Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Distributed Systems
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 3.23% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £306 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £319 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £313 - -

All Generic Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 12.90% 31.25% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £220 £128 £514
25th Percentile £250 £140 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £405 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -24.65% +65.38%
75th Percentile £309 £488 £566
90th Percentile £315 - £571
Staffordshire median daily rate £300 £405 £475
% change year-on-year -25.93% -14.74% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £13.10 - £10.93
Staffordshire median hourly rate £13.10 - £15.75
% change year-on-year - - -68.18%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker