Distributed Systems Contracts in Surrey

Distributed Systems
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.27% - 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.00% - 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £408 - £493
25th Percentile £409 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.67%
75th Percentile £563 - £575
90th Percentile £638 - -
South East median daily rate £440 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -16.19% -4.55% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 80 155 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 25.32% 26.77% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 110 221
10th Percentile £198 £203 £225
25th Percentile £250 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £513 £584 £650
90th Percentile £600 £725 £788
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 8
10th Percentile £24.66 - £23.33
25th Percentile £28.00 £11.71 £32.25
Median hourly rate £32.77 £18.35 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +78.58% -55.52% +123.70%
75th Percentile £61.96 £73.45 £53.44
90th Percentile £70.16 £76.00 £76.20
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +14.70% +124.22%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Surrey

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Surrey

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Surrey over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Surrey

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in Surrey

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines - 1 £425 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Woking - 1 £413 - 2
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) NgRx
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (25.00%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Server-Driven UI
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP