Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Distributed Computing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 110 -
Rank change year-on-year -44 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.12% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £850 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% - -
75th Percentile £950 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £900 £500 £360
% change year-on-year +80.00% +38.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Distributed Computing 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,067 581 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.39% 34.83% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 347 375
10th Percentile £325 £300 £211
25th Percentile £413 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £608
90th Percentile £700 £666 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 33 42
10th Percentile £15.80 £13.63 £11.79
25th Percentile £23.21 £15.13 £18.56
Median hourly rate £67.00 £32.05 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +109.05% +15.50% -52.77%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £59.36
90th Percentile - £88.60 £67.25
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +54.94% -40.92% +14.70%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 August 2026. 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
Berkshire -28 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £900 - 1
Distributed Computing
South East

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
1 2 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware