Distributed Computing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing 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 323 390 449
Rank change year-on-year +67 +59 +46
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 13 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.043% 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 12
10th Percentile £324 - £540
25th Percentile £411 - £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £616
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -22.89% +17.33%
75th Percentile £491 £494 £683
90th Percentile £523 £528 £708
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -23.33% +7.14% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in the UK excluding London

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
East Midlands - 4 £363 - 8
Midlands - 4 £363 - 19
East of England - 4 £430 - 20
North of England +17 2 £538 -2.27% 21
South East - 2 £500 - 31
Yorkshire +5 1 £600 +9.09% 7
North West - 1 £475 - 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 1
Distributed Computing
UK

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) Apache Spark
2 4 (30.77%) Apache
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) LAN
1 4 (30.77%) NAS
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Big Data
2 6 (46.15%) Hadoop
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Hive
3 3 (23.08%) HBase
3 3 (23.08%) Impala
4 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.69%) DB2
5 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI
5 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Data Scientist
3 2 (15.38%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Scala Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Core Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) LDAP
2 3 (23.08%) Pandas
2 3 (23.08%) scikit-learn
3 2 (15.38%) NumPy
3 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Matplotlib
4 1 (7.69%) Prophet
4 1 (7.69%) PySpark
4 1 (7.69%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
3 4 (30.77%) Resource Management
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Model Validation
5 2 (15.38%) Predictive Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) NetApp
1 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase