Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Distributed Systems
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.40% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
North East median daily rate £464 - -

All Generic Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 102 75 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.44% 31.12% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 47 39
10th Percentile £146 £325 £174
25th Percentile £170 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £454
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +15.64% -30.15%
75th Percentile £498 £625 £538
90th Percentile £573 £660 £610
North East median daily rate £425 £530 £465
% change year-on-year -19.74% +13.99% -19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £61.38 - £16.25
25th Percentile £68.64 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +9.47% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £54.38
North East median hourly rate £70.00 £49.09 £46.18
% change year-on-year +42.60% +6.30% -30.03%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £464 - 9
Distributed Systems
North East

Distributed Systems
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Firebird
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JSF
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Struts
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes