Distributed Systems Contracts in Reading

Distributed Systems
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 86 79
Rank change year-on-year +29 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 5 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.44% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% 1.67% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +5.71% -12.50% -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 187 299 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 31.38% 26.48% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 170 223
10th Percentile £304 £213 £346
25th Percentile £412 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +5.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £638
90th Percentile £625 £701 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £24.80 £19.49 £49.75
25th Percentile £31.44 £38.50 £63.64
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £68.88
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -16.52% +164.90%
75th Percentile £51.25 £60.83 £75.30
90th Percentile £53.50 £64.51 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.50 £41.50 £64.90
% change year-on-year +50.60% -36.06% +2.61%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Reading

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Reading

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Reading over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Reading

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in Reading

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Mockito
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (20.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) jMock
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) WireMock
2 2 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Process Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft