Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Distributed Systems
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.76% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 - -
75th Percentile £424 - -
90th Percentile £432 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £420 - -

All Generic Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 129 35 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 45.42% 19.02% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 23 21
10th Percentile £331 £344 £373
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £445
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% - -
75th Percentile £470 £575 £498
90th Percentile £550 £610 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £459 £495
% change year-on-year -7.36% -7.32% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.71%
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.65 £31.76 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.83% +51.24% +19.59%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Northampton - 4 £402 - 5
Distributed Systems
East Midlands

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospike
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Data Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) pytest
3 2 (40.00%) PySpark
4 1 (20.00%) Jest
4 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Clean Code
1 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Backtesting
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Fraud Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Server+ Certification
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft