Distributed Systems Contracts in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 96 128 131
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 6 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.63% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.10% 2.12% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £345 - £450
25th Percentile £393 £280 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £285 £455
Median % change year-on-year +64.91% -37.36% -9.00%
75th Percentile £500 £290 £458
90th Percentile - £297 £475
South East median daily rate £383 £285 £508
% change year-on-year +34.21% -43.84% +1.50%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +20 6 £470 +64.91% 22
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) jMock
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) JSON
3 2 (33.33%) WireMock
3 2 (33.33%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) JPA
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
4 1 (16.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Bicep
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Kibana
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft