Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Distributed Systems
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 58 78
Rank change year-on-year -19 +20 +28
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.31% 0.18% 0.088%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 0.58% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £456 £308 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £315 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.83% - -
75th Percentile £469 £323 -
90th Percentile £473 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £315 £400
% change year-on-year +58.73% -21.25% -

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 352 172 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 36.67% 31.79% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 109 154
10th Percentile £310 £220 £265
25th Percentile £413 £358 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £538
90th Percentile £633 £689 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £477 £450
% change year-on-year +4.82% +6.00% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 20
10th Percentile - £27.82 £12.11
25th Percentile £14.25 £30.17 £12.15
Median hourly rate £15.25 £36.91 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.68% +173.37% -32.84%
75th Percentile £20.85 £55.29 £15.20
90th Percentile £21.54 £80.10 £17.67
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.88 £32.81 £14.63
% change year-on-year +9.36% +124.34% +37.58%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Leeds -19 3 £463 +46.83% 7
Distributed Systems
Yorkshire

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Apigee
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Mustache
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible