Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Distributed Systems
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.75% 2.13% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.88% 4.84% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £353 - -
25th Percentile £354 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% - -
75th Percentile £364 - -
90th Percentile £368 - -
South East median daily rate £398 £325 £285
% change year-on-year +22.31% +14.04% -43.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Generic Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 85 62 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 29.82% 43.97% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 35 54
10th Percentile £275 £193 £201
25th Percentile £331 £220 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -16.67% -22.75%
75th Percentile £621 £629 £563
90th Percentile £720 £738 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.35% -3.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile - £16.33 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £16.95 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.82 -
Median % change year-on-year +178.96% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £59.00 £85.50 -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £33.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year +100.00% -4.93% -25.26%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 March 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
Burgess Hill -7 4 £357 +18.83%
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Gradle
1 4 (80.00%) JUnit
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) Vert.x
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft