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 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 156 186
Rank change year-on-year +21 +30 +41
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 66 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.42% 0.22% 0.021%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.94% 0.69% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 6 1
10th Percentile £420 £414 -
25th Percentile £458 £434 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -25.77% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £497 £675
90th Percentile £688 £498 -
England median daily rate £525 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -17.65% -1.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £71.25 -
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -

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 1,675 1,166 1,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 36.16% 32.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 648 927
10th Percentile £214 £203 £258
25th Percentile £363 £356 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £686 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.68%
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 £29.00 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -22.67% -14.04% +24.64%

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 14 December 2025.

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
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 14 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
Yorkshire - 40 £488 - 34
North West -2 26 £510 +5.70% 56
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 2 (3.03%) Confluence
1 2 (3.03%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.52%) JBoss
2 1 (1.52%) Mule
2 1 (1.52%) Mule ESB
2 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.52%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.52%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 49 (74.24%) AWS
2 44 (66.67%) GCP
3 31 (46.97%) Serverless
4 15 (22.73%) Azure
5 8 (12.12%) AWS KMS
6 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.06%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.52%) Apigee
9 1 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.52%) GitHub
9 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 18 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.52%) MySQL
4 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (59.09%) Jenkins
2 35 (53.03%) GitLab
3 26 (39.39%) Liquibase
4 5 (7.58%) JUnit
5 4 (6.06%) Postman
6 3 (4.55%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.55%) Jaeger
7 2 (3.03%) JIRA
7 2 (3.03%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.52%) Git
8 1 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 44 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 43 (65.15%) Banking
3 40 (60.61%) Finance
4 25 (37.88%) Financial Institution
5 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Electronics
7 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.52%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Software Engineer
2 18 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (25.76%) Senior
4 16 (24.24%) GCP Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Architect
5 12 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) Developer
8 8 (12.12%) AWS Software Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (10.61%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (9.09%) Python Engineer
11 5 (7.58%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (7.58%) GCP Software Engineer
12 4 (6.06%) Payments Architect
12 4 (6.06%) Payments Solutions Architect
12 4 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (53.03%) RESTful
2 32 (48.48%) REST
3 29 (43.94%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (24.24%) Spring Boot
5 13 (19.70%) Spring
6 5 (7.58%) JSON
7 4 (6.06%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.06%) jQuery
7 4 (6.06%) Kafka
7 4 (6.06%) Middleware
7 4 (6.06%) POJO
7 4 (6.06%) React
7 4 (6.06%) Thymeleaf
8 3 (4.55%) Node.js
8 3 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.03%) .NET
9 2 (3.03%) JWT
9 2 (3.03%) OAuth
10 1 (1.52%) J2EE
10 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 31 (46.97%) Cloud Native
2 28 (42.42%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (48.48%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 54 (81.82%) Containerisation
3 49 (74.24%) DevOps
3 49 (74.24%) Microservices
4 38 (57.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (50.00%) Agile
5 33 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 33 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 29 (43.94%) Root Cause Analysis
7 28 (42.42%) Cost Optimisation
7 28 (42.42%) Cryptography
8 27 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (37.88%) Change Management
9 25 (37.88%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (37.88%) High Availability
9 25 (37.88%) Non-Functional Testing
10 24 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
11 23 (34.85%) Data Security
12 22 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
13 19 (28.79%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 38 (57.58%) Python
2 34 (51.52%) Go
3 29 (43.94%) Java
4 10 (15.15%) SQL
5 3 (4.55%) C
5 3 (4.55%) C++
5 3 (4.55%) Rust
6 2 (3.03%) C#
6 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.52%) Bash
7 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (51.52%) Degree
2 30 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 30 (45.45%) Master's Degree
3 11 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 8 (12.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
6 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) ISO 20022
2 5 (7.58%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.55%) IEC 61508
4 3 (4.55%) IEC 62304
4 3 (4.55%) ISO 26262
5 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.52%) NIST
5 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 41 (62.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (62.12%) Kubernetes
2 38 (57.58%) Terraform
3 32 (48.48%) Grafana
3 32 (48.48%) Prometheus
4 30 (45.45%) Ansible
5 3 (4.55%) Kiali
Vendors
1 34 (51.52%) Splunk
2 24 (36.36%) Google
3 3 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.52%) SAP