Distributed Systems Contracts in the West Midlands

Distributed Systems
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 133 172
Rank change year-on-year +25 +39 -46
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.25% 0.056%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.78% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £415 £628 -
25th Percentile £419 £640 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £670 £675
Median % change year-on-year -32.84% -0.74% +17.39%
75th Percentile £528 £690 £688
90th Percentile £560 £696 -
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.70%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Distributed Systems 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 West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 647 769 1,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.23% 32.26% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 525 722
10th Percentile £307 £263 £257
25th Percentile £363 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £584
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 19 26
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.71 £17.99 £12.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.00 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +51.32% -5.71%
75th Percentile £40.25 £52.50 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.50 £19.38
England median hourly rate £30.16 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +34.04% -16.60% +2.08%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the West Midlands

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the West Midlands

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the West Midlands

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the West Midlands

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham +6 3 £450 -29.69% 1
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Guice
2 1 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOD
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker