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 in the West Midlands. 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 91 108 133
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +39
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 6 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 0.46% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £282 £415 £628
25th Percentile £291 £419 £640
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £450 £670
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -32.84% -0.74%
75th Percentile £413 £528 £690
90th Percentile £465 £560 £696
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 647 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.08% 33.23% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 410 525
10th Percentile £197 £307 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Birmingham +18 4 £308 -31.67% 6
Solihull - 3 £500 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 3 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 3 (50.00%) DbUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) jMock
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Maven
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
1 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) JPA
2 3 (50.00%) PowerMock
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Integration
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) Middleware
4 1 (16.67%) ADO
4 1 (16.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
1 3 (50.00%) Postfix
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft