Distributed Systems Contracts in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 277 326 396
Rank change year-on-year +49 +70 +8
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 59 73 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 1.19% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 51 42
10th Percentile £304 £280 £450
25th Percentile £371 £378 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £440 £515
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.56% -6.36%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £625
90th Percentile £575 £650 £723
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +2.13% -6.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year +0.91% -34.59% +40.15%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 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 Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
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 Systems 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
Scotland +19 30 £509 +16.66% 26
South East +33 10 £383 +34.21% 104
Midlands +27 8 £315 -30.00% 19
West Midlands +17 6 £315 -30.00% 10
North of England +5 5 £537 +7.40% 69
North West +10 4 £544 +3.62% 46
East of England +31 3 £550 -8.33% 18
South West +46 2 £513 -35.94% 14
East Midlands - 2 - - 5
Yorkshire +1 1 £315 -21.25% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £410 - 8
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
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 3 (5.08%) Apache
1 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) JBoss
3 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Cloud Computing
3 15 (25.42%) Azure
4 9 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.47%) GitHub
5 5 (8.47%) IaaS
5 5 (8.47%) Serverless
6 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (6.78%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (6.78%) AWS KMS
6 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.78%) GCP
6 4 (6.78%) Route 53
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.69%) Internet
1 1 (1.69%) Intranet
1 1 (1.69%) LAN
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
1 1 (1.69%) VPN
1 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (6.78%) Big Data
4 4 (6.78%) DynamoDB
4 4 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.08%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.39%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.39%) Flink
6 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.39%) Parquet
6 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.95%) Git
3 7 (11.86%) JUnit
4 6 (10.17%) Mockito
5 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (6.78%) DbUnit
5 4 (6.78%) jMock
5 4 (6.78%) Maven
5 4 (6.78%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.39%) JMeter
7 1 (1.69%) Hudson
7 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 32 (54.24%) Social Skills
2 25 (42.37%) Finance
3 15 (25.42%) Banking
4 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (20.34%) Investment Banking
6 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.39%) Publishing
9 1 (1.69%) Billing
9 1 (1.69%) Front Office
9 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Architect
3 13 (22.03%) Python Engineer
4 10 (16.95%) Java Developer
5 8 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) JavaScript Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior
7 4 (6.78%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.78%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow Architect
9 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) Spring
2 10 (16.95%) Kafka
2 10 (16.95%) Web Services
3 9 (15.25%) REST
3 9 (15.25%) Spring Boot
4 8 (13.56%) AngularJS
4 8 (13.56%) Hibernate
4 8 (13.56%) RESTful
5 6 (10.17%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (8.47%) HTML
6 5 (8.47%) SOAP
7 4 (6.78%) Bootstrap
7 4 (6.78%) JPA
7 4 (6.78%) JSON
7 4 (6.78%) PowerMock
7 4 (6.78%) Spring Batch
7 4 (6.78%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (6.78%) Spring Integration
8 3 (5.08%) jQuery
8 3 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Management Information System
2 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.17%) Virtual Team
4 5 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.78%) CMDB
5 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) EPoS
6 1 (1.69%) Equities
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (40.68%) Agile
3 22 (37.29%) Data Security
4 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
5 17 (28.81%) Containerisation
6 16 (27.12%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (27.12%) DevOps
6 16 (27.12%) Risk Management
7 15 (25.42%) Community of Practice
7 15 (25.42%) Critical Thinking
7 15 (25.42%) Decision-Making
8 13 (22.03%) Microservices
9 12 (20.34%) Enterprise Architecture
10 11 (18.64%) Data Science
10 11 (18.64%) Event-Driven
10 11 (18.64%) Experimental Design
10 11 (18.64%) Machine Learning
10 11 (18.64%) Natural Language Processing
10 11 (18.64%) Statistical Analysis
11 9 (15.25%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.93%) Python
2 30 (50.85%) Java
3 19 (32.20%) SQL
4 17 (28.81%) JavaScript
5 12 (20.34%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.17%) Perl
6 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
7 5 (8.47%) Erlang
7 5 (8.47%) Go
7 5 (8.47%) Prolog
8 3 (5.08%) C#
8 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.39%) Bash
9 2 (3.39%) Bicep
9 2 (3.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (10.17%) Azure Certification
2 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.69%) CISM
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) SSCP
6 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
3 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 15 (25.42%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.78%) Postfix
4 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.95%) Grafana
3 9 (15.25%) Prometheus
4 5 (8.47%) Terraform
5 2 (3.39%) Ansible
5 2 (3.39%) Kibana
5 2 (3.39%) logstash
6 1 (1.69%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
1 6 (10.17%) Splunk
2 5 (8.47%) VMware
3 4 (6.78%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.78%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.08%) Google
4 3 (5.08%) Oracle
5 2 (3.39%) Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.39%) Sybase
6 1 (1.69%) Adobe
6 1 (1.69%) ESRI
6 1 (1.69%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) Rapid7