Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in Reading

Distributed Computing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 203 329 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.78% 30.16% 28.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 161 221
10th Percentile £350 £340 £210
25th Percentile £445 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% +10.48% +3.96%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £664 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £515
% change year-on-year -7.41% +4.85% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 5
10th Percentile £33.65 £35.98 £35.80
25th Percentile £48.75 £52.81 £61.75
Median hourly rate £58.00 £59.05 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% -9.33% +18.41%
75th Percentile - £63.22 £67.75
90th Percentile - £71.24 £71.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £57.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +0.87% -9.09% +2.85%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in Reading

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Distributed Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google