Distributed Systems Contracts in the South East

Distributed Systems
England > South East

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 182 180
Rank change year-on-year +33 -2 +39
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 10 23 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.41% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 1.45% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 24
10th Percentile £300 - £451
25th Percentile £303 £280 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £285 £508
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -43.84% +1.50%
75th Percentile £490 £315 £569
90th Percentile £500 £558 £627
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year +0.91% -34.59% +40.15%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +32 6 £470 +64.91% 10
Berkshire +20 6 £470 +64.91% 8
West Sussex - 3 £300 -
Hampshire +23 1 - - 6
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (10.00%) Route 53
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) JUnit
1 3 (30.00%) Mockito
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (10.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) jMock
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) WireMock
4 2 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (10.00%) JPA
5 1 (10.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) BDD
5 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
5 3 (30.00%) Observability
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (20.00%) Open Source
6 2 (20.00%) Process Management
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Go
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Grafana
2 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (30.00%) Terraform
4 2 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Jaspersoft