Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Distributed Computing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.58% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £581 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
North East median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 81 77 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 23.34% 34.84% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 28 35
10th Percentile £146 £312 £135
25th Percentile £170 £344 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £454
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -0.88% -17.45%
75th Percentile £545 £650 £544
90th Percentile £600 £680 £713
North East median daily rate £420 £495 £454
% change year-on-year -15.15% +9.03% -17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £13.98
25th Percentile £13.37 £18.00 £15.44
Median hourly rate £13.49 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £13.61 £20.00 £29.06
90th Percentile - - £47.63
North East median hourly rate £13.49 £46.18 £31.84
% change year-on-year -70.79% +45.04% -51.76%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £475 - 2
Distributed Computing
North East

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks