Distributed Cache Contract Job Trends

Distributed Caching
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Distributed Cache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 546 583
Rank change year-on-year -116 +37 +86
Contract jobs citing Distributed Cache 3 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.028% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.030% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £501 £399 £565
25th Percentile £518 £460 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £578 £763 £763
90th Percentile £591 £808 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £358 £600
% change year-on-year +39.66% -40.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Distributed Cache falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

Distributed Cache
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Cache relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Cache job vacancy trend in the UK

Distributed Cache
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Distributed Cache.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Distributed Cache

Distributed Cache
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Cache within the UK over the 6 months to 24 July 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
England -113 3 £550 +12.82% 6
North of England -64 2 £500 +39.66% 4
UK excluding London -111 2 £500 +39.66% 4
North West -44 1 £500 +39.66% 3
Work from Home -54 1 £600 +27.66% 3
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Distributed Cache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Domain Models
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Software AG
1 1 (33.33%) Terracotta
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods