Distributed Systems Contracts in South Yorkshire

Distributed Systems
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Distributed Systems 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.93% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - -
75th Percentile £420 - -
90th Percentile £438 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £393 £400 -
% change year-on-year -1.75% - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 262 132 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 40.75% 28.82% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 77 70
10th Percentile £306 £203 £217
25th Percentile £360 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £524 £605 £651
90th Percentile £600 £647 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.51 £14.63 £21.31
% change year-on-year +26.56% -31.37% +12.16%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in South Yorkshire

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in South Yorkshire

Distributed Systems
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield - 6 £393 - 5
Distributed Systems
Yorkshire

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Cryptography
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Data Security
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Go
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 5 (83.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft