advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 215 228
Rank change year-on-year +44 +13 -58
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 19 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.40% 0.069% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 0.22% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £375 £437 £469
25th Percentile £439 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -13.39%
75th Percentile £625 £523 £639
90th Percentile £653 - £676
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +6.38%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Distributed Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,301 1,799 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.16% 30.86% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 1,220 1,821
10th Percentile £250 £285 £200
25th Percentile £400 £412 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £583 £623 £575
90th Percentile £653 £688 £658
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 88 108
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £12.79
Median hourly rate £15.05 £18.62 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% +0.11% +3.91%
75th Percentile £26.50 £45.00 £26.63
90th Percentile £48.49 £66.00 £43.83
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the North of England

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the North of England

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 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the North of England

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 29 April 2024. 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 +32 11 £525 +1.94% 6
Yorkshire +30 8 £400 - 8
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) GCP
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Azure
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (21.05%) npm
4 4 (21.05%) Yarn
5 3 (15.79%) Vertex AI
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 4 (21.05%) Redis
3 3 (15.79%) Bigtable
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.26%) Flink
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jasmine
1 4 (21.05%) Karma Test Runner
1 4 (21.05%) Mocha
1 4 (21.05%) webpack
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
1 1 (5.26%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Architect
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) GCP Architect
4 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
7 1 (5.26%) IAM Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Scala Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Kafka
2 5 (26.32%) React
3 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (21.05%) Web Services
4 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
4 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
4 3 (15.79%) RESTful
4 3 (15.79%) SAML
5 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.26%) Lucene
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) OAuth
5 1 (5.26%) OpenID
5 1 (5.26%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (5.26%) Spring
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
2 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
2 4 (21.05%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Event-Driven
2 5 (26.32%) OO
2 5 (26.32%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) Asynchronous Programming
3 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
3 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
3 4 (21.05%) Memory Management
3 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Multithreading
3 4 (21.05%) OOP
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 4 (21.05%) C#
4 4 (21.05%) Go
4 4 (21.05%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
1 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle