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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 445 495
Rank change year-on-year +61 +50 -75
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 9 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.054% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile - £540 £422
25th Percentile - £599 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £616 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% +17.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £494 £683 £661
90th Percentile £528 £708 £669
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £600
% change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Distributed Computing is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,084 7,826 9,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.45% 32.45% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,631 5,294 6,788
10th Percentile £208 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £382 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 713 442 470
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £44.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

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
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 27 April 2024. 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
Scotland - 5 £475 - 3
North of England +26 4 £550 -10.24% 4
Yorkshire +14 4 £550 -9.91%
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 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (33.33%) Vertex AI
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 4 (44.44%) Big Data
2 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 4 (44.44%) Parquet
3 3 (33.33%) Bigtable
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) GCP Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Scala Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Avro
1 4 (44.44%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
1 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (44.44%) ETL
1 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
1 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 3 (33.33%) LLM
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase