Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Distributed Systems
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Richmond upon Thames. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 2.13% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
West London median daily rate £555 £512 £450
% change year-on-year +8.40% +13.78% -

All Generic Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 63.83% 100.00% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 5 5
10th Percentile £496 £175 £153
25th Percentile £520 £181 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £188 £450
Median % change year-on-year +221.33% -58.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £356 £569
90th Percentile £648 £365 -
West London median daily rate £550 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -18.18%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus