Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Distributed Systems
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Solihull. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 14 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 13.33% 6.78% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 31.82% 21.05% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% -20.90%

All Generic Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 44 19 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 41.90% 32.20% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 26
10th Percentile £391 £220 £306
25th Percentile £425 £298 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +33.33% +8.70%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £388
90th Percentile £588 £598 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Solihull

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

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

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon S3
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (78.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (78.57%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (78.57%) AWS KMS
3 11 (78.57%) Route 53
4 6 (42.86%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (78.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (78.57%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (78.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (92.86%) Git
2 13 (92.86%) JUnit
3 11 (78.57%) DbUnit
3 11 (78.57%) jMock
3 11 (78.57%) Maven
3 11 (78.57%) Mockito
3 11 (78.57%) SonarQube
4 9 (64.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (21.43%) JIRA
6 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (14.29%) JMeter
6 2 (14.29%) Selenium
6 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
7 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 12 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 10 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
1 12 (85.71%) Java Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium Automation Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) Spring
2 12 (85.71%) REST
2 12 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 12 (85.71%) Web Services
3 11 (78.57%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (78.57%) AngularJS
3 11 (78.57%) Hibernate
3 11 (78.57%) JPA
3 11 (78.57%) PowerMock
3 11 (78.57%) SOAP
3 11 (78.57%) Spring Batch
3 11 (78.57%) Spring Integration
4 10 (71.43%) Spring Cloud
5 9 (64.29%) Bootstrap
5 9 (64.29%) RESTful
6 7 (50.00%) Node.js
7 2 (14.29%) WireMock
8 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (7.14%) Mustache
8 1 (7.14%) React
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Microservices
2 12 (85.71%) Scrum
2 12 (85.71%) TDD
3 11 (78.57%) BDD
3 11 (78.57%) Containerisation
3 11 (78.57%) Kanban
4 9 (64.29%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (64.29%) Decision-Making
4 9 (64.29%) DevOps
4 9 (64.29%) Open Source
4 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
6 6 (42.86%) BPMN
6 6 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (35.71%) Biometrics
8 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
9 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
10 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
10 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 10 (71.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Docker
2 9 (64.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Grafana
2 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Atlassian
1 11 (78.57%) Jaspersoft