Distributed Systems Contracts in the South West

Distributed Systems
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the South West. 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 109 155 165
Rank change year-on-year +46 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.063% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £479 £738 -
25th Percentile £484 £756 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -35.94% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £534 £831 £625
90th Percentile £536 £843 -
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the South West

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the South West

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Devon - 2 £513 - 2
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ESRI
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk