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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 313 379
Rank change year-on-year +42 +66 +20
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 64 72 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.22% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 54 35
10th Percentile £300 £280 £450
25th Percentile £313 £382 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £440 £515
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% -14.56% -14.17%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £628
90th Percentile £558 £650 £755
UK median daily rate £575 £569 £625
% change year-on-year +1.10% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.50 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year - -34.59% +36.45%

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 4,311 5,880 7,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.33% 28.97% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,610 3,532 5,012
10th Percentile £205 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £613
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 722 421
10th Percentile £16.24 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.88 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.90 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +36.36% +3.53%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £83.31 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.26
% change year-on-year +0.83% +41.54% -19.07%

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 19 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 19 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 +15 34 £509 +15.74% 38
South East +27 11 £325 +14.04% 159
Midlands +25 10 £370 -17.78% 39
West Midlands +10 8 £370 -17.78% 28
North of England +4 6 £481 -3.80% 123
North West +8 5 £537 +2.29% 78
South West +40 2 £513 -35.94% 23
East Midlands - 2 - - 10
Yorkshire +6 1 £315 -21.25% 30
Northern Ireland - 1 £410 - 16
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 4 (6.25%) Apache
1 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) IIS
2 2 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (37.50%) AWS
2 20 (31.25%) Cloud Computing
3 13 (20.31%) Azure
4 10 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
5 7 (10.94%) IaaS
6 6 (9.38%) Serverless
7 5 (7.81%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (7.81%) GitHub
8 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.25%) AWS KMS
8 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.25%) Route 53
9 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.13%) GCP
10 2 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.56%) Internet
2 1 (1.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (7.81%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.25%) Big Data
5 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.13%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (3.13%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.13%) Flink
7 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.13%) Parquet
7 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (26.56%) Git
2 16 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.50%) JUnit
4 6 (9.38%) Mockito
5 5 (7.81%) Maven
6 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (6.25%) DbUnit
6 4 (6.25%) jMock
6 4 (6.25%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.13%) JIRA
7 2 (3.13%) JMeter
8 1 (1.56%) Hudson
8 1 (1.56%) IntelliJ
General
1 36 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 29 (45.31%) Finance
3 17 (26.56%) Banking
4 14 (21.88%) Investment Banking
5 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.25%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.13%) Publishing
9 1 (1.56%) Billing
9 1 (1.56%) Front Office
9 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Developer
2 17 (26.56%) Python Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) Architect
3 13 (20.31%) Java Developer
4 10 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 10 (15.63%) JavaScript Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior
6 6 (9.38%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow Architect
8 3 (4.69%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Lead
9 2 (3.13%) Site Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) Spring
2 13 (20.31%) REST
2 13 (20.31%) Web Services
3 12 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 10 (15.63%) RESTful
5 9 (14.06%) AngularJS
5 9 (14.06%) Hibernate
6 8 (12.50%) Kafka
7 7 (10.94%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (9.38%) SOAP
9 5 (7.81%) HTML
10 4 (6.25%) .NET
10 4 (6.25%) Bootstrap
10 4 (6.25%) JPA
10 4 (6.25%) JSON
10 4 (6.25%) PowerMock
10 4 (6.25%) Spring Batch
10 4 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
10 4 (6.25%) Spring Integration
11 3 (4.69%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.56%) Management Information System
2 10 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 8 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 6 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.25%) CMDB
5 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Equities
6 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.31%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Agile
2 26 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (35.94%) Data Security
4 21 (32.81%) CI/CD
5 18 (28.13%) Artificial Intelligence
6 17 (26.56%) Community of Practice
6 17 (26.56%) Critical Thinking
6 17 (26.56%) Decision-Making
6 17 (26.56%) Risk Management
7 15 (23.44%) DevOps
7 15 (23.44%) Microservices
8 14 (21.88%) Containerisation
9 13 (20.31%) Data Science
9 13 (20.31%) Experimental Design
9 13 (20.31%) Machine Learning
9 13 (20.31%) Natural Language Processing
9 13 (20.31%) Statistical Analysis
9 13 (20.31%) TDD
10 12 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
10 12 (18.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (54.69%) Java
1 35 (54.69%) Python
2 22 (34.38%) SQL
3 21 (32.81%) JavaScript
4 14 (21.88%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.50%) Perl
6 7 (10.94%) Erlang
6 7 (10.94%) Prolog
7 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.25%) C#
9 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.13%) Bash
10 2 (3.13%) Bicep
10 2 (3.13%) Go
10 2 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) AWS Certification
2 6 (9.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 6 (9.38%) Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 15 (23.44%) Docker
2 7 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.25%) Postfix
4 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (20.31%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.06%) Grafana
3 6 (9.38%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.81%) Terraform
5 2 (3.13%) Ansible
5 2 (3.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) VMware
2 6 (9.38%) Splunk
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) Databricks
6 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.13%) Sybase
7 1 (1.56%) Adobe
7 1 (1.56%) ESRI
7 1 (1.56%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) IBM
7 1 (1.56%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.56%) Red Hat